Canada Launches UN Declaration Targeting Online 'Disinformation'

Submitted by Dave Hodges on Thursday, October 19, 2023 - 23:39.

by Amanda Brown

Ms. Joly launched the Global Declaration on Information Integrity Online jointly with Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Hanke Bruins Slot during the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 20.

"Information integrity is essential to help ensure the strength of democratic processes and to protect fundamental rights," says a joint statement by Canada and the Netherlands.

"The erosion of information integrity, including the propagation of disinformation, weakens the strength of democratic engagement."

In a speech on Sept. 20, Ms. Joly said the declaration is a "concrete step toward establishing global norms on disinformation, misinformation, and information integrity," the National Post reported.

Speaking to the U.N. on the same day, Ms. Bruins Slot said the emerging online environment makes it difficult to determine what is and what is not truthful.

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Demonization of the Internet

Jeff Martin Fri, 10/20/2023 - 12:46

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"[A]ddress misinformation and disinformation," "information integrity," "global norms." And last, but not least "international collaborative efforts to shape the flow of information." It's all about censorship of any deviation from the government narrative AND dissemination of government propaganda only. So the internet is this evil entity that you can't get positive value from, so it must be controlled and censored. There must be more to it than that. Not so many years ago there was no internet, only books and newspapers and conversation. That was fine back then apparently. Today, ALL mediums of information must be controlled. The answer is discernment and cognition.