The BBC's Utterly Shameless Crusade To Excise Climate 'Misinformation' From TikTok

Not content to ruthlessly censor any dissent as regards the alleged ‘scientific consensus’ and ‘overwhelming evidence’ of man-made climate change from their own platform, the BBC are hassling other social media platforms to remove content which they personally deem to be ‘climate denial’ - because obviously, they’re the experts, right? No, they’re just ‘BBC Verify’, the self-appointed judge, jury and executioner of misinformation and disinformation on the internet. The climate communists at the Beeb are on a mission. They don’t want debate, because they know full well that it’s a debate they would lose if it was managed fairly, on the basis of actual science and real evidence; they want to extinguish and silence the opposition instead.

The BBC are not Britain’s ‘most trusted news network’; they are in fact a science denying, eco-fascist/communist censorious mafia outfit who are funded directly by the public via the enforced licence fee which, if you don’t pay and don’t provide them with a good reason why you shouldn’t pay, will continually warn you that they are going to send round their jack-booted inspectors to your house and threaten you with criminal prosecution. I know, I’ve got a whole stack of their outrageously belligerent literature posted through my letter box over the past 18 months, but still the cowards have not sent round their SWAT team to kick in my door and arrest me for the crime of ignoring them - much to my disappointment.

I stopped watching telly over 10 years ago and haven’t paid the licence fee ever since. Why would I? When they get away with writing utter crap like this:

The overwhelming weight of scientific evidence has found that world temperatures are rising because of human activity, leading to rapid climate change and threatening every aspect of human life.

Why would I? When they shamelessly adopt the role of international climate consensus enforcers:

Under new community guidelines unveiled by TikTok last April, content that "undermines well-established scientific consensus" on climate change will not be allowed on the platform.

And yet, the clip depicting Mr Peña is far from an isolated occurrence: the BBC identified 365 different videos in English denying the existence of man-made climate change.

The company did not remove almost 95% of the posts we flagged up - videos that, having been watched almost 30 million times, appeared to be attracting significant attention.

In a statement to the BBC, TikTok said it is working "to empower informed climate discussions", and that it is working with fact-checkers to tackle misinformation.

Why the bloody hell does TikTok feel they need to answer to the BBC anyway? They should have just told them to FRO. It’s ridiculous. But it seems they’ve tucked their tail between their legs and acceded to most of Big Brother Corporation’s demands for censorship after all:

After we shared the findings of our investigation with TikTok, 65 accounts that had been posting wrong information about climate change in breach of the platform's guidelines were permanently removed.

The company also removed most of the remaining videos that were still online - including several that featured Dan Peña's 2017 talk.

However, at the time of writing, several copies of the clip featuring Dan Peña describing climate change as the "greatest fraud" can still be found on the app.

There’s a faint glimmer of light in all this. The BBC interviewed Doug McNeall of the Met Office no less, who is absolutely convinced of the ‘science’ of man-made climate change, so convinced that he welcomes open challenges and is not so sure that censoring ‘misinformation’ is the right thing to do:

"As a member of the public on social media, it must be very easy to get the wrong idea about how certain we are about climate change," says Dr Doug McNeall, a scientist from the Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research.

"Misinformation can really damage our discussion about what to do about climate change."

At the Met Office, Dr McNeall welcomes TikTok's efforts against misinformation, but he questions whether this is a battle the company can win.

"As a scientist I'm happy to be challenged," he says.

"Maybe we should focus on promoting good climate science information, rather than just removing the content that we perhaps don't like."

Well I would challenge Doug and I used to, quite regularly on Twitter - until they permanently banned me! Thanks Elon, for upholding free speech on the internet, by ignoring my request to be reinstated. But if the government gets its way, they will force online media companies to remove content which they deem to be ‘misinformation’ anyway. Then we will truly be living in a totalitarian nightmare state where questioning the official narrative will become an imprisonable offence and what is ‘science’ will be decided by ignorant politicians and media hacks.

Paul Scully MP, the minister for technology and the digital economy, told the BBC that the government's proposed Online Safety Bill would guarantee that the responsibility of social media platforms to tackle disinformation was "taken seriously".