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The Last Domain of Free Expression Is under Siege
American Thinker ^ | 29 Apr, 2021 | Ben Bartee

Posted on 04/29/2021 3:54:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

― George Orwell, 1984

Over the last five years, in the U.S. and across the West, free expression in cyberspace has come under unprecedented assault.

Uniformity of thought (groupthink) is already prevalent in every other corporate-controlled U.S. medium — print, radio, television.

The siege of U.S. cyberspace began in earnest in late 2016 with the defeat of Hillary Clinton at the hands of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election — perhaps the greatest electoral upset in American history. Every mainstream media outlet got it dead wrong. On election day, the "paper of record" New York Times gave Clinton an 85% edge. The Washington Post ran a headline that said "a comprehensive average of election forecasts points to a decisive Clinton victory." The Huffington Post estimated a 98% chance of a Clinton win.

Trump, it turns out, won, handing the corporate press a stunning defeat in the information war.

Immediately in the aftermath of the election, Clinton and Co. rolled out the "fake news" narrative. At a Dec 9, 2016 ceremony for departing Sen. Harry Reid, Clinton set the wheels in motion for an unprecedented crackdown on cyber-speech:

It's now clear that so-called 'fake news' can have real world consequences…Lives are at risk. Lives of ordinary people just trying to go about their days, to do their jobs, contribute to their communities... It's imperative that leaders from the private sector and the public sector step up to protect our democracy and innocent lives.

The unspoken intent was clear: to give rhetorical cover to the state to reckon with the digital infosphere outside its control that had cost the DNC the election. Soon after Clinton's Dec.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: censorship; communism

1 posted on 04/29/2021 3:54:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

We all need to be thankful that JimRob has his own servers...and maybe make a small donation to help him.


2 posted on 04/29/2021 3:55:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screeen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber; RitaOK; WildHighlander57

:: free expression in cyberspace has come under unprecedented assault. ::

One quibble but, IMO, an important point:
The 1st Amendment says, “...or abridging the freedom of \speech\, ...”

Speech, not “expression”. Expression implies intent.

If we placidly allow others to alter the language and the words as written, we are violating our loyalty to the document.
Members of the media KNOW this and take liberties, such as this, to massage the easily influenced toward “right think”.
Even if it sounds patriotic or conservative.


3 posted on 04/29/2021 4:20:04 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Patriots, stop looking at the politicians as enemies. Look at the complicit Legacy Media.)
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To: MtnClimber
From the article: the defeat of Hillary Clinton at the hands of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election — perhaps the greatest electoral upset in American history.

Upset? No, Donald Trump was expected to win by everyone other than the propaganda machine. The Democrats and their Uniparty co-conspirators didn't calculate how much election fraud they needed to drag that sick Hillary horse across the finish line.

4 posted on 04/29/2021 4:23:47 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: MtnClimber

Agree.


5 posted on 04/29/2021 4:25:00 AM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: MtnClimber
We all need to be thankful that JimRob has his own servers...and maybe make a small donation to help him.

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I believe the "...his own servers..." part went away with the FR move to "Linode" in Texas a few months ago after "NTT" shut down their data center in San Jose, CA, but wholeheartedly agree with the "donation" part!

6 posted on 04/29/2021 4:32:40 AM PDT by Drago
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To: T.B. Yoits

Correct, and they vowed not to make that mistake again in 2020. Nor do they intend to make that mistake at any point in the future.


7 posted on 04/29/2021 5:16:32 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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