@DrewPavlou ' And there are wastes of stump and bramble where once there were singing groves. I saw the axe and the fire; but this is worse than the axe and the fire.'
@ChrisMurphyCT Hear ye, hear ye, @ChrisMurphyCT, thou wavering Knight of the Double Standard! In the year of our Lord 2018, thou didst proclaim, ‘Verily, let the private lords of tech banish hate with their mighty algorithms, for this be not censorship, but a noble quest to ponder their power!’
In the story of David and Goliath, two views of Heroism are compared and the readers are treated to, perhaps, one of the most hostile depictions of Homeric warrior culture ever written. Here is how Hebrews saw their Indo-European enemies. [THREAD]
Another crucial point: you don't have imagine or speculate that maybe the WH will start abusing this "misinformation" claim to censor content politically damaging to them.
They already did it: when Dems, media & tech monopolies censored the Biden archive based on this CIA lie:
@charliespiering It's a published list, https://t.co/E5EgjtvQj8. Not exactly giving up secrets when they can be found on a public, government web site. Nice try at gaslighting, though. A for effort.
It's so important to recognize what a bizarre situation this is:
Trump's banning from social media was condemned by world leaders - including anti-Trump ones - given the threat to democracy it poses.
It's *US "journalists"* who continue to lead the fight for online censorship:
The original function of slave patrols was to capture innocent people who were brutally enslaved. The function of the modern police is to capture criminals. If you can't tell the difference between victims and criminals, you might be the de facto editor of the New York Times.
"Now let's take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more
minorities...The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! All
the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean.
The narrative is important, say the media. Thus, we must characterize overt lies that ruin lives as a "sense of personal truth." But in reality, there is no "personal truth." There is only the truth, and your opinion -- or in this case, your overt lies.