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\"\"<\/a>World Economic Forum Wants to Make You a Serf<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n

The January meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, should have set off alarms among freedom lovers around the globe. The annual confab of billionaires, political weasels, and deranged activists laid out plans to further repress humanity. But at least the gathering provided plenty of comic relief for people who enjoy elite buffoonery.<\/p>\n

Self-worship is obligatory in Davos. John Kerry, Biden\u2019s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, hailed his fellow attendees as \u201cextraterrestrial\u201d for their devotion to saving the earth. Greenpeace complained that \u201cthe rich and powerful flock to Davos in ultra-polluting, socially inequitable private jets to discuss climate and inequality behind closed doors.\u201d Being a climate change activist is \u201cthe privilege of rich and elite folks\u201d who want to force people to use unreliable and ineffective wind and solar for energy, according to Daniel Turner of Power the Future.<\/p>\n

The WEF on COVID and the Great Reset<\/b><\/h2>\n

People around the globe are still recovering from the last time WEF stampeded policymakers.<\/strong> \u201cWEF was hugely influential, championing every form of COVID control from lockdowns to vaccine mandates. The WEF cares nothing for normal people living real lives. They are forging a Faucian nightmare,\u201d warned Jeffrey Tucker, president of the Brownstone Institute. China had one of the most brutal and dishonest COVID lockdowns in the world (aside from perhaps fabricating the COVID virus in one of its own laboratories). But WEF founder Klaus Schwab touted China\u2019s COVID crackdown as a \u201crole model\u201d and \u201ca very attractive model for quite a number of countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

WEF is whooping up the \u201cGreat Reset\u201d \u2014 \u201cbuilding back better\u201d so that economies can emerge greener and fairer out of the pandemic. The Great Reset presumes that practically every nation has benevolent dictators waiting to take the reins over people\u2019s lives.<\/strong> American entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy wrote, \u201cThe Great Reset calls for dissolving the boundaries between the public & private sectors; between nations; between the online & offline worlds, and the will of individual citizens be damned.\u201d Billionaire Elon Musk, who was not invited, scoffed, \u201cWEF is increasingly becoming an unelected world government that the people never asked for and don\u2019t want.\u201d Musk ridiculed WEF\u2019s \u201cMaster the Future\u201d slogan: \u201cAre they trying to be the boss of Earth!?\u201d<\/p>\n

Sounds good to WEF attendees.<\/p>\n

Freedom of speech is the greatest barrier to inflicting the Great Reset.<\/strong> Law professor Jonathan Turley observed, \u201cDavos has long been the Legion of Doom for free speech.\u201d Accordingly, the biggest peril the self-proclaimed \u201cGlobal Shapers\u201d are targeting is \u201cThe Clear and Present Danger of Disinformation.\u201d WEF searched long and hard to find an eminent disinformation panel host to incarnate Davos values. They selected Brian Stelter, a former anchor who was too squirrely even for CNN. After CNN ejected Stelter, he was snapped up by the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to be their Media and Democracy Fellow.<\/p>\n

The real masters of disinformation<\/b><\/h2>\n

The star of the panel was New York Times<\/i> publisher A.G. Sulzberger, who proclaimed that disinformation is the \u201cmost existential\u201d of every other major challenge that we are grappling with as a society.\u201d Like most of the windy speakers in Switzerland, Sulzberger tormented the audience from the high ground:<\/p>\n

Disinformation and in the broader set of misinformation, conspiracy, propaganda, clickbait, you know, the broader mix of bad information that\u2019s corrupting information ecosystem, what it attacks is trust. And once you see, trust decline, what you then see is a society start to fracture, and so you see people fracture along tribal lines and, you know, that immediately undermines pluralism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sulzberger boasted, \u201cWhen we make mistakes, we acknowledge them in public and we correct them.\u201d Except for RussiaGate, its 1619 Project fairy tale, the January 6 Capitol clash, and a few dozen other howlers. The New York Times <\/i>effectively refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election, giving an unearned boost to Democratic candidate Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

Sulzberger talked about the decline of trust as if it were the result of a leaking underground storage tank tainting the \u201cinformation ecosystem.\u201d But it was the media that poisoned the well upon which they depend. A 2021 survey by the Reuters Institute reported that only 29 percent of Americans trusted the news media \u2014 the lowest rating of any of the 46 nations surveyed. A Gallup poll revealed that \u201c86 percent of Americans believed the media was politically biased.\u201d Practically the only folks who don\u2019t recognize the bias are the people who share the media\u2019s slant.<\/p>\n

Serendipitously, WEF also had a panel on \u201cDisrupting Distrust.\u201d The panel opened with a report grimly revealing that trust in government has declined in nations across the world. Maybe the profound, pointless disruptions from the COVID lockdowns that ravaged many countries were part of the blame? That panel was hosted by New York Times<\/i> opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury. Her paper recently ran an opinion piece which claimed that there had been \u201cno lockdowns\u201d for COVID in this country. All of the closed schools and shuttered small businesses were an optical illusion, apparently.<\/p>\n

WEF\u2019s support for censorship<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Davos procensorship fervor was epitomized by panelist V\u011bra Jourov\u00e1, European Commission vice president. She declared that the United States \u201cwill have soon\u201d laws prohibiting \u201cillegal hate speech,\u201d like Europe has. Jourov\u00e1 previously urged expanding hate crime laws to ban \u201csexual exploitation of women.\u201d Would possession of a 1957 Playboy<\/i> centerfold be sufficient for a criminal conviction? Nude beaches are common in Europe. Would the European Commission backstop online prohibitions by deploying commissars on every beach to make sure no male had improper thoughts about the birthday suits he saw?<\/p>\n

