Modern-day censorship
Learning how it’s done:
A U.S. district court judge issued a ruling on Tuesday that requires Chief Medical Adviser to the President Anthony Fauci, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and other key public health officials to turn over all external communications with Big Tech companies. The ruling is based upon a lawsuit filed against top-ranking Biden administration officials by Missouri and Louisiana Attorneys General Eric Schmitt and Jeff Landry for “colluding with social media companies to censor free speech.”…
The issuance of the court order comes days after the release of bombshell emails showing that the Biden administration coordinated with senior officials at Facebook and Twitter to censor posts about Covid-19 they claimed contained false or misleading information. As reported by The Federalist, “In an email dated July 16, 2021, addressed to U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, a senior representative for Facebook discussed how the company and Biden administration officials met ‘to better understand the scope of what the White House expects from [Facebook] on misinformation going forward.’”
A separate email chain dated July 20, 2021, also shows Digital Director for the White House Covid-19 Response Team Clarke Humphrey asking Facebook if the tech giant could remove a parody Instagram account of Dr. Anthony Fauci, to which a company official replied, “Yep, on it!”
None of this should come as a surprise.
Very good thread by Glenn Greenwald on this issue of the left’s love of censorship.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1567290905039708160
Isn’t this all pretty much as simple as the left loved free speech when they were out of power but now that they have almost total control they love it.
That’s like the story of every leftist revolution everywhere.
Karine Jean-Pierre but not Jen Psaki? I imagine that most of the relevent administration takedown “requests” would’ve occurred under Psaki’s watch (although KJP was her deputy during that period).
It’s especially infuriating since much of the speech which was suppressed as “false” has turned out to be true.
Anyone who hasn’t had their head in the sand is not surprised. It’s a virtual certainty that this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Kate,
That’s why it was suppressed. “Disinformation and Misinformation” are euphemisms for ‘truths that must not be known’, as those truths threaten the narrative, which in turn threatens the agenda.
Geoffrey,
Don’t forget ‘malinformation’ which is basically true information that goes against the government narrative.
There was some government document explaining all of this that was featured on the Dark Horse podcast a couple of months ago.
Here is the short Dark Horse segment on ‘malinformation’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnkK07UekiE
“…to censor free speech…”
Yes, but don’t forget: “speech” that JUST HAPPENS to be truthful, to be factual, to be PROVABLE.
(Funny how such censorship happens so often—and so consistently IN ONE DIRECTION only…
…kinda like the way the 2020 election late balloting went IN ONE DIRECTION only…but, of course, that’s ENTIRELY explainable, natural and non-controversial….)
the problem is a little more complex ‘the free speech movement’ as espoused by mario savio, and others, was about introducing speech that attacked the status quo, then when demography and indoctrination, became the order of the day, they became the status quo,
there are very few free speech crusaders still on the left, greenwald taibbi, michael tracey, that’s on foreign policy, on health policy I imagine berenson leans left, as are some of the real muckrakers, some have been awakened like dr, malone,
And the other side of the coin:
“CDC Gave Facebook Misinformation About COVID-19 Vaccines, Emails Show”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/cdc-gave-facebook-misinformation-about-covid-19-vaccines-emails-show
Not to mention Birx’s recent, if rather nonchalant, “oh-yeah-we-totally-fooled-ya’-we-were-talking-total-I-mean-TOTAL-BS-we-didn’t-know-WTH-we-were-doing” mea culpa (considering the extraordinary damage caused by the bogus policies she championed…though at least we now know why she found it totally OK to break isolation and visit her family…)…
And best not to even get started with the insidious, megalomanic, psychotic black hole that is Anthony Fauci….
The censorship that I encounter with increasing frequency is YouTube’s policy of flagging certain videos (often history- or war-related) with a notification that “the YouTube community [whatever that is] has determined that this video may be offensive to certain viewers”– then you have to click on a prompt that says “I understand and wish to proceed.” I have seen this notification attached to such harmless videos as a documentary about a Thirty Years’ War battle (Lützen, 1632), probably because the documentary contained an interview with a battlefield archaeologist who pointed out the injuries inflicted on soldiers’ bones by seventeenth-century swords and pistols. The YouTube censors apparently think we are all sentimental snowflakes who need protection from information about the darker periods of human history.
Re: Biden’s press secretary
It’s addressed to Jean-Pierre but it’s more accurately the office of the White House Press Secretary and acknowledges that much of what is covered is from Psaki’s time in the position.
This issue in my opinion is the most troubling of all recent events. I’m an old man now and I was educated to understand that the First Amendment is the jewel in America’s crown. The realization that this country’s students have not been taught this and that Democrat politicians who know better are lying about it for political gain is like a dagger in my chest.
What has happened during the pandemic years? With the election of 2020 and through the New Reich of RepubloCRATS? Since the recent testimony of Zuckerberg and court discovery by a posse of Stars’ R Attorney’s General, corroborating that Democrats through an alien federal bureaucracy, has normalised overturning of our Constititutional rights?
Says Nathalie Barker:
“Nathalie Barker
9 hours ago
***This was the best explanation, educating people as to why people would be so concerned about the psychological warfare that has been upon us for decades. Slowly raising the temperatures”*** against us.
SEE or listen to theses 23 minutes in a recent monologue by Will Cain
“Story #1: What is the Rubicon for American Democracy?
Story #2: The unholy alliance between major corporations and big government to suppress free thought.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Atz5Q8pAYYk
TRIPLE Star that thought.
Try it out with patient enough friends.
Censorship is evil. Always.
No morally decent, intellectually honest person can support censorship. Not possible. Not ever.
Stan. But what if no one remains to call out evil censors?
We’re fast approaching that time.
From Stacey Lennox at pjmedia — thanks to King Biden and his climate-far Leftist activist $370 billions within the “Inflation Reduction Act”, the US will not escape WEF anti-nitrogen crusade and its Jihad against meat production:
“And American farmers won’t escape the green power grab. The “Inflation Reduction Act” puts farmers under the control of the EPA to govern nitrogen emissions. Additionally, it allocates $20 billion to fund “climate-smart agricultural practices.” News from Europe helps us to predict how bureaucrats will use this money. Regulators will spend it reducing meat production further, especially beef, and lowering food output by restricting fertilizer and energy from fossil fuels.”