“Undeniably there’s something going on but it feels orchestrated”
From my limited viewpoint - radio news if I can bear it - I’ve had a strong impression there was a purpose to the coverage. This doesn’t mean it’s necessarily been orchestrated, TPTB can jump on an opportunity. But the coverage does seem purposeful either way.
One wonders where the undercover police are in all this. They speak of ‘intelligence’ but is that really limited to knowing where and when the protests will take place?
IMO the most likely aim to push for is progress towards social media control. The sockpuppet dialogues you get between presenter and news reporter are annoying but at least they are revealing. You know, the presenter always having perfect prompts towards what the reporter wants to say, and never missing.
“Disinformation on social media has caused this…”
“Does social media have to do more to clamp down on this?”
Expected answer obviously Yes. Well what are they doing about that then?
Problem soon sorted, all with the feeling that the govt. is behaving sensibly and responding to people’s concerns - the ones that may have been placed there.
A few times I’ve heard the claim that the online harms bill wasn’t strong enough, was worthless etc. Can’t the government push them harder? etc.
But this would be a lot of effort to go to for a bit of PR. There’s surely a more immediate aim, something to do with Laura Norder. Greater police or court powers. Quicker justice!
(ie, government can step in when it wants and the independent judiciary obeys),
Tightening up registration on social media would boost digital ID too.
Heck, maybe it’s just time to go for digital ID. We might as well add on the digital (+vaccine) passports, that longstanding EU wet dream, as well. That will keep the yobbos in their place!
There’s a place for AI in all this too of course. I bet they think they can probably tell who is more dodgy from their social media posts.
In fact the WEF recently said we might be able to replace elections with an AI prediction - I mean if it’s so accurate, what’s the point of bothering with the election?
After a few minutes the Primary School radio usually goes off and I tramp away to where I can still thankfully, for the present, choose my own inputs.
I imagine this is familiar kind of scenario to others here.
Cheers