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Ben Shapiro
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This piece is a master class in how the establishment media (in this case, publicly funded!) seek to label everything they don't like "misinformation," and then suppress it. They're coming for freedom of the press. And they're not hiding the ball.
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Outrage As A Business Model: How Ben Shapiro Is Using Facebook To Build An Empire
In May, Ben Shapiro's website The Daily Wire had more Facebook engagement on its articles than The New York Times, CNN, The Washington Post and NBC News combined.
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According to NPR, Facebook should presumably suppress us because we are overtly conservative. Not because of "misinformation." Because we are conservative. We make no bones about this.
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Here's my favorite part: where NPR quotes an "expert" who openly conflates "stories I don't like" with "misinformation," and in which NPR acknowledges that we're open about our biases, but still somehow misleading people.
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The founders could hardly have been expected to foresee that the chief advocates for suppression of informational distribution would be members of the press. But that's where we are. And they're making no bones about it.
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Right now, the WH is saying it wants to press social media into suppressing "misinformation" about covid (the White House should not be in the business of directing social media companies to suppress information, period). But this isn't truly about covid.
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The NPR article is giving away the game. So is Kara Swisher at the NYT, who wrote this just today, in an article titled "‘They’re Killing People’? Biden Isn’t Quite Right, but He’s Not Wrong."
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And the most hilarious thing is that they're supposedly doing all this in the name of ending "polarization." That's because if you suppress your opposition, polarization ends: you now have a unipolar monopoly! Disappearing those who disagree does indeed end "polarization."
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The only costs are freedom of speech and the press, open discussion, and an ability for us to live with each other while tolerating different viewpoints. Oh well. At least the Democrats will maintain their agitprop empire and the establishment media will restore their monopoly.
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