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The U.S. has its own version of The Guardian, actually quite a few!  :)

 

But leading the pack are The Washington Post and the New York Times.

 

The New York Post

Washington throws a pity party for federal censors finally being investigated

 

"Washington Post readers were invited Tuesday to a 1,700-word pity party for federal censorship contractors.

Federal agencies have launched crusades in recent years to suppress “disinformation” on the Internet.

They mostly rely on “censorship by surrogate” because the First Amendment’s freedom-of-speech provision makes it legally dicey to directly muzzle Americans".

 

"And fearing legal trouble from the feds if they didn’t cooperate, social-media companies kowtowed to the surrogates.

 

"During the 2020 election season, contractors composing the Election Integrity Project filed endless objections to Americans’ online posts with social-media firms.

 

"The project spurred crackdowns that affected “millions of individual Facebook posts, YouTube videos, TikToks, and tweets” thanks to “huge regulatory pressure from government,” according to former State Department official Mike Benz.

 

 

The WaPo lauded contractors for targeting “conspiracy theories about coronavirus vaccines.” But perhaps millions of tweets and other posts were suppressed for “disinformation” for claiming vaccines fail to prevent COVID transmission — a supposedly heinous lie that turned out to be true after the federal coverup collapsed.

 

"The paper wailed about critics uncorking a “deluge of bad information about disinformation researchers.”

One professor lamented that “there’s a lot of bad actors who are using freedom of information requests to harass academics working at public universities.”

 

"But there is no “Doing God’s work” exemption for the Freedom of Information Act.

 

"Federal agencies have stonewalled FOIA requests, but the Twitter Files, lawsuits and targeting federal grant recipients have begun to expose the sordid machinations.

 

"But the paper has almost completely ignored recent revelations the State Department pressured Twitter to suspend more than 300,000 accounts (often on ludicrous pretexts) and the Biden White House pressured Facebook to suppress any posts critical of COVID vaccines.

 

"And what about the FBI’s strong-arm tactics to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election?"

 

https://nypost.com/2023/06/07/washington-throws-a-pity-party-for-federal-censors-finally-being-investigated/

 

Gotta love 'em!  :)

 

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34 minutes ago, trastrick said:

The U.S. has its own version of The Guardian, actually quite a few!  :)

 

But leading the pack are The Washington Post and the New York Times.

 

Snipped: A load of off topic wiffle and waffle.

 

Wrong thread.

 

Start your own.

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24 minutes ago, Prettytom said:

Wrong thread.

 

Start your own.

For god's sake don't encourage him.  It's nice to have most of the whiny snowflake cut n paste in just the one place.

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46 minutes ago, Prettytom said:

Wrong thread.

 

Start your own.

No!

 

If YOU wanna be moderator YOU start yer own Blog.  :)

 

19 minutes ago, Hecate said:

For god's sake don't encourage him.  It's nice to have most of the whiny snowflake cut n paste in just the one place.

May your god be with you, dearie!  :)

 

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Just now, Prettytom said:

Wrong thread again.


 

The angry, apoplectic man thread is ….

 

Actually, on balance, this one will do.

Have a nice day!

 

I'm off to the beach to talk to normal happy folk! And a beautiful ice cold Presidente Lite!

 

The humidex is hitting 113, these days!

 

Manana!  :)

 

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