The United Nations has launched a new initiative to “counter the use of information and communications technologies” for “criminal purposes,” which appears to apply to individuals who share “misinformation.”
Private companies, including social media platforms such as Facebook’s parent company Meta, are also involved in the venture.
Draft versions of the convention reveal that the UN may criminalize posts that promote “hatred” – including “ideological” and “political” – in addition to the vague term “extremism.” The Chinese Communist Party has also submitted proposals to criminalize sharing information that results in “social disorder.”
The effort began in December 2019, when the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the formulation of a Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes. Currently, an Ad Hoc committee is working on details – including member states, jurisdiction, and focus areas – for the convention, which will be formalized in September 2024.
While current UN conventions broadly address information and communications technologies, the pending convention will be the first to focus on these methods of communication in the context of “criminal purposes.”
What exactly constitutes “criminal purposes,” however, remains vague, and from the available information about the convention, the term appears to include individuals who spread “misinformation.”
The most recent draft of the convention’s objectives and scope explains how the UN is working with countries to “promote, facilitate and strengthen international cooperation in preventing and combating the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes,” which includes compelling countries to adopt “legislative and other measures as are necessary to establish” certain online behaviors as “offence under domestic law.”
Put simply, the UN could potentially override the sovereignty of countries by pushing governments to adopt specific policies about what constitutes “criminal” information shared by citizens.
Article 26, for example, of the draft document calls on countries to adopte ”legislative and other measures“ to criminalize individuals who engage in sharing content that promotes “subversive or armed activities directed towards the violent overthrow of the regime of another State.”
Similarly vague, Article 27 focuses on “extremism-related offences,” which it defines as “the distribution of materials that call for illegal acts motivated by political, ideological, social, racial, ethnic or religious hatred, the advocacy and justification of such acts.”
At face value, the forms of speech the UN is trying to curtail may seem justified, but the broad scope of what constitutes “subversive” posts or the promotion of “political” or “ideological hatred” could easily be used to target content critical of the far-left, globalist agenda of groups like the UN and World Economic Forum (WEF).
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So, only the UN gets to push negativity, help overthrow countries, and push their misinformation? Nah, they don't get to police the world of words, IMO! People have the freedoms to form opinions, perceptions, facts, and those whom know right from wrong policies that could affect adversely the masses, in my opinion!
First off, who can determine viewpoints versus misinformation accurately, and who has the time to want to do so? More important would be for Organizations to stick to their original purposes, and not try for power grabs that might have criminal elements involved in doing so; we need over-sight on such Organizations that can spread evil, fear, and expand their power where it does not belong, IMO! Naturally restricting their power is most critical given their resources, in my opinion! Bullies would abuse power and the masses seen recent indication with this during Covid ordeal, so what are we actually reading about that is going on here? Oh, that would be one's perception as to what they read, right?
IF UN is promoting sustainable development as an example, right there many folks will have an opinion about those recent given sustainable developments which much has been reputedly causing obvious strife as heard around the globe, right? Murky territory is where this leads us, in my opinion.
They think they are the wizards, but in truth we see behind the curtain. They may think they have power over humanity, but I think they are in for a rude awaking. People that make a living by spouting non sense have very little foundation just a bunch of hot air. The UN was just another idea that never lived up to it’s expectations. Bunch of busy bodies with nothing worth while to do. Hands free of callouses. Mouths full of crap.
I noticed something this past year. Since BHO turned over internet control to the UN, large chunks of useful information have disappeared. The web, once a superlative search engine, has been reduced to a pipeline for porn, useless videos, inane social media and leftist propaganda.
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