Facebook's own executives believed the company had been forced to remove posts it shouldn't have. At the heart of these unconstitutional efforts: one Andrew M. Slavitt.
How many times did I say in comment sections like this one that the REAL story of the Twitter Files wasn't the Twitter Files themselves, but the fact that there's ALSO a Facebook Files, a Google Files, an MSNBC Files, a New York Times Files, etc etc etc.
We are literally paying for our own censorship -- and the left denied it was happening until they couldn't pretend any longer, so now they say OF COURSE government needs to be able to censor you! (They don't seem to remember they just got done playacting as THE RESISTANCE for four years and think they'll ALWAYS be on the government's side.)
Isn’t that the most discouraging part? That we have friends and relatives that are being willfully ignorant on all of this. I know these analogs to Nazi Germany are always a problem. But how is this different than Europe looking the other way as Jewish neighbors were accosted and taken away. Stripped of their possessions and families. We have the same sort of slow rolling undoing of our culture now.
That’s my exact sentiment after I read anything from Berenson or other thinking, honest Substack contributors. WHY ISN’T THIS GETTING ANY ATTENTION? I’m so dismayed about the ignorance or indifference or narrow-mindedness of the population, in general. Competing thoughts, controversial topics, multifaceted issues are not entertained or discussed. But they can talk about the Barbie movie ad nauseam.
At some point you would think, the legacy enablers would get a BACK BONE, and report the truth! That's what it will take. How much longer will they keep up the masquerade against the truth and willfull participation in this?
I'm not sure about this bunch. I wonder if it'll take another generation. In 20 years someone will do a deep dive into this episode in American history. In any case, I hope I'm around to see it. (Perhaps my grandson will read it to me.)
Have you ever heard of Project Mockingbird? It was the CIA’s goal to infiltrate media with “journalists” who would present events a certain way. Yeah, it would seem like a paranoid fantasy if it didn’t happen to be true.
I've always said the censorship by Facebook's army of "content moderators" was much greater and even more influential and important. Remember, Facebook has one BILLION users. That's one billion people who couldn't get potentially life-saving information.
I’d love to see that New York Times file. Just last week it ran a column by some esteemed nature and travel writer who offered the readership his psycho-babble analysis of why lab leak proponents and similarly Warren Commission findings dissidents were of the same tendency to be conspiracy theorists. And that’s the new ploy — don’t argue facts, provide bar stool “psychology.” On the upside for me is the vindication of my oft-stated view that these positions and the opposition they engender are absolutely analogous.
Ask those people at the “former newspaper” as Andrew Klavan puts it, how that whole magic bullet theory works. The label conspiracy theorist is a convenient slur that really means “independent thinker”.
Nope, Facebook willingly colluded with the government to control speech. Facebook is just trying to wiggle out of it now that they were caught. “ the devil made me do it!”
They didn't just do what they were told, they were eager to do it. That's clear from the emails that have been released. There was not ONE important Facebook employee who was brave enough to push back hard against what was happening.
Ok. We know what they did. We know they violated the constitution to do it. We know all this...
How about some “Why?” In detail. Why did they lock us down? It wasn’t for our health. All pandemic plans were jettisoned as soon as this showed up. Why the vax mandates when everyone with working brain cells knows it takes years to test new ones.
Need some docs, emails, recordings... on why this was done. And “to get Trump” isn’t enough; they’ve got him and it’s still ongoing.
But I’m going to let you in on a secret, here. We’re not dealing with a climate crisis any more than we were dealing with a covid crisis: what we’re actually dealing with is a CONTROL crisis. Specifically, there are people out there who really, REALLY want to control you. There’s a depressing amount of people whose jobs DEPEND on controlling you. And they’re not interested in the reasons you don’t want to be controlled.
The last couple years, you saw these people as ‘public health’ officials, computer modelers from ‘non-profit’ organizations, politicians, and anybody who got rich on the covid free cash giveaway (which continues to this day). They declared you were non-essential and said that it was illegal for you to go to work. They said your business was non-essential and ran you into the ground without a care.
They kept you from visiting your dying relatives in the hospital ‘for safety’ and shoved vaccine propaganda at you 24/7. When that wasn’t enough, they told you to get the jab or get fired. They did all this while calling you selfish if you didn’t agree with what they wanted.
And these are the same exact class of people who are telling you what must be done to combat the climate crisis. And they care exactly as much about your desires as they did during covid. You will be told how much energy you can consume. You will be told where you can travel. (Spoiler alert: nowhere) You will own nothing. You will eat the bugs.
Ithink it came as a total surprise that trump won the election in 16. It is now visible what the dems were intended to do, but trumps presidency put a poke in the wheel. the powers that should not be tried to influence trump too, at first he held strong but then they won him over and he supported the jabs. Either they had a strong handle on him too or he is way less smart then people pretend he is. I think maybe both, since he is still bragging about the jabs.
-unfortunately, Trump is clueless as to why he should stop bragging about the shots.
-They definitely were surprised he won. The Republicans do not like to put up Presidential candidates that they think will win. Namely: Trump, Mitt and McCain. Unfortunately, they seemed to have no intention of any of them winning and will probably do the same thing again in 2024. It was an absolute shock that Trump won and they did not intend for him to win just like the others. I don't know why but it's hard to argue with who they put up and how they run their campaigns. It's literally a group of people who seemingly do not want their candidate voted in.
-I blame Trump first for the Covid debacle and Biden for the second wave of nonsense. Trump was bad but Biden was 50 times worse.
amen to that. i thought it could not get much worse but it sure did. to a point that i no longer want to travel abroad, with all that is going on in the world, and God knows what that dement man does tomorrow
Could be. But these bastards will not stop destroying America, liberty? Prosperity, our childrens’ futures on their own. They must BE stopped. Sooner than later.
So what? Well, the normalcy bias under which the overwhelming majority of American voters labor would cause direct action to fail. Unless preceded by the info needed. And if that info is presented, we may not have to resort to more personal means to stop these enemies.
What more information/documentation does the public need? It's out there. The info IS BEING presented! Every day. How much more information do you really need?
Until the regular voter - not political ppl like us - see it, hear it, read it every day they won’t believe it. And until they believe it, there’s a problem.
How many times do we need to answer this question?
Read your frickin' Bible, [Alexander Scipio]. We are headed like a freight train into one-world government. Stop asking WHY and start seeing HOW. And do everything you can to slow this train down.
I think it was a combination of political brinkmanship and mass psychosis.
Politicians made extreme covid "doing something" policies a wedge issue between themselves and the dirty MAGA science deniers who want to kill grandma. The Left has been using this type of formulation for decades, it's just that frauds like climate change and social security's finances take years, if not decades, to blow up in their faces. This was far more acute. Nobody ever admits mistakes or takes corrective action in politics, so once a bad idea gets started in government, it's more apt to snowball than be stopped.
Why did ordinary (mostly) Democrat voters support all of it? In my experience talking to them, lot of it was to distinguish themselves from MAGA denier deplorables, again, something they've been doing for years. Add to that, in the case of covid, that a good number of them well and truly went mad.
The Left in this country is completely out of control.
It isn't a matter of policy differences anymore.
They are lying psychopaths who violated our most fundamental human rights, likely killing thousands if not hundreds of thousands in the process....all the while with a smug sense of their own supposed moral superiority.
I don't know how we move forward as a country unless and until people go to prison or hang for these crimes.
When are these people going to be brought to justice!!! Anyone else would be in jail..is this a nightmare we are living in? Do they really think we are that stupid? What a disgrace to the USA!
