Oh God It’s Going To Get SO Much Worse

[Deplorable Yankee]

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Rightists have spent the last couple of days freaking out and invoking Orwell’s 1984 in response to something their political enemies are doing in America, and for once it’s for a pretty good reason. The Department of Homeland Security has secretly set up a “Disinformation Governance Board“, only informing the public about its plans for the institution after it had already been established.

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The answer to the question of “who opposes that effort” is of course “anyone with functioning gray matter between their ears.” No government entity has any business appointing itself the authority to sort information from disinformation on behalf of the public, because government entities are not impartial and omniscient deities who can be entrusted to serve the public as objective arbiters of absolute reality. They would with absolute certainty wind up drawing distinctions between information, misinformation and disinformation in whatever way serves their interests, regardless of what’s true, exactly as any authoritarian regime would do.

I mean, is anyone honestly more afraid of Russian disinformation than they are of their own government appointing itself the authority to decide what counts as disinformation?

This important point has gotten a bit lost in the shuffle due to the utterly hypnotic ridiculousness of the person who has been appointed to run the Disinformation Governance Board. Nina Jankowicz, a carefully groomed swamp creature who has worked in Kyiv as a communications advisor to the Ukrainian government as part of a Fulbright fellowship, is being widely criticized by pundits and social media users for her virulent Russiagating and whatever the hell this is:


Good read

Oh God It’s Going To Get SO Much Worse

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Rightists have spent the last couple of days freaking out and invoking Orwell’s 1984 in response to something their political enemies are doing in Ameri…

caitlinjohnstone.com

Keepin yer powder dry FORMER Americans? Cause the title is pretty much spot-on......in more ways than one .

 

[Devils_Advocate]

Hey, would the Government lied to us?

The answer is yes and yet the left is applauding this while not seeing the great concern they should have …

I remember the movie Amerika and have to say it is becoming more true as the days pass and soon we will be told how we have thought and been taught was wrong and this is the Government approved way of thinking…

 

[jackflash]

Governor DeSantis & the state of Florida refuse to accept anything to do with the illegal disinformation agency. The battle is now starting over federal over reach, violation of the American constituencies 1st amendment rights & illegal backdoor formation of an agency within another agency.

 

[MisterBeale]

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An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm ​

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“Censorship is the last resort of desperate and unpopular regimes. It magically appears to make a crisis go away. It comforts the powerful with the narrative they want to hear, one fed back to them by courtiers in the media, government agencies, think tanks, and academia.” – Chris Hedges​

An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm

Alan Macleod investigates the spate of deplatforming and online censorship of journalists and anti-war activists critical of Ukraine.

www.mintpressnews.com

". . . Earlier this month, Google AdSense sent a message to a myriad of publishers, including MintPress News, informing us that, “Due to the war in Ukraine, we will pause monetization of content that exploits, dismisses, or condones the war.” This content, it went on to say, “includes, but is not limited to, claims that imply victims are responsible for their own tragedy or similar instances of victim-blaming, such as claims that Ukraine is committing genocide or deliberately attacking its own citizens.”

This builds on a similar message Google’s subsidiary YouTube released last month, stating, “Our Community Guidelines prohibit content denying, minimizing or trivializing well-documented violent events. We are now removing content about Russia’s invasion in Ukraine that violates this policy.” YouTube went on to say that it had already permanently banned more than a thousand channels and 15,000 videos on these grounds.. . . "

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". . . Meanwhile, The New York Times published a hit piece on anti-war journalist Ben Norton, accusing him of spreading a “conspiracy theory” that the U.S. was involved in a coup in Ukraine in 2014, while claiming that he was helping promulgate Russian disinformation. This, despite the fact that the Times itself reported on the 2014 coup at the time in a not-too-dissimilar fashion, thereby incriminating its own previous reporting as Russian propaganda. If referencing The New York Times’s own previous reporting becomes grounds for suppression, then meaningful online discourse is under threat. As journalist Matt Taibbi wrote last week, the West is in danger of establishing an “intellectual no-fly zone,” where deviating from orthodoxy will no longer be tolerated.. . "

An image shared in the NYT hit against Norton. Credit | Multipolarista

 

[konradv]

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Rightists have spent the last couple of days freaking out and invoking Orwell’s 1984 in response to something their political enemies are doing in America, and for once it’s for a pretty good reason. The Department of Homeland Security has secretly set up a “Disinformation Governance Board“, only informing the public about its plans for the institution after it had already been established.

Snip

The answer to the question of “who opposes that effort” is of course “anyone with functioning gray matter between their ears.” No government entity has any business appointing itself the authority to sort information from disinformation on behalf of the public, because government entities are not impartial and omniscient deities who can be entrusted to serve the public as objective arbiters of absolute reality. They would with absolute certainty wind up drawing distinctions between information, misinformation and disinformation in whatever way serves their interests, regardless of what’s true, exactly as any authoritarian regime would do.

