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
"No transition until Biden takes a cognitive test given his refusal to do a real press conference in front of America."
Ok BUT when Pelosi and Schumer try to 25A Biden, they both must pass the exact same battery of tests, as well as every single person in the line of succession.
Any one of them fails, no 25A.
Because #Karamela is a sheboon ratchet who is barely qualified to run HUD or Interior.
***Democrats are complete liars.
Wouldn’t announce victory till certified. Nope***
A few minutes ago I saw Bitem on TV with an 'OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT ELECT' wall behind him. If GW Bush had done that in 2000 the media and the Dems would have gone ballistic!
The left was not always in favor of censorship.
Just the last 30 years.
Now it is bedrock for them.
I thought it was the Russians who were “going to bury us”.
They must censor us before they can ‘attempt’ to disarm us then subjugate us in to 3rd class subjects. Gone is our citizenship and rights of any kind.
Leftism is a moral pestilence.
That one...John Adams quote...scares me skinny!
Unbridled by morality and religion...describes 50% of our population.
We are at the tipping point.
Joe Biden go straight to hell and take Crampala Harris with you! You will never ever be my president. America will never be socialist!!!
At some point there is nothing left to say to a leftist anyway.
EXACTLY!
And we thought Obama was a sock puppet...
Didn’t you know that the word “Biden” in German means “Fascist”? Looks like Turley knows his German.
If Jonathan Turley says this, we are in for a Very dark Winter.
“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 DNC/Communist party no longer hide their agenda.
Republicans need to turn the tables and start banning references to socialism as hate speech.
He may have just as well recruited the Taliban.
Up next, the equivalent to the Reichstag fire followed by the Enabling Act.
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