Librarians on Canada's "liberal" west coast are now said to be spending their days combing through books for hate speech. Meanwhile book challenges and bans have spread to Australia and the UK.
Thanks for the quote marks around the word "liberal"! Censorship to (allegedly) protect readers from information they should not have access to (because it might not yet be orthodoxy, etc.) has a long history:
“The very magnitude of the power over men’s minds that a highly centralised and government-dominated system of education places in the hands of the authorities ought to make one hesitant before accepting it too readily.” - Professor F. A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1960, p. 379
“A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind …” - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859.
“… when innovations creep into their games and constant changes are made in them, the children cease to have a sure standard of what is right … There can be no worse evil … Change … is most dangerous …” - Plato (429-347 B.C.), The Laws, Book VII, 360 B.C.
Mainstream media would shut down the internet to "protect" people from potential "error". It's all Stalinist censorship, made plain by Orwell's "1984", and especially Machiavelli's "The Prince":
“It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.”
This attitude encourages the mainstream media or "liberals" to censor anything that debunks their agenda.
Oh really?! I thought you were somewhere else! A shame we did not follow each other last year when I was there. Well wait til I write about my Airbnb horror story on here... Someone told me it was "so Van" although I'm sure it happens in so many other places!
NO. In fact the places are like mansions compared to what you get in London. It was a woman in West Van who owed a real estate and was mortgaged to the hilt and then made me vacuum and clean the place daily…
Thanks for the quote marks around the word "liberal"! Censorship to (allegedly) protect readers from information they should not have access to (because it might not yet be orthodoxy, etc.) has a long history:
“The very magnitude of the power over men’s minds that a highly centralised and government-dominated system of education places in the hands of the authorities ought to make one hesitant before accepting it too readily.” - Professor F. A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1960, p. 379
“A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind …” - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859.
“… when innovations creep into their games and constant changes are made in them, the children cease to have a sure standard of what is right … There can be no worse evil … Change … is most dangerous …” - Plato (429-347 B.C.), The Laws, Book VII, 360 B.C.
Mainstream media would shut down the internet to "protect" people from potential "error". It's all Stalinist censorship, made plain by Orwell's "1984", and especially Machiavelli's "The Prince":
“It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.”
This attitude encourages the mainstream media or "liberals" to censor anything that debunks their agenda.
I live in Vancouver so always enjoy reading things where people mention it and their thoughts on it!
Oh really?! I thought you were somewhere else! A shame we did not follow each other last year when I was there. Well wait til I write about my Airbnb horror story on here... Someone told me it was "so Van" although I'm sure it happens in so many other places!
I’m curious! Did they rent out a closet as a Airbnb or something? Cuz I've read about that! Or partioned off another room, and tried to rent it out...
NO. In fact the places are like mansions compared to what you get in London. It was a woman in West Van who owed a real estate and was mortgaged to the hilt and then made me vacuum and clean the place daily…
Oh WOW 😮