Tag: Censorship

“As Chuck Todd’s indignant scolding of his own bosses vividly illustrates, the entire network is not filled to the brim with journalists. The entire network — not to mention the “mainstream media” at large — is filled with left-wing activists masquerading as journalists. And those activists will brook no dissent.”

“We live now in a country very different from the one we inhabited five years ago. Our media is captured. Social media is widely censored. The administrative state that seized control has not given up power. Crime has been normalized. Public trust in all official institutions is at rock bottom.”

“At the behest of the U.S. government, Twitter censored my tweet for contravening CDC policy. Having also been censored by LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube, I could not freely communicate as a scientist. Who decided that free-speech rights did not apply to honest scientific comments?”

“The Internet, in other words, was being transformed from a system for exchanging forbidden or dissenting ideas, like Samizdat, to a system for imposing top-down control over information and narrative, a GozIzdat.“

“We have been discussing the alarming <leftward> shift in favor of censorship and speech regulations. Free speech is now portrayed as an existential threat to the country as opposed to the very thing that defines us as a free people.”

“The suppression of dissent is a vital element of the power grab that will enable <the woke> regime to achieve its political goal: the establishment of group quotas as the organizing structure of American life, rather than individual merit and constitutional liberty.

“It will surprise no-one that the 10 “most trusted” sources are left-wing rags, while the 10 “highest risk” sources are conservative news sites, including Reason (!) and RealClearPolitics (!!). See page 20 for the entire(ly laughable) list.”

“There are simply too many agencies that have adopted the attitude that the entire federal government is one giant intelligence service, entitled to secret budgeting and an oversight-free existence. They need pushback on this score and have at last started to get it.”

“Every major 20th-century regime that made policing its citizens’ speech a priority ended up creating vast networks of volunteer political informants to spy on people’s private conversations. Such networks could be found in Imperial Russia, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union.”

“This is a 40-minute lecture, Part 1 in what I’d like to be an ongoing series, Censorship Industry Decoded. This first video cut through the tricks & traps in WaPo’s verbage. These tricks are stock for the industry & essential to understand.”