If you want people to trust you, stop telling lies.
Quit trying to silence dissenters of the "message"
This week the British based campaign group, the Center for Countering Digital Hate, gave an advanced look of it’s report on Substack to The Guardian and the The Washington Post. Today the respective outlets’ hit-pieces came out. They are as ridiculous and out of touch as one would expect. I found the Guardian piece particularly galling. In the opening paragraph they make this assertion
“A group of vaccine-sceptic writers are generating revenues of at least $2.5m (£1.85m) a year from publishing newsletters for tens of thousands of followers on the online publishing platform Substack, according to new research.”
What they don’t mention until the last paragraph is “Substack does not give exact subscriber numbers for individual newsletter publishers and only reveals followings in broad terms such as “thousands” and “tens of thousands.”' They also seem to not differentiate between free and payed subscriptions and free. So essentially they have no idea what the actual amount Substack or the writers are making Even more hilariously, the Guardian’s request for donations comes right after the end of the article that heavily implies publications who publish lies should be barred from making a profit. After this last two years of the legacy media mindlessly echoing official government lies with no questions, the very idea that these institutions would still be trying relentlessly to shut down any dissent makes me damn near ill.
In my opinion the only true “disinformation” comes from the government. The government has a monopoly on the legal use of violence. Alex Berenson, former New York Times reporter and subject of the CCDH’s ire, can’t force you to do anything. Joe Biden, who declared “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations”, can force things on you. Anthony Fauci lied about the percentage of people needed for herd immmunity “When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent. Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, “I can nudge this up a bit,” so I went to 80, 85.” He can force you to do something through the governments use of force, Robert Malone cannot.
If the government and the legacy media would like people to trust them, the first thing they should do is quit telling lies. If their whole strategy is too just shut down dissent, they’re going to continue losing the peoples’ faith faster than they already are. Give us straight information. Don’t treat grown people like children and try to hide bad things from us. Let us make our own decisions and our own risk assessments. CCDH’s chief executive had this to say “This isn’t about freedom; this is about profiting from lies … Substack should immediately stop profiting from medical misinformation that can seriously harm readers.” I wonder if he applies that same standard to the paper quoting him, or to the CDC or NIH, or the US intelligence agencies and media outlets that told us Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian dis-information”? My guess in no. You would think all these media, NGO, and government officials, with eleborate titles and fancy degrees, would understand trust is earned. Telling lies makes people distrust you, who would of thought?