Posted on 05/02/2022 4:09:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
We have seven more months before the midterms. Expect more disinformation ministries, censorious czars, and hack grandees to emerge.
The Biden Administration feels that it must now use federal resources to attack “disinformation.” So the Department of Homeland Security recently announced the creation of a “disinformation governance board.”
The board’s executive director, Nina Jankowicz, at least has clear qualifications for the post. She previously had spread false rumors on social media that Donald Trump voters would show up at the polls in 2020 armed, and joined the mob’s chorus that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation.” Perhaps the idea behind her hiring was “it takes one to know one.”
Although the new board’s mandate is unclear, the idea seems to be that Jankowicz and her colleagues will use the federal government’s powers to adjudicate what Americans say as either true or false—and to suppress as “disinformation” anything it doesn’t find useful.
The new war against “disinformation” follows the narratives of the “insurrection” on January 6, the “democracy dies in darkness” return of Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin as a mastermind gasoline price-spiker. Such narratives are intended to distract us from the Biden disaster and the ongoing assault against constitutional freedom.
When things turn south for the administration, Barack Obama—a sagging Netflix’s $50-million “idea man”—usually emerges from one of his three mansions in Hawaii, Martha’s Vineyard, or Kalorama to lecture clingers and deplorables on various threats they pose to the anointed.
His sermons usually project his own transgressions. Recently, Obama went to Stanford University, in the heart of Silicon Valley, to admonish us that new free speech platforms might tolerate incorrect expression that he and the Left smear as “hate speech.”
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“The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.” ~ Aldous Huxley
bfl
"Disinformation" is a newly coined word from the Cold War based upon / reaction to the Soviet Russian counterpart of "dizinformatsiya". Basically the concept is that the word describes false information / propaganda that is to influence enemies.
"Governance" means the act of governing and an older definition is 'sway' or 'control'. Yeah, that belongs in Homeland Security where we feel our personal security draining by the day!
"Board" has multiple definitions and in this case I like #1; a long flat piece of wood suitable for use in building! (Visions of hammering and nailing!) However in this case it is #3 "a group of people constituted as the decision-making body of an organization" which would lead to the concept that these flats will govern disinformation!
As our Brit cousins would say in the most mocking of tones; "Brilliant"!
King George has returned. This the government our forefathers warned us about. When GWB created the DHS after 9/11, I was warning everyone this sounds like Nazi Germany all over again. Freedom of speech is paramount to liberty. The 1/6 arrestees are being persecuted by not being allowed bail and a speedy trial. They have been thrown into solitary confinement for over a year.
Now we have a state sponsored governing board monitoring speech on all platforms. We are Nazi Germany!
Next will be the 2nd amendment, then quartering of homeless and illegal aliens in your homes.
Folkk, we are headed down another revolution at warp speed.
Folkk = Folks.
GREAT article, thanks for posting it. It encapsulates the idiocy and hypocrisy of the left in one compact article.
It’s oppression without representation.
the disgovernance board
Well-written and literate as always with VDH.
“reminds me of that old response to ‘sexual harassment training’. As the bloke says, “I’ve been doing it all my life, why do I need training in it now?”
That reminds of something I read in one of the old MASH books.😏
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