Posted on 11/17/2020 10:44:09 AM PST by Kaslin
Democrat and George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley is warning that the Biden transition team has taken an "ominous turn" after former Vice President Joe Biden hired a number of anti-free speech zealots.
"For those of us who have been critical of the growing anti-free speech movement in the Democratic Party, the Biden transition team just took an ominous turn. The New York Post reports that Biden tapped Richard Stengel to take the “team lead” position on the US Agency for Global Media, including Voice of America, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty," Turley writes on his website. "As I previously addressed in a column, Stengel has been one of the most controversial figures calling for censorship and speech controls. For a president-elect who just called for everyone to “hear each other,” he picked a top aide who wants to silence many. Since it would be difficult to select a more anti-free speech figure to address government media policy, one has to assume that Biden will continue the onslaught against this core freedom as president. This is not the first Biden aide to indicate a crackdown on free speech in the new Administration and Biden himself has called for greater censorship on the Internet."
"Last year, Stengel wrote a chilling Washington Post op-ed that denounced free speech as a threat to social and political harmony. Like a number of liberal and Democratic figures, Stengel struggled to convince readers that what they need is less freedom: “All speech is not equal. And where truth cannot drive out lies, we must add new guardrails. I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. "In January, Biden called for greater speech controls on the Internet and denounced Twitter for allowing others to speak freely. In insisted that tolerating such views in the name of free speech is same as “propagating falsehoods they know to be false.” Biden called for companies to bar Trump views on such things as mail-in voting as an invitation for fraud. He is not alone. Congressional leaders like House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff have called for labeling and removal of material with some members directly threatening a legislative crackdown."
This comes as Republicans continually warn about big tech censorship, which is the topic of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday morning.
Today at 10:00am: Chairman @LindseyGrahamSC will lead a hearing titled, "Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election".Tune in: https://t.co/8wsvW9q9wR — Senate Judiciary (@senjudiciary) November 17, 2020
So the ideal is “political harmony???”
What is this guy drinking? Stalin had “political harmony,” so did Hitler, what is the dope talking about?
Exactly. Harmony usually is, “Shut up and do what you’re told.”
bkmk
O’bummer did it, too, as I remember...
Correct. 0bama proclaimed the office of the President Elect. He probably advised Sleezy Joe to do the same...
Yes; when a Dem holds up an election it is patriotic. When a non-Dem holds up an election it is divisive and very troubling.
The Praetorian Guard of our time have elevated their chosen Claudius but, unlike the original, he is truly an idiot.
Well put; as Sidney Powell said, this is orchestrated by an international enemy and as Rush has said The enemy could never have gotten Kamala Harris elected as president except by getting a mumbling 'Caesar' elected as prez and then remove him leaving a communist revolutionary to destroy the Republic.
Whatever happens this is not going to end well.
“Control” is just an intermediate stop on the way to “Most of us dead, the rest in chains”.
Cuba style Socialism requires Cuba style freedoms.
By using thier pandemic weapon they can do this
The Walking Dread.
Bttt!!!! Great Post!
Joe wants us to 'heal' by targeting our freedom and our right to speak freely...What a swell guy. /s
Biden is incapable of making ANY decisions or speaking on his own with his own thoughts. SO............who is behind Biden ? AOC? Bernie? Bozo O’Rourke? Schiffty? ...or a collaboritve effort of those clowns?
Didn’t you know that the word “Biden” in German means “Fascist”? Looks like Turley knows his German.
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