Posted on 01/17/2021 10:01:19 AM PST by John Semmens
Concerned that “free speech can be abused by enemies of the Biden Administration to undermine its policies and programs,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is calling for “the creation of a commission or some similar agency to rein in media who deviate from the truth.”
While the United States has relied on the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech for the last 230 years to prevent the government from censoring criticism of itself, Ocasio-Cortez contends that “the anarchy allowed by our Constitution is not up to the task of shepherding the American people toward the democratic socialism voters just endorsed in the recent elections. The collective ideal cannot be accomplished if antagonists are free to defame our truths and our spokespersons. Congress is the people’s voice and should take action to crackdown on the purveyors of lies and dissension.”
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey agreed that “we need a mechanism to ensure that a universal truth is reinforced against baseless criticism or disagreement. However, I would argue that my company’s efforts on behalf of this goal are more than adequate to the task. As our actions over the last six months have demonstrated, we did a masterful job of undermining incorrect thought. Heretical ideas were flagged or suppressed and their authors penalized via service denial. In just the last week we have totally shutdown Trump’s Twitter account and are in the process of purging all nonconforming communications from our platform.”
Dorsey pointed out that “the Constitution bans Congress from passing any law that abridges freedom of speech. Twitter is not bound by such a restriction. A truth commission created by Congress could be struck down by the courts. I urge our friends in Congress to be practical and let the private sector media do all the censoring that is needed.”
In related news, Cordova, Tennessee high school principal Barton Thorne was put on administrative leave for telling students that Twitter’s censorship does damage to freedom of speech. The school district’s Office of Equity and Access spokesman Michael Lowe defended the action, saying “Thorne should have known that many people would disagree with what he said. Saying it hurt some feelings and could lead to arguments. This is out of step with the new unity voters elected President Biden to enforce in America. We have to ask ourselves if Thorne is the kind of person who can be trusted in our education system.”
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And i call on AOC for another gin and tonic!!!!
That was a Big Joke,
Right?????
Is she really calling for Honesty?
Give me a Break.....
Let me guess the ayatollah
Regards,
So, if AOC is put in charge of Minitrue, who will be in charge of Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty?
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Hey horseface - how about the Ministry of Tooth?
Hey horseface - how about the Ministry of Tooth?
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I JUST HAD TO LAUGH!
AOC is the opposite of a truther...she is a penultimate prevaricator or liar because she is a grifter. It seems to me most Democrats are grifters and none too few Republicans are too. Interestingly most grifters don’t know they are one. That being the statistical case, they can’t change can they/
We are so in over our truther heads.
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