[Baynative]

Trending: "trouble"

"The federal government spent $1 million to create a database to track hate speech and “misinformation”"

Obviously this will mean conservative hate speech...

[lavaroise]

Indeed. Misinformation was a word invented by the KGB long ago but only recently discovered out West. Yet these goons are not going after foreign intel terrorist groups but us.

[Junk Silver]

“Obviously this will mean conservative hate speech... “

That’s the only kind of “hate speech” there is!

Coming soon to a Banana Republic near you, a comprehensive list of which passages from the Old and New Testament are hate speech. Redacted Bibles to be distributed shortly thereafter.

[henkster]

Many of the chilling prophecies of the future I read about in sci-fi novels when I was young have come to pass.

The one story I remember was how people had been herded into cramped apartments (Agenda 21, anyone?) and the amount of fresh air was regulated. You were not permitted more than 3 people’s worth of air in your apartment. If you tried to have a larger gathering, and needed to turn up the air volume, the authorities would be notified and come make inquiries to be sure you weren’t having an “unapproved political meeting.”

We aren’t far off from that, are we?

[Steve_Seattle]

"Obviously this will mean conservative hate speech..."

It won't even need to be hate speech, it will just be conservative speech, period, which libs regard as hate speech. "Impeach Bush!" = patriotism. "Impeach Obama" = racism, treason. We all know that's how they think, and those are the kind of people who will be running this program. The fact that they gave it a Colbert-inspired name is a huge tell, not to mention their reference to "astroturfing," which has been a big liberal meme for several years.

[rockrr]

Morris Dees and the SPLCC is gonna be bent that the feds are cutting into their action!

[Lexinom]

Americans - in the traditional understanding of that demonym - don’t cower.

[MaxMax]

$1 million? That's not tracking, that's a payoff to a political supporter.
Since when has the Gov ever achieved anything effective with just a measly
$1 million dollars?

Heck, $1 million is the cost of one trial in federal court. Or a few Obama toilets.

[LS]

That’s our knee jerk reaction, but the real danger of these laws is the Unintended consequences: they will eventually be applied EVERYWHERE so that the very concept of “hate” and speech is obliterated. And without hate, there is no love.