Trudeau's Control Over The Alternative Media
I have said it before, I will say it again: Trudeau is the worst thing that could happen to Canada. He has ruled his party with an iron fist, not allowing any of his MPs even a shred of independent thought or expression. He forces them to vote in the way he wants. He promised "The Most Transparent Government in Canadian History", yet refuses to answer any questions during question period or to the media.
Speaking of the media, our Prime Minister has done everything he can to gain support from the media. This is not a problem, many politicians try to gain the support of the media. Those he couldn't win over, he began a take over. Trudeau started by offering back the $100,000,000 that Harper stripped from the CBC, plus an extra $20 million. This immediately put Canada's largest broadcasting channel on Trudeau's side. This sentiment can spread around to other sources easily. The media already passes reporters, editors and executives around to each other like musical chairs.
Trudeau more or less has the Mainstream Media in his palm. While you will for sure find articles that criticise the man, the amount of support they throw behind him and the amount they let him to get away with is ridiculous. Trudeau has more recently tried to buy off the local news sources, the last bastion of "quality journalism" (if there is any left). At the beginning of 2018, the Financial Post ran an article originally from The Canadian Press that talks about how the Liberal Government was subsidising local print media.
As we look through the 2018 Federal Budget, we can see exactly what they have planned...
The subsidising of local news seems like a reasonable thing to do if the print media is struggling, but it also has other consequences. When the government controls the money supply, they gain at least some control over the industry. If the media source is printing stories that the government does not like, they can find reasons to limit the money supply if not cut it off completely.
Now, Trudeau's government is coming after Alternative Media. It began in February 2018. Trudeau told Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook chief operating officer, to "Fix your fake news problem or face stricter regulations".. However the problem is what is the definition of Fake News to the Trudeau government. If we listen to Gerald Butts, then anyone who makes fun of Trudeau is "an alt right nazi" ![()
That tweet was put out after Trudeau's embarrassing trip to India and Paul Joseph Watson put out a video making fun of him. Gerald Butts is Trudeau's Principle Secretary and childhood friend.
The Government has found many reasons to censor online content that they see as harmful. Over the last week or so, they have turned their tyrannical eyes on PARODY accounts of twitter. It began with one account.
This parody account of Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, who has for some time been making a fool of herself on twitter. Someone decided to capitalise on this by creating a parody account and tweeting out obviously satirical content, yet neither McKenna nor Trudeau can handle a joke. They contact Jack, Twitter's CEO and co-founder to get the account removed. The account was suspended for 7 days before making a comeback. Ironically enough, more parody accounts popped up since then.
Trudeau's government were trying to censor the accounts of regular citizens that are having fun and playing a joke. Imagine what they will do to accounts of people being critical of them?
What has led me to write this post is this article from the Post Millenial
"Facebook Canada has recently hired 'independent' fact-checkers to be in charge of vetting news content and blog postings on its platform.
Their explained defence is the fear of 'false and misleading information on social media.'"
The anti Trudeau movement has been strong on both Facebook and Twitter, as well as many other social media platforms. This is the goal of the Liberal Government. They want to avoid as much bad press as possible, what better way then to censor those online, use Facebook and Twitter's Shadow banning and emotional manipulation against their enemies. Trudeau's government is trying to turn our country into Big Brother, from George Orwell's 1984. They want to control the ideas, the emotions, the thought process of its people. In Orwell's novel, there was a saying that was popular with Big Brother:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Trudeau has been actively trying to take away our freedom while saying he is doing so for the better of our society. His whole campaign and time in office has been playing on the ignorance of the people. He has said he "respects China's basic dictatorship because it allows them to get things done more efficiently". Remember Canada, this is your leader, do you trust him to do the right thing? I don't.
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