{"id":65422,"date":"2023-06-16T05:48:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T10:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65422"},"modified":"2023-06-16T05:48:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T10:48:32","slug":"un-secretary-general-proposes-global-digital-compact-to-push-laws-against-online-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65422","title":{"rendered":"UN Secretary-General Proposes \u2018Global Digital Compact\u2019 to Push Laws Against Online \u2018Hate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UN Secretary-General Proposes \u2018Global Digital Compact\u2019 to Push Laws Against Online \u2018Hate\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres deliver remarks to reporters outside the U.N. Security Council at U.N., headquarters in New York City, on April 20, 2023. (Mike Segar\/Reuters)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, proposed a \u201cGlobal Digital Compact,\u201d (GDC) to push sweeping international laws against \u201chate and lies\u201d online.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe proliferation of hate & lies in the digital space is causing grave global harm. This clear & present global threat demands clear and coordinated global action. We don\u2019t have a moment to lose,\u201d he wrote in a\u00a0tweet\u00a0<\/a>announcing the compact.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0UN policy brief<\/a>, which was released\u00a0on June 12,\u00a0called for handing control of the internet to international bodies, as part of the UN\u2019s 2030 Agenda.<\/p>\n

Guterres also referred to another UN brief, \u201cInformation and Integrity on Digital Platforms\u201d (IIDP), which he said will be used as a guide to coordinate global efforts against \u201chate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The IIDP warned about what it calls, the \u201cdarker side of the digital ecosystem,\u201d which could enable \u201cthe rapid spread of lies and hate, causing real harm on a global scale.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guterres said that the internet is being misused to deny science and spread disinformation and hate to billions of people, in a veiled reference to vaccine skeptics and growing populist movements.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe proliferation of hate and lies in the digital space is causing grave global harm. This clear and present global threat demands clear and coordinated global action. We don\u2019t have a moment to lose,\u201d he declared in his call for global censorship.<\/p>\n

UN Calls for Nations to Suppress Online Disinformation<\/strong><\/p>\n

The GDC is focused on eliminating the \u201cdivide across regions, gender, income, language, and age groups\u201d regarding internet access and decries the fact that \u201csome 89 percent of people in Europe are online, but only 21 percent of women in low-income countries use the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n

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UN Secretary-General Proposes \u2018Global Digital Compact\u2019 to Push Laws Against Online \u2018Hate\u2019 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres deliver remarks to reporters outside the U.N. Security Council at U.N., headquarters in New York City, on April 20, 2023. (Mike Segar\/Reuters) United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, proposed a \u201cGlobal Digital Compact,\u201d (GDC) to push sweeping international laws […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25886,33169,120,33850,14545,26071,33851,16350,826],"class_list":["post-65422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-antonio-guterres","tag-bryan-jung","tag-censorship","tag-global-digital-compact","tag-narrative-control","tag-narrative-management","tag-online-censorship","tag-the-epoch-times","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65423,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65422\/revisions\/65423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}