Month: April 2022

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Democrats. This is who they have become.

Biden’s ‘Minister of Truth’ Nina Jankowicz Called for Facebook to Censor Breitbart

Breitbart protest (Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty)

“…Nina Jankowicz, the chair of the new Disinformation Governance Board in the Department of Homeland Security, wanted Facebook to censor Breitbart News, joining the left’s calls for Silicon Valley to censor conservative news outlets in 2019…”

Nasty Nina: Sings ‘Who Do I F*ck’ to Be ‘Rich, Famous, Powerful’

Joe Biden’s Disinformation Chief Nina Jankowicz Playacted Her Male Trolls on TikTok

Playacted Her Male Trolls on TikTok

Biden’s Disinformation Chief: ‘There Are Many Non-Binary People Who Give Birth’

Twitter/Nina Jankowicz

Psaki says this woman is an expert with extensive qualifications:

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The modern Democrat party and liberal media remind me of this clip from the movie Network. It was intended as satire, but as recent history shows, it is difficult to satirize Democrats because whatever batshit crazy thing you come up with they will quickly adopt as federal government policy.

 

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Jonathan Turley on the Democrats desperate desire to censor speech

“Before it’s too Late”: Democrats Shift From Corporate Censorship to State Censorship

“…“A brave new nightmare.” Those words from former Labor Secretary Robert Reich described the threat created by Elon Musk’s bid to restore free speech values by buying Twitter.

Yet, despite warnings that censorship is necessary “for democracy to survive,” neither the Tesla CEO and billionaire nor ordinary citizens appear to be sufficiently terrified of free speech. Twitter confirmed Monday that Musk will acquire the company in a deal worth $44 billion. Once the deal is complete, Twitter will become a privately held company.

Progressives, in the meantime, have adopted a dangerous shift in their strategy of calling for corporations to censor speech.

Last week, former President Barack Obama made this shift clear in his much covered speech at Stanford University. Just days after Musk re-enforced his bid for Twitter with the support of many in the free speech community, Obama warned that social media was “tilting us in the wrong direction.” He called for more censorship of disinformation while calling himself “pretty close to a First Amendment absolutist.”

Obama has never been viewed as an ally on free speech by those of us who have been attacked for our “absolutist” views. Moreover, calling for censorship as a free speech absolutist is like claiming to be a vegetarian while calling for mandatory meat consumption.

Obama favors free speech only if it does not include disinformation, including what he considers to be “lies, conspiracy theories, junk science, quackery, racist tracts and misogynist screeds.”

However, it was notable that Obama called himself “pretty close to a First Amendment absolutist,” not a free speech absolutist. The point became clear later in the speech when Obama noted that the First Amendment does not restrict private businesses from censoring speech. The First Amendment is not the full measure or definition of free speech, which many consider a human right.

For years, the First Amendment distinction has been the focus of liberals who discovered a way to circumvent constitutional bans on censorship by using companies like Twitter and Facebook. Now, that successful strategy could be curtailed as shareholders join figures like Musk in objecting to corporations and media acting like a surrogate state media.

Faced with that prospect, Democrats are falling back to their final line of defense – and finally being honest about their past use of corporate surrogates. They are now calling for outright state censorship. Obama declared: “This is an opportunity, it’s a chance that we should welcome for governments to take on a big important problem and prove that democracy and innovation can coexist.”

He is talking about imposing “standards” on companies to force them to censor “lies” and “disinformation.”…”

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This is who Biden selected to lead his new “ministry of truth.” The U.S. government becomes a Monty Python skit.

Doug Santo