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No, Biden Can't Save Us With a 'Reality Czar.'
Reason ^ | February 3, 2021 | Matt Welch

Posted on 02/03/2021 1:39:49 PM PST by karpov

Pessimistic technology reporter Kevin Roose has a piece in Tuesday's New York Times with the disconcerting yet accurately representative headline, "How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis." Pegged to the twin anxieties over right-wing conspiracy theories and violence, Roose's article contains one of the most blink-inducing paragraphs I have ever encountered in a respected journal:

Several experts I spoke with recommended that the Biden administration put together a cross-agency task force to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism, which would be led by something like a "reality czar."

Cue scores of snorting noises on Twitter about our new "Ministry of Truth."

"It sounds a little dystopian, I'll grant," Roose concedes. "But let's hear them out."

OK, let's. Harvard's Joan Donovan, research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, joins the recent political-class chorus calling for a "truth commission," and pushes for the feds to have access to Facebook/Twitter/YouTube algorithms: "We must open the hood on social media so that civil rights lawyers and real watchdog organizations can investigate human rights abuses enabled or amplified by technology."

Stanford Internet Observatory disinformation researcher Renée DiResta advocates a centralized counter-conspiracy task force, because if federal agencies are doing that work separately, "you run the risk of missing connections, both in terms of the content and in terms of the tactics that are used to execute on the campaigns." Various pols and pundits propose rewriting Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act while using anti-trust threats to tame Big Tech; counter-extremism specialist Micah Clark plumps for a "social stimulus," and hate-group deprogrammer Christian Picciolini opts for the kitchen-sink approach: "We have to destroy the institutional systemic racism that creates this environment. We have to provide jobs. We have to have access to mental health care and education."

(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: censorship; presidentsleepyjoe; realityczar
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1 posted on 02/03/2021 1:39:49 PM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

Shouldn’t the title be Secretary, Ministry of Truth?


2 posted on 02/03/2021 1:41:30 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: WashingtonSource
Re: The Ministry of Truth

From Ozzy Osbourne's 'Rock and Roll Rebel':
...The Ministry of Truth that deals with pretense
The Ministry of Peace that sits on defense

3 posted on 02/03/2021 1:45:12 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: karpov

Who with an unbiased mind and clear thinking, did not see this coming?

Ministry of Truth, break their rules and get to be a part of the 99.9% who plead guilty to avoid being stripped of all worldly goods before prison.


4 posted on 02/03/2021 1:46:07 PM PST by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, )
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To: karpov

The only way Biden can save us is by leaving the WhiteHut ASAP and take Obama with him.


5 posted on 02/03/2021 1:47:13 PM PST by doc maverick
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To: karpov

The Czar should tell the naked Emperor:

You lost the Election but cheated because everyone
got 2.5 Billion dollars CCP-counterfeit to LIE for you,
China, and the pedophiles and sex traffickers you represent.


6 posted on 02/03/2021 1:48:07 PM PST by Diogenesis (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: WashingtonSource

or “Fantasy Czar”


7 posted on 02/03/2021 1:50:32 PM PST by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: karpov
Am I the only one annoyed by all these offices called Czar? A Czar is a Russian tyrant. Joe should have a Chinese name for his assistant tyrants.
8 posted on 02/03/2021 1:51:27 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: WashingtonSource; null and void

Yes very ‘1984’


9 posted on 02/03/2021 1:52:44 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: doc maverick

Because Kammy would never do this....?


10 posted on 02/03/2021 1:53:31 PM PST by gundog (This space for rent.)
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To: karpov

The reality is, the government already monitors everything about us. They just want to do it legally, so they can legally use it against us.


11 posted on 02/03/2021 1:55:18 PM PST by robel
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To: karpov

Neo-Pravda


12 posted on 02/03/2021 1:56:26 PM PST by tbw2
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To: karpov

How Orwellian can it get than this?


13 posted on 02/03/2021 1:56:52 PM PST by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: karpov

So, china joe wants to tell us law abiding folks all about reality.

He must have got is talking points in from china.


14 posted on 02/03/2021 2:04:45 PM PST by oldenuff35
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To: karpov

They will have to appoint someone outside the Commie Rat party. None of their members are in touch with “reality”.


15 posted on 02/03/2021 2:06:06 PM PST by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: karpov; Fred Nerks

A reality Czar is our only hope.

It would complete the transition network for evolution to a complete authentic copy of George Orwell’s 1984.

When will the soma orgies begin, or are they already happening on a New Epstein Island near say, Myanmar? Or possibly on an Island near the Red China coast?

Hunter Biden is organizing the whole thing?


16 posted on 02/03/2021 2:06:06 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: KarlInOhio

I agree, there can be only one Czar, and he is at the very top They should use the appropriate Soviet title for these worthless fools - Kommissar!


17 posted on 02/03/2021 2:13:52 PM PST by Freedumb
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To: karpov

“reality czar.”

That eliminates every democrat.


18 posted on 02/03/2021 2:16:34 PM PST by CVS-20
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To: karpov

All left-wing regimes need to control people’s perceptions of reality because they don’t like it when people judge reality for themselves.

They always end up doing the same thing: silencing their critics, either by throwing them in jail or by murdering them.

Our current misleaders think they can accomplish this by means of the “cancel culture,” but sooner or later the cancel culture will end up canceling people when they can’t just cancel their words.

One might think this would be a good time for Fox News to bring back “We Report, You Decide,” but I suspect that concept has gone into the memory hole at Fox.


19 posted on 02/03/2021 2:25:18 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: karpov

This sounds very ominous. But of course, who is this guy? We should already expect actual power-wielders to be planning their shot at making Orwell reality, so to speak.


20 posted on 02/03/2021 2:27:05 PM PST by Richard Axtell (President Asterisk is an ass to risk the economy and rights of all Americans.)
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