Psaki’s reflexive and unthinking authoritarianism reflects the stance of the Left in general these days. Leftists are determined to silence and crush all dissent and allow only their perspective to be heard in the public square. Learn more about this effort in The Sumter Gambit: How the Left Is Trying to Foment A Civil War.
“Psaki Urges MSNBC Viewers To ‘Think Of The Danger’ Posed By Free Speech,” by Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller, February 9, 2023:
“If you were running a local political campaign and you’re running ads on television, and you say something inaccurate about your opponent, guess what happens? The ad is pulled down,” Psaki said. “These platforms live by a different set of rules, and people consume more information from them than any other source of media. Think of the danger of that.”
The House Oversight Committee held a hearing Wednesday on Twitter’s censorship practices, focusing on the company’s actions towards an Oct. 14, 2020 report by the New York Post on the contents of a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden. Twitter locked multiple accounts, including the Post’s and the personal account of then-White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany for sharing the story, citing its “hacked materials” policy.
“As Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, they’re allowing hate speech, racism. Also, let’s not forget inaccurate information about vaccines and how they can save your lives. They run rampant on these platforms,” Psaki said.
During the hearing, Republican Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina described side effects from receiving a COVID-19 vaccine while questioning former Twitter executives about the censorship of alleged “misinformation” about COVID-19.
Among those who were “shadow-banned” by Twitter was Stanford University’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of health policy, who said that lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic harmed children. Dr. Andrew Bostom, a former academic at Brown University, was suspended for five months for alleged “medical misinformation.”
“What these Republicans are doing, essentially, just to break down past all of this crazy word salad of yesterday, they are defending the pushing of inaccurate, dangerous information on the platforms that most people receive information from,” Psaki continued. “That is racist, dangerous, prompted January 6th, is prompting people not to get vaccinated. That’s what they’re defending.”…
somehistory says
“you say something inaccurate about your opponent….the ad is pulled down.” ??? In what universe is she living and of which she speaks?
Personally, I have heard many, thousands probably, of ads on this or that candidate and they regularly lie about their opponents. The listener is expected to sift through it all and find out what is true and what is a lie.
gillim lied over and over about Ron DeSantis before Mr. DeSantis won the governorship back in the campaign of 2019. those ads were “not pulled.”
the liar lives in the unverse of liars and idiots.
Jack Reynolds says
Don’t under-estimate those statements indicating that the Left is trying to start a Civil War.
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Time is not on their side and THEY ARE GETTING DESPERATE.
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JORDAN PETERSON – Climate Change and EVERYTHING ELSE
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This suggestion would likely be a dumb idea, except for the fact that We The People out-number the Elites by about (pick a number) 50,000 to 1 ???
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https://rocanada.substack.com/p/jordan-peterson?sd=pf
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EXTRACT
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It has been clear for some time now to the Elites, the Governments, and other people who control things in the West, that as more and more people skip their daily brainwashing session with legacy MSM, they will lose their control over We the People. That terrifies them. Their strategy to deal with this is multi-pronged and includes:
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• Climate change policies, eliminating the use of fossil fuels and fertilizers,
• COVID-19 – lockdowns, masks, social distancing,
• Divide and Conquer. This is the oldest and perhaps the most effective government technique. It only requires that divisions be created in the population, so the people are focused on what others are doing, and pay little attention to what the government is up to.
• Quantitative easing, (aka printing more money), and deliberately creating Inflation,
• Censorship, largely enforced by governments using LAWFARE,
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The one common factor obvious in each the above is CONTROL.
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jule says
Does America know there are logical down to earth RULES on speech and it is not just anything that pops into the mind and spits out the mouth. Those are the ones we have to follow for free speech and they are not against ideas. No Threats, no call for violence, (which Isla does everyday) no slander or libel, false accusations, copyrights,etc ……these things should not have to go to court only for the elite with money but protect all of us. We need a center and not like the left wanting only what they want NOR the right wanting anarchy of speech into insanity.
Wellington says
The Left pushed for years the completely phony Russian collusion hoax by the 2016 Trump campaign. It was based on the made-up Steele Dossier paid for by the Clinton campaign and Psaki wants to preach to us about inaccuracy and misinformation? What a hypocrite. But then the Left is steeped in hypocrisy as it is in projection.
