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   On 2024-09-23 2:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   > In article ,   
   >   Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called for more "media literacy" in a   
   >> recent video posted to social media - but when she elaborated on the topic,   
   >> it sounded as though what she was really calling for was censorship.   
   >>   
   >> The congresswoman said that she had been in conversation with other members   
   >> about the steps they might need to take to "rein in" media in order to   
   >> prevent them from spreading "disinformation and misinformation."   
   >   
   > Rein in the media? And this coming from one of the most vocal defenders   
   > of 'the need to protect our democracy'.   
   >   
   > Scratch a leftist and find a hidden authoritarian.   
      
   Hidden? You don't usually have to dig very far to find their   
   authoritarian streak....   
   >   
   >> "You know, I do think that - several members of Congress in some of my   
   >> discussions have brought up media literacy because that is a part of what   
   >> happened here," she said. "And we're going to have to figure out how we rein   
   >> in our media environment so that you can't just spew disinformation &   
   >> misinformation."   
   >>   
   >> "It's one thing to have differing opinions, but it's another thing entirely   
   >> to just say things that are false," she added. "And so that's something that   
   >> we're looking into."   
   >>   
   >> Critics were quick to point out that there was no carveout for lying or   
   >> "disinformation" in the First Amendment, meaning that the government had   
   >> neither the responsibility - as Ocasio-Cortez suggested - nor the right to   
   >> tell the people what they could and could not say.   
   >   
   > You think that matters to Che Ocasio? You think she cares about the 1st   
   > Amendment even a little bit?   
   >   
   >> One social media user noted the roots of the term "disinformation" in the   
   >> Communist Soviet Union, arguing that what Ocasio-Cortez was pushing was   
   >> simply a means for the government to control who could speak and what they   
   >> could say.   
   >>   
   >> "The term 'dezinformatsiya' was coined by Josef Stalin in the 1920s as the   
   >> name of the section of the KGB tasked with deceiving enemies and influencing   
   >> public opinion. And here we have AOC telling us that '...you (the people)   
   >> can't just spew disinformation and misinformation. That's something WE are   
   >> looking into,'" the post read. "Who decides what is disinformation, AOC? Who   
   >> decides what is false?"   
   >   
   > Indeed. She was part of the cabal of media, bureaucrats, and politicians   
   > that assured us that the Hunter Biden laptop story was a Russian hoax...   
   > when it turned out to be nothing of the kind.   
   >   
   > They're the ones who leaned on all the social media companies to censor   
   > and punish anyone who claimed the Wuhan Flu virus came from a Chinese   
   > lab, when now that's the accepted truth.   
   >   
   > And *they* want to be the ones who get to decide what we can and can't   
   > say, what is and is not disinformation?   
      
   Didn't they actually try to set up an agency to handle   
   misinformation/disinformation early in Biden's presidency only to be   
   shut down very quickly? I can't say I'm surprised to find that they are   
   pushing for that again.   
      
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