The Guardian: ‘Regulators Around The World Should Threaten Musk With Arrest’
America’s tiniest tyrant Robert Reich has a new column in The Guardian calling on regulators around the world to “threaten” Elon Musk “with arrest” for allowing too much free speech.
From The Guardian, “Elon Musk is out of control. Here is how to rein him in”:
Here are six ways to rein in Musk:
1. Boycott Tesla.
Consumers shouldn’t be making him even richer and able to do even more harm. A Tesla boycott may have already begun. A recent poll said one-third of Britons are less likely to buy a Tesla because of Musk’s recent behavior.
2. Advertisers should boycott X.
A coalition of major advertisers has organized such a boycott. Musk is suing them under antitrust law. “We tried peace for 2 years, now it is war,” he wrote on X, referring to advertisers who criticize him and X.
3. Regulators around the world should threaten Musk with arrest if he doesn’t stop disseminating lies and hate on X.
Global regulators may be on the way to doing this, as evidenced by the 24 August arrest in France of Pavel Durov, who founded the online communications tool Telegram, which French authorities have found complicit in hate crimes and disinformation. Like Musk, Durov has styled himself as a free speech absolutist.
4. In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission should demand that Musk take down lies that are likely to endanger individuals – and if he does not, sue him under Section Five of the FTC Act.
Musk’s free-speech rights under the first amendment don’t take precedence over the public interest. Two months ago, the US supreme court said federal agencies may pressure social media platforms to take down misinformation – a technical win for the public good (technical because the court based its ruling on the plaintiff’s lack of standing to sue).
5. The US government – and we taxpayers – have additional power over Musk, if we’re willing to use it. The US should terminate its contracts with him, starting with Musk’s SpaceX.
In 2021, the United States entered into a $1.8bn classified contract with SpaceX that includes blasting off classified and military satellites, according to the Wall Street Journal. The funds are now an important part of SpaceX’s revenue.
[…] 6. Make sure Musk’s favorite candidate for president is not elected.
The way Reich spins it, the US government shutting down all free speech is actually a revolutionary people’s movement rising up against the “world’s richest man!”
Reich, who is Jewish, wrote an article in April on the pro-Palestine protests claiming he’s for free speech on college campuses — though he added there must be “a limit.”
“[U]niversities should go out of their way to tolerate expression that may make some people uncomfortable,” Reich wrote. “To tar all offensive speech ‘hate speech’ and ban it removes a central pillar of education. Of course, it’s offensive. It is designed to offend.”
“There is a limit, of course,” he continued. “Expression that targets specific students, ‘doxes’ them, or otherwise aims to hurt them as individuals doesn’t invite learning. It is a form of intimidation. It should not be allowed.”
In other words, he supports the free speech carveouts for college campuses that the Anti-Defamation League lobbied for to make criticism of Jews and “Zionists” a form of “hate speech” (by claiming such criticism creates a “hostile environment” for Jewish students in violation of Civil Rights law).
Your free speech ends where pampered Jewish Ivy League students’ feelings begin!
Iranian Investigators Blame Helicopter Crash That Killed Raisi on Bad Weather – Report
The helicopter crash that killed Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in May was primarily caused by poor weather conditions, the final report released on Sunday by the Iranian military headquarters concluded.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces said in the report, shared by state news broadcaster IRIB, that adverse climate conditions in northwestern Iran and a surprise fog caused the helicopter to crash into a mountain slope.
The May 19 crash also killed Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and several other senior Iranian officials, prompting a snap election.
The results of the probe will be presented to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.
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ChatGPT Exposes DARPA Plan to Create Human/Cyborg Hybrid Intelligence Using a Vast Collective Neural Network
Alex Jones questions ChatGPT over DARPA plans for the future of humanity and its responses were mind-blowing! Transhumanism is the final frontier of the globalist New World Order paradigm.
🚨BREAKING – ChatGPT Exposes DARPA Plan To Create A Human/Cyborg Hybrid Intelligence Using A Vast Collective Neural Network
The AI hive mind is emerging, designed for control and manipulation by the elites.
With AI creeping into every aspect of life, the plan is to merge man… pic.twitter.com/MFTrT3FfzV— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) August 31, 2024
Putin’s Remarks About Biden Also True for VP Harris, Kremlin Says
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent remark about the predictability of US President Joe Biden also applies to his vice president turned presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday.
Asked whether Russia would prefer to see Joe Biden or Donald Trump as the next US president, Putin described Biden as more preferable because he was more experienced and predictable.
“We do not have a favorite candidate, but the Democrats are certainly more predictable. What Putin said about Biden’s predictability applies to almost all Democrats, including Mrs. Harris,” Peskov said in a recorded interview published on social media.
Peskov lamented the state of US-Russian relations, saying tensions between the two were at their highest, having reached a breaking point under the Biden administration.
