The United Nations is About to Move Against Free Speech

The curious case of the United Nations - founded after the Second World War with the express task of working to prevent another one, and help mitigate the consequences of regional conflicts - turning into speech police, seems to be a puzzling turn of events for the UN itself.

At least, the organization appears to be worried about its image as it degrades its role from the original, extremely important one, to the current (indirect) dabbling in "aiding and abetting" of censorship, more precisely - uneasy about how to explain this to the world, frame it as a justified policy, and just in general, get away with it.

After all, if the UN is not going to dedicate its energy and funds to peacekeeping and humanitarian relief efforts in warzones - it might as well be dissolved. And how in the world did "protecting social media integrity" manage to climb so high on the organization's agenda, all the way to the UN secretary-general writing reports about it?

And so, the narrative has now been crafted that when the UN joins a war - that on "misinformation" and "disinformation" and "hate speech" - that is done not to, perhaps, curry favor with political centers currently in power in some of the countries that contribute the most to its financing - but to "protect the lives of UN peacekeepers."

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