Posted on 03/11/2023 7:40:12 AM PST by Twotone
Democrats revealed their clear disregard for free speech in the second hearing of the Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Thursday that featured prominent journalists who published the “Twitter Files.”
Substack reporters Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testified in the nearly three-hour hearing and explained how the federal government uses major social media platforms as conduits to regulate speech through censorship. Both voted for President Joe Biden and possess decades of experience covering American politics with liberal backgrounds far from anything that could be considered “ultra MAGA.”
“American taxpayers are unwittingly financing the growth and power of a censorship industrial complex run by America’s scientific and technological elite, which endangers our liberties and democracy,” Shellenberger said in his opening statement. “The censorship industrial complex combines established methods of psychological manipulation, some developed by the U.S. military during the global war on terror with highly sophisticated tools from computer science.”
“We learned Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation requests from every corner of government, from the FBI, the DHS, the HHS, DoD, the Global Engagement Center at State, even the CIA,” said Taibbi. “A focus of this fast-growing network, as Mike noted, is making lists of people whose opinions, beliefs, associations or sympathies are deemed misinformation, disinformation, or malinformation. That last term is just a euphemism for ‘true but inconvenient.'”
Taibbi called such lists a form of “digital McCarthyism,” with users de-platformed from social media sites and payment processors.
The “Twitter Files” exposed how the government manipulates public opinion by way of censorship campaigns that place pressure on Big Tech to promote a monolithic narrative. Taibbi and Shellenberger testified how the government did so on both the Hunter Biden laptop and reporting on the novel Wuhan coronavirus...
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Idiots. They will be censored in the future by the government.
That hearing showed a real picture of how democrats are perpetual grenade tossers. Every statement pulls the pin. The less the merits of their words, the more they toss those grenades.
Ah, yes, the “Federalist”.
Pro tip: It’s dead, and it’s not coming back.
That Jacob Charnley was not released from prison with charges dismissed by 9:30 Tuesday night tells you the Constitution is dead, and dead a long time.
Time to move on.
Is there any aspect of our Constitution and the Bill of Rights that the democrats/Commies don’t have complete contempt and disregard for?
I mean this in all seriousness.
By now, we cannot deny that democrats have no regard for the constitution and wish it to be dear or completely irrelevant.
They demonstrate their hostility towards our rights every day.
Democrats are all about their socialist agenda, and the constitution and our rights are getting in their way.
Let’s stop being surprised about their attitude, and the only surprise should be when democrats stand up for the constitution. And, when they say they respect the constitution, it’s a big fat lie.
The Democrats launched a bizarre attempt to discredit Taibbi, proving that they don’t care about free speech unless it’s theirs. They revealed themselves as totalitarians.
The Democrats launched a bizarre attempt to discredit Taibbi, proving that they don’t care about free speech unless it’s theirs. They revealed themselves as totalitarians.
Federal bureaucrats should not be telling us what the truth is. That’s authoritarianism. Bureaucrats includes Anthony Fauci.
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is nuts
she asks Matt Tiabbi a complicated timeline question (probably a set-up), and when he pauses a few seconds to think it over to make sure he’s got the right answer, she accuses him of deliberately trying to waste her questioning time
Bkmk
They are for totalitarianism.
democrats are street thugs. If one desires a child murdered, contact democrats. If one desires a virus to kill off the population, contact democrats. democrats are exclusively about control and murder. democrats are chaos and practice no self control. democrats hate everyone and when democrats pretend to care, only the most ignorant believe democrats
Is there any aspect of our Constitution and the Bill of Rights that the democrats/Commies don’t have complete contempt and disregard for?
I mean this in all seriousness.
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Unfortunately, the answer is no. They despise it all. It’s standing in the way of their communist utopia.
The censorship industrial complex combines established methods of psychological manipulation.
Indeed many who voted bad in the last two elections have something to think about now the damage has been done.
All the things that has changed from then is a warning of much worse to come if they don’t wise up.
Can somebody explain how both witnesses voted for Biden but they helped to expose twitter censorship? How do they reconcile those two acts?
My guess would be that they are both independent honest REAL journalists as opposed to the bought and paid for LSM garden variety type.
I have a feeling that they may just regret voting for Biden.
Maybe they swallowed some of the TDS lies. That is, they honestly thought twitter was badly misbehaving, but they believed that Trump was worse. Who knows.
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