ZERO accountability is the #1 existential crisis for certain. Nothing changes until IT does. All the same players in all the same positions and the taxpayer funding ALL of it, and paying for it not only in the monetary sense, but with their lives when in comes to the crimes against humanity injections of the great plandemic 2020
On the surface this seems shocking, but we all knew this was going on . This administration is Godless on so many levels. A new level of hell needs to be reserved for these people. Sadly, many millions will still vote for them.
Voting is only irrelevant if the citizenry is not paying attn to how they COUNT the votes. Many people are trying to show you that - have you not seen their efforts, lectures, and legal challenges? Without people voting legally, there would be nothing in evidence to prove their was massive fraud.
VOTE. VOTE. VOTE.
Same day. No harvesting. No early voting - it only helps the opposition know how much they need to cheat if you vote early.
I admire everyone’s optimism - I don’t share it - between the ballot harvesting, the ballot box stuffing and other fraud the five or six pivotal states will go for Biden (or Harris - or Newsom) whatever way it has to go to make sure that the current power structure stays in place - they have just what they want.
BINGO! Even at a local level, many elections are a farce, especially in Commifornia. But, if anything, the sea change should begin VERY locally. Every community is different.
Pay attention to HOW they are cheating - then you will know that the ONLY WAY you can true the vote and PROVE they are cheating - is by voting. Not by abstaining from voting.
Well Renee, how about this — you and everyone else who believes like you might want want to cast your pointless primary ballot for Kennedy. And stick it to the fraudsters. I would be hard pressed to imagine the DNC stuffing a ballot box for Bobby to defeat a Republican. Just a thought to ponder.
I’d love to, but there aren’t enough FIGHTERS. We’re in an information war. When enough people wake up, it may be too late. We’re approaching that point now.
Alex, does it seem to you like the WH has figured out there is no recourse to them burning the Constitution. Almost like they knew that they couldn’t get fired. Like the fix was in. Like they could just...Rig the next election. Wonder what made them think that?
Matt This is why I’m a little afraid of Trump. I wonder if he’s going to have his hands full with Vivek. He’s the “wild card” IMO this year for the Republicans, and Kennedy for the Dems?
Well - whether intended or not, the vaccine side effects are killing people by the tens of thousands and the government walled off proactive treatments which also killed people by the tens of thousands - other that they they have nothing to hide.
In today’s paper This Day in History, July 28th, 2020:
“President Donald Trump issued a stout defense of the disproved use of a malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, hours after social media companies took down videos shared by Trump, his son and others promoting its use.”
Alex, I appreciate your reporting on COVID all told, to include the vaccines, but at some point, you have to see the bigger picture and not the brush strokes. We are entering a phase in our country in which the left's controlling narrative is more important than the truth. There are plenty of leftist useful idiots, many with advanced degrees, who will believe whatever they are told to believe. Don't wear a mask, wear a mask, take a vaccine, it's safe and effective, oh wait, take another one, another one, and another one. This is the hottest summer in the history of our planet. Check the weather before you go outside or you'll die. President Trump is a threat to democracy, but President Biden is amazing.
It’s important to realize that coercion isn’t the only method the government uses to censor free speech. It also uses *incentives* - both direct and implied. But these are also unconstitutional, because the government is not permitted to suppress free speech by any method.
Trusted News Initiative... I wish we had some lawyers that could class action first amendment violations on behalf of the American people. What the hell happened to us? A Republic if you can keep it.... Shout out to John Adams for the bill of rights!!
A gentle addition here - We can probably credit James Mason (who refused to sign the Constitution without a Bill of Rights) with being the loudest voice to have one included. But it was James Madison (a Federalist originally opposed to the addition) who, once he saw the Constitution wasn’t going to be ratified without it, gathered together and presented the best of the various states’ bills of rights and strongly argued for it. He was successful.
If Elon wanted full disclosure, he would have simply put ALL of the twitter files out in the public arena for anyone and everyone to go through them. There would not have been picking and choosing of individuals who would then pick and choose what to share, and what not to share, with the world. We know our fellow world citizens would have gone through every file with a fine-tooth comb 24/7. Why didn't Elon do that? I think he still wants to hide and censure stuff. If he truly wants openness and transparency, then put it all out there and let the chips fall where they may.
