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Biden Admin to Fact Check Your Text Messages?
From Politico, this is really scary.:
“Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages”
The DNC wants to fact-check your private messages. What could possibly go wrong? And people wonder why some are hesitant to trust the vaccine. It is amazing how much of a threat this administration has been to civil liberties. For all of you Republicans who think everything is going to be A-OK when pushback to this leads to a Republican landslide in 2022: You may want to think again. An administration that resorts to these measures won’t let some pesky inconvenience like elections get in their way.
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Who gets to tell us what is misinformation, the people us pushed the following narratives:
Covid started in a wet Market
Hunter’s laptop was a Russian Disinformation campaign
Russian Collusion
There’s this story out of France. Two brothers took advantage of the government’s semaphore line. There weren’t laws against it at the time so they got away with it.
And so much more!
The definition of misinformation or disinformation is now “information that reflects badly on the Democrats.”
That the idea of government monitoring of personal communications got beyond someone other than a know-nothing 22 year old intern indicates how thoroughly un-American ideas have permeated the Biden/Harris/Whomever administration. As soon as the idiot intern mentioned such an idea, everybody else in the room should have shut it down immediately as completely unacceptable for a society of free people. That the idea was allowed to percolate up is a bad sign of how far evil has infiltrated into our government.
Not surprising that telegrams were intercepted in wartime; the massive capture of telegraph messages by the government circa 1920 and beyond is I think not well-known. Some of this was (at least supposedly) constrained by 1970s-era intelligence reforms.
re the 1903 demo of wireless, pretty funny…but what exactly was the demonstration trying to show, if ship-to-shore messaging was already a successful business, which the article says it was?
Michael Leroy Bird can be the first Chairman of the National NKVD, I mean Capitol Police.
On top of decades of conflicting official government recommendations concerning diets (more carbohydrates, less carbohydrates, less fat, “good”fat, more polyunsaturated fats, no polyunsaturated fats, etc.). The government has such a stellar <sarc> record of conveying accurate information about health.
All they need to do is screen the messages for key words. Mention Covid and your text gets closer review, and a “friendly correction”. This can happen very quickly. Just look at what happens with Facebook. Mention Covid and up pops a “this may not contain factual information, learn more at blah blah blah”.
This is the moment COVID became the new FISA court. Hey Biden! I’ll save you the trouble of sifting through my text messages to read this: “you’re a fool”.
Imagine if Verizon developed a powerful AI to listen to all conversations and disconnect them if someone is talking in a misinformed way. Would anyone stand for that? Would it violate a law? How is that different than anything Facebook is doing or monitoring text messages etc.
Conservatism, Inc.: “It’s a private company! They can do what they want! Go build your own carrier if you don’t like it!”
(How does one respond to that argument.)
They sure can!
It’s bad for everybody when this happens, we need to make it clear. Public information and talking to companies.
But it’s not bad for the State. And you know these companies are rewarded for the subservience to the State.
Actually, it’s no longer clear which is the tail and which is the dog.
The GOP still has a Romney problem. There are two too many Romney’s on the scene.
You can still make the libertarian argument. These are not private companies. There is a ridiculous amount of subsidizing and crushing competitors that the state does for these corporations. I want to end all cronyism. Republicans do not. Cronyism is built-in to the DNA of the party and has been since the 1860s.
And thousands more who are “Romney” in spirit.
My usual response is that violation of rights is not made kosher by outsourcing the violation to a private company.
I also remind people of the Hollywood Ten, that group of Communist loving writers blacklisted from Hollywood in the 1950s for their love of the Soviet Union. “So, what you’re admitting is that the Hollywood Red Channels blacklists should be held up as a shining example, right? After all, the studios were private businesses…”
Trust me, it ain’t easy holding back . . .
If they were truly private companies, they would have told Obama where to go when he called them to come to a meeting in 2013 to discuss how to control narratives to stop terrorism (aka deplorables).
You can’t actually mean this, Stad. You are one of my role models for gentlemanly behavior. I cannot believe that you would actually nod approvingly if someone were being tortured for the crime of not supporting the “right” politician.
Are we talking about the same Stad? ; )