EU President Likens Free Speech to Infectious Disease, by John Leake

The war on speech is a war on the human mind. From John Leake at peter mcculloughmd.substack.com:

Ursula von der Leyen advocates “pre-bunking” in the public forum to “vaccinate” people against “disinformation.”

EU President Ursula von der Leyen just joined the ranks of former Senator John Kerry and other globalist ghouls in declaring war on free speech by perversely proclaiming that the EU citizenry needs to be “vaccinated against disinformation.”

Like every censor in history, she characterizes her censorship program as a means of expunging erroneous information and ideas from public discourse. By using the word “disinformation,” she implies that she and her clique are already the sole possessors of the truth about everything, and that everyone who has and shares heterodox ideas is necessarily in error.

Her entire premise is FALSE for the following reasons:

1). Knowledge about the world is constantly evolving through constant inquiry, discussion, and dissemination. Knowledge is NOT a static thing. This is why countries with stifling censorship regimes have experienced intellectual, scientific, and artistic stagnation. Their rulers try to freeze the human mind in its state at their moment in history.

2). NO state, university, or ecclesiastical committee has ever been in possession of the full truth of any matter. Official orthodoxies have always been challenged by heterodox thinkers. Indeed, virtually every major advance in human insight has been performed by heterodox thinkers.

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One response to “EU President Likens Free Speech to Infectious Disease, by John Leake”

  1. El Presidente? Who elected Medusa?

    The Polycrisis proceeds and the antichrist will be the real world problem solver loved by all?

    Love and Joy are mandatory and we’ll ring a bell when it is time to stop applauding.

    Shirkers will be sent to camps or airbrushed out of all photos.

    Breaking from Twisted Sister:

    Burn In Hell (Remaster)

    [Don’t You Fear NO Evil]

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