Presstitute psyopsCNN: Censorship "makes sense," "probably what we should do"

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[–]LeftyBoyo67Tired of Dem Pefidy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's right, little Blue Sheep, just keep walking up this chute over here. You're almost there...

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CNN are a bunch of neoliberal corporatists/capitalists, and those types resort to fascism when they lose grip on the plebs.

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Column by Jonathan Turley

What is striking is not just the blind acceptance that the government should be protecting us from harmful thoughts. It is also the failure to recognize that the government was wrong on many of these points while experts were being banned and blacklisted...

Masks became a major social and political dividing line in politics and the media. Maskless people were chased from stores and denounced in Congress...

Many are now questioning the efficacy and cost of the massive lockdown as well as the real value of masks or the rejection of natural immunities as an alternative to vaccination. Yet, these experts and others were attacked for such views just a year ago. Some found themselves censored on social media for challenging claims of Dr. Fauci and others...

The media has quietly acknowledged the science questioning mask efficacy and school closures without addressing its own role in attacking those who raised these objections. Even raising the lab theory on the origin of Covid 19 (a theory now treated as plausible) was denounced as a conspiracy theory. The science and health reporter for the New York Times, Apoorva Mandavilli, even denounced the theory as “racist.”

Yet, Mattingly and others are defending censorship by repeating a tautology: the government must seek the censorship of ideas because some ideas must be censored...

While once fiercely opposed to censorship and government-supported blacklists, many in the media are echoing Mattingly’s view that the natural default should be to obey the government and its directions on permitted speech. After all, this is all for our own protection. Censorship just “makes sense.”

[–]chakokat 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Gee, how in the world did the government communicate with the citizens before social media? /S

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On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” guest co-host and CNN Chief White House Correspondent Phil Mattingly acknowledged that social media platforms would, “more often than not” give in to the regular demands by the Biden administration to censor content that they disagreed with on the coronavirus pandemic, and stated that the administration coordinating with tech companies to censor content “makes sense,” and is “probably what we should do on public health grounds.”

Mattingly said, “[T]he Biden administration would regularly reach out to Twitter and Facebook and other companies in kind of the early stages of their COVID response and say, this person is spreading lies about vaccines, this account is spreading misinformation that is inhibiting — not just our efforts, the administration’s efforts to address COVID — but also public health, do something about it. And often, I think more often than not, the companies would respond and say, okay. And there are emails that came out during the course of this case that that was something that I think — when it was explained to me at the time, I thought, alright, that makes sense, that’s probably what we should do on public health grounds.”

 

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