Fake News?
Andy Thomas – CENSORED: Truth and Free Speech in an Age of Mass Censorship
Andy Thomas exposes the now rapid and threatening programme of online censorship, which is removing certain ‘alternative’ topics from immediate public view through adjusted algorithms, search and recommendation editing, and openly declared refusals to host specific – and perfectly legal – material. With this being done to protect people from claimed ‘fake news’, who is protecting those who try to keep real discussions about truth and freedom alive? Andy encourages people to wake up to the new onslaught against non-conformist thinking and considers the ultimate implications of its removal from the public eye. Social conditioning and the rigid enforcing of new orthodoxies guarantees the creation of new heretics, so what should the role of truth seekers be in the face of such overt opposition, and how can genuine free speech be kept alive in censorial times?