The US Is Already Setting Up the Admin and Technology to Support the WHO Infodemic Protection Program
And What Needs to Be Done
In my last substack post I quoted some of the objectives of the WHO Infodemic Protection Program. El gato malo, in one of his classic meme-laced posts, points out that the US is already organizing the bureaucratic structure to support this program. I believe the US has submitted some amendments to the Infodemic Protection Proposal that would further limit freedoms and strengthen WHO’s power to interfer with the sovereign powers of nations.
Unfortunately, AI technology is going to be a major tool for enforcement. Among the tool domains will be search algorithms, decision algorithms to identify “offending information,” facial recognition, time sequence behavioral recognition, speech recognition, voice recognition, person location prediction and tracking, visual environment processing, auditory and other frequency pattern matching, etc.
Obviously, since a country’s bureaucracy, eg, the US, supports this effort, protections at that level are unlikely. And more unfortunately, state and local bureaucrats have, over the years, been nurtured by the Clericists to follow the lead of the national financial and political Oligarchs. Our tactical and strategic efforts must be directed at supporting or replacing our state and local politicians and, through them, our local bureaucrats, and providing them with well though out legislation and policies. The US is in the primary season for the 2022 elections. Now is the time to triage the candidates for their knowledge of the problems we face and educating them on the technologies involved and the tactics used by those that support programs like the WHO Infodemic Protection Program.
I’m asking my readership to help me compose targeted questions that can be asked of the primary and then general election candidates that will both expose their knowledge of the problem and their positions.
One specific area to target is limiting the use of technology at the state level for the purpose of supporting limitations on free speech. Such concepts as limiting facial recognition apps by the any law enforcement operation without a reasonable search warrant, etc.