Ok, so The Fifth Estate came out with this episode recently. It's pretty much got more mistakes than facts. It starts off by talking about rather recent school shooting where several students were killed. They mention the shooter's name Solomon Henderson and talk about possible motives for this crime. However, the big conclusion that this report arrives at is that the ultimate culprit is........................ of all things................... free speech. They even ask this question near the beginning of the video:
Um........ it doesn't, but trying to create and enforce laws that stifle speech crosses every line. But I'm getting ahead of myself here.
This show briefly mentions that Solomon consumed many nazi videos online some months leading up to the shooting. However, they're not showing you the full story (as is a trait of propagandists). I found this video which offers a bit more about the situation and I think adds some more much needed nuance:
At about the 3:00 minute mark, the reporter mentioned some abuse in his family. THAT right there would have much more of an impact on his psyche than any amount of videos ever could. In every troubled criminal, there's always a sense of disconnect or hopelessness before even beginning to seek any kind of "validating content" anywhere. THAT'S the true source of the trouble so THAT'S where the attention and the effort needs to be focused.
But, that approach is not what the CBC and the Fifth Estate propose. Their suggestion is to go after the online website Rumble.
Why? Because Rumble has that absolute gall and audacity to not discriminate against people's videos based on their content. The founder Chris Pavlovski has a very healthy attitude towards free speech. He knows that picking and choosing who gets to speak and who doesn't is the worst kind of tyranny.
But, this Fifth Estate reporter goes so far as to travel all the way to some run down apartment building in Eastern Europe looking for some of the people who work for Rumble as if that would solve anything.
At this time, I'd also like to point out how they use Alex Jones' image as a "boogeyman" conveying that one of Rumble's cardinal sins is to host "conspiracy theorists" while with this video they are peddling their own conspiracy theory of "free speech totally killed those kids at Antioch School I tells ya!"
But, of course, in true propagandist fashion, this entire CBC report was conjured up as a blatant attempt to whip up support for both Bill C-9 and the Online Harms Act. I talked about that Online Harms Act a few years ago in this post. Go read that, if you haven't already, to get the basic idea.
The episode even has a supposed lawyer who makes a very Orwellian that nobody in a free society should even entertain:
Yep! The two most dreaded words that any official can say: government intervention
This whole report started by jerking your emotions with the shooting death of teenagers in an effort to get your brain unsettled just so you'd be more vulnerable to accept the Canadian government's latest authoritarian over reach. The Prime Minister has already coaxed a few MPs to "cross the floor" in parliament in order to give him a semblance of a "majority government". Then, when it's come to the introduction of Bill C-9 and the Online Harms Act, he severely stifled debate in order to push them into being passed. And now, this CBC fluff piece (or should I say "Carney-fluffer piece"?) is their attempt to coerce the Canadian "peasantry" to thank their "master" for cracking the whip.
These bills have already passed through parliament about three times already. But, it is now headed for the senate on April 15. In a perfect world, this senate will vote absolutely no NO NO!!! and kill these bills right where they stand. If all of the free thinkers here in Canada can make enough noise, maybe this'll happen.
But, until then, long live Rumble and Chris Pavlovski and free speech. May all dictators fall in their presence.