Hate-speech laws are a Pandora\u2019s Box because the speech politicians hate the most is criticism of government. And some knuckleheads on Capitol Hill believe that the United States already has hate-speech laws. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) recently declared, \u201cIf you espouse hate, if you espouse violence, you\u2019re not protected under the First Amendment. I think we can be more aggressive in the way that we handle that type of use of the internet.\u201d What\u2019s next \u2014 a federal Cordiality Czar with the prerogative to purify every tweet?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Disinformation panelist Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) blamed \u201cmisinformation\u201d for not being able to \u201cget people to take a COVID vaccine.\u201d But the false claims by Biden and top officials that vaxxes prevent infection and transmission weren\u2019t misinformation \u2014 they were just typos.<\/p>\n

Davos attendees ignored the stunning disclosures of U.S. government censorship that occurred shortly before their private jets arrived in Switzerland. The #Twitterfiles recently revealed that federal officials pressured Twitter to suppress 250,000 Twitter users (including journalists). But according to WEF scoring, that wasn\u2019t an outrage \u2014 instead, it was a tiny down payment for a Higher Truth. WEF ignored that the FBI was already suppressing free speech the same way that WEF panelists championed. As journalist Matt Taibbi revealed, \u201cAs the election approached in 2020, the FBI overwhelmed Twitter with requests, sending spreadsheets with hundreds of accounts\u201d to target and suppress. The official browbeating continued until very recently. In an internal email from November 5, 2022, the FBI\u2019s National Election Command Post sent the FBI San Francisco field office (which dealt directly with Twitter) \u201ca long list of accounts that \u2018may warrant additional action\u2019\u201d \u2014 that is, suppression. The FBI pressured Twitter to torpedo parody accounts that only idiots or federal agents would not recognize as humor. Taibbi wrote, \u201cThe master-canine quality of the FBI\u2019s relationship to Twitter comes through in this November 2022 email, in which \u2018FBI San Francisco is notifying you\u2019 it wants action on four accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n

WEF is calling for a \u201cGlobal Framework To Regulate Harm Online\u201d \u2014 that is, worldwide censorship<\/strong>. One of the WEF\u2019s favorite stars \u2014 a certified WEF Young Global Leader \u2014 was unable to attend because she was having a meltdown that ended with her resignation. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern became a progressive hero for making ever screechier demands for world censorship, comparing free speech to \u201cweapons of war.\u201d She told the United Nations last September: \u201cWe have the means; we just need the collective will\u201d to suppress ideas that officialdom disapproves. Journalist Glenn Greenwald derided Ardern\u2019s pitch as \u201cthe face of authoritarianism \u2026 and the mindset of tyrants everywhere.\u201d But Ardern was there in spirit even if she was overwhelmed at home.<\/p>\n

The WEF offers one of the best illustrations of how denunciations of \u201cdisinformation\u201d are self-serving shams.<\/strong> In 2016, WEF put out a video with eight predictions for life in 2030. The highlight of the film was a vapid Millennial guy pictured alongside the slogan: \u201cYou will own nothing and be happy.\u201d The slogan was inspired by an essay WEF published from Danish Member of Parliament Ida Auken: \u201cWelcome to 2030: I own nothing, have no privacy and life has never been better.\u201d But the anti\u2013private property bias is no WEF aberration. Last July, WEF proposed slashing ownership of private vehicles around the globe. And then there was the WEF pitch to save the planet by having people eat insects instead of red meat. (The chairman of German manufacturer Siemens achieved heroic status at Davos by calling for a billion people to stop eating meat to save the plant.)<\/p>\n

But according to WEF managing director Adrian Monck, the WEF has been the victim of a horrible conspiracy theory sparked by the \u201cown nothing\u201d phrase. Monck absolved WEF because the phrase in the video came from \u201can essay series intended to spark debate about socio-economic developments.\u201d Monck claimed the phrase \u201cstarted life as a screenshot, culled from the Internet by an anonymous anti-semitic account on the image board 4chan.\u201d Bigots or zealots on 4chan howled in protest about that phrase. But as Elon Musk quipped, \u201cWould be great if someone could compile a game contest of who said the craziest stuff between 4chan and WEF! My money is on the latter.\u201d<\/p>\n

At least WEF has not (yet) proposed mandatory injections to compel propertyless underlinings to be happy. Or maybe WEF would just recommend covertly adding drugs to the water supply.<\/p>\n

Major media outlets were either participants or cosponsors of WEF. Former New York Times<\/i> editor-in-chief Jill Abramson slammed the Times<\/i> for being part of the Davos \u201ccorrupt circle-jerk.\u201d While the event was portrayed as a chance for sharing ideas, it was instead little more than a chance to hobnob with fellow elitists. Author Walter Kirn noted that there is almost no disagreement among WEF attendees: \u201cThe largest matters on earth are at stake (supposedly) yet the conferees don\u2019t argue. They don\u2019t debate. All points seem smugly settled. It\u2019s an ego orgy.\u201d The hypocrisy was beyond hip-deep. Journalist Michael Shellenberger noted, \u201cWEF doesn\u2019t engage in even the minimal amount of transparency through public disclosure that it constantly preaches to corporations and philanthropies.\u201d<\/p>\n

What could possibly go wrong from turning common people around the world into serfs of their elitist overlords? According to WEF, individual freedom is a luxury that citizens \u2014 or at least their rulers \u2014 can no longer afford. But the benevolence of dictators is almost always an illusion created by their fawning supporters. And this year\u2019s WEF gathering proved again that there will never be a shortage of media and intellectual bootlickers for tyrann<\/strong>y.<\/p>\n

This article was originally published in the April 2023 edition of<\/em> Future of Freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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