There was so much to celebrate — and still is — about Elon Musk’s purchase of the censorious Twitter. Here was a Social Media outlet ripe for a takeover — arrogant, capricious, eager to impose its radical ideology on anyone who dared use it. Oh wait, that’s Disney, or Facebook, or even Woke a Cola. Maybe that’s why Elon sounds so giddy, tweeting about buying Coca Cola and bringing back its cocaine ingredient.
But now that Twitter will likely allow such stories as those concerning Hunter Biden’s laptop, or the harm caused by the vaccine mandates, the Left-wing Radicals who run our government had to do something to protect their monopoly on information.
And so, parroting George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth in 1984, where citizens are taught that peace is war and freedom is slavery and so on, the US government is setting up what it calls a Disinformation Governance Board to police speech.
Housed at the Department of Homeland Security, the board will be led by Nina Jankowicz, an activist who thinks the First Amendment is “bad for marginalized communities.” Maybe when she said this she was channeling Prince Harry, who called the amendment protecting our right to free speech and assembly “bonkers.” Which prompted Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham to say, “Don’t let the door knob hit you, Windsor.” Yeah, like maybe time for another American Revolution.
Anyway, per the AP, Jankowicz accused the Trump campaign of creating the emails on Hunter Biden’s laptop as a diversion. Oh and Jankowicz, who served as “a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center,” whatever that is, praised Christopher Steele, author of the discredited dossier on Trump, for his insights on disinformation.
I suppose we should not be surprised. As radio talk show host Dennis Prager noted the other day, “There is no example in history of the Left allowing dissent. From Vladimir Lenin to your local university to Facebook, everywhere the Left assumes control, it squashes dissent and free speech.”
In just one example, recently Twitter — not yet in Elon’s hands — banned the post of Gretchen Smith, an Air Force veteran who said how proud she was of working out of poverty and paying off her student loans. Why? Twitter censors called it hate speech.
Hate speech. Hm, maybe that’s Orwellian Ministry of Truth talk for uplifting oratory.
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I'm wondering why 'disinformation' and 'misinformation' wasn't an issue 10 years ago? Could it be that many, many people now look elsewhere for information due to the blatantly obvious corrupted, lying, slanted MSM? So the solution proposed by the corrupt is to censor alternative views. It is amazing that they pretty much say that censorship is needed to protect democracy. That's like saying orgies are needed to protect virginity. Let's call it what it really is. Liberalism has been morphed and lead into becoming something else by the use effective propaganda. Let's call it what it is, fascism trying to masquerade as something else.
The pretense of democracy for all by the Marxist Progressive democrats is over, the masks have come down and now we see these "Progressives" for what they really are: rabid fascists bent on total control of our country though one party rule.