White House press secretary Jen Psaki casually confirmed on Thursday what skeptical conservatives and some civil libertarians have been suspecting for years: that the world’s biggest speech platforms take direction from the government in choosing what content to suppress, amplify, or remove.
-Rachel Bovard July 16, 2021
Using the pretext of suppressing “misinformation,” Facebook and other platforms are identifying and silencing the administration’s opponents and, even though this is happening in full view of anyone paying attention, you’re not going to know anything about it if you get your news from CNN, MSNBC or one of the broadcast network troika of NBC/ABC/CBS.
In fact, the liberal media are engaged in “fact-checking” that labels reporting about this censorship as (you guessed it) “misinformation.”
-Stacy McCain
Feminist author and journalist Naomi Wolf has been permanently banned on Twitter for posts about COVID-19, vaccines, and vaccine passports. Some have applauded the ban, while others see it as another example of Big Tech’s suppression of free speech.
-Dan Frieth
The Biden administration is considering using private firms to track the online activity of American citizens in order to get around the Fourth Amendment and other laws that protect Americans from unreasonable searches and seizures and surveillance.
The report says that the Biden administration wants to monitor “extremist chatter by Americans online” but can’t do so without a warrant, and thinks private firms can get around the legal restrictions.
-Matt Margolis
"And, whether you like it or not, young lady, us cruddy politicians can take away that First Amendment of yours if we want to." -Joe Biden
Democrat, Liberal, Government, Fascism, AntiAmerican, Constitution, Censorship
White House officials are notifying Facebook about posts that allegedly spread COVID-19 misinformation as part of efforts by President Joe Biden's administration to combat what U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy described as "an imminent and insidious threat to our nation's health."...
Psaki said part of the Biden administration's new campaign involves asking social media companies to be more active in combatting misinformation and to share the results of their efforts publicly.
"We are in regular touch with these social media platforms, and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff, but also members of our COVID-19 team," Psaki said.
Democrat, Liberal, Government, Fascism, AntiAmerican, Constitution, Censorship
The Biden administration is casting conservative opponents of its Covid-19 vaccine campaign as dangerous and extreme, adopting a more aggressive political posture in an attempt to maneuver through the public health conundrum...
Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages.
Google, Facebook, and Twitter: State Actors...
"Why is the White House declaring who should and shouldn’t be banned from social media platforms?
Google, Facebook, and Twitter are effectively state actors in disguise when they engage in political censorship."
US Government Flagging "Problematic Posts" ...
"We've increased disinformation research and tracking within the surgeon general's office. We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation."
Liberal Media Enforcing Government Covid Policy...
The government’s allies have made it impossible for those who oppose the government party line to have a serious say in the matter.
The Biden Administration
The Union of Corporate and State Power
The Biden administration is telling Facebook which posts it regards as "problematic" so that Facebook can remove them.
This is the union of corporate and state power -- one of the classic hallmarks of fascism -- that the people who spent 5 years babbling about fascism support.
-Glenn Greenwald
Facebook Executive: Somebody Is Always Watching You ...
“The answer is just more controls, more safeguards. … To give people a guide to behavior.”
Behavior needs to be kept in check through surveillance, he suggested.
“That’s called democracy. Somebody is always watching you so that you behave well,” he said.
Democrats Ask Social Media To Ban "Wrong" Speech...
Lawmakers such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D–Calif.) have urged social media sites to prohibit speech deemed wrong or dangerous—and have sometimes suggested that this should be required by law.
Democrat, Liberal, Government, Fascism, AntiAmerican, Constitution, Censorship
The White House is courting intense criticism again Friday after press secretary Jen Psaki said that once users are banned from one social media platform for spreading coronavirus "misinformation," they should be expelled from all others as well.
Remarking on steps social media outlets could take for public health, she advised they "create robust enforcement strategies that bridge their properties and provide transparency about rules. You shouldn't be banned from one platform and not others if you are for providing misinformation out there."
Government Business Alliance...
Scholars also noted that big business developed an increasingly close partnership with the Italian Fascist and German fascist governments.
Business leaders supported the government’s political and military goals. In exchange, the government pursued economic policies that maximized the profits of its business allies.