…or nothing’s essentially changed in half a century. In our era, as in Orwell’s, plugging any and all information loopholes with the potential to threaten The Narrative is still the goal of would-be authoritarians.
Agreed, we need more like this, Meta needs to me cancelled, sorry guys you will need to do something else with your time… 🙂
Right-Wing Hippie
3 months ