Posted on 04/29/2020 9:09:20 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
As the saying goes these days, the Atlantic is saying the quiet parts out loud…
"As surprising as it may sound, digital surveillance and speech control in the United States already show many similarities to what one finds in authoritarian states such as China. Constitutional and cultural differences mean that the private sector, rather than the federal and state governments, currently takes the lead in these practices, which further values and address threats different from those in China. But the trend toward greater surveillance and speech control here, and toward the growing involvement of government, is undeniable and likely inexorable.
In the great debate of the past two decades about freedom versus control of the network, China was largely right and the United States was largely wrong. Significant monitoring and speech control are inevitable components of a mature and flourishing internet, and governments must play a large role in these practices to ensure that the internet is compatible with a society’s norms and values.
We live—and for several years, we have been living—in a world of serious and growing harms resulting from digital speech. Governments will not stop worrying about these harms. And private platforms will continue to expand their definition of offensive content, and will use algorithms to regulate it ever more closely. The general trend toward more speech control will not abate."
If that isn’t frightening enough, the piece was written by two law professors.
So we now have two law professors, one from Harvard, using a mainstream publication to argue in favor of big tech and big government teaming up to censor speech and ideas, in favor of embracing a communist country’s speech oppression techniques as a means “to ensure that the internet is compatible with a society’s norms and values.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Eff The Atlantic.
Shoot them now.
Market censorship will have the Atlantic in bankruptcy and out on the street, because nobody wants to read them anymore. Their short stories used to be interesting. I wonder if they still are. Haven’t seen any great literature coming out of China lately. Yau Shaw’s Rickshaw Boy was pretty good, and Lin Yutang is one of the great philosophers of the 20th Century. But once you have that censorship in place, it’s all drek.
So far they may be right.
My account at one site that was over 15 years old was permanently banned, not for breaking the rules, but because my posts (Usually including valid links) would “cause people to not take the virus seriously and act dangerously”.
Another account that was nine years old suffered a similar fate.
And on another site, I was on a long virus thread where a lot of the scaredy cats were trying to chastise me, yet I was getting hundreds of likes by people afraid to actually say what I was saying. As with the other sites, I was offering valid links to support my opinion. They didn’t ban me. What they did was delete the thread and start a new one - but I don’t have posting privileges in that one thread.
And then there is the facebook nonsense. The “beginning of wisdom” is grasping that the US is not a Norman Rockwell painting and has more in common with the old USSR than a lot of us would be comfortable with knowing.
The few guys protesting Michigan's Whitmer dictator style shutdown of commerce and professions have been portrayed as illiterate Deplorables who are used to outdoor toilets at home and could shoot off a shotgun in all directions if they get drunk and mad. While peacefully assembling.
That setup means we all could face big military style police forces and National Guard to clean out anyone who opposes the new Dem/Socialist President and Congress in 2021.
The tragic side of the next civil war: will the military and police side with the Dems or free people who want our Republic back? Like wimpy leftist mayor and police chief in Portland with standing down cops vs. Antifa? Or ones who support the Constitution over Whitmer style tyrants?
Great article. Thanks for posting. HOORAY John Nolte! It’s here. It’s on. With Mark Zshmuck, Jack Not Tony Dorsey, etc., etc., Trey billygoat Gates and his Chinese eugenicist “gladiators”, and other domestic enemies in GOVERNMENT what could go wrong with life, liberty 1A and 2A?
https://www.edge.org/responses/what-should-we-be-worried-about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh0TXtB0NxU&feature=share
These are the people that HUAC was correctly and justly trying to keep from influence. The useful idiots of old protected the communist in our society, gave the empathy and sympathy, and helped them back from shunning and richly deserved ostracization.
Being someone like Bernie Sanders, rather believing in his views, should ruin a life.
Does Atlantic understand that none of its writers will be allowed to write? Everything they publish will come directly from propagandists within the government.
See Orwell..
bump
“The tragic side of the next civil war: will the military and police side with the Dems or free people who want our Republic back?”
My guess is that if we had a full scale uprising it would be a mixed back as to what law enforcement, the national guard, and the military. Some will support the corrupt national leadership, some will stand down and refuse to crack down on the people, with some even siding with the right. Let’s pray that Trump wins and we never have to face this nightmare.
My guess is that most law enforcement today is a product of affirmative action ...
Yes, these tech fascists are pushing for war. Meanwhile, our elected Reps are AWOL. They are too busy stuffing their pockets with Big Tech payola to care that near 250 years of our American Heritage is going into the toilet.
It’s like politicians who say that socialism has made some mistakes but, “if I’m in charge...”
I think we all know the answer to that one..
They will not stand with the patriots.
The good news is that the virus is revealing the left for who they really are.
Yup.
The biggest losers and a-holes write for these cesspool mags and papers. They get personal joy in our misery and wish us to perish. Think about that.
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