Leftism, like Islam, is an enemy of liberty. Thus, what Psaki said is very much in keeping with just how extensively the Left abhors the First Amendment, ditto for many other Constitutional Amendments, especially the Second, Ninth and Tenth, dealing respectively with gun rights, rights held by the people and rights held by the States.
The modern Western Left is the newest version of Orwell’s Big Brother. Boy is it ever.
Hoi Polloi says
“you say something inaccurate about your opponent…..Think of the danger of that.”
Oh, we definitely did. Every time you lied like a dog from that podium.
Walter Sieruk says
Jen Psaki ,for the most part , has a history of giving false information.,so it’s rather important to consider the source when she talks.
By contrast, someone who should be taken seriously is George Washington , who had declared
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
dazzleme says
+1
somehistory says
Pamella Geller has a recent report on the supression of this Freedom to speak…to report on the Truth.
“‘WE NUKED A TOWN”: Media Blackout On “Catastrophic” Environmental Disaster in Ohio Caused By Large Controlled Explosion, Journalists Covering It Arrested”
https://gellerreport.com/2023/02/we-nuked-a-town-media-blackout-on-catastrophic-environmental-disaster-in-ohio-caused-by-large-controlled-explosion-journalists-covering-it-arrested.html/
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/we-nuked-a-town-media-blackout-on-catastrophic-environmental-disaster-in-ohio-caused-by-large-controlled-explosion-journalists-covering-it-arrested/
Hoi Polloi says
Revolver News also thought it newsworthy, before the msm was forced to acknowledge this. There were reports of 2 subsequent derailments, one in Enoree, SC. Should be of interest to, as Thomas Massie deemed them, Coincidence Theorists. But not of interest to Pete Buttigieg, who only wanted to address the issue of too many white men working in construction jobs.
somehistory says
Someone on the twit thread said there was one in Houston. I don’t believe in coincidences
I haven’t seen any reports of these on the “news,” but only on those sites where the Truth is of value.
Hoi Polloi says
Yes, just found it; east of Houston, toxic substances but no spillage. I’d seen it on zerohedge. Funny how you have to have pre-existing knowledge and persistence to get info.
Massie’s shot at the constant shrieks of Conspiracy Theory!!!! from leftists is one I hope sticks.
somehistory says
Hoi Polloi,
“Funny how you have to have pre-existing knowledge and persistence to get info.”
Yes! You must know something in order to find out about it.
That way, if we don’t know about it, we won’t find out about it, and that’s the way they like it.
Thankfully, there are “people on the ground” who value the Truth and aren’t afraid to say something to others who can get the word out to a wider audience.
This is the *reason* they want to shut down anyone who has a site….such as this one…wlling to tell it like it really is.
Hoi Polloi says
+1
somehistory says
Jesse Watters on the coverup. FOX news
“Jesse Watters on Ohio chemical catastrophe: We declared a national emergency over monkeypox, but not this?”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/jesse-watters-on-ohio-chemical-catastrophe-we-declared-a-national-emergency-over-monkeypox-but-not-this/ar-AA17uAn6?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=03b57e4be61e40edb14946179b482e95
somehistory says
Tucker Carlson reported 1000 trains derailed last year, and 40 in Washington State were due to sabatoge. But biden and crew are not worried and the media doesn’t report.
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2023/02/biden-regimes-silence-on-disastrous-train-derailment-in-ohio-exposed-could-this-be-why-tucker/?utm_source=
࿗Infidel࿘ says
There is but one solution I can think of – to this. Round up all the Dems who support a regime that thinks that speech needs to be regulated, and toss them into a country or territory where they are the only ones without that freedom, but where everyone else around them who disagrees w/ them has it. That way, they’ll quickly realize what it’s like when only one side has that freedom
somehistory says
send the non mozlums to a place sch as paksitan or afghanistan; and the mozlums can go to china or nk.
the spoiled brat of nk has decided that no one can have the same name as his daughter…even those already having been named that; they are being summoned to some government office there to have their birth certificates changed and get a new name. that’s his brand of ‘freedom.”
OLD GUY says
Paski, never believed much that she spewed out to begin with. Oh yes let’s live in a country where only the GOVERNMENT talking heads can say what they want you to believe. If she is so inclined she should move to CHINA and do what the government tells her is the truth.
dazzleme says
+1