by Didi Rankovic at LifeSite News
The U.K. has a new Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Tech and the Digital Economy, Conservative MP Saqib Bhatti, and the politician seems very enthusiastic when talking about things like “cooperation” with Big Tech, particularly in terms of elections.
That’s because, critics will say, those in power want to absolutely control the conversation, what can and can’t be said online, and thus directly influence the vote; whereas those in power say, it’s all just a perfectly benevolent effort to make sure misinformation plays no part in the campaign.
One person’s “cooperation” is another’s “collusion.” And so Bhatti hinted in a recent interview that ahead of the U.K.’s upcoming general election a key task to be achieved is to have the government and Big Tech “reconvene” for another round of “misinformation tackling.”
And that, as easy as not, may mean aggressive online censorship of views critical of the ruling party.
After possibly offending any real “tech geek” by calling himself that – Bhatti in time revealed that actual technology is not the most important thing a person in charge of Tech and the Digital Economy, as well those in the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), have to work on in the U.K.
No – instead, it’s “misinformation and disinformation.”
A very succinct way of demonstrating that those in power think…
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