Guest Post by Jonathan Turley
Peter Greenberger, a former Twitter and Google executive, is calling for the social media accounts of President Donald Trump to be shutdown for the remainder of the election. For those of us who have criticized calls for censorship from Democratic leaders for years, the demand is yet another example of the slippery slope of censorship that awaits this country with increasing regulation of speech on social media.
Congressional leaders like House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff have called for labeling and removal of material with some members directly threatening a legislative crackdown. Speaker Nancy Pelosi denounced Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for resisting speech monitoring and censorship as a matter of free speech. Pelosi lashed out that those who want to preserve a free speech zone are “all about making money,” ignoring free speech advocates who have no financial interest in these companies. Joe Biden has demanded that prior Trump criticism of mail-in voting be stripped from the Internet and social media. This is an effort to enlist companies like Twitter and Facebook to regulate political speech.
And it is increasingly succeeding.
The recent move against the Hunter Biden story is an example of how these companies have been used to inhibit access to stories that are harmful to Joe Biden or beneficial to Donald Trump. Yesterday, the FBI reportedly confirmed that it has the Biden laptop and that it does not believe that the material on the laptop is Russian disinformation. Previously, the Director of National Intelligence criticized Schiff for declaring that the laptop was clearly Russian disinformation and said that Congress has received no such intelligence.
Despite the recent abusive act by Twitter, Greenberger is demanding that these companies go even further to ban all access of Trump to social media. Presumably, Greenberger would eventually ban surrogates who convey Trump’s views or comments.
CNN considered Greenberger’s proposal credible enough to give him an entire segment with Jake Tapper who observed that the suggestion is pretty “extreme.” Greenberger however did not flinch in calling for censorship of political speech:
I agree, it is, and extreme times demand extreme suggestions. I did not come to this opinion lightly. I believe that the tech companies, generally, have a responsibility to be neutral. I think in the case of Twitter specifically, it’s been a great champion of the democratization of information as well as a strong supporter of freedom of expression. However, we are in a unique, and, I believe, a fraught moment in time with a president who is desperate and he’s facing a very difficult situation. I think the time is to mute the president, temporarily, while votes are being cast right now and until the winner is decided.
It is certainly comforting to know that Greenberger is not gutting free speech “lightly.” However, the most telling statement is his reference to the “democratization of information” which appears to mean the control of the majority over the speech of the minority. It shows how democracy can be easily confused with tyranny. The difference is that this censorship is being meted out by private companies at the behest of democratic leaders.
Like every censor in history, Greenberger wraps himself in the cloak of certainty and righteousness. By declaring the President’s political views to be “misinformation,” he claims license to “turn[] off some of the key engagement features of the platform in order to slow down the cause of misinformation.”
This is all of course to protect the public from information that it should not read, according to Greenberger and the social media companies. The silence or even support of many on the left on such censorship calls is chilling. Free speech is now often portrayed as a danger to democracy as opposed to the very right guaranteed in a democratic system of governance. Greenberger is the cheerful face of censorship, thrilling a CNN audience with the idea of removing an unpopular president from social media platforms. His extremism is not nearly as unnerving as the fact that such proposals are now deemed plausible or possible.
Reprinted with permission from JonathanTurley.org.
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Tonight will set the precedent, Trump will filet Joe with corruption and pedo, and they will cut his mike. He will be banned on social media after.
Its all about the pedo, they are desperate to shut it down, its about to get out of control.
Of the 80+ Youtube channels that just went down, it was the unifying theme: elite pedo is out of control and needs to be exposed.
They have the power to deplatform the President of the United States if he ventures into unauthorized territory.
Which shuts them down about Q every time. They hammer him with Q terrorist, Q conspiracy, Q lies, and he always defers and says “I hear they are anti pedo….” and the questioning stops dead right there.
An article of Gateway Pundit proves that (the title says it all)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/outrageous-deposition-jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-madam-ghislaine-maxwell-unsealed-today-male-perpetrators-names-redacted-age-female-victims-names-not-redacted/
Hmmmm, (((Peter Greenberger)))…another tribe member.
Again.
Every.
Fucking.
Time….
Shut. Them. Down….
When Russia started taking over Eastern Europe in the 50’s the very first thing they would do is shut down the radio broadcasts. A few days later they took over the newspapers. This is a fact,
Now, since Trump is a Russian agent reporting to Putin, I don’t know why he doesn’t order 50 Abrams tanks and 20 F-18s to just turn Google and Farcebook headquarters into a fucken pile of concrete dust ….. with their respective CEOs inside, of course.
The only thing that makes sense is Oligarchs fighting for the right to be the chosen champions of the Plutocrats behind the Banking Cartel. Because this shit is too incoherent for there to be any direct central control.
small neutron nuke would be better. eliminate the scum, save the computer architecture and put it to good use.
