Posted on 02/03/2021 8:30:40 PM PST by Navy Patriot
As conservatives continue to push for free speech for all, members of the left are hopeful the federal government will step in. On Tuesday, a columnist for the New York Times suggested that Joe Biden construct a cross-agency taskforce to regulate the spread of ideas online.
The article went through a list of experts who supported the idea. Some of them even called for a so-called “Truth Commission,” which is a name many online compared to George Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth” in the novel “1984.”
Mainstream media outlets claimed the move would limit the spread of alleged misinformation and its connection to purported domestic extremism. However, while a recent study put out by researchers of New York University tried to claim that one-sided censorship happens online, the same report pointed out that it’s unclear because sites like Twitter don’t share enough data to show it also happens to those on the left.
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It would be curious who they had in mind, and how quick this would expand to become an entire agency.
There is an agency already: FB.
Shouldn’t the NYT be canceled for bullying hate speach?
They could call the new agency something original, like the Department for Agitation and Propaganda.
The left wing hates seeing the truth about their actions being spread around. Boo hoo to them!
Be ready to “armed up!
to make things EXTRA real, all Reality Edicts will be announced on Twitter
Ping. Might be useful for a meme.
I hope they will first investigate NYT themselves.
What the New York Times just let slip is that they can’t lie fast enough to get their version of “the truth” out there so they want they government to stifle their competition.
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