Posted on 02/21/2024 5:02:43 AM PST by MtnClimber
The woke regime, like all totalitarian regimes before it, views your freedom of speech not as a right but as an obstacle. The suppression of dissent is a vital element of the power grab that will enable this regime to achieve its political goal: the establishment of group quotas as the organizing structure of American life, rather than individual merit and constitutional liberty.
What makes the group quota regime different from the tyrannies of the past is that it has access to mechanisms of political control that are entirely unprecedented in human history, thanks to the technological and social revolution of the last few decades. The migration of so much of our political life into the digital realm, the outsourcing of speech and information control to nominally private actors not directly bound by constitutional limitations, and the development of new tools for more efficient and effective manipulation — including, most recently, artificial intelligence — have created a perfect storm of censorship that is both more extensive and more subtle than that practiced by any previous authoritarian regime.
Those committed to individual merit and to the preservation of our constitutional order must first understand these mechanisms of control if they hope to combat them, and so preserve the hope of victory in the cold civil war against the group quota regime.
The information control apparatus that operates within the U.S. has the ability not only to censor facts but to construct pseudo-realities in which the truth itself becomes “disinformation.” Think of the narratives pushed by the woke regime regarding the origins of COVID-19, Hunter Biden’s laptop, or January 6th. Alternative narratives, or pseudo-realities, were created about each of these events, then pushed by the media and supported by the government to silence discussion and suppress the facts. Those who spoke truthfully about these events were accused of spreading “disinformation” and were silenced. For the woke regime, individuals who challenge the constructed narrative or present facts that deviate from the prescribed ‘truth’ risk being labeled a “threat to democracy.”
This apparatus is called “The Censorship-Industrial Complex,” a term coined by the reporter Michael Shellenberger in testimony before the House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Just as President Dwight D. Eisenhower famously warned in his farewell address of “the acquisition of unwarranted influence… by [a] military-industrial complex,” the censorship-industrial complex represents a dangerous convergence of federal and corporate power that undermines constitutional government and the liberty of citizens.
As Shellenberger explained in his March 2023 testimony:
Eisenhower feared that the size and power of the ‘complex,’ or cluster, of government contractors and the Department of Defense would ‘endanger our liberties or democratic processes.’ How? Through ‘domination of the nation’s scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money.’ He feared public policy would ‘become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.’”....
The left seems deadly serious about controlling information.
“The only way to make a bad idea seem like a good idea is to silence the good idea that shows just how bad the bad idea really is” L.Star
Censorship drove the Nazi Regime. Birds of a feather.
When you control the flow of information to a population, you control the population.
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Not just woke DEI/CRT but ALL leftist/progressive/govt narratives.
-fJRoberts-
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