Posted on 04/26/2020 4:03:56 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
A note to Atlantic magazine: George Orwell's 1984 wasn't meant to be a how-to guide.....
A couple of people writing at The Atlantic magazine see a fantastic silver lining in the current coronavirus outbreak. Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods see the pandemic as a great opportunity to bring about more censorship along with surveillance of the public as they exulted on Saturday in "What COVID-19 Revealed About the Internet."
Just so you would know where they were coming from, the subtitle was "In the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely correct, and the U.S. was wrong." Got that? Totalitarian China is right and the USA is wrong when it comes to "freedom versus control of the global network." And in case you think they are being misinterpreted, their own words reveal they come down firmly in favor of Big Brother.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Back during the Obama admin their were leftist pundits pining for us to be “China for a day”. Then Obama could issue a whole slew of edicts that the rank and file would defend in the courts. They do not care about principals like freedom of speech.
“YouTube attempting censorship “
Cross post your stuff to bitchute. The only way we can battle the tech giants is to support alternative platforms. They allow content that you might find personally offensive, but that is free speech.
Read later.
bmp
What’s so surprising nowadays is how OPEN liberals are to admitting that they favor censorship and surveillance. A few years ago they were still PRETENDING to believe in free speech.
What I want to know is where is the ACLU? I havent heard a peep out of those phony liberals at aclu. Not a word.
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