They were both there
How GOP Senators Can Defund Biden's Dystopic
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A Literal Speech Police
The sheer absurdity and spectacle, however, shouldn’t distract from the seriousness of what the Biden administration is attempting to undertake. The formation of a disinformation board within the Department of Homeland Security is a specific choice: to place government speech regulations within the context of law enforcement. The “speech police” is now less metaphorical phrasing than actual reality.
Jankowicz appears to support contextualizing speech into a law enforcement frame. In April, she told National Public Radio that “law enforcement” needs to do more about “free speech absolutism” on social media before speaking approvingly about a bill in the United Kingdom that would empower law enforcement to enforce speech codes.
It’s also no coincidence that Barack Obama recently gave a speech at Stanford University outlining the dangers of disinformation online and calling on the government to act. The former president, who is now a podcaster and a Netflix producer, elected to nothing, has committed himself to pushing an agenda aimed at controlling the flow of speech and information in America, particularly on social media.
Obama’s administration was infamously cozy with the Silicon Valley tech titans and materially contributed to their rise. The Democratic Party, faced with evidence that its message is losing, is now bent on controlling the parameters of the debate itself in the name of “free speech.”
There is added urgency to their task now that billionaire Elon Musk is seeking to acquire Twitter, take the company private, and reform its content moderation practices. Twitter is the centerpiece of elite narrative formation, and the left does not appear willing to let control of “their” platform go without using every financial, governmental, and cultural lever under their power.
Congress Must Respond
But the executive branch does not exist in a vacuum. The legislature still has a say. And the formation of a government speech board, months before an election cycle and within days of Musk’s free speech-driven audacious bid for Twitter, should prompt an urgent response…
https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/02/how-republican-senators-can-defund-bidens-dystopic-disinformation-board/