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It’s been a doozy of a week of heapin’ helpin’s of hypocrisy from the loony left, who are suddenly pretending they’re totally about free speech. Remember, these are the same people who jailed a man for making fun of Hillary Clinton. The same people who banned a president of the United States from the biggest public platform in the world. The same people who openly admitting censoring truthful information about Covid and who spent the past decade destroying the careers of people for, not just old tweets but even, in one case, something one of their relatives said, 40 years ago.
And they have the barefaced cheek to screech like banshees about ‘censorship’, just because a commercial network took a commercial decision to suspend a poorly rating TV host.
The hypocrisy is far from done.
Labor needs to regulate against “false” criticism of climate change ideology that is “delay(ing) urgent climate action” and sowing doubt, the nation’s human rights watchdog has claimed in an extraordinary intervention.
This is the so-called ‘human rights watchdog’ that has been missing in action for nearly two years while Jewish Australians have been subject to a barrage of anti-Semitic attacks, including outright terrorism.
To compound their shame, in the very week when millions gathered to mourn a man slaughtered for free speech, they choose to launch an unhinged attack on free speech.
“Misinformation and disinformation undermine not only the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment – but also rights to free expression and participation in public affairs,” the AHRC said in its submission to the Senate select committee on information integrity on climate change and energy.
To save our free expression they have to ban it.
The Australian Human Rights Commission told the government “false narratives (on climate change) distort public understanding, erode trust in science and institutions and delay urgent climate action” […]
The watchdog said misinformation and disinformation had a negative impact on “informed public debate and environmental advocacy”.
Hmm, now which ‘misinformation and disinformation’ are they talking about?
Is it PM Anthony Albanese’s blatantly false claim that natural disasters are increasing in frequency and intensity? Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s ludicrous lie that solar and wind are the ‘cheapest form of electricity’? The raft of unhinged lies in the government’s hysterical 2025 climate report? The big ol’ whopper that Pacific islands are disappearing under rising seas? How about our former ‘climate commissioner’s’ lunatic claims that our dams will never be full again? Not to mention his raft of lies, after his claims were busted, that he never actually said that? (He did, and we have the receipts.)
Of course not. This is nakedly about protecting the climate alarmist narrative.
False claims about climate change could result in “decreased support for climate change mitigation and obstruction of political action”.
Which, in the backwards world of Long March left-speak, really means, ‘if we let people tell the truth, the herd won’t be terrified into obedience’.
Unbelievably, they then have the absolute hide to say this:
The AHRC nonetheless said this urgency “must not be used as a justification to categorise legitimate questions or concerns about the best way forward as misinformation and disinformation”.
“Calling controversial opinions ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation’ to shut down discussion, or making quick decisions without proper consultation, can damage public trust,” it said.
These people are unbelievable. Literally.
