(Article by Ulysses S. Tennyson republished from 100PercentFedUp.com)
That is why China also seeks to own and control your mind.
How will they do this?
As many of you have seen, political and social topics have been censored more and more by online tech companies. This includes Facebook, Twitter, Google, and others. The censorship of unapproved thoughts can take many forms, including shadow banning, warning labels on content. "A post that's flagged as false by the partners not only gets furnished with a warning label and a link to the fact check, but Facebook 'significantly reduces the number of people who see it.'"
But censorship can go far beyond just warning labels. Demonetizing accounts or content, de-platforming of entire accounts, and de-banking also occur. In China, de-personing using social credits scores also occurs. In such cases, people are societally shunned and can be forced into permanent isolation if they hold views or commit acts in disunity with approved authoritarian CCP 'truth'.
Who runs the fact checkers? CHINA and CNN
This kind of dystopian censorship is already quite common in China. There, social credit scores are used routinely to seal the fate of Chinese citizens. Through Big Tech, America is several years into implementing it as well. One such example is a company called Lead Stories.
Facebook uses Lead Stories as one of its head hired guns to determine alleged truthfulness of posts on their platform. It turns out that Lead Stories is strongly connected to both CNN and TikTok.
As Petr Svab of Epoch Times reports, Tiktok is a social media platform run by a Chinese company called ByteDance that owes its allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). TikTok was under a national security investigation. It is also being investigated for possible security risks and potential to influence elections and being forced to sell its US business assets after drawing the ire from the American government for allegedly giving information to the Chinese government.
Facebook also directs all users seeking Covid information to the WHO, which is a puppet of China. In fact, it is run by a man named Tedros Adhanom. He is a sympathizer of China and "member of a Marxist-Leninist political party that analysts have listed as a perpetrator of terrorism" and is implicated in alleged violence and genocide in Ethiopia prior to becoming the first head of the WHO without any medical qualifications.
It should come as no surprise, then, that Facebook also employs Wuhan Lab employees to fact check Covid claims as well. This specific genetics research lab in China is considered by many to be the origin of Covid-19.
Who fact-checks the fact Checkers: CHINA
The Epoch Times Story continues: "The organization that's supposed to oversee the quality of fact-checkers is run by Poynter Institute, another TikTok partner."
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has also had previous controversies
"In September 2019, The Guardian reported that TikTok instructed its moderators to censor certain videos that mention topics considered "sensitive" by the Chinese regime, such as the Tiananmen Square Massacre and Falun Gong, a spiritual practice that has been severely persecuted in China since 1999. The report was based on leaked documents detailing the app's moderation guidelines."
Why is this important?
Right now, digital observers are being tricked into believing that 3rd party strangers controlled by China will tell them what the truth is. However, individuals must be the ultimate arbiters of their own truth, and freedom to express oneself must not be censored. This is a foundational principle of Western Civilization. Our unparalleled success is an expression of our unparalleled freedom of thought and speech. If that freedom dies, so does The West.
So, if The West does not fumigate its multi-million agent CCP infestation within all of our institutions—schools, media, businesses, and government–authoritarianism is inevitable in months, not years.
Read more at: 100PercentFedUp.com and CommunistChina.news.