Stucky,
Can you give me a live link to where you got the information for the virus article you wrote today? I’m setting up a 12 round boxing match with my father in law for Thanksgiving.
Another POS liberal pulling for the destruction of humankind. What a shitbag.
I no longer recognize my country. Land of the free? I think not.
Indeed, Warrior.
Land of the fee; Home of the slave.
It’s not only the prez being muted, as you all know. Errythang whitey’s fault. I’m visiting my former hometowns in the san francisco bay area (I just call it the “Gay Area” for brevity), and a white person cannot walk thru a grocery store here without physically cowering and submitting to their ethnic better. I learned to read body language a while ago- that shit doesnt lie.
If you’re a pasty, white piece of shit, you better get out of shaniqua’s way and give juanita extra room in the aisle. Don’t even THINK about making eye contact you lil’ b***chass whiteboy, keep walkin.
I love to observe the social dynamics of such diverse and “tolerant” denizens. It’s very telling. There’s a heirarchy, or a caste system being solidified organically here. Females first, blacks first, then hispanics, muslims, darker asians, lighter asians, and the untouchables: caucasians.
White people literally cringe, almost cower, and are always expected to give the right of way to a nonwhite in the store. It’s funny to me because as an aware white male in my late 20’s, I don’t give a F**K, and I get off on the uneasiness I impose on my ethnic betters, when I just act like a “normal” person like the rest in the store. It totally throws the brainwashed peasants off, and messes with the energy. Conversations get derailed, glares are cast, and people get upset (like omfg you had to move your cart an extra 4 inches, shoot me already. Find some real problems to stress about, potna).
Microaggressions can spit my ass, most nonwhites’ entire existence, and everything they do- THEY ARE LITERALLY a walking talking microaggression. If my grandma don’t like something you do, I probably consider it “microaggressive”, therefore the preceding sentence is a fact and the “microaggressions” whites commit pale in comparison and arent even worth mentioning!
I hope things go hot, i want people to have real problems to complain about.
So yeah broski, everyone hates whitey. It’s the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen. An entire society of dumbshits. It’s really quite something to behold. But like i whisper to the white chocolate bars, “All the other chocolates secretly want to be just like you.”
It’s obvious- virtually every nonwhite guy finds pretty white girls the MOST beautiful. So they secretly hate themselves? They all aspire to be like white society. They appropriated white america’s culture and call it theirs now. I don’t see motherfuckers dying to obtain the latest mud hut, or bow and arrow as a fashion statement. Nosireebob, these lame, poop-for-brains-poop-for-skin denizens think that if they act like whitey, they are modern and american, despite how truly backward they are in too many ways.
And whitey aint shit, git yo reparayshunz foo. We rakin the fk up on whitey bitchass lolol. I cannot believe that liberal whites believe this is close to the pinnacle of progress. This. Shit. Is it??? You gotta be brainwashed holy moley.
Well it was fun for a while.
Call me: “Untouchable”.
Reading your post leaves me…stunned…I cannot imagine living like that. I would probably end up in prison…for assault or even killing someone(s).
Best I keep my semi reclusive, rural, open carry lifestyle…for the greater good…
Interesting comment. Post more and stop being anonymous. Call yourself Untouchable or whatever. Did you happen to see the video of the black woman on the flight where she stood up and lectured everyone else on the flight? Wouldn’t move out of the way so people could get to the bathroom. Called herself Queen something or other. I can’t remember which airline it was but people just sat there and took it.
By the way, the DHS is warning that “white supremacists” are planning some kind of nine one one type incident, possibly bioterror? I keep saying I smell a FF in the near future.
Lock HIM up!
Go ‘way. Your bullshit is wearying. Git, fucktard.
Mormontard cretin.
And here we have one jew talking to another jew on TalmudVision about how to subjugate the goyim, while counting on the goyim to be too fucking ignorant and stupid to figure it out.
You want to understand why some jews are attacking Trump and others apparently giving him orders?
It is because the ones who hate Trump don’t hate Trump. What they are aware of is that Trump is the chosen leader of a nascent but coalescing White identity that threatens to ruin the plans of the whole Tribe.
Those jews think that bringing Trump down will demoralize and quell any emerging White Nationalism giving them enough time to eliminate the White Christian threat to their vision of bringing about the anti-Christ.
When you understand Jews to be a Nation, rather than a religion or racial diaspora, then it makes much more sense.
Just one question for Admin Why do you have tweeter and facebook avatars and not Parler or MeWe? Just asking
Because I’m not technically proficient or have the time to do so.
Thanks… I’m like you not technically proficient although on occasion I do repost a page or two.