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Big Tech’s state media hypocrisy: Australian gov’t anti-China propaganda not labeled

Silicon Valley Big Tech corporations, which are all US government contractors, censor Russian media while allowing Australian state outlets to spread anti-China propaganda without even a label.

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Big Tech corporations in Silicon Valley have billions of dollars worth of contracts with numerous US government agencies, including the CIA, FBI, Pentagon, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as well as local police departments.

These Big Tech corporations, which control widely used social media platforms, frequently censor state-funded media outlets from Russia, China, and Iran.

But on the same platforms, Western state media outlets are free to spread propaganda against their adversaries, and they are not even labeled.

YouTube (which is owned by Google) has banned Russia’s RT in every country on Earth. It has also censored Iranian networks like Press TV dozens of times.

YouTube, Facebook, Instagram (which is owned by Meta), and Twitter have all labeled Russian, Chinese, and Iranian networks.

But these same Silicon Valley corporations do not have state-affiliated labels for US state media outlets Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Asia (RFA), or NPR; nor do they label state media outlets Deutsche Welle (DW) of Germany, France 24, CBC of Canada, TRT World of Turkey, or ABC of Australia.

ABC is not labeled despite the fact that the Australian government has publicly acknowledged that it is an instrument of soft power, serving the state’s foreign policy and national security interests by spreading disinformation against its adversary China.

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese made this absolutely clear in a speech at ABC’s 90th anniversary celebration on August 5.

The state-funded network published a report on the event titled “Prime Minister Anthony Albanese calls for greater ABC voice in the Pacific to protect national security.”

“The Prime Minister says it is a matter of national security that the ABC makes more content that projects Australian values and interests to the Indo-Pacific region,” ABC wrote.

The ABC article continued:

The PM stressed the importance of a strong Australian voice in the Pacific in order to keep other influences out.

“When the ABC voice was removed from the Pacific, guess what nation moved in? Simple as that, a major mistake of foreign policy.”

He said Australia’s “identity, values and interests” must be projected to the Pacific.

“On top of every other consideration, it is a prudent investment in our national security as well as our national interest.

“[This] was undervalued by the previous government, even trivialised. That was a mistake.”

Mr Albanese reaffirmed his government’s commitment to an Indo-Pacific broadcasting strategy, which increases ABC International funding so Australian content can be boosted in the region.

Since taking office in May, Mr Albanese has vowed to counter China’s rising assertiveness in the Pacific region and restore Australia as the partner of choice.

Twitter lists RT as “Russia state-affiliated media” and CGTN as “China state-affiliated media.” But ABC News has no such label.

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  1. Eric Arthur Blair

    2022-08-17 at 22:45

    More hard facts proving the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is a biased State Propaganda outlet which suppresses free speech:
    1. Tony Kevin is a veteran Australian diplomat who was censored, cancelled and deleted by the ABC. He was first stationed in Moscow in 1969, steeped in anti-Soviet views at the time. His opinions changed after living there and actually learning about the Russian people, language and culture. His later appointments included Australian Ambassador to Poland and Cambodia. In retirement he became an acclaimed non-fiction author and some of his books reflected his nuanced views on Russia which had evolved over decades. He was interviewed by ABC Radio National on 16 Feb 2022 when he dared to mention how ordinary Ukrainians and especially ethnic Russian-Ukranians had been suffering and indiscriminately killed by the UkroNazis installed by the USA/NATO over the past 8 years. (This was even before the public discovered the reality of more than 30 bio-pathogen labs in Ukraine which Victoria Nuland admitted were funded by the US). Mr Kevin’s interview was removed from the ABC website on 23 April 2022 by the “editorial standards board” using bogus excuses. Kevin is now blacklisted and other old material of his previously posted on the ABC has been deleted. https://www.abc.net.au/news/corrections/2022-04-23/ukraine-interview/101010762
    Thankfully due to salvage by a listener, his deleted interview can be heard here (second half of program) https://www.dropbox.com/s/wenbvlf8kj51kb4/2022febABCRN%2C2ndhalf%2CtonykevinOnRussia.mp3?dl=0
    Also see http://www.tonykevin.com.au Amazing that even this mild, fact based commentary “needed” to be censored by the Deep State.
    2. On 3 March 2022 at a Q&A, ABC TV discussion, the host Stan Grant expelled an audience member for daring to mention the FACT that since 2014, according to UN figures, about 13,000 Donbass residents had been killed by Western Ukranian aggression. Grant’s rejoinder was that not all those 13,000 were ethnic Russians, as if that somehow justified their murder (of course they were not all ethnic Russians, but they were indiscriminately killed for being Russian speakers or living near them). Grant claimed that the audience member was justifying violence committed by Putin’s invasion (but Grant himself failed to condemn violence committed by the UkroNazis, he wept only for the “victims of Putin’s aggression”). https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-03/stan-grant-tells-audience-member-to-leave-qanda/100880520 Grant has since been rewarded with a permanent appointment as Q&A host, a plumb position.
    3. Regarding the “suppression” of “courageous anti-Putin activists”: What do you think of Pussy Riot? They have long been touted as feminist Pop Icons defending free speech and a free society, expressing righteous condemnation of Putin. Here is commentary by another Australian writer/journalist, John Helmer, as to the murky origins and sickening antics of Pussy Riot. This report is suitably buried in obscurity: https://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2012/08/16/3569001.htm Helmer had faced death threats from Russian oligarch billionaires in 2012, who were subsequently brought under control by Putin, enabling Helmer’s safe return to Russia.

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