Tag: Censorship

“Republicans are expected to press the executives on GARM’s collaboration to silence, demonetize, and deplatform conservative voices and media outlets, potentially in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and seeming to exceed far beyond the organization’s stated aim to promote ‘brand safety.’”

“I have been warning since 2007, in my book The End of America, about the sequence of steps that tyrants always take, in order to close down an open society. Since 2020 we are, in the US, at Step 10 of the “Ten Steps to Fascism” — that is, at the…

“We are now seeing what is arguably the most dangerous anti-free speech movement in our history. Under <Biden’s> administration, we have seen a massive censorship system funded and directed by the government.”

“The first step in winning a war is to recognize the fact that you are in one. This means, first and foremost, to come to know your enemy and his goals. The Claremont Institute makes a compelling case that the present enemy—the “woke” or group quota regime—is a totalitarian threat, and…

“This is what totalitarianism looks like in our century: not men in darkened cells driving screws under the fingernails of dissidents, but Silicon Valley dweebs removing from vast swaths of the Internet a damaging exposé on their preferred presidential candidate.”

“Orwell’s telescreens have nothing on the current surveillance state: The NSA mines personal data, and Tech companies censor information at the behest of the state. 1984’s “Hate Week” finds an equivalent in Biden’s speeches: people who want the nation to be great are a major threat to ‘Democracy’.”

“If government could evaluate the content of speech and punish what it characterizes as intolerance or disinformation, we’d have no freedoms remaining. Government is the negation of liberty. It exists by stealing, prohibiting and compelling. Speech is the last bastion against the its totalitarian impulses.”

“Many readers might be generally aware of the demonetization warfare tactic designed to suppress dissident media but may not be aware of just how many PJ Media articles are demonetized on a regular basis, which has the intended effect of, ultimately, putting us out of business forever.”

“The greatest threat to democracy is not somebody who questions election returns, but a president of the United States who uses the power of his office to censor his political critics.”

“The story of “The Twitter Files” is about turning the internet into a tool of surveillance and social control instead of a democratizing tool. If they decide to go all the way with that, we will get that totalitarian outcome.”