Posted on 12/11/2016 11:24:17 AM PST by TigerClaws
The Ministry of Propaganda does not like competition.
They liked having a monopoly on “news”.
I think American propagandists are just pissed off that they got beat at their own game.
“Fake News” is any news article published by a source that is not government/democrat party approved. The first amendment protects the statist mainstream media only.
I think this is one step below censorship. I don’t like it. Who will decide what is fake and what is truth? Ministry of Truth?
Joseph Goebbels would be proud of this little gem.
They will need to shut down the Democrats website.
Posted yesterday. Linked with the renewing NDAA the point of the 1st Amendment has now been lost in the dustbin. happy new year
On January 2, 2013 President Barack Obama signed and enacted into “law” HR 4310, also known as Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012, which was part of the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). A large majority of concerned Americans were focused on the indefinite detention of US Citizens without trial clause contained in the NDAA, and missed HR 4310 which received little to no attention.
The US Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, more commonly known as the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, was first introduced as the Bloom Bill in December 1945 in the 79th Congress and subsequently passed by the 80th Congress and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman on January 27, 1948. It prohibited the Voice Of America (VOA), and all other organizations of diplomacy, from disseminating public diplomacy information programs and materials within the US intended for foreign audiences, and other purposes. The US Congress had critical concerns about a deep-pocket government engaging domestic audiences. It is also said Congress passed the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 due to a mistrust of the State Department, and a motivation to keep the US government from propagandizing the American People.
HR 4310 in the 2013 NDAA now allows much of what the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948 restricted.
From SEC. 501. (a) of HR 4310 The Secretary and the Broadcasting Board of Governors are authorized to use funds appropriated or otherwise made available for public diplomacy information programs to provide for the preparation, dissemination, and use of information intended for foreign audiences abroad about the United States, its people, and its policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media, and through information centers, instructors, and other direct or indirect means of communication
Section 208 states no funding is authorized to influence American public opinion. However, with funds appropriated or otherwise made available to disseminate propaganda to foreigners in the USA via press, publications, radio, motion pictures, the Internet, and other information media, including social media, and through information centers, instructors, and other direct or indirect means of communication, how can the American Citizen not be influenced?
HR 4310 SEC. 208. CLARIFICATION ON DOMESTIC DISTRIBUTION OF PROGRAM MATERIAL. (a) IN GENERAL —No funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors shall be used to influence public opinion in the United States.
It is obvious and inevitable that Americans will be soiled by the propaganda machine. HR 4310 touches on this fact when it states the Department of State or Broadcasting Board of Governors are not prohibited from propagandizing US media, in any medium or form of communication, due to to potential that US Citizens may or may not be exposed to such program material. As long as the propaganda is disseminated after the effective date of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012
(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION —Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors from engaging in any medium or form of communication, either directly or indirectly, because a United States domestic audience is or may be thereby exposed to program material, or based on a presumption of such exposure. Such material may be made available within the United States and disseminated, when appropriate, pursuant to sections 502 and 1005 of the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1462 and 1437), except that nothing in this section may be construed to authorize the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board of Governors to disseminate within the United States any program material prepared for dissemination abroad on or before the effective date of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012.
No. It gives republicans/dems the power to shut down those who don’t all in line with the elite.
NO ONE on this board thinks there’s more than a handful of republican senators and a few dozen house members that are GLAD Trump won.
Didn’t Hillary reset this?
Yup. This is a prime example of Marxism/fascism in action. Burn the books, silence the dissenters. Those of us who refuse to shut up will be sent to the reeducation camps. Airbrushing commences at dawn.
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The Trump Supreme Court will rule this unconstitutional.
I think it’s time for a new Church Hearings from the 70s on the CIAs influence of media.
I was at my mom’s the other day, the day after the Comet Ping Pong shooting (questionable what really happened), and every news channel said the same words: “Fake news, conspiracy theory, pizzagate”.
The major stories of the day are created and fed to the major news stations. Check out this youtube, at least the first 30 seconds to see what I mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHDDQVZ-A98&t=127s
Maybe we’ll all end up busting rocks together? The company would be good at least, with lots of laughter between the bitter tears...
“Web sites suspected of” cannot abridge constitutional rights. Sheesh!
The government gets to decide what is propaganda and what is “fake news”. They then fund non-profits and others to spread this propaganda around the world.
Since everyone is the US government is of the highest integrity and with the highest moral standards what could possibly go wrong?
If there is anyone left around the world who doesn’t hate the US this will push them over the edge.
Then we can fight wars against everyone.
Winning! :-(
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