{"id":67438,"date":"2024-04-20T19:11:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T00:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67438"},"modified":"2024-04-20T19:11:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T00:11:47","slug":"orwellian-sydney-police-we-will-be-the-source-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67438","title":{"rendered":"Orwellian Sydney Police: We Will Be the \u201cSource of Truth\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Orwellian Sydney Police: We Will Be the \u201cSource of Truth\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sydney residents question the implications of centralized truth and censorship in the wake of a government’s push to police online discourse.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Offering a fresh perspective on the fallout of a recent Sydney stabbing attack, residents have expressed their anger and mistrust toward the police who have insisted they alone should be the arbiter of truth in this incident. These sentiments stem from a press briefing given by New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb last Thursday.<\/p>\n

Webb, who was sharing information about a 16-year-old male being accused of terrorism following the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel of Christ The Good Shepherd Church, asserted that the police will be the utterly reliable source of updates. She warned against \u201cmisinformation,\u201d but decided not to elaborate on what she was alluding to.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also want to stress that there is misinformation being communicated across social media, and people should not share any of that information,\u201d Webb said. \u201cThe source of information should be from police and law enforcement authorities. And if people have concerns they should check our websites, our socials, and any other direct news from law enforcement about current information. If we have current credible information about any risk or threat to the community, we will let them know, we will share that with the community. But please be assured that police will be the source of truth and not social media and misinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

This attempt by the Australian police to monopolize control over the narrative of the incident has raised concerns among the online community about censorship, especially as the government has been pressuring online platforms to censor in recent days. The government has even gone as far as telling people to\u00a0report their fellow citizens\u2019 speech to the country\u2019s chief censor.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Orwellian Sydney Police: We Will Be the \u201cSource of Truth\u201d Sydney residents question the implications of centralized truth and censorship in the wake of a government’s push to police online discourse. Offering a fresh perspective on the fallout of a recent Sydney stabbing attack, residents have expressed their anger and mistrust toward the police who […]<\/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":[41,34296,512,1426,632,33878,1250],"class_list":["post-67438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-australia","tag-christina-maas","tag-media","tag-misinformation","tag-police","tag-reclaim-the-net","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67438","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=67438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67439,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67438\/revisions\/67439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}