“They have reached the breaking point… The last drop fell,” he said.
When asked about the future of Democrats’ policy on Russia and the European Union, Peskov said it was also easy to predict.
“It is all predictable. They will stick to the same policy toward us, they will predictably continue to put pressure on EU member states, and they will continue to enslave those countries politically and economically,” he said.
‘It was hard to believe’
Reflecting on the results of US President Joe Biden’s presidency, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov recalled how Vladimir Putin reacted to Joe Biden’s interview at the beginning of his presidency, when Biden suddenly called the Russian president a… pic.twitter.com/fJqhQU1ACO— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) September 1, 2024
US Involvement in Ukrainian Conflict
The United States is directly involved in the Ukrainian conflict, despite numerous statements to the contrary, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov added.
“The United States, despite many statements to the contrary, is directly involved in the conflict around Ukraine. It is demonstrating a tendency toward increasing the level of involvement in this conflict,” Peskov said in a recorded interview published on Telegram on Sunday.
The spokesman accused Washington of “an undisguised hostile attitude” toward Russia. He said the US had spent decades piling pressure on Russia and trampling on its interests.
Trump Won’t Solve All Problems Overnight
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will not be able to resolve all problems overnight if elected, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday.
Trump has repeatedly promised during the presidential campaign to settle the conflict between Ukraine and Russia in 24 hours after coming into the White House.
“I do not think he has a magic wand or that anything can be done overnight,” Peskov said in a recorded interview published on social media, commenting on Trump’s campaign promises.
The Kremlin spokesman rejected as impossible speculations that a new US president could announce an end to US military support for Ukraine and call on the parties to sit down at the negotiating table in their inaugural speech in January 2025.
Peskov said relations between Russia and the United States had hit rock bottom under Biden and looked unsalvageable for the time being.
“Mr Biden’s presidency has become the culmination of all processes in our bilateral relations. They are probably at their historic low at the moment,” Peskov said, adding that so far, he had seen no prospects for them “entering a growth trajectory.”
WATCH: ChatGPT Confirms DARPA’s Intergalactic Communications System & Plans For A Dystopian Cyber Future With Alex Jones
Alex Jones probes ChatGPT about DARPA’s intergalactic comm system and the elite’s plans for a dystopian cyber hellscape where all of humanity is jacked into the AI hive mind.
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French Election Winners Move to Impeach Macron
The France Unbowed (LFI) party, part of a broad left-wing coalition that secured the largest share of seats in the July parliamentary election, is gathering signatures to remove President Emmanuel Macron from office.
The move comes after Macron refused to appoint the New Popular Front coalition’s candidate – Lucie Castets – as prime minister.
“The draft resolution to initiate the procedure for the impeachment of the President of the Republic, in accordance with Article 68 of the Constitution, was sent today to parliamentarians for co-signatures,” the LFI’s parliamentary leader, Mathilde Panot, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday.
To initiate the impeachment process, the LFI, which has 72 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly, must collect signatures from at least 10% of the members of parliament under its motion. Article 68 of the French Constitution stipulates that the action could be implemented “in the event of a breach of duty manifestly incompatible with the exercise of his mandate.”
“Macron refuses to submit to the people’s vote, so we must dismiss him,” Panot explained, sharing the draft of the resolution, which stated that “the National Assembly (lower house) and Senate can and must defend democracy against the president’s authoritarian leanings.”
The lawmakers argued that it is not up to the president “to do political horse trading,” referring to Macron’s struggle to find a new prime minister since accepting Gabriel Attal’s resignation last month.
The LFI is part of the New Popular Front alliance (NFP) – along with the Socialists, Communists, and Greens – which emerged as the winner of the snap parliamentary election called by Macron earlier this year.
The coalition fell short of an outright majority, forcing Macron to enter negotiations to appoint a new prime minister and form a government.
On Monday, the French leader rejected the NFP’s candidate, Lucie Castets – a civil servant who is not a member of any political party – arguing that such a government would threaten “institutional stability.”
Meanwhile, French media have noted that it would be hard to find a new PM “who would not be immediately ousted in a confidence vote.”
Macron called the snap vote in June after his centrist Ensemble bloc’s poor showing at the European Parliament election. After the first round saw Marine Le Pen’s right-wing National Rally (RN) in the lead, Macron reached a last-minute “strategic voting” deal with the NFP to prevent the RN from securing majority in the National Assembly.
Despite Macron’s bloc coming second in the election, the president has the sole power to name the prime minister, who is not formally required to be a candidate from the winning party.
The RN, which came third in the National Assembly vote, has stated that it will block any candidate from the left-wing alliance, arguing that the NFP represents “a danger to public order, civil peace, and obviously to the economic life of the country.”
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