Posted on 01/30/2020 6:17:13 AM PST by ManHunter
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday released a plan to fight disinformation and to hold tech companies accountable for their actions in light of the 2016 election.
“Disinformation and online foreign interference erode our democracy, and DONALD TRUMP HAS INVITED BOTH [emphasis added],” Warren said in a Tweet Wednesday. “Anyone who seeks to challenge and defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election must be fully prepared to take this on – and I’ve got a plan to do it.”
Warren proposed to combat disinformation by holding big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google responsible for spreading misinformation designed to suppress voters from turning out.
“I will push for new laws that impose tough civil and criminal penalties for knowingly disseminating this kind of information, which has the explicit purpose of undermining the basic right to vote,” Warren said in a release.
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Makes one wonder who determines what the definition of disinformation might be and I think we all know the answer to that question; anything that doesn't comport with her view of things, i.e, Soviet-style suppression of speech.
FO Elizabeth Warren
Stalinists lie. Always
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1074278/posts
Punk the prez? - Moby’s anti-Bush tricks
New York Daily News ^ | 2/09/04 | Rush & Molloy
One of Sen. John Kerry’s celebrity supporters is ready to pull out all the stops to get him elected. Republicans are shrieking over a suggestion by rocker Moby that Democrats spread gossip about President Bush on the Internet. “No one’s talking about how to keep the other side home on Election Day,” Moby tells us. “It’s a lot easier than you think and it doesn’t cost that much. This election can be won by 200,000 votes.”
Moby suggests that it’s possible to seed doubt among Bush’s far-right supporters on the Web.
“You target his natural constituencies,” says the Grammy-nominated techno-wizard. “For example, you can go on all the pro-life chat rooms and say you’re an outraged right-wing voter and that you know that George Bush drove an ex-girlfriend to an abortion clinic and paid for her to get an abortion.
“Then you go to an anti-immigration Web site chat room and ask, ‘What’s all this about George Bush proposing amnesty for illegal aliens?’”
Moby didn’t claim that he believed the abortion story.
Last month, Bush did propose reforms to immigration policy. But he insisted, “I oppose amnesty, placing undocumented workers on the automatic path to citizenship [because it] perpetuates illegal immigration.”
Republican National Committee spokeswoman Christine Iverson likened Moby’s proposal to “dirty campaign tactics we’re already seeing from John Kerry.”
“His campaign was willing to use these kinds of voter suppression tactics against members of his own party in Iowa and New Hampshire,” Iverson says. “John Kerry is a hypocrite. He pledged to run a clean campaign. Then he uses the lowest form of gutter politics to impugn his opponents, Democratic and Republican. It’s unfortunate but this is probably just the beginning of the kind of tactics we’re going to be seeing from John Kerry in the months to come.”
Kerry spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said, “I doubt that Moby was suggesting anybody suppress the vote. We did not use any dirty tactics against any candidate.
“When it comes to dirty tricks the Republic party wrote the book. We’ve already seen Republican attacks and we haven’t even won the nomination yet. The Republican Party is clearly afraid of John Kerry.”
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I propose criminal penalties for faking ones ethnicity and gender especially to secure employment
why is in not CRIMINAL for her to have
repeatedly lied to Harvard Law
and other Law (what a laugh) schools,
which then KNOWINGLY went along, and continue to go along, with HER LIES and FRAUD ???
FACT:
Harvard and liar Warren PREVENTED native Americans from
entry to Law schools.
Reparations FROM THEM are in order.
Good idea !
And who decides?
Hers is the party of seminar callers spreading DNC lies on talk radio:
https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2019/09/12/confirmed-clinton-white-house-trained-seminar-callers/
RUSH: You remember the story we had on the program yesterday that Tom Fitton at Judicial Watch, through a Freedom of Information Act request, had secured a bunch of documents from the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor detailing how they had run seminars for seminar callers, that they had actually run training missions to train people how to call this program and try to corrupt it? We recognized when this began to happen, and I named these callers “seminar callers” because they weren’t real.
They were going to some indoctrination session being taught by Democrats. They were taught what to say. They were taught what to tell the screener in order to get past him to get on the show. I mean, it was so transparent; it was so obvious that they were seminar callers. They’d all start out, for example, by saying, “Mr. Limbaugh, I love you. I’ve been listening to your show since it began. I’m a conservative. I’ve always agreed with you, but…” And then here would come the liberalism or here would come whatever the problem.
But they always started out as sycophants, and you can always spot them. If you’re a sensitive human like I am, if you are very situationally aware like I am, you can recognize sycophancy the moment you hear it or the moment you see it. Sycophancy is one of the most insulting behavioral patterns or techniques, at least to me, because it’s fake, phony, lying flattery/love, whatever you want to call it. They’re making it all up, and it’s instantly spottable by me. So we would have fun with ’em.
Mr. Snerdley would say, “Okay, I’ve got a couple seminar callers. I’ve made them think that they fooled me,” and then they would be set up and we’d take their call. Anyway, there has been more information gleaned since we last spoke about this — even more data, even more detail — about the seminar caller operation run by the Clinton White House. I remember Dick Morris back when he used to appear with O’Reilly on the Fox News Channel. O’Reilly… Well, I’m not gonna mention it.
Dick Morris tried a couple of times, and it didn’t work, but he tried to say (impression), “The Clintons didn’t care about radio, Bill. They didn’t care about radio. They’ve never been worried about radio. Fox News bothers ’em, Bill. Fox News really bugged the Clintons. (sputtering) But — but — but — but — but no, they didn’t care about radio,” and then I would run into Dick Morris in Washington at the Georgetown Hotel. He’d come up to me and wink at me.
