Surveillance and censorship tech will now be used to target “vaccine misinformation”

Surveillance and censorship tech will now be used to target “vaccine misinformation”

Many foresaw the dangers of our government’s development of tools to combat “terrorism”: they would eventually be aimed, not at terrorism, but at any individual or group they chose. All the War on Terror tech eventually trickled down to local law enforcement to fight the War on Drugs, and other run-of-the-mill crimes. Now it will be used to suppress criticism of a pharmaceutical product, so long as that product resides within a syringe:

The Guardian: Anti-extremism software to be used to tackle vaccine misinformation

Author: S. Smith