Posted on 05/18/2022 2:41:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
The goal of tyrants, dictators, and oppressive governments is to gain power and then stay in power. They largely do this by controlling information -- the information available and who has access to it. Information is power, and tyrants use information to gain power. So, for a king or dictator etc. to gain power and stay in control, they tried to monopolize information. Throughout most of history, that was an easy task because there were few books and few people could read. There was no radio, TV, internet, or libraries. For the vast majority, the Bible, Quran, etc. was the single source of information. If it wasn’t in the Bible, you didn’t need to know it. The king, caliph, etc. would tell you what you needed to know, and that was it.
That changed with the rise of modern society. Education and increased literacy, printing of books, radio, TV, and the internet provided information to billions of people. However, tyrants and oppressive regimes still managed to control the information available to their citizens. State-sponsored media in countries like the Soviet Union, North Korea, China, Turkey, and Iran insured the people heard only what the government allowed. All other information was labeled “disinformation” and was banned. Facts that made the government look bad were banned as dangerous misinformation, were not allowed to be disseminated, and became a crime to share.
An example of “facts are a crime” is the Armenian (and Christian) massacre by Turkey during WW I. Over 1 million were killed in that genocide. Yet, in Turkey, it’s a crime to teach that Armenians were massacred. The fact that genocide occurred is suppressed, ignored, and criminalized to the point where most Turks have never heard of it; or, if they have, they call it disinformation.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
First thing he should do is keep his own trap shut.
Mz. Malarkey hasn’t even warmed up yet.
I support all news outlets from every country being available in every country, including the U.S.
Trump, Russia, and How Not to Lose the Information War With Nina Jankowicz
https://irishtechnews.ie/trump-russia-the-information-war-nina-jankowicz/
The disinfo agent Nina Jankowicz says in this article she is Polish/Ukrainian.
She also worked for the Ukrainian government before working for Biden.
She is vehemently anti-Trump, peddled the Russia! Russia! Russia! nonsense, said the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinfo, etc, etc.
She will peddle Ukrainian disinfo, protect Biden, and help in attacking Trump.
Biden and the media are advocating for thought control.
There should be no disinformation board.
That is the ground to fight
I think he has it backwards.
The ability to brainwash people increased enormously with broadcast media, starting with radio.
Now, with digital social media, the Chinese have shown the ability to control information flow is magnified even more.
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ~ George Orwell, 1984
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