If you don't find it deeply disturbing that the White House is "flagging" internet content that they deem "problematic" to their Facebook allies for removal, then you are definitionally an authoritarian. No other information is needed about you to know that.
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There is no circumstance -- none -- in which it's acceptable for the White House or any other agency of the government to be providing lists to Facebook of "problematic" content it wants removed, yet's that exactly what Psaki says they're doing:https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1415727354463281159 …
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The White House is admitting that they're compiling lists of people who they claim are posting content they regard as "problematic" and that constitute "misinformation" and are demanding Facebook remove them. This is authoritarianism:https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/1415724494690336774 …
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As I've documented before, the Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment's free speech guarantee is violated when government officials pressure or coerce private actors to censor for them. That is exactly what the Biden WH is doing with Facebook:https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-escalates-pressure-on-tech …
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Has the Biden WH also begun identifying books carried by Amazon that it regards as "problematic" and instructed Amazon to take them down and stop selling them immediately? What's the difference between that and what it's doing with FB? What % of liberals would also support that?
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American liberalism -- especially after the Trump era when it re-aligned with CIA, FBI and neocons -- is an absolutely authoritarian faction. Their brains won't process that because they've spent 5 years telling each other Trump is the fascist, but their movement is a menace.
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@ACLU plans on weighing in at some point soon about the fact that the Biden WH today boasted it is flagging posts it regards as "problematic" and telling FB to take them down immediately. Seems like a relevant issue for them. https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-escalates-pressure-on-tech …pic.twitter.com/qbzGIErlmJ
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Billionaires own the two biggest newspapers in the country… it isn’t new
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Free speech is under threat in the west because we now live in world where multiple generations of people were born and raised in societies where free speech is taken for granted. Few people in the west are still alive who remember a world in which these fundamental...
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