One of the most powerful organizations in the world believes “there is an urgent need for more deliberate global coordination to improve digital safety.”
The World Economic Forum (WEF) announced (here) on June 29 it is launching a “Global Coalition for Digital Safety” which will “accelerate public-private cooperation to tackle harmful content online.”
The coalition will determine new “best practices” in order to promote what it calls “online safety regulation” and to “reduce the risk of online harms.”
“Global online safety is a collective goal that must be addressed by working across borders as well as by individual nations,” said Dame Melanie Dawes, Chief Executive of Ofcom about the coalition.
But organizations are already concerned about such utopian goals representing a smokescreen hiding more sinister motives. The Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) is an independent research and media organization based in Montreal currently warning readers about the WEF’s new coalition.
“The WEF sets itself up as the global arbiter that defines terms like ‘harmful content’ and ‘misinformation,'” writes Leo Hohmann for GlobalResearch. “It also laments the fact that encrypted social media channels like Telegram and Signal are able to allow users to communicate free of censorship and spying.”
Hohmann continues:
If COVID taught us anything, it’s that Big Tech social-media [sic] platforms, in league with global power elites, defined for us what is allowed and not allowed to be said on the Internet.
Posts that challenge the official narrative about the virus and the best way to respond to it were immediately censored, either tagged with warnings meant to discredit the posts or removed all together [sic].
The most typical reason for such censorship was that these posts “violated community standards,” which consist of mysterious, vaguely worded legalese that nobody reads.
Big Tech corporations are also increasingly working in concert with governments around the world, including in the U.S. and the ruling Chinese Communist Party in China, to regulate what people are allowed to see on the Internet.
But all of this control over the free flow of information is not enough for some of the global power elites.
The World Economic Forum came under fire for its “prediction” that by the year 2030 human beings will “own nothing” and “be happy.”
A future in which the average person owns nothing and is “happy” about it is imagined by Klaus Schwab—creator of the WEF—and accomplished by his so-called “Great Reset,” which is characterized by its detractors as merely “a globalist agenda.”
In fact, critics think the future world presented by Schwab and his WEF—including endeavors like the Global Coalition for Digital Safety—as utopian, might instead “become a dark, oppressive place.” And this, “despite those behind ‘The Great Reset’ selling the plan as a way to improve the current system of capitalism so that issues like climate change can be tackled more effectively.”
