Posted on 02/23/2021 10:58:04 AM PST by RandFan
Not even two months into their reign as the majority party that controls the White House and both houses of Congress, key Democrats have made clear that one of their top priorities is censorship of divergent voices. On Saturday, I detailed how their escalating official campaign to coerce and threaten social media companies into more aggressively censoring views that they dislike — including by summoning social media CEOs to appear before them for the third time in less than five months — is implicating, if not already violating, core First Amendment rights of free speech.
Now they are going further — much further. The same Democratic House Committee that is demanding greater online censorship from social media companies now has its sights set on the removal of conservative cable outlets, including Fox News, from the airwaves.....
(Excerpt) Read more at greenwald.substack.com ...
These a-holes should be forced, upon penalty of confinement, to uphold their oath to the Constitution.
As if the left eve3r believed in free speech.
Oh my goodness gracious. This is just beyond the pale. Who would ever think the Dems would stoop so low? To the fainting couch!
These people apparently haven’t ever seen a car bumper sticker.
BIDEN
dumbest
President
ever
T-shirts might soon be popular.
“These a-holes should be forced, upon penalty of confinement, to uphold their oath to the Constitution.”
States could pass a law barring rebels against our Constitution from being listed on their ballots.
Sorry, you voted for that awful gun bill. You are a rebel in violation of your constitutional oath. You can’t be on the ballot for any office.
The democrat party is now the party of tyrants and totalitarians.
Once the first amendment is gone, it won’t be coming back.
The democrat party propagandists better get a clue. They will not be spared after their dirty work is finished.
When people like Naomi Wolf and Glenn Greenwald aresounding alarms about the left, you know it has gotten bad.
“No government official has any business inquiring about the ‘moral principles’ that guide a private entity’s decision about what news to carry.” - FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr
All tyrants concoct theories and excuses to justify their censorship as noble and necessary......This is the rationale invoked by virtually every repressive state to imprison journalists and ban media outlets.
Accusing one’s domestic opponents of being subversives and domestic terrorists is by far the most common way that despots on every continent justify their censorship and silencing campaigns of oppositional media outlets.
When China arrests journalists it typically justifies its actions by accusing them of fomenting extremism that jeopardizes national security.
MSNBC and CNN spent four years endorsing the most deranged conspiracy theory imaginable, one with very toxic roots in the Cold War:..... namely, the McCarthyite script that the Kremlin had taken over control of key U.S. institutions through sexual blackmail over the President, invasions into the nation’s heating system and electric grid, and criminal conspiracy between Moscow and the Trump campaign to hack into Democrats’ emails.
All of that was false, just as the one-month tale told over and over by the media about a pro-Trump mob murdering Brian Sicknick by bludgeoning him to death with a fire extinguisher was false — a story which remains unretracted or corrected by most who spread it.
The only thing that matter to the Left is power.
Yup.
Glenn is one of very few honest journalists on the left. I don’t agree with his politics but I respect him, and he this penned almost right. I only wish he had called it what it really was.
The rest of the mob, including the shills at the NYT are what author Jack Cashill has called “firemen.”
I would be just fine with that. Any part of a blatant violation of the Constitution eliminates you from office.
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