Why the Left Endorses Big Brother — I Mean, Big Tech

The powers that be can see the opposition growing to Big Tech’s control of free speech, with Elon Musk putting his money where his mouth is to help put an end to it, and they’re suddenly speaking out to maintain that control. Free speech is an existential threat to the left, and they know it, so they’re pushing back. It’s as if someone, somewhere, had flipped a switch.
Pushing Back — Against Free Speech

Former President Obama, speaking Thursday for the Obama Foundation at Stanford University Cyber Policy Center, said,

The biggest reason for democracy’s weakening is the profound change that’s taken place in how we communicate and consume information…Our new ‘information ecosystem’ is turbocharging some of humanity’s worst impulses…Lies, conspiracy theories, junk science, quackery…[dramatic pause]…white supremacists, racist tracts, misogynous screeds — people are dying because of misinformation.

Which “misinformation” is he talking about? I don’t suppose he means the vast amount of fake news that has been brought to us over the past half-dozen years or so, courtesy of the left. The few real journalists out there have been busy exposing their fake stories all this time and the work has not let up. I hardly even know where to start in re-enumerating all the pieces of misinformation that have come, uncensored, from the left.

No, he means the stories that get in the way of what the left wants to do. By and large, he’s talking about real stories, the ones that leftist-funded “fact”-checkers, or partisan letter writers, wrongly flag and censor as mis- or dis-information.

Defending Big Tech — in the Name of National Security

On Monday, a group of former intelligence and national security officials issued a joint letter warning that pending legislative attempts to restrict or break up the Big Tech monopoly — Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon — would jeopardize national security. Especially with Moscow posing such a threat, they say, this centralized power is crucial to advancing U.S. foreign policy.

When my research team and I first saw this story, the first thought we had was, “Hey, what do you bet the names on this letter are pretty much the same as those names on the letter saying Hunter Biden’s laptop looked like Russian disinformation?” And, guess what? It turned out...

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