Censorship is not a new form of journalism. It’s older than journalism; there’s always been asshole rulers who wanted to shut people up. From Ben Bartee at armageddonprose.substack.com:
Notorious nemesis of civil liberties one and all, Barack Obama, is apparently — and unsurprisingly — on the same page as our current Attorney General Pam Bondi, at least in the narrow sense that he also endorses a heavy state hand in the “regulation” of information.
Related: AG Pam Bondi Vows Federal Crackdown on ‘Hate Speech’
“Part of what we’re going to have to do is to start experimenting with new forms of journalism and how we use social media in ways that reaffirm facts and separate facts from opinion. We want diversity of opinion. We don’t want diversity of facts. That, I think, is one of the big tasks of social media. By the way, it will require some government, I believe, some government, um, regulatory constraints around some of these business models in a way that’s consistent with the First Amendment but that also says, look, uh, there is a difference between, uh, these platforms letting all voices be heard versus a business model that elevates the most hateful voices or the most polarizing voices or the most, uh, dangerous, in the sense of inciting violence, voices.”
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It’s always remarkable to watch enemies of free speech slip, without fail, perfunctory nods to the First Amendment into the middle of their anti-First Amendment tirades, as if that meaningless caveat negates the entire rest of the speech.
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