I tend to think he chose Trusted Journalists and I agree with his choices. Remember our MSM would have ignored or cherry picked which ones to spin. Would have been a dumpster fire.
How many times did I say in comment sections like this one that the REAL story of the Twitter Files wasn't the Twitter Files themselves, but the fact that there's ALSO a Facebook Files, a Google Files, an MSNBC Files, a New York Times Files, etc etc etc.
We are literally paying for our own censorship -- and the left denied it was happening until they couldn't pretend any longer, so now they say OF COURSE government needs to be able to censor you! (They don't seem to remember they just got done playacting as THE RESISTANCE for four years and think they'll ALWAYS be on the government's side.)
And the censorship continues with the failure of the legacy media to report what Rep. Jim Jordan disclosed yesterday.
To be honest, my reaction to Jordan's disclosure was, "Yep. We knew all this about Facebook et al."
And STILL there's no groundswell of outrage.
Is ANYONE paying attention???
Only the people Screaming on Substack, it seems.........
At least I have some comfort that I'm not alone HERE.
Isn’t that the most discouraging part? That we have friends and relatives that are being willfully ignorant on all of this. I know these analogs to Nazi Germany are always a problem. But how is this different than Europe looking the other way as Jewish neighbors were accosted and taken away. Stripped of their possessions and families. We have the same sort of slow rolling undoing of our culture now.
That’s my exact sentiment after I read anything from Berenson or other thinking, honest Substack contributors. WHY ISN’T THIS GETTING ANY ATTENTION? I’m so dismayed about the ignorance or indifference or narrow-mindedness of the population, in general. Competing thoughts, controversial topics, multifaceted issues are not entertained or discussed. But they can talk about the Barbie movie ad nauseam.
Normalcy bias. Needs to become shoot-the-bastards- bias.
Exactly
At some point you would think, the legacy enablers would get a BACK BONE, and report the truth! That's what it will take. How much longer will they keep up the masquerade against the truth and willfull participation in this?
I'm not sure about this bunch. I wonder if it'll take another generation. In 20 years someone will do a deep dive into this episode in American history. In any case, I hope I'm around to see it. (Perhaps my grandson will read it to me.)
Have you ever heard of Project Mockingbird? It was the CIA’s goal to infiltrate media with “journalists” who would present events a certain way. Yeah, it would seem like a paranoid fantasy if it didn’t happen to be true.
and they all paid to get this administration elected... i'm sure they knew what they were getting.
I've always said the censorship by Facebook's army of "content moderators" was much greater and even more influential and important. Remember, Facebook has one BILLION users. That's one billion people who couldn't get potentially life-saving information.
I’d love to see that New York Times file. Just last week it ran a column by some esteemed nature and travel writer who offered the readership his psycho-babble analysis of why lab leak proponents and similarly Warren Commission findings dissidents were of the same tendency to be conspiracy theorists. And that’s the new ploy — don’t argue facts, provide bar stool “psychology.” On the upside for me is the vindication of my oft-stated view that these positions and the opposition they engender are absolutely analogous.
Ask those people at the “former newspaper” as Andrew Klavan puts it, how that whole magic bullet theory works. The label conspiracy theorist is a convenient slur that really means “independent thinker”.
Nope, Facebook willingly colluded with the government to control speech. Facebook is just trying to wiggle out of it now that they were caught. “ the devil made me do it!”
They didn't just do what they were told, they were eager to do it. That's clear from the emails that have been released. There was not ONE important Facebook employee who was brave enough to push back hard against what was happening.
Although — Plot Twist ! — Who knows, maybe Facebook is now being used to throw Biden under the bus with these “revelations”…
Ok. We know what they did. We know they violated the constitution to do it. We know all this...
