[ZeroHedge] Notorious nemesis of civil liberties one and all, Barack Obama, is apparently — and unsurprisingly — on the same page as our current Attorney General Pam Bondi, at least in the narrow sense that he also endorses a heavy state hand in the “regulation” of information.
“Part of what we’re going to have to do is to start experimenting with new forms of journalism and how we use social media in ways that reaffirm facts and separate facts from opinion. We want diversity of opinion. We don’t want diversity of facts. That, I think, is one of the big tasks of social media. By the way, it will require some government, I believe, some government, um, regulatory constraints around some of these business models in a way that’s consistent with the First Amendment but that also says, look, uh, there is a difference between, uh, these platforms letting all voices be heard versus a business model that elevates the most hateful voices or the most polarizing voices or the most, uh, dangerous, in the sense of inciting violence, voices.”
It’s always remarkable to watch enemies of free speech slip, without fail, perfunctory nods to the First Amendment into the middle of their anti-First Amendment tirades, as if that meaningless caveat negates the entire rest of the speech.
Among his many, many transgressions against the Constitution and basic decency while he occupied the White House, Barack Obama signed the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 that officially allowed CIA regime media outlets like Voice of America to deluge the American public with its propaganda. (In reality, of course, via Operation Mockingbird and similar programs, the CIA had been quietly propagandizing Americans for decades since its inception, but Obama made it legal.)
Thomas Massie — the Second Coming of Ron Paul, as far as I’m concerned — has drafted legislation to roll back Obama’s treason.
Via Rep. Thomas Massie (emphasis added):
“Today, Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduced HR 5704, the Repeal the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2013, to protect American audiences from the domestic dissemination of federally funded propaganda by the State Department, the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), and their component networks. |