Thursday, September 26, 2024

OPINION_ The public is standing up to a conspiracy of censorship by elites

NEW YORK POST

OPINION

The public is standing up to a conspiracy of censorship by elites

By Martin Gurri Published Sep. 26, 2024, 11:22 a.m. ET



To save democracy, the elites claim, they must reduce to a minimum the public's access to information and communication. Gett Images/iStock


A global offensive has been launched to strangle digital speech. The censors aren’t Chinese Communists or Iranian theocrats but members in good standing of the progressive elite class in democratic countries.

To save democracy, the elites claim, they must reduce to a minimum the public’s access to information and communication. Because ordinary people are easily duped by the truth-telling guardians, superior to this weakness, must control and detoxify the flow of digital content.

I won’t pretend to be shocked by this surge of oppression, which merely expands the scope and intensity of a process that has been accelerating for some time.

Thanks to
Twitter Files, we know the Biden-Harris administration erected an elaborate digital censorship apparatus that silenced disfavored individuals like Donald Trump and took down millions of offending posts.

Thanks to
Mark Zuckerberg’s recent letter to Congress, we know that, starting in 2021, the Biden White House pressured him successfully “to censor certain Covid-19 content, including humor and satire” on Facebook.

To begin with, however, the trampling on the First Amendment was perpetrated surreptitiously, as if with a bad conscience, betraying at least the pretense of a sense of shame.

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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2024/09/26/opinion/the-public-is-standing-up-to-a-conspiracy-of-censorship-by-elites/

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