How about some “Why?” In detail. Why did they lock us down? It wasn’t for our health. All pandemic plans were jettisoned as soon as this showed up. Why the vax mandates when everyone with working brain cells knows it takes years to test new ones.
Need some docs, emails, recordings... on why this was done. And “to get Trump” isn’t enough; they’ve got him and it’s still ongoing.
It's one aspect of the control crisis.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/were-not-gonna-take-it
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/countering-the-control-crisis
But I’m going to let you in on a secret, here. We’re not dealing with a climate crisis any more than we were dealing with a covid crisis: what we’re actually dealing with is a CONTROL crisis. Specifically, there are people out there who really, REALLY want to control you. There’s a depressing amount of people whose jobs DEPEND on controlling you. And they’re not interested in the reasons you don’t want to be controlled.
The last couple years, you saw these people as ‘public health’ officials, computer modelers from ‘non-profit’ organizations, politicians, and anybody who got rich on the covid free cash giveaway (which continues to this day). They declared you were non-essential and said that it was illegal for you to go to work. They said your business was non-essential and ran you into the ground without a care.
They kept you from visiting your dying relatives in the hospital ‘for safety’ and shoved vaccine propaganda at you 24/7. When that wasn’t enough, they told you to get the jab or get fired. They did all this while calling you selfish if you didn’t agree with what they wanted.
And these are the same exact class of people who are telling you what must be done to combat the climate crisis. And they care exactly as much about your desires as they did during covid. You will be told how much energy you can consume. You will be told where you can travel. (Spoiler alert: nowhere) You will own nothing. You will eat the bugs.
And it won’t stop unless we stop it.
Very good!
Imho it all happened to lay the foundation for what’s coming (or at least what the world elites *think* is coming).
Ithink it came as a total surprise that trump won the election in 16. It is now visible what the dems were intended to do, but trumps presidency put a poke in the wheel. the powers that should not be tried to influence trump too, at first he held strong but then they won him over and he supported the jabs. Either they had a strong handle on him too or he is way less smart then people pretend he is. I think maybe both, since he is still bragging about the jabs.
-unfortunately, Trump is clueless as to why he should stop bragging about the shots.
-They definitely were surprised he won. The Republicans do not like to put up Presidential candidates that they think will win. Namely: Trump, Mitt and McCain. Unfortunately, they seemed to have no intention of any of them winning and will probably do the same thing again in 2024. It was an absolute shock that Trump won and they did not intend for him to win just like the others. I don't know why but it's hard to argue with who they put up and how they run their campaigns. It's literally a group of people who seemingly do not want their candidate voted in.
-I blame Trump first for the Covid debacle and Biden for the second wave of nonsense. Trump was bad but Biden was 50 times worse.
amen to that. i thought it could not get much worse but it sure did. to a point that i no longer want to travel abroad, with all that is going on in the world, and God knows what that dement man does tomorrow
Could be. But these bastards will not stop destroying America, liberty? Prosperity, our childrens’ futures on their own. They must BE stopped. Sooner than later.
Power and KONTROL
Yeah. I get that that’s our anecdotal response. Mine, too. But I’ll bet there are docs to be unearthed supporting that.
So what? There are docs supporting this (power and control) - so what?
Do everything you can to stop this freight train.
So what? Well, the normalcy bias under which the overwhelming majority of American voters labor would cause direct action to fail. Unless preceded by the info needed. And if that info is presented, we may not have to resort to more personal means to stop these enemies.
What more information/documentation does the public need? It's out there. The info IS BEING presented! Every day. How much more information do you really need?
Until the regular voter - not political ppl like us - see it, hear it, read it every day they won’t believe it. And until they believe it, there’s a problem.
I think if there were poll asking “would you support ‘noble lies’ if it maintained national stability”? I shocking % of people would say yes.
Thank you (to working rich).
Power and control. Power and control.
How many times do we need to answer this question?
