Science As God: Tech Hearing And COVID Show Us Exactly Where Censorship Is Headed

The Federalist ^ | November 18, 2020 | Christopher Bedford

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In all the back and forth of Tuesday’s Big Tech hearing, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons’ exchange with Twitter’s Jack Dorsey stood out most starkly, offering a window into the next step of the left’s long-championed Big Tech censorship of scientific dissent from liberal orthodoxy.

“You do, Mr. Dorsey, have policies against deep fakes or manipulated media, against Covid-19 misinformation, against things that violate civic integrity,” the Delaware senator began, “but you don’t have a standalone climate change misinformation policy. Why not?”

“Our policies are living documents,” Dorsey replied. “They will evolve, we will add to them, but we thought it important we focus our energies and prioritize the work as much as we could.” And then:

Well, Mr. Dorsey… I cannot think of a greater harm than climate change, which is transforming literally our planet and causing harm to our entire world. I think we’re experiencing significant harm as we speak. I recognize the pandemic and misinformation about Covid-19 manipulated media also cause harm but I’d urge you to reconsider that because helping to disseminate climate denialism in my view further facilitates and accelerates one of the greatest existential threats to our world.

This has been ongoing for years in corporate media. In 2019, Chuck Todd pompously announced his show would no longer “give time to climate deniers.” Two years before that, when The New York Times’ Bret Stephens used his debut column to call out “The Climate of Complete Certainty” that seeks to shut down completely reasonable dissent, the paper faced vicious backlash labeling Stephens a “climate denier.” For more than a decade before this, more of the same — often trickling up, from activists to the reporters who sympathize to the powers that can truly silence voices.

Four years ago, reporters demanded then-President Barack censor fake news, pushing Press Secretary Josh Earnest into the awkward position of having to remind apparent journalists of the First Amendment four times. The targets that day were the Bat Boy-like farces they blamed for Her 2016 loss, but it was already obvious the definition of “fake news” would rapidly expand. Once President Donald Trump assumed office, corporate media and allied politicians bypassed the White House and turned to Silicon Valley, which fell in line quickly enough.

COVID-19 provided the first preview of the new alliance, where even doctors and scientists were censored for carefully — we once said “scientifically” — questioning the alarmists’ narrative of the day. At the same time, Democrats, corporate media, and even corrupt, foreign bodies like the World Health Organization have been permitted to push whatever information supports that day’s goal post.

Completely rational appeals are met with absurdities like “the science is decided,” as if constantly evolving experimentation in search of knowledge can be bottled into some oracle-like decree to support the mob’s latest demand. Rather than decided science, these decrees are mere hypotheses susceptible to support and opposition, but through the alliance of Democrats, corporate media, and Silicon Valley, they become unquestionable edicts ranging from No Business to Eternal Mask-Wearing to No Family For Thanksgiving.

Coons’s comments are a good reminder that what is COVID today is climate tomorrow. Indeed, COVID policy has offered Americans a perfect preview of what will happen if climate alarmists get their way: Science not as method, but as god. And not the strong and mysterious God of the Jewish and Christian faiths, but a shifting one, whose every dictum and desire is whispered to the kings and enforced at their whims.

Do you have a problem with that? You can take it up with The Science. And The Science is decided.

[Biggirl]

Just ignore the science.

[chuckee]

I think I just saw a pig fly by my window.
An overwhelming success in ending the pandemic in record time. This from CNN, no less, who singlehandedly engineered the media narrative before the election what a failure the unmasked Trump was in personally killing 200,000 plus with his magic unlocked down covid ray gun. File this one under the be careful what you wish for file Methinks they are getting nervous realizing the candidate they were instrumental in getting elected does not have a clue how to distribute the vaccine nationally under the Trump warp speed distribution plan which has the military taking the lead in this strategic warp speed last leg. Biden, who claimed to have a national covid plan, apparently involving the best color mask to wear during mandated lock downs in your prison basement, was complaining yesterday that he does not know how to do it, and whining Trump will not instruct him how to do it. lol

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/jake-tapper-actually-praises-trump/

[Biggirl]

Just ignore the science.

[Skywise]

They’re not preaching SCIENCE.

This is nothing more than technocrat religion - like the Greek gods

[RatRipper]

True “science” is never really “settled”, but always awaits amendment with new discoveries.

[GOP Poet]

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[Ford4000]

The Democrats don’t believe in science so much as credential-ism. “Do what I say because I’m better than you!”