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New York Times proves ‘disinformation’ is just info Democrats dislike


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2023 Jul 7, 3:27pm   356 views  10 comments

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https://nypost.com/2023/07/06/new-york-times-shows-democrats-lie-about-federal-censorship/


How does The New York Times not get the First Amendment?

US District Judge Terry Doughty ruled July 4 that the federal government can’t, in fact, bully social-media platforms like Twitter and Facebook into taking down speech it dislikes.

The Times’ response?

A long “news analysis” framing the decision in purely partisan terms and impugning the judge’s credibility.

The paper’s apparent reasoning: it’s bad for the White House and Democrats, and therefore dangerous and wrongheaded.

Team Biden (and Dems national, state and local) used first Donald Trump and then the pandemic as moral-panic springboards to ramp up government “anti-disinformation” efforts, justifying them on grounds of public health and safety.

And never mind that the First Amendment says the feds can’t restrict speech, nor (by implication) have third parties do that dirty work.

Yet the Times fawningly echoes the “disinfo” rationale, describing the censorship as meant to “prevent the spread of potentially dangerous information, particularly in an election or during emergencies like a pandemic.”

No: As the Twitter Files and other reporting amply show, the hammer came down again and again on true content that the feds (or Democrats) found inconvenient, as well as political opinion.

The Post’s reporting on Hunter’s laptop, for example.

Or our commentary on the likelihood of COVID having originated in a lab.

Both stories have since been utterly vindicated; both were suppressed on the same specious grounds.

It’s clearly censorship by other means.

And it’d be wrong even if we’d been wrong: The First Amendment has no “disinformation” exception, as decades of jurisprudence on speech make clear.

That applies even to RFK Jr.’s bonkers arguments about the dangers of vaccines, which are now getting suppressed by YouTube.

Ah, the disinfo warriors rejoin: It’s private companies doing the suppression of their own free will, so the First Amendment doesn’t apply.

But they only (or mainly, anyway) did it under government pressure, including threats of federal action if they didn’t obey. Hence the close-and-cuddly relationship between Big Tech and Big Government and frequent meetings, phone chats and email updates to coordinate the censorship efforts.

Free speech has to be free for everyone.

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3   Ceffer   2023 Jul 10, 11:09am  

Most of the propaganda headlines and shit are generated by snip and splice AI taglines and then provided with filler by a handful of Ivy League 20 or 30 year old wannabe journalistic whore types who think they are living the sophisticated NY lifestyle. NYT is robot manufactured bird cage liner, along with the rest of MSM.
4   clambo   2023 Jul 10, 1:46pm  

You can tell an asshole liberal from a normal; he supports control of all behavior from everyone including speech.

They make an exception for drug use; that is the addict's "choice" and he really just needs a free apartment, food, healthcare and he might stop using.

The NY Times is an alternate universe of bullshit, like CNN and MSNBC.
5   richwicks   2023 Jul 10, 1:55pm  

clambo says

The NY Times is an alternate universe of bullshit, like CNN and MSNBC.


It's just propaganda, like everything. Fox news is no different.
6   Ceffer   2023 Jul 10, 2:01pm  

Memes are like the exam given to replicants in 'Blade Runner'. The replicant test used subtle shades of emotional understanding to uncover the robots.

Memes are generated by human beings who wish to reveal or highlight a truth or irony, something machine programming can't clearly understand.

Machines literally can't distinguish between fact or fiction, much less shades of emotional reasoning, which is why so many of the Mockingbird AI derived drivel headlines represent some kind of abortive appeal to emotion followed by an absurd, manipulative, illogical or deceptive premise, while memes mostly just 'ring true' to the standard reasonably adjusted non robotic mind.
7   DemocratsAreTotallyFucked   2023 Jul 10, 4:48pm  

Ceffer says

Memes are generated by human beings who wish to reveal or highlight a truth or irony, something machine programming can't clearly understand.


Neither can leftoids. So much for them being 'human'.
8   Patrick   2023 Jul 10, 6:55pm  

https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/judge-doughty-rules-to-deny-bidens


Judge Doughty rules to deny Biden’s motion to stay the injunction...

Things are moving very fast in the State of Missouri versus Biden - Social Media Censorship Case.

On the Fourth of July, Judge Doughty filed an injunction against the Biden admin (see details in the Liberty Counsel Press Release Below).