Read your frickin' Bible, [Alexander Scipio]. We are headed like a freight train into one-world government. Stop asking WHY and start seeing HOW. And do everything you can to slow this train down.
I think it was a combination of political brinkmanship and mass psychosis.
Politicians made extreme covid "doing something" policies a wedge issue between themselves and the dirty MAGA science deniers who want to kill grandma. The Left has been using this type of formulation for decades, it's just that frauds like climate change and social security's finances take years, if not decades, to blow up in their faces. This was far more acute. Nobody ever admits mistakes or takes corrective action in politics, so once a bad idea gets started in government, it's more apt to snowball than be stopped.
Why did ordinary (mostly) Democrat voters support all of it? In my experience talking to them, lot of it was to distinguish themselves from MAGA denier deplorables, again, something they've been doing for years. Add to that, in the case of covid, that a good number of them well and truly went mad.
The Left in this country is completely out of control.
It isn't a matter of policy differences anymore.
They are lying psychopaths who violated our most fundamental human rights, likely killing thousands if not hundreds of thousands in the process....all the while with a smug sense of their own supposed moral superiority.
I don't know how we move forward as a country unless and until people go to prison or hang for these crimes.
They are completely *IN* control, and that’s the problem. They must be dealt with so that they cannot rise again
When are these people going to be brought to justice!!! Anyone else would be in jail..is this a nightmare we are living in? Do they really think we are that stupid? What a disgrace to the USA!
ZERO accountability is the #1 existential crisis for certain. Nothing changes until IT does. All the same players in all the same positions and the taxpayer funding ALL of it, and paying for it not only in the monetary sense, but with their lives when in comes to the crimes against humanity injections of the great plandemic 2020
They won’t bring themselves to justice. So guess what?
On the surface this seems shocking, but we all knew this was going on . This administration is Godless on so many levels. A new level of hell needs to be reserved for these people. Sadly, many millions will still vote for them.
Not one person in the USA should be voting now. It’s pointless.
WRONG!
Vote like your country depends on your vote. Because it does.
Voting has been made irrelevant at the national level.
Voting is only irrelevant if the citizenry is not paying attn to how they COUNT the votes. Many people are trying to show you that - have you not seen their efforts, lectures, and legal challenges? Without people voting legally, there would be nothing in evidence to prove their was massive fraud.
VOTE. VOTE. VOTE.
Same day. No harvesting. No early voting - it only helps the opposition know how much they need to cheat if you vote early.
Why you need to vote and how they are cheating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtJ0-YHxQGw
I admire everyone’s optimism - I don’t share it - between the ballot harvesting, the ballot box stuffing and other fraud the five or six pivotal states will go for Biden (or Harris - or Newsom) whatever way it has to go to make sure that the current power structure stays in place - they have just what they want.
BINGO! Even at a local level, many elections are a farce, especially in Commifornia. But, if anything, the sea change should begin VERY locally. Every community is different.
How long have you been asleep?
Pay attention to HOW they are cheating - then you will know that the ONLY WAY you can true the vote and PROVE they are cheating - is by voting. Not by abstaining from voting.
Yeah…I get it. I used to be just like you. After waking up, I now KNOW it’s ALL set up.
Trust in anything except God is pure folly.
Renee -- If you can seriously ask me how long have I been asleep and tell people NOT to vote, then take a listen to this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtJ0-YHxQGw
If you still feel the same way, then I will bet you are sitting on your hands.
Well Renee, how about this — you and everyone else who believes like you might want want to cast your pointless primary ballot for Kennedy. And stick it to the fraudsters. I would be hard pressed to imagine the DNC stuffing a ballot box for Bobby to defeat a Republican. Just a thought to ponder.
LOL! After 59 years, I’m done. I realize how utterly pointless our system is.
The sheep that think they make a difference is laughable. 😉
Maybe you are absolutely right, but I chose to do the Right Pointless Thing just to make the baddies work for it😉
Gotcha!😉
I don’t recognize this country....
