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-Land of the Free
The Ministry of Truth Is Real
2022-04-29
[Red State] Things got pretty weird, pretty quickly in the wake of Elon Musk’s trial balloon about buying Twitter, a deal that went through Monday, much to the chagrin of the progressive chattering class who were super duper certain the Tesla and SpaceX boy genius was just foolin’ for fun.

Poor NPR, for example, forced to aggregate what Musk might actually do with his new toy (and, to be fair, they pulled from his own public statements), characterizes the sale this way:

"[T]he world’s richest person who has a penchant for theatrics and erratic behavior is about to have the power to reshape discourse on a social network used by more than 200 million people every day."

They’re not handling it very well.

Hence, the new federally-run truth commission, brought to you courtesy of Homeland Security.

The Biden administration and progressive activists (including former President Obama) sprang into action following Monday’s announcement and — quite literally — began the process of defining disinformation and calling for its regulation to make sure bad speech was addressed and eliminated from the collective safe space.
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  Does China have one of these, too?
Posted by: DooDahMan   2022-04-29 21:15  

#9  Tulsi Gabbard: Disinfo Board Makes Biden Admin a Dictatorship
Posted by: Bugs McGurque4586   2022-04-29 18:19  

#8  Really? Their actions seem to me to be desperately attempting to salvage what they can. If they were confident, why would they care about Twitter?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2022-04-29 16:24  

#7  ^ At the very least, the Junta is acting as one would expect of entity confident of the outcome.
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2022-04-29 16:11  

#6  The left intends to use this to cover up the theft of the November elections that otherwise they cannot win. They election fraud machine that got Biden into the presidency is still in place at the polling places.
Posted by: Bugs McGurque4586   2022-04-29 15:13  

#5  Former President Barack Obama joined the national conversation over free speech Thursday, arguing that the First Amendment shouldn’t apply to social media companies and calling for more regulation to combat misinformation online.

Baraq has no constitutional authority to decide how the Second Amendment is applied. He has no constitutional authority to decide what is misinformation and what isn't.

If We the People can't stop this abomination by appealing to the Supreme Court there could be some real trouble.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-04-29 11:17  

#4  It didn't work for the soviets when the bottle and the genie were much smaller. It won't work now.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-04-29 10:04  

#3  began the process of defining disinformation

i.e. - any speech we in the Ruling Class don't approve of.
Posted by: Raj   2022-04-29 10:02  

#2  Spotify dumps Obama and Big Mike
Posted by: Frank G   2022-04-29 06:43  

#1  April 21 - WASHINGTON (TND) — Former President Barack Obama joined the national conversation over free speech Thursday, arguing that the First Amendment shouldn’t apply to social media companies and calling for more regulation to combat misinformation online.

April 25 - Elon Musk buys and liberates Twitter as a platform for the First Amendment.
Posted by: Clusosh Floluter6074   2022-04-29 02:47  

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