Re: AOC Calls For More "Media Literacy", But It Sounds A Lot Like Censorship

On 2024-09-23 2:38 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
>   Ubiquitous <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called for more "media literacy" in a
>> recent video posted to social media - but when she elaborated on the topic,
>> it sounded as though what she was really calling for was censorship.
>>
>> The congresswoman said that she had been in conversation with other members
>> about the steps they might need to take to "rein in" media in order to
>> prevent them from spreading "disinformation and misinformation."
> 
> Rein in the media? And this coming from one of the most vocal defenders
> of 'the need to protect our democracy'.
> 
> Scratch a leftist and find a hidden authoritarian.

Hidden? You don't usually have to dig very far to find their 
authoritarian streak....
> 
>> "You know, I do think that - several members of Congress in some of my
>> discussions have brought up media literacy because that is a part of what
>> happened here," she said. "And we're going to have to figure out how we rein
>> in our media environment so that you can't just spew disinformation &
>> misinformation."
>>
>> "It's one thing to have differing opinions, but it's another thing entirely
>> to just say things that are false," she added. "And so that's something that
>> we're looking into."
>>
>> Critics were quick to point out that there was no carveout for lying or
>> "disinformation" in the First Amendment, meaning that the government had
>> neither the responsibility - as Ocasio-Cortez suggested - nor the right to
>> tell the people what they could and could not say.
> 
> You think that matters to Che Ocasio? You think she cares about the 1st
> Amendment even a little bit?
> 
>> One social media user noted the roots of the term "disinformation" in the
>> Communist Soviet Union, arguing that what Ocasio-Cortez was pushing was
>> simply a means for the government to control who could speak and what they
>> could say.
>>
>> "The term 'dezinformatsiya' was coined by Josef Stalin in the 1920s as the
>> name of the section of the KGB tasked with deceiving enemies and influencing
>> public opinion. And here we have AOC telling us that '...you (the people)
>> can't just spew disinformation and misinformation. That's something WE are
>> looking into,'" the post read. "Who decides what is disinformation, AOC? Who
>> decides what is false?"
> 
> Indeed. She was part of the cabal of media, bureaucrats, and politicians
> that assured us that the Hunter Biden laptop story was a Russian hoax...
> when it turned out to be nothing of the kind.
> 
> They're the ones who leaned on all the social media companies to censor
> and punish anyone who claimed the Wuhan Flu virus came from a Chinese
> lab, when now that's the accepted truth.
> 
> And *they* want to be the ones who get to decide what we can and can't
> say, what is and is not disinformation?

Didn't they actually try to set up an agency to handle 
misinformation/disinformation early in Biden's presidency only to be 
shut down very quickly? I can't say I'm surprised to find that they are 
pushing for that again.

-- 
Rhino