Posted on 12/05/2016 9:30:07 AM PST by TigerClaws
On November 30, one week after the Washington Post launched its witch hunt against "Russian propaganda fake news", with 390 votes for, the House quietly passed "H.R. 6393, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017", sponsored by California Republican Devin Nunes (whose third largest donor in 2016 is Google parent Alphabet, Inc), a bill which deals with a number of intelligence-related issues, including Russian propaganda, or what the government calls propaganda, and hints at a potential crackdown on "offenders."
A quick skim of the bill reveals "Title V—Matters relating to foreign countries", whose Section 501 calls for the government to "counter active measures by Russia to exert covert influence … carried out in coordination with, or at the behest of, political leaders or the security services of the Russian Federation and the role of the Russian Federation has been hidden or not acknowledged publicly.”
The section lists the following definitions of media manipulation:
Establishment or funding of a front group. Covert broadcasting. Media manipulation. Disinformation and forgeries. Funding agents of influence. Incitement and offensive counterintelligence. Assassinations. Terrorist acts.
As ActivistPost correctly notes, it is easy to see how this law, if passed by the Senate and signed by the president, could be used to target, threaten, or eliminate so-called “fake news” websites, a list which has been used to arbitrarily define any website, or blog, that does not share the mainstream media's proclivity to serve as the Public Relations arm of a given administration.
Curiously, the bill which was passed on November 30, was introduced on November 22, two days before the Washington Post published its Nov. 24 article citing "experts" who claim Russian propaganda helped Donald Trump get elected.
Devin Nunes, a liberal who aspires to rid the GOP of conservatives, is no stranger to FR.
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Stay tuned to the man and nation you love more than America, your beloved Putin. How dose it feel to be a quisling? Would you collaborate with Putin to undermine our way of life, even if its not perfect? I think you would.
So much for the Constitution and free speech. Can’t say or read what you want without some hate filled liberal getting all hyper.
Then it would go to court and this law would quickly be struck down for violating the 1st amendment.
Not just liberals are full,of hate and ready to endorse censorship
No worries, your under the false premise that they actually read this drivel. They receive it from some “think tank” and the cord makes it so, and presto we have yet more law we never needed on the books.
I do not recall ever needing such a law to defeat the Nazis or the Japanese during WWII.
The fact that this bill surfaces only now indicates to me that the real threat is inside the USA, not outside of it.
BTTT
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