The Great Reset in Action: Ending Freedom of the Press, Speech, and Expression

In recent years, alternative journalism has been growing and more people are relying on social media platforms as sources of news and information

• In response, the corporate state, digital conglomerates, and the mainstream media have been increasingly supportive of the silencing and censoring of alternative media outlets and voices that challenge the official narrative on most issues.

These recent efforts to curtail freedom of speech and press by supposedly liberal governments are ironic given that even the Roman Catholic Church, even at the canonization of a saint, admits that Francis is a “devil’s advocate."

• “The holiest of men, it appears, cannot be admitted to posthumous honors, until all that the devil could say against him is known and weighed."

The corporate state, digital conglomerates, and the mainstream media want to ensure that they have the exclusive authority to dictate people's opinions, wants, and choices through their sophisticated propaganda techniques

• They have even resorted to transforming falsehoods into truth
• This is highly concerning, because such attempts at the ********** of language, the change of meaning of the words by which the ideals" of the ruling class are expressed is a consistent feature of totalitarian regimes
• The suppression of freedom of the press, speech, expression, and thought means that current and future generations will be deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error."

If current efforts to suppress freedom of the press, speech, expression, and thought succeed, then the search for truth will eventually be abandoned and totalitarian authorities will decide what "doctrines ought to be taught and published."

• There will be no limits to who can be silenced, as the control of opinions will be extended to all people in all fields.

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