I mean, is anyone honestly more afraid of Russian disinformation than they are of their own government appointing itself the authority to decide what counts as disinformation?

This important point has gotten a bit lost in the shuffle due to the utterly hypnotic ridiculousness of the person who has been appointed to run the Disinformation Governance Board. Nina Jankowicz, a carefully groomed swamp creature who has worked in Kyiv as a communications advisor to the Ukrainian government as part of a Fulbright fellowship, is being widely criticized by pundits and social media users for her virulent Russiagating and whatever the hell this is:


Good read

Oh God It’s Going To Get SO Much Worse

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Rightists have spent the last couple of days freaking out and invoking Orwell’s 1984 in response to something their political enemies are doing in Ameri…

caitlinjohnstone.com

Keepin yer powder dry FORMER Americans? Cause the title is pretty much spot-on......in more ways than one .

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I find it hilarious that the side that brought us “alternate facts” is trying to warn us about 1984!

 

[westwall]

I find it hilarious that the side that brought us “alternate facts” is trying to warn us about 1984!

Says the jackass who pushed the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.

 

[Penelope]

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Rightists have spent the last couple of days freaking out and invoking Orwell’s 1984 in response to something their political enemies are doing in America, and for once it’s for a pretty good reason. The Department of Homeland Security has secretly set up a “Disinformation Governance Board“, only informing the public about its plans for the institution after it had already been established.

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The answer to the question of “who opposes that effort” is of course “anyone with functioning gray matter between their ears.” No government entity has any business appointing itself the authority to sort information from disinformation on behalf of the public, because government entities are not impartial and omniscient deities who can be entrusted to serve the public as objective arbiters of absolute reality. They would with absolute certainty wind up drawing distinctions between information, misinformation and disinformation in whatever way serves their interests, regardless of what’s true, exactly as any authoritarian regime would do.

I mean, is anyone honestly more afraid of Russian disinformation than they are of their own government appointing itself the authority to decide what counts as disinformation?

This important point has gotten a bit lost in the shuffle due to the utterly hypnotic ridiculousness of the person who has been appointed to run the Disinformation Governance Board. Nina Jankowicz, a carefully groomed swamp creature who has worked in Kyiv as a communications advisor to the Ukrainian government as part of a Fulbright fellowship, is being widely criticized by pundits and social media users for her virulent Russiagating and whatever the hell this is:


Good read

Oh God It’s Going To Get SO Much Worse

Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Rightists have spent the last couple of days freaking out and invoking Orwell’s 1984 in response to something their political enemies are doing in Ameri…

caitlinjohnstone.com

Keepin yer powder dry FORMER Americans? Cause the title is pretty much spot-on......in more ways than one .

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How about tramp in his dealing with China.

 

[Penelope]

Governor DeSantis & the state of Florida refuse to accept anything to do with the illegal disinformation agency. The battle is now starting over federal over reach, violation of the American constituencies 1st amendment rights & illegal backdoor formation of an agency within another agency.

Wasn't he the guy that banned books!! All red states banned books.

 

[Penelope]

How about tramp in his dealing with China.

He managed to get Ivanka patents approved, and he borrowed money from them, and he housed apt to them in tramp tower.

 

[Penelope]

Wasn't he the guy that banned books!! All red states banned books.

While you disagree with me, you can't say it isn't true.

 

[Hellokitty]

I find it hilarious that the side that brought us “alternate facts” is trying to warn us about 1984!

I don't remember an "alternate facts" disinformation board, or any SM outlet flagging peoples speech as "alternate facts".

 

[Moonglow]

You love it when Trump lies to you and you storm the Capitol as his stooges....It's a waste of time telling people they are being lied to since that is how the majority want it.

 

[konradv]

I don't remember an "alternate facts" disinformation board, or any SM outlet flagging peoples speech as "alternate facts".

You want credit for failing?!?!

 

[Devils_Advocate]

You want credit for failing?!?!

No, what I would like is you to understand this November the Democrats will lose power in the House and Senate and in 2024 there is a great chance Biden is a one term President and if you run Harris you will lose, so then the GOP have complete control and have that office you are cheering about…

So think really hard what will happen and not what could happen and you and the Democrats brought this onto yourselves!

 

[marvin martian]

You love it when Trump lies to you and you storm the Capitol as his stooges....It's a waste of time telling people they are being lied to since that is how the majority want it.

^^^Says the guy who believes men can give birth.

LOL

 

[MisterBeale]

While you disagree with me, you can't say it isn't true.

. . if Trump gets re-elected and puts his own folks on that, "Disinformation Governance Board?" No one will need to, the government will do it for them.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Wasn't he the guy that banned books!! All red states banned books.

But but but but but this or that doesn't work here..... silly nazi whore