Posted on 03/18/2024 10:58:03 AM PDT by JV3MRC
The Old Gray Lady continues to behave like a Karen triggered by people’s ability to express their opinions about elections freely online. Darn that pesky free speech!
The New York Times effectively wrote what amounted to a 3,984-word eulogy for the death of the dystopian thought police. The Times mourned that former President Donald Trump’s “Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation.” The newspaper — acting like a speech gatekeeper — bemoaned that Trump and free speech absolutists “have successfully stymied the effort to filter election lies online.” But the same outlet that’s whining about “disinformation” and “election lies” is the one that uses its own platform to gaslight struggling Americans on how President Joe Biden’s inflation-rattled economy “looks sunny.”
The disgruntled publication attempted to justify Big Tech’s collusion whipped out the Capitol Hill riot on January 6, 2021 to justify government officials jawboning Big Tech platforms to censor speech. The newspaper dubbed the dystopian collusion a “groundswell built in Washington to rein in the onslaught of lies that had fueled the assault on the peaceful transfer of power.”
But alas, cried The Times, Trump and his pro-free speech cohorts have “unquestionably prevailed” in their “counteroffensive” to block “what they viewed as a dangerous effort to censor conservatives.” How horrible that “conservatives” aren’t exactly keen on their government being weaponized against them because of their opinions!
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
They have so destroyed the credibility of the people who want to block what they consider disinformation that the people are catching on. The COVID-19 origin stuff was considered disinformation until it wasn’t. The ineffectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines was considered disinformation until we caught on. I will say the safety of the COVID-19 shots is still up in the air in my opinion but trying to block it as disinformation will never answer the real questions and the same for the extent of election fraud.
The government has so damaged themselves with lies and attempts to stymie opposing opinions that we are now seeing people not vaccinating for measles etc. that have had a good track record because the “experts” can’t be trusted.
I read the whole article. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/us/politics/trump-disinformation-2024-social-media.html
It is brimming with statism.
The tears are Delicious.
I think reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.
The New York Times-feeding the easily manipulated masses for two centuries.
Unfortunately, it has been working like a charm.
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