Posted on 10/14/2016 3:18:08 AM PDT by PapaBear3625
Pittsburgh (AFP) - President Barack Obama on Thursday decried America's "wild, wild west" media environment for allowing conspiracy theorists a broad platform and destroying a common basis for debate.
Recalling past days when three television channels delivered fact-based news that most people trusted, Obama said democracy require citizens to be able to sift through lies and distortions.
"We are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of curating function that people agree to," Obama said at an innovation conference in Pittsburgh.
"There has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard, because they just don't have any basis in anything that's actually happening in the world," Obama added.
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Since more and more people get their info via Facebook, Youtube, and other Internet media, the ability to censor dissenting viewpoints in these media outlets will be increasingly important to the Left.
Bam is lying again, but that’s what Islam proscribes.
He would have the same people who have been telling us for eight years the economy is wonderful decide what “Truth” we can hear. I don’t think so.
Here comes more censorship.
“TRUTHINESS” tests?!!!! Bammy has started making up words
now!! He needs to just stick to accusing us “folks” of
having “notions” about stuff whenever he wants to accuse
US of LYING!!!
IS BAMMY BELOW 100 DAYS YET, LAZ?
Coming soon: PRAVDA!
Sooooo..... we let a select few decide what is truth and news.
Obama is dangerous. Clinton is even worse.
“Obama said democracy require citizens to be able to sift through lies and distortions.’
For Obama, that means leave it all to the MSM. They are objective, know more, are brilliant, are completely honest and dependable, and anything else should be outlawed. No truth exists except when it has been blessed by the MSM.
Look how evil they are. Censorship is what they want and they are not getting people to comply. George III wasn’t this bad. This is happening in the United States of America. The time has come the founders warned about.
Code talk for shutting down conservative speech on the internet. They are most of the way there with the ICANN giveaway and Facebook and Twitter censoring conservatives, now on to shutting down the forums and blogs.
No, they’re equally as evil.
I do not believe that has been the case for my life, though it was better than it is today, so I know it hasn't been within his life, and more specifically since he came to America. They were just trusted more because they played a more reserved balanced game yet still tilted leftward. Today that mask is off completely and has been since the mid 70's at least.
It will be taken to the streets next. Pamphlets, fliers if need be to fight what would happen with these tyrants. I hope conservatives are thinking what is coming up if Hillary frauds her way through.
.... Says the biggest liar in the world who has a fake SSN, fake birth certificate, that sealed up just about every damn recorded tied to him before the election and has people dying like flies all arround him.
Hussein Obama is a dangerous, Muslim traitor.
Hillary Clinton is for sale to the highest bidder.
After Hussein agreed to kill the indictments, Hillary thinks she is free to inherit Obama's crown. What the deal to keep Hillary out of jail actually brings to the table is that Hussein owns Hillary and Bill Clinton. That means Hussein Obama's pro-Muslim terrorist agenda will continue. Many more Americans will die if Hussein and Hillary are successful.
The Table shows that as Hussein imports more Muslims, more terrorists will show up to kill innocent Americans. And Hillary will continue to agitate and support the BLM cop killers just as Hussein Obama has done.
Hence, the reason he gave away control of the internet.
Yeah! Yeah! And we can give it a snappy name like "Ministry of Truth" and every knee shall bow!
Not wild west at all, but a well coordinated murderous coup with the media.
I hear the Podesta emails allude to a hit a couple days before Scalia’s death
His efforts to suppress any opposition will become apparent now that he signed,away Internet control..
I think we will all agree one day Obama is a false messiah, ie a narcissist with a knack to gain followers, a coup plotter and murderer, prince of
lies
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