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Okay. So the Moore / Gibbs #PlanetoftheHumans has been temporarily taken off Youtube because..........copyright infringement.
There are a few very significant things buried in this story, so let& #39;s excavate them. Time for a short
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There are a few very significant things buried in this story, so let& #39;s excavate them. Time for a short
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First up - this, and the preceding calls for the film to be pulled due to misinformation, fit a narrative the filmmakers have been weaving for a while: "THEY don& #39;t want you to see the film! THEY& #39;RE trying to censor us!"
When your core pathway to communication is deception, you must deal with objections.
Simple solution: if someone tries to demand a truth standard, you say they& #39;re trying to silence you. It works well: it& #39;s been a staple of conspiracy thinking in climate denial for years
Simple solution: if someone tries to demand a truth standard, you say they& #39;re trying to silence you. It works well: it& #39;s been a staple of conspiracy thinking in climate denial for years
Gibbs - the director - seems pretty deep into the conspiracy crowd. Here& #39;s a Facebook post from Michael Moore& #39;s former fact-checker, who denounced the film and distanced herself from the pair:
https://www.facebook.com/joanne.doroshow/posts/10157346760956344">https://www.facebook.com/joanne.do...
https://www.facebook.com/joanne.doroshow/posts/10157346760956344">https://www.facebook.com/joanne.do...
There is also a truly weird left-not-left network of people who believe Greta Thunberg was & #39;manufactured& #39; by & #39;green capitalist& #39; forces. The director of #PlanetoftheHumans is connected with them, too, based off old public FB posts: https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/status/1258464052348583937">https://twitter.com/KetanJ0/s...
Okay. So. Here& #39;s the πππππ. These objections to the gnarled fingers of capitalism crushing the climate movement?
They& #39;re published in *actual* partnership with the fourth biggest corporation in the world: Google.
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They& #39;re published in *actual* partnership with the fourth biggest corporation in the world: Google.
https://ketanjoshi.co/2020/04/29/this-is-where-hard-work-got-us-another-post-about-the-bad-film/">https://ketanjoshi.co/2020/04/2...
Moore, Gibbs and Zehner are actively engaging in the marketplace of misinformation. It is a massive, for-profit industry. It causes direct harm to human life and the natural world.
Big tech keep insisting they& #39;re fixing it. They& #39;re not. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/25/social-media-no-longer-tolerates-toxic-lies-dont-believe-a-word-of-it">https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
Big tech keep insisting they& #39;re fixing it. They& #39;re not. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/25/social-media-no-longer-tolerates-toxic-lies-dont-believe-a-word-of-it">https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
Michael Moore is a Bullshit Capitalist. He knows there are profit margins in compelling lies distributed to a large audience using the massive technological resources of a corporation like Google.
That& #39;s why YT took action on copyright for #PlanetoftheHumans, but not the lies.
That& #39;s why YT took action on copyright for #PlanetoftheHumans, but not the lies.
So, all the enviros, degrowthers, depopulation and anti-capitalist people who decided to welcome this movie with open arms: you became participants in Bullshit Capitalism too. These massive companies want to find people who will happily accept lies, rather than asking for better.
It& #39;s easy to cry hypocrisy, but it isn& #39;t *really* hypocrisy, because when it comes down to it, their gripe isn& #39;t with capitalism, or growth, or population.
It& #39;s that they& #39;re not at the centre of the spotlight - and they want to be. Bullshit Capitalism is a means to that end.
It& #39;s that they& #39;re not at the centre of the spotlight - and they want to be. Bullshit Capitalism is a means to that end.
Tech companies are the main arms dealers for algorithm-fuelled misinformation. Google is bad, and their Youtube subdivision is one of the worst. These companies need to act pre-emptively, because reactionary actions are touted as "censorship". This is getting worse.
The end!
Appendix A: @KateAronoff on & #39;Climate Sad Bois& #39; is an absolute must-read https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/jonathan-safran-foer-we-are-the-weather-climate-review/">https://www.thenation.com/article/a...
Appendix B: Further examples of "They& #39;re trying to hide the truth" playing out like clockwork.
There is no other way this could have gone. This is absolute supercharged catnip for the denier / conspiracist crowd. They are vibrating with raw emotion.
There is no other way this could have gone. This is absolute supercharged catnip for the denier / conspiracist crowd. They are vibrating with raw emotion.
