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Free speech? What is that Grandpa?

Journal by Runaway1956

"Hush child! Free speech is the reason you grew up without a grandma or your mommy or daddy! They all went to the Utah camps for demonstrating against the Democrat Party!"

https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1520790249957429248?

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/apr/28/dhs-created-disinformation-governance-team-police-/

https://www.sott.net/article/467375-Panicked-CNN-guest-wonders-how-we-re-going-to-control-the-channels-of-communications-in-this-country

https://ijr.com/dhs-dismisses-concerns-disinformation-board-leader/

Geeez, people, too bad we didn't have a disinformation board in the McCarthy days, huh? All those commies and socialists could have been put into concentration camps. Those radical black activists could have joined them. All the gay activists, a bunch of feminists, the free sex cultist hippies, and all the druggies. Don't forget the illegal aliens!!

 

Reply to: LOL

    (Score: 3, Insightful) by khallow on Monday May 02 2022, @04:54PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 02 2022, @04:54PM (#1241468)
    David Zurawik is classy. Then (July 6, 2021 [baltimoresun.com], sorry, paywalled):

    Even a cursory review of his [Donald Trump's] characterization of American life today shows how false it is. Where is free speech under assault like never before? Is he talking about Twitter banning him and Facebook suspending him? That’s one of his favorite things to be aggrieved about.

    But neither the suspension nor the ban keeps him in any way from exercising a right to speak freely. Facebook and Twitter are only exercising their rights to say, “Not on our platforms. We don’t want your disinformation, propaganda, lies and slander on our platforms.” They have the right to do that, you know.

    Now (May 1, 2022, from your first link):

    CNN's David Zurawik: "Dangerous" with Elon Musk buying Twitter, we need to look to Europe.

    "You need regulation. You cannot let these guys control discourse in this country or we are headed to hell. We are there. Trump opened the gates of hell and now they’re chasing us down."

    "Not on our platforms"! Right?

    That should be a lesson to us all. It didn't even take a year for this guy to sing a completely different tune - from smugly bragging that Trump had been kicked off Twitter and mocking Trump for alleged concerns about freedom of speech being under assault to "we are headed to hell" (and whining that Trump somehow did it). Notice also that he repeatedly conflates regulation with control - with the emphasis on control. For example, in the above video quote, it actually starts "You need controls on this. You need regulation. [...]"

    Once again, we have a journalist backing censorship without consideration of who will be in charge of that censorship and that's after getting bit by karma. And his reasons are vague stuff like Russian propaganda in 2016, Musk's dislike of the SEC, and that Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg want to make money. One of the dumbest things I've ever seen.

    As an aside, it will be interesting to see if the Biden administration throws any roadblocks up for this buyout. Maybe we'll get to see what some of the present day control can really do.

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