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

In article <[email protected]>,
 Rhino <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, it was called the "Disinformation Governance Board" and was headed 
up by a woman who had to resign after she created a shitstorm when she 
went full-Stasi and said she and other "verified" government bureaucrats 
should have the power to reach into Twitter and Facebook and all other 
social media platforms and edit the posts of America citizens to 
"correct disinformation" and "provide context".