Michael Knowles Uncovers WEF’s Sinister Threat To Free Speech

The World Economic Forum has an innocuous name for a sinister new initiative designed to give radical globalist bureaucrats control over what people can say and see on social media, Daily Wire host Michael Knowles A tweet thread Wednesday highlighting the danger was sent out.

Called “Safety by Design,” The new scheme aims to regulate social media through prohibitions “harmful” Content built into their technology. But it looks like yet another bid by the Left to control speech it doesn’t like by deeming it dangerous, Knowles said.

“If you thought the Twitter Files were as bad as it gets for the “Trust & Safety” of Big Tech merging with government, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet,” Knowles tweeted.

🧵The Twitter Files are as terrible as they get for the – “Trust & Safety” Big Tech merging into government? You haven’t seen it yet.

— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) January 18, 2023

While the efforts began under the banner of protecting children, Knowles warned that, for the WEF, which is meeting in Davos this week, the stated purpose is more likely to be the proverbial camel’s nose in the tent. In this year’s promotional literature, the WEF includes the Safety by Design project as part of its larger plan for “Shaping the Future of Media, Entertainment and Sport Platform.”

“Does that sound like something that exists merely to deplatform child pornography?” Knowles is a Twitter musing. “No. Because it isn’t.”

Safety by Design’s leading champion is a radical Australian official (and dual US Citizen) named Julie Inman Grant, who has helped put it in place Down Under, according to Knowles. During last year’s annual WEF meeting, a clip of the Australian eSafety commissioner It is suggested that you “recalibration” The viral spread of freedom speech was a huge success. Knowles stated that Grant spoke Wednesday again at a WEF panel. His resume is steeped in tech-censorship.

“After beginning her career in DC, Grant tried to become a ‘safety antagonist’—her words—at Microsoft, Adobe, and pre-Elon Twitter,” Knowles tweeted. “She left Big Tech after her push for ‘Safety by Design’ fell flat and went where her scheme for control was welcome: the Australian Gov & WEF.”

Grant’s own interview history includes mocking “middle-aged Caucasian men” Advocating the role that app stores can play, citing Parler’s deplatforming after January 6. But with “Safety by Design,” she seems to have finally latched onto an effective – and frightening – tool for controlling the speech of people she disagrees with, according to Knowles. The basic idea behind it is that since government regulators can’t possibly keep up with innovation, regulatory preferences should be built into technology.

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“In order to operate in Australia and many more countries soon if the WEF has its way… a company would have to abide by these “basic online safety expectations” Lean in to the “safety” pushed by the eSafety Commissioner and the WEF,” Knowles wrote.

The Australian agency offers the following: “enterprise” training course for tech companies and lists hate speech, individual identity attacks, disinformation/misinformation, and conspiracy content as items for the companies to target. With the recent revelations between the U.S. Government and Twitter, conservatives have believed that their beliefs about politics, public health and other issues were being labeled as “conservative”. “misinformation” They are simply using it as a pretext for silence.

Knowles stated that safety by design could soon be available in a government near to you. That’s because Grant also serves on the WEF’s Global Coalition for Digital Safety and something called its “XR Ecosystem Governance Steering Committee on Building and Defining the Metaverse.”

“At this point, you might be thinking, ‘Thank goodness I don’t live in Australia,’ or perhaps, ‘Uh oh, I live in Australia,’” He tweeted. “But it turns out it doesn’t matter. Thanks to the World Economic Forum, ‘Safety by Design’ is being exported globally.”