I say the same about Canada.
You shouldn’t recognize it. It’s not your country anymore.
Well , let’s take it back:)
I’d love to, but there aren’t enough FIGHTERS. We’re in an information war. When enough people wake up, it may be too late. We’re approaching that point now.
Alex, does it seem to you like the WH has figured out there is no recourse to them burning the Constitution. Almost like they knew that they couldn’t get fired. Like the fix was in. Like they could just...Rig the next election. Wonder what made them think that?
I believe they think the 2024 election is done. Joe Biden can hide in his basement and not campaign. That tells you all you need to know.
This
Great question. I always thought Ronna McDaniel was a pos. She should have had some idea?
Oh she’s Uniparty all right!
Trump supported her again when he had Harmeet Dillon waiting in the wings. I hope he’s right and I’m all wrong about her.
you're not wrong. It's another bad Trump choice. Just like Wray at FBI.
Matt This is why I’m a little afraid of Trump. I wonder if he’s going to have his hands full with Vivek. He’s the “wild card” IMO this year for the Republicans, and Kennedy for the Dems?
Well - whether intended or not, the vaccine side effects are killing people by the tens of thousands and the government walled off proactive treatments which also killed people by the tens of thousands - other that they they have nothing to hide.
In today’s paper This Day in History, July 28th, 2020:
“President Donald Trump issued a stout defense of the disproved use of a malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, hours after social media companies took down videos shared by Trump, his son and others promoting its use.”
Alex, I appreciate your reporting on COVID all told, to include the vaccines, but at some point, you have to see the bigger picture and not the brush strokes. We are entering a phase in our country in which the left's controlling narrative is more important than the truth. There are plenty of leftist useful idiots, many with advanced degrees, who will believe whatever they are told to believe. Don't wear a mask, wear a mask, take a vaccine, it's safe and effective, oh wait, take another one, another one, and another one. This is the hottest summer in the history of our planet. Check the weather before you go outside or you'll die. President Trump is a threat to democracy, but President Biden is amazing.
Hi Alex,
It’s important to realize that coercion isn’t the only method the government uses to censor free speech. It also uses *incentives* - both direct and implied. But these are also unconstitutional, because the government is not permitted to suppress free speech by any method.
And will it be called the X'd Files?
Trusted News Initiative... I wish we had some lawyers that could class action first amendment violations on behalf of the American people. What the hell happened to us? A Republic if you can keep it.... Shout out to John Adams for the bill of rights!!
A gentle addition here - We can probably credit James Mason (who refused to sign the Constitution without a Bill of Rights) with being the loudest voice to have one included. But it was James Madison (a Federalist originally opposed to the addition) who, once he saw the Constitution wasn’t going to be ratified without it, gathered together and presented the best of the various states’ bills of rights and strongly argued for it. He was successful.
Hats off James Madison!! 🎩
You are so kind, Stunned! Sometimes former history teachers just can’t help themselves. I would have Loved having you in my class!!!
Alex, when I read "Andy Slavitt," I thought of you and your lawsuit.
Keep plugging away. Keep up the good fight.
Just when will the average Dem voter WAKE up?
They’re awake. They like what’s going on. It’s a mistake to measure them with the adult metrics of a free people. In their minds, they are succeeding.
Good point! It is what it is
If Elon wanted full disclosure, he would have simply put ALL of the twitter files out in the public arena for anyone and everyone to go through them. There would not have been picking and choosing of individuals who would then pick and choose what to share, and what not to share, with the world. We know our fellow world citizens would have gone through every file with a fine-tooth comb 24/7. Why didn't Elon do that? I think he still wants to hide and censure stuff. If he truly wants openness and transparency, then put it all out there and let the chips fall where they may.
I tend to think he chose Trusted Journalists and I agree with his choices. Remember our MSM would have ignored or cherry picked which ones to spin. Would have been a dumpster fire.