By An Old Friend
Tue, Feb 23, 2021 7:52 p.m.
John Hinderaker: "Democrats Move to Silence Non-Liberal Speech" [brief]
DEMOCRATS MOVE TO SILENCE NON-LIBERAL SPEECH
On paper, the Democrats have a tenuous hold on power in Washington. Their president is a cipher with severely diminished mental capacities, the Senate is a 50-50 tie, and they hold the narrowest House majority in decades. Nevertheless, the Democrats see what could be a once in a lifetime opportunity, and are pressing forward with their most radical agenda since they seceded in 1861.
Among other things, the Democrats are trying to repeal, in effect, the First Amendment, by barring conservative speech–or, rather, speech that is not consistently left-wing–from the public square.
We have seen this in the moves against conservatives and other independent voices by Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Go Fund Me and other tech titans. While these companies are no doubt motivated in part by ideology in putting their thumbs on the scale of public discourse, the truth is more sinister than that.
The major tech platforms are monopolies with obvious antitrust vulnerabilities, as we saw when the Trump administration brought an enforcement action against Facebook that seeks the divestiture of Instagram. The Democrats have not only urged tech platforms to silence conservatives, they are at least implicitly (God knows what is said in private) holding out the prospect of immunity from antitrust enforcement, which means many billions more in profits. This is the ultimate in 21st-century corruption.
But it gets worse: the Democrats are also trying to drive independent voices off the more traditional broadcast and cable platforms. Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center sent out an email today that included this:
The war against conservatives on social media has turned into a war against conservative broadcast media, as well. The House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology will hold a hearing tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. entitled "Fanning the Flames: Disinformation and Extremism in the Media." But will the Democrats in this hearing talk about the lies from CNN or MSNBC? Probably not, since the memorandum for the hearing specifically cited articles that bashed Fox News, Newsmax, and "conservative media."Two Democratic representatives have gone even further in their fight against the First Amendment. Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Jerry McNerney (D-CA) wrote letters to the heads of multiple TV providers. The letters demanded answers to questions such as "Have you ever taken any actions against a channel for using your platform to disseminate any disinformation?" and "Are you planning to continue carrying Fox News, Newsmax, and OANN?" Unsurprisingly, the letters made no mention of any liberal news organization.Please watch the hearing and comment on it.
Yes, please do! I have been following politics closely for more than five decades, and the Democratic Party's war on freedom of speech is the most sinister thing I have witnessed in that time. What is truly chilling is how few Democrats are willing to stand up for freedom. I know of three: Tulsi Gabbard, Matt Taibai [sic] and Glenn Greenwald. Kudos to them, but it is shocking that not a single current Democrat office-holder is, as best we can tell, in favor of free speech. We are facing an existential threat to our traditional liberties.
jerry pdx
ReplyDeleteI've been railing about this since...well, since it started. Reality is, Repubs/conservatives did not anticipate just how much the internet was going to impact media and how much power a small cabal of liberal tech billionaires would have to change the political and public opinion landscape. I don't think they even realized it until recently and neither did the Dems, but the Dems are happily collaborating with the evil tech lords to impose their ideological will on the country, making conservative beliefs a thought crime. How to stop them? I don't know, it was difficult enough to stop the Dems/globalists even in the days of just traditional print and broadcast media but now with internet media being at least as influential, if not more so, they seem unbeatable. I know that sounds pessimistic to the extreme but leftist/globalist power has increased exponentially with the advent of the internet, the Repubs should have been smarter and realized early on, before the Dems realized what they had going, and moved against the monopolization of the internet by a few giant tech companies. Maybe invoked anti trust laws and broken them up or set up a rule system in which if you want to do business online as a media platform you must be strictly apolitical. But they didn't, and now we have this monstrous alliance between leftist politicians and deep pocket White hating billionaires.
Why do people persist in calling these enemies of freedom "liberals"? The Latin root is liber--meaning free--but these people can be called leftist, socialist, or fascist (note in fascism government and big business are in bed together) but not "liberals." Those who hide under the false name "liberal" or "progressive" are in fact statists who want to steal our freedoms and put us under the iron fist of leftist tyrants.
ReplyDeleteSAJAK NOW IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF THE LIBERAL IDIOTS FOR A "MYTH-SPEAK".
ReplyDeleteGRA:I hate to post this because the "sin" of Pat Sajak's was miniscule,while the reaction by SJWs is ridiculously overdone.With Trump gone,the liberals are watching all other White men to catch them doing something offensive.The incident is so tame that Rickles would have said,"What happened--I missed it."
(FOXNEWS)
"Wheel of Fortune" host Pat Sajak upset a number of viewers on Monday when he seemingly mocked a contestant with a speech impediment.
The longtime game show host was trying to keep things light during Monday’s show as he was introducing contestants. While doing so, Sajak spoke with contestant Chris Brimble. After explaining to the host what he does for a living, it became clear to viewers and the host that Brimble speaks with a slight lisp.
Sajak heard him out and even commented on the importance of his job, bringing technology to older adults. However, the host concluded the brief interview by saying "I thee" instead of "I see."
While Brimble simply laughed the moment off, viewers who were upset about the Sajak's apparent mockery of the contestant’s speech impediment took to Twitter to voice their outrage.
'Did @patsajak just mock one of the contestants??" one user wrote.
"You should retire and let someone take over who won't make fun of a person's speech impediment,"said another.
GRA:I thee where this is theading.
--GRA
Liberal/leftist/pinko have always been against speech that disagrees with the world view. The left perceives the conservative as EVIL without redemption. Silence them! NOW! It has come to that.
ReplyDeletejerry pdx
ReplyDeleteThere is something else I've observed with Wheel of Fortune this year. Starting in February I've noticed that there is a black contestant now almost every night. In fact, I've only seen one night that there hasn't been one. I haven't watched every single episode so can't say for sure but I've watched most of them. However, it's clear that this month right around a third of all contestants have been black. Now that's not up to Family Feud level where 50% of contestants are black but it still far exceeds the 13% black representation in the US. Will this continue? I don't know, we'll have to see but I wouldn't be surprised if this is permanent.
Also, I noticed that black contestants have been winning a majority of times which could be a statistical anomaly but I'm very suspicious. It occurs to me that behind the scenes diversity hires, or self hating white liberals could manipulate the contest to favor black candidates. I've never noticed black contestants doing better than white overall in the past but last night, the black contestant was facing two very incompetent white players and I have to wonder if they are deliberately lining up white player who do more poorly in the pretests with black players who do better. Who knows what else they could be doing behind the scenes but I wouldn't be surprised at anything they might do to virtue signal to the world by making blacks look superior to whites at game show contests.
Are whites ever going to wise up and start suing these shows for discrimination?
Actually,this year Jerry,they had two shows already with two blackies and one Whitey.The first time the White contestant won--I didn't watch the second one after the beginning.
ReplyDelete--GRA