President Joe Biden, whose growing unpopularity is well-deserved, continued to carry on last week what has become a Democratic tradition: He asked the private sector to become partners in censorship with the federal government.
"I make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets, please deal with disinformation and misinformation that's on your shows," he said during a virtual meeting from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
Of course, Big Tech and the legacy media have been happy to oblige.
"When the leader of the majority party in Washington, D.C., issues a demand, the largest corporations listen," journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted in response to Biden's "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?" proposition.
A few months later, the Biden administration "Announced that government officials are working directly with Facebook to limit the spread of 'misinformation.'" White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted that "We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook."
When social media and the press are censoring at the behest of the government, when they become agents of the state, the threat to the First Amendment is real.
Tyrants have always feared and suppressed speech, and the Democratic Party is lousy with authoritarians who want not to govern but to rule as a single party.
https://issuesinsights.com/2022/01/18/the-murdering-of-free-speech-in-america/
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