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

On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 01:31:19 -0700, Ubiquitous 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.

Since the corporate monopoly media say the same thing why pick
on her? Is it worse when Oc-So says something than when
the "mainstream" media says the same thing?

In a similar vein, Oc-Co (abbrev. sounds like an oil company)
calling for "media literacy" seems like when the New York
Times and ilk called for "closing the digital divide", defined
as those who supposedly too poor to lack digital access to the
New York Times political line ("our national newspaper", and
representatives of "the American Perspective" around the world.)

>
> 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."

>
> WATCH:
>
> AOC advocates for more censorship

>
> "We're going to have to figure out how we reign in the media"

Suspicious that "reining in the media" refers only to individuals
and competitors , and, like Starmers violent UK censorship enforcement,
specifically excludes the mainstream News sources systemic propagation of
hate, libel, disinformation and misinformation.

>
> - HOT SPOT (@HotSpotHotSpot) September 22, 2024
>
> "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.

Censorship by the systemic monopolization of the corporate media
against opposition is an injustice regardless of whether of
whether their is a First Amendment or not, the concept of Freedom Of Speech
is extent in other countries too.

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> 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

An example of Soviet disinformation is the fabrication
of a Soviet organized royalist opposition in the 1920s.
Soviet Police spies posing as dissidents lured the British spy
(double-agent?) Sidney Reilly to the Soviet Union to be
arrested and executed.

Information about actual working class origin opposition
to the Soviets tended to be censored in favor of publicized
contrived "terrorist conspiracies of Royalists or capitalists",
or some such with foreign connections.

> 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. If it is Government that decides, then maybe, just
> maybe, government will use this to stop dissent, stop debate, and keep
> control. (A bit like Stalin.) In the past, when government controlled the
> media, it did not end well."
>
> 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. ...
> https://t.co/DorcmB72Df

Stripped of context, like in this article, her apparently recent
specific statements on the subject could mean anything.

>
> - RefugeOfSinners (ROS) (@RefugeOfSinner5) September 23, 2024
>
> "If they control what you're allowed to say, they control what you're allowed
> to think. Authoritarians like @AOC also think they're the only ones who can
> discern truth from falsehood," another added.
>
> If they control what you're allowed to say, they control what you're
> allowed to think.

Worse, authoritarians are Agenda Setters, if the corporate
media doesn't cover a subject, then you're not allowed to
comment on it because it is "irrelevant"!

>
> Authoritarians like @AOC also think they're the only ones who can
> discern truth from falsehood. https://t.co/Htp69n9P2M

What Oc-Co says about the subject is not necessarily
what she thinks about it. Doesn't every "reputable"
political expert say that lying for the "cause" is
meritorious:

'our opponents win by lying, therefore, lying is the
only way to win.'

Bad referencing for your article, links to sources should
be included, not obscured in the headers:

Summary: https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-calls-for-more-media-literacy-but-it-sounds-a-lot-like-censorship
Keywords: https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-calls-for-more-media-literacy-but-it-sounds-a-lot-like-censorship