CENSORSHIP GETTING WORSE IN CANADA SINCE COVID BEGAN ...

A lot of Canadians agree with the censorship that has been imposed ; but it threatens what is left of our democracy.

Growing up, I was always told censorship is dangerous  ...  but I was also told that censorship doesn't happen here in Canada and the United States, only in 'other places' like The Soviet Union or Communist China and etc.  And I believed that.  I thought we had a free press in Canada, I thought our politicians and government officials could speak freely about important issues, and so could the rest of us.

But beginning with Covid, there was a big change in that.  I think there had always been a certain 'level' of censorship going on in Canada; but with Covid that got supercharged to a degree I think most of us had never seen before.   

Covid was, in my opinion, a classic case of censorship.  Certainly the most remarkable in my lifetime - or at least the one I noticed the most.  With Covid, there was 'the official story' and ONLY that was allowed.  If you wanted to question the official Covid story, even if you were a doctor, scientist, researcher, or expert ... you risked losing your job and your career.  

And the people behind the official Covid story, which includes big business, seemingly all our top politicians and governments, and virtually the entire corporate media ...  were quite willing to attack and vilify and get rid of anyone who dared to question their official story.  And they did it so well that the vast majority of Canadians agreed with the official Covid story which was that there was an extreme threat to life, and because of that we had to social distance, stay completely apart from each other, and then shut down the entire nation, and then get vaccinated with a brand new and untested kind of vaccine ... and if people didn't go along with that they were to be attacked and vilified.  That was the official story, our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau led the way in attacking and vilifying the evil anti-vaxxers, and etc. 

When only one side of a story can be told, and the other side is not allowed into the media even when put forward by some of the world's leading experts, then that is censorship at its best.  And that's what we had in Canada.  

Now maybe the official story was correct.  But even if it was, the fact that all other opinions were to be censored because the situation was 'so extremely dangerous' .. That IS CENSORSHIP.  And our rulers did it.  And a large majority of Canadians agreed with it because it was done so well.  

But believe me this kind of censorship IS dangerous because we cannot trust for one second the people actually doing the censoring.  I do not trust the corporate media to be telling the truth, not when all the corporate media are owned by very large corporations who I for sure do not trust. And most of us certainly do not trust our politicians, yet we trusted them on Covid.  And we allowed them to impose a strict censorship on Canada .. The other side of the story was NOT allowed to be told to Canadians and if you did tell it then you were in danger.   

I think that with Covid, I saw the application of full censorship in Canada for the first time in my life.   .  First, those who questioned the official Covid story were attacked and vilified and in some cases lost their jobs ... just for questioning what we were being told by the politicians, government officials, and the media. 

Doctors were fired and had their licenses taken away for daring to question the official stories and for trying to help people with the remedies that they thought could work better than the very dangerous 'official cures' of for example using ventilators (which are inherently dangerous) and using the drug Remdesivir which turned out to have little or no positive impact on Covid but which is dangerous to the liver, kidneys, and etc. 

Remdesivir probably killed a lot of people, but that kind of thing was generally not reported because only the official story was allowed to be told.   Doctors who preferred other treatments - such as ivermectin - were penalized and vilified.  Scientists and other experts with world-wide reputations, who had been part of the 'the in-group' for their entire careers were also fired and vilified if they dared question the official Covid story.  Journalists were fired.  Politicians were thrown out of their parties.  Everyone learned very quickly that a line had been drawn; and that criticism of the official Covid story was not going to be allowed and anyone at a certain level who did criticize it was in danger of having their career ended.

I'd never really seen anything like that in Canada before.  And, a lot of Canadians fully believed the Covid story and truly believed that of course people should be 'removed' if they disagreed with the official story because the entire future of humanity was at stake and those not following the rules were just bad and uncaring people who were killing others and should be shunned and worse.  That is what we were told to do by our political and media leadership. 

And in my opinion that is censorship at its worst because those pushing the official story did not in my opinion really care about what was true or factual; the truth and the facts didn't matter with Covid; what mattered was that the official story could not be questioned and if you did question it then you were the enemy and would be dealt with harshly.  

Now you may agree with whatever side of the Covid story you think correct, and that's fine, but no matter which side you are on with Covid, I think you would still have to agree that a strong censorship was imposed during Covid.  You may agree with the censorship or disagree with it, but I think everyone knows it was there.  And censorship can be, as we are often told, a very dangerous thing, because WHO is doing the censoring and can they be trusted.  In my cast, the main reason I didn't believe the official Covid story is that I don't trust the media and I don't trust the politicians and I don't trust government officials; and so I didn't believe them when they told me their Covid story ... and when I scratched a bit below the surface I immediately began to find a lot of questions with no answers.

And I'm seeing pretty much the same thing now with the war between Russia and Ukraine.   Once again there is 'an official story', this time the official story is that Russia is to blame 100% for the war, Russia is evil and dangerous, and Putin is a madman out to rule the world and we have to stop him or he will move through Europe like a scythe.  Fair enough, that is the official story and maybe it is true.  

But again, like with Covid, there IS another side to the Russia Ukraine War story; and again there are many who disagree with the official story including experts, former military, former CIA, journalists, professors, diplomats, and regular people.  But their points of view and their arguments and their expertise is, once again, and just like Covid, never allowed into the corporate owned media and is not repeated by any serious politician in Canada because anyone who does dare contradict the official Russia Ukraine War story runs the risk of being removed from their career.  So once again we are seeing a strong censorship position.  And once again, I'd say a majority of Canadians believes the official story and is happy with the censorship.  But the problem with the censorship is ... can we trust the media and politicians doing the censoring?  They know they are lying to us by telling us only one side of the story, but we don't know they are lying to us because we trust them.  (And again, maybe I'm wrong and they are telling us the truth; but I don't think they are.)

So we have seen about five years of a lot of censorship happening in Canada.  And I think those trusting the censors should be careful.  Because the ones telling us the story are the media and the politicians, and lots of us say we don't believe the politicians or the media.  But we do seem to believe them in these two cases of Covid and the war; and in other cases as well of course.  

Censorship is dangerous.  It is a threat to democracy because if we are only allowed to hear one side of the story, then we will tend to believe that story.  But if the people telling us that story are not trust-worthy; then we can rapidly be in a lot of trouble.  And Canada is in a lot of trouble right now, we have a housing disaster, a homeless disaster a health care mess, a cost of living crisis, and etc.  And we should question the stories we are being told about all of those things too, because it's very possible that the stories we are being told about those issues is also censored.   .  So it's important to demand ALL the truth, not just the official truth.  And it's important to get all the facts, not just the facts that the politicians and media choose to let us know about.  

These are dangerous times; we have to be careful and we have to be wise, and we have to be at our best if we want to come out of these years with a positive future for humanity and our planet still ahead of us.  

And here's a little something on censorship from AI Overview:  The question of whether censorship is "bad" is a subject of ongoing debate, as it involves a complex balance between protecting individuals and society from harm and upholding essential principles like freedom of speech and access to information. While widely viewed with skepticism in democratic societies, arguments exist for both the negative and potential benefits of censorship in specific contexts. 

And here's something from another source:   Democracy and censorship are two intertwined concepts that shape governance and public discourse. At its core, democracy relies on the free flow of information, enabling citizens to engage in meaningful deliberation and make informed decisions.