In a speech at Stanford University on April 21st, former President Barack Obama assailed social media companies for permitting disinformation on their platforms.
The speech, covered with expected laudatory unquestioning worship by the Washington Post and others, outlined a vision of increased governmental supervision of social media companies.
The notion of governmental oversight, i.e., monitoring and censorship, of social media companies should alarm all people regardless of political persuasion.
A government incapable of knowing a US Army skydiving team exhibition at a Washington Nationals game was not a possible attack on the US Capitol somehow having the wherewithal to correctly and without bias monitor social media sites for potentially damaging falsehoods um, yeah.
Now it's true, tech companies and social media platforms are not the only distributors of toxic information.
Those in or close to power believing that increased government oversight - or oversight period - of social media content is a preferred action plan should be chilling.
That is why sites such as RedState exist, to tell the truth and thus stand in opposition to propaganda perpetrators in MSM and government as well as those who already control the most popular social media sites.
It's becoming increasingly difficult to discern fact from fiction, and unfortunately the media has a strong bias. They spin stories to make conservatives look bad and will go to great lengths to avoid reporting on the good that comes from conservative policies. There are a few shining lights in the media landscape-brave conservative outlets that report the truth and offer a different perspective. We must support conservative outlets like this one and ensure that our voices are heard.
Friday, April 22, 2022
Obama Urges More Government Oversight of Social Media Sites
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