“Let me tell you how much you really bugged ’em,” and he’d start giving me little details. Anyway, this whole seminar caller thing was started because of this program. It was the one place in media that Clinton was not being idolized, and Clinton had the kind of personality where if he’s in a room with a hundred people, 99 people like him and one doesn’t, he’ll ignore the 99. He’ll focus on the one and try to turn ’em. When that didn’t work, it became seek and destroy: Seminar callers.
RUSH: Washington Free Beacon has the details. “Dems Secretly Trained Thousands of Activists to Manipulate Media, Clinton Library Docs Show.” So we had the first little tease of this yesterday from Tom Fitton at Judicial Watch, Freedom of Information Act request. Now we have even more detail from more documents from the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor, where these records are housed in Little Rock.
“DNC coordinated with activists to ‘infiltrate’ talk radio.” Now, we knew all this. Don’t misunderstand. This is not news to me. This is just confirmation. This is something we have known ever since we gave these callers the title, “seminar callers.” Which, by the way, if you stand by, we have three parody examples of how we made fun of it with white comedian Paul Shanklin. Hang on. That’s coming up.
Here’s the nuts and bolts of this. “The Democratic party developed an elaborate, multi-year operation in the 1990s that deployed thousands of activists to covertly mold public opinion using talk radio.”
Remember, in 1993 Clinton takes office. In ’94, ’95, there isn’t any Fox News. All there is is CNN. Cable news hasn’t blown up. CNN is the only cable news channel nationwide in America. The blogosphere, it’s just in its formative stages, websites as well.
Fox News didn’t really get going ’til 1997. So back then it was just talk radio. Talk radio was it. It was the lone outpost of opposition to the Clinton administration and they couldn’t deal with it, they couldn’t handle it. It’s when Clinton’s blaming me for the Oklahoma City bombing and any number of other things in an ancillary way.
So they had engaged in a deep-cover plan to subvert talk radio, “an elaborate, multi-year operation in the 1990s that deployed thousands of activists to covertly mold public opinion.” This is all confirmed in documents in the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC), with the blessing of the Clinton White House, launched the Talk Radio Initiative (TRI) ahead of the 1996 campaign. The program trained thousands of operatives to call in to radio shows, conduct surveillance of their contents –” this happened to be when Media Matters gets up and running, “– and secretly disseminate Democratic talking points while posing as ordinary listeners. ‘Volunteers must be able to keep the project confidential so as not to create the image of a ‘Democratic conspiracy’ to infiltrate Detroit area talk radio shows,’” said one particular guy.
Of course they had to keep it secret! They were lying to people back then. They were engaging in manipulation of media just as they have always done. Could it be said maybe that this could constitute meddling in elections? They wanted to avoid — had everybody, every seminar caller had to be quiet about it, had to be sworn to secrecy. No whistleblowers. Can’t blow the whistle on this, otherwise the conspiracy would be known.
“Democratic performance in the 1996 elections will no doubt be affected by the success or failure of this initiative.” By the way, it was this that led to that ill-fated attempt by the left to duplicate this program with something called Air America, whatever it was.
“Radio show hosts long suspected that someone was training so-called ‘seminar callers,’” That’s actually our name for it. You won’t find my name in this story, by the way. You will not. This story, you will not find my name. But there’s nobody else that named ’em seminar callers.
“Radio show hosts long suspected that someone was training so-called ‘seminar callers’ to inundate their shows with,” phonies.
“The Democrats did publicize some aspects of this secret program while it was running, praising the initiative as their first step in bringing back ‘truth’ to radio. However, the inner workings of the TRI were kept secret for decades.
“The Washington Free Beacon reviewed years’ worth of previous reporting and scores of internal documents from the Clinton Presidential Library — including secret DNC communiques,” this hasn’t stopped, by the way, folks, this hasn’t stopped. It goes on. It manifests itself in many other ways. “Operatives launched the project as an ‘all encompassing, nationwide grass roots effort to win back the airwaves.’”
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I propose enforcing those we already have.
Commie Squaw speak with forked tongue.
Warren never heard of free speech?
Oops, I almost forgot.....she was a Harvard Law Professor (cackle).
...hmmm, and then will she send them to the Gulags mentioned by Bernie’s staff member??
Yep.....if you don’t agree with their positions, you need to be silenced.
The thought that these political gnats will be buzzing around my ears for the rest of my life is depressing.
It would seem that making false claims of ethnicity would be voter disinformation.
I thought bills or laws originated in the house? Is it possible the law professor is wrong or perhaps spreading misinformation?
“And who decides?”
Good question, and I think you already know the answer if the plan from Elizabeth Warren is to be implemented. We know who won’t be deciding. It won’t be anyone on the right of the political spectrum. Or even the center.
Why does she want to hurt her own party?
No better example exists of a pathological hypocrite. Doesn’t she have any help in deciding what messages to stay away from?
And, of course, a select panel of Democrats gets to decide what is “disinformation”.
I see this as a way for Democrat to increase their voter base
Crack jokes about graveyards and and all the dead voters buried there voting for Democrats and the Democrats arrest you.
Then they turn you into a Democrat voter
Who decides? Well don’t count on any journalistic mediation there. With a FISA Court as the high bar, prospects seem a bit dim.
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