Late last week, the Biden administration filed a motion to stay the injunction

This weekend, The attorneys general for Missouri and Louisiana submitted a petition to oppose the Biden administration’s motion to stay the injunction (see The Epoch Times Analysis below).

Today, Judge Doughty rules to deny the Biden administration’s motion to stay the injunction in the State of Missouri versus Biden - Social Media Censorship Case.

Judge Doughty writes:




Judge Doughty is a true patriot. ...

Within Judge Doughty’s 155-page opinion, 86 pages of background facts show email chains, meetings, phone calls and even “public pressure campaigns” from the White House and other federal agencies “coercing” social media companies to suppress and censor content opposing “official” government narratives.

The Plaintiffs in the case alleged the government suppressed conservative speech in at least nine areas, such as “(1) suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 Presidential election; (2) suppressing speech about the lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origin; (3) suppressing speech about the efficiency of masks and COVID-19 lockdowns; (4) suppressing speech about the efficiency of COVID-19 vaccines; (5) suppressing speech about election integrity in the 2020 presidential election; (6) suppressing speech about the security of voting by mail; (7) suppressing parody content about Defendants; (8) suppressing negative posts about the economy; and (9) suppressing negative posts about President Biden,” the ruling stated. ...

“It is quite telling that each example or category of suppressed speech was conservative in nature. This targeted suppression of conservative ideas is a perfect example of viewpoint discrimination of political speech. American citizens have the right to engage in free debate about the significant issues affecting the country,” wrote Judge Doughty.

The Court recognized a massive “censorship-by-proxy” enterprise involving the White House, the Census Bureau, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Departments of Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Justice and State, the FBI, and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. ...

Judge Doughty catalogued the efforts of this enterprise throughout his ruling:

The White House engaged in “unrelenting pressure” at least 22 times against social media companies. “White House Defendants engaged in coercion to induce social-media companies to suppress free speech.”

“At a White House Press Conference, [former White House Press Secretary Jen] Psaki publicly reminded Facebook and other social-media platforms of the threat of ‘legal consequences’ if they do not censor misinformation more aggressively.”

“Facebook noted that in response to White House demands, it was censoring, removing, and reducing the virality of content discouraging vaccines ‘that does not contain actionable misinformation.’”

In 2021, “a senior Meta executive reportedly copied Andrew Slavitt, former White House Senior COVID-19 Advisor, on his emails to Surgeon General [Dr. Vivek] Murthy, alerting them that Meta was engaging in censorship of COVID-19 misinformation according to the White House’s ‘requests’ and indicating ‘expanded penalties’ for individual Facebook accounts that share misinformation. Meta also stated, ‘We think there is considerably more we can do in ‘partnership’ with you and your team to drive behavior.’”

The CDC, Census Bureau, CISA, and Department of Homeland Security officials “met with social media companies to both inform and pressure them to censor content protected by the First Amendment.” CISA then “expanded the word ‘infrastructure’ in its terminology to include ‘cognitive’ infrastructure, so as to create authority to monitor and suppress protected free speech posted on social media.”

FBI officials testified that “3,613 Twitter accounts and 825 Facebook accounts were taken down in 2018…422 accounts involving 929,000 tweets in 2019.” FBI testimony regarding suppression and censorship beyond 2020 indicated the FBI has “never stopped.”

“[The] Defendants made it very clear to social media companies what they wanted suppressed and what they wanted amplified. Faced with unrelenting pressure from the most powerful office in the world, the social-media companies apparently complied,” stated Judge Doughty. ...

As the case continues, Judge Doughty concluded, “The Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits in establishing that the Government has used its power to silence the opposition.”

Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver said, “The alarming findings of facts in this case reveal the federal government has engaged in unprecedented censorship not unlike the propaganda machine of Nazi Germany. Tragically, the Biden administration’s pervasive censorship of opposing views in concert with complicit social media companies is undermining our inalienable right to free speech. We must erect a wall of separation between media and the state.
9   AmericanKulak   2023 Jul 10, 7:07pm  

Great example is Sound of Freedom

It was written long before COVID, and years before QAnon. Disney sold it off after they acquired a smaller company.

Yet Media Disinformation acts like the movie is a recent idea growing out of PizzaGate/QAnon.

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