The Left’s War
Against Free Speech
It’s a big week for all the folks who think George Orwell’s “1984” isn’t a
novel, it’s a how-to guide.
First up, the Republican National Committee accused Google of trying to interfere with the midterm elections by sending 22 million of their fundraising and get-out-the-vote emails to spam folders so that recipients will never see them. Google claims this is entirely nonpartisan, but the RNC cites a study that found Google routes Republican emails to spam at a rate 820% higher than similar Democrat emails. Remember when Google’s motto was “Don’t be evil”? Boy, that sure seems like a long time ago.
This next story is described as a “bombshell,” but only because it confirms
what many of us have long suspected, and what we wrote about in this
newsletter.
We now know more details thanks to an investigative report by JustTheNews.com
that exposes the successful effort by various unelected federal officials and a
group ironically named the “Election Integrity Project,” which collected a lot
of our taxpayer dollars to help censor 20 conservative news outlets during the
2020 presidential election. These included Just The News, as well as the New
York Post, the Epoch Times, the Washington Times, and others. They also
identified a list of alleged “repeat spreaders” of “mis- and disinformation,”
that included President Trump, his sons, and a number of conservative media
figures.
I assume they mean “misinformation” like New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop
expose that unimpeachable liberal outlets like CNN and the New York Times
falsely branded as “Russian disinformation” – at least until long after Joe
Biden was safely elected, and now they admit the Post story was correct.
Please read the entire story at the link, and follow the links in it to the
Just The News report and the original study it’s based on from the Foundation
For Freedom. It shows that the rather absurd “Disinformation Czar” lady who was
dumped after her weird combination of Mary Poppins and Big Brother spooked the
nation was only the tip of the iceberg. She was an attempt by various federal
agencies to put an official title and an organizational structure onto their
long-running, widespread, unconstitutional, and covert effort to monitor,
suppress, and criminalize free speech. Her quick ejection hardly spelled an end
to that nefarious effort, just a frustrating minor setback. Rest assured, the
unholy alliance of Deep State censors and biased private media companies
continues, and will only grow like kudzu until a Republican Congress and
President can come into power and rip it out by the roots.
Side note: I’m almost disappointed to see that a search of the report turned
up only two mentions of my name, both for allegedly repeating such
“misinformation” as concerns about the reliability of Dominion voting machines.
I’m proud that we’re so accurate, but I would also take pride in being on these
awful people’s enemies list. As for the examples they cite, as much as liberals
love the words “context” and “nuance,” they completely missed it in our case.
For instance, we didn’t “spread” claims that Dominion voting machines were
rigged or hackable. We merely reported the fact that many people were
suspicious of the machines, and in the interest of citizens having faith in
elections, called for a complete and transparent investigation – which, by the
way, we’ve still never had. Instead, we’ve seen a lot of untrustworthy liberal
media outlets slandering anyone who voices such concerns while the principals
fight like demons in court to keep from allowing anyone to look at the records.
That’s certainly a great way to build trust in the system, as borne out by
polls showing that even after nearly two years of the media bullying us to
parrot that any suspicions about the 2020 election are a “Big Lie,” a recent
CBS poll found that 32% of Americans think there were widespread fraud and
irregularities, only 28% think there were none, and only 64% believe Biden was
the legitimate winner.
Before the press starts yelling, “Republican disinformation,” I’d love a
poll to find out how many Democrats believe Trump was the legitimate winner in
2016. We know Hillary Clinton wasn’t one of them.
Next, in the grand tradition of school boards writing to Attorney General
Merrick Garland to ask him to treat upset parents as “domestic terrorists,” the
American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association, and the Children’s
Hospital Association have written to Garland, requesting federal action against
opponents of “transgender” surgery and chemicals for kids. They call this
“evidence-based health care,” but we non-quacks call it “child abuse for
money.”
https://instapundit.com/545974/
As usual in these cases, this is painted in black-and-white terms, with the
criticism of their barbaric practices described as death threats, bomb threats, and other threats of violence. To be clear: none of that is acceptable, and
anyone who makes such threats against anyone else deserves to be investigated
by law enforcement. But pardon me if, having seen this scenario too many times
before, it appears to be yet another example of painting all legitimate
criticism as “threats” and all objections to their pronouncements as
“disinformation” in order to abuse government power to arrest, deplatform and
silence their critics, even those who never threatened anyone.
From COVID protocols to the mutilation of children, we are plagued with the
most arrogant, least expert “expert” class since the Dark Ages. They are so
cocksure that they’re right about everything that one particular overpaid
example even declared that he WAS “Science” and should not be questioned. Or
there’s this UN official who thinks the UN “owns the science” on climate
change.
https://hotair.com/headlines/2022/10/03/un-official-we-own-the-science-n500435
And California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who never met a leftist totalitarian edict
he didn’t like, has signed into law a state bill penalizing doctors for
spreading alleged “misinformation” about COVID (I look forward to seeing Dr.
Fauci prosecuted under it. Only kidding; I actually look forward to the SCOTUS
striking it down as unconstitutional.)
Here’s how “science” (and medicine used to be a science before it was
politicized) works: it’s the very process of questioning and testing the
orthodoxy. If a million pompous jackasses with multiple degrees believe one
thing, and a smart high school dropout working out of his garage proves them
wrong, then the garage guy is the one who’s right. Anyone who declares “The science
is settled,” might as well be saying, “I don’t know what ‘science’ is.” Look at
all the things the CDC is now admitting about COVID vaccines, their spread, and
treatments that got you censored for “disinformation” a year ago.
As for the doctors who think the permanent mutilation of confused children
is a “best practice” that must not be questioned, I have a book to recommend to
them that perfectly describes their mindset. It’s called “Frankenstein, or the
Modern Prometheus” by Mary Shelley. It’s about a doctor who mistakenly believes
he’s God.
Finally, Stewart Baker at Reason.com compiles a list of some of the most
prominent attempts to censor speech by social media companies just in the past
week.
https://reason.com/volokh/2022/10/03/big-techs-chickens-coming-home-to-roost/
One update: YouTube has restored the video they censored of a speech by
incoming conservative Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni. They claim that
upon closer review (which I read as “public outrage and widespread bad
publicity after people noticed"), they determined that it did not violate
their “community guidelines” after all. Imagine that.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. -- Plato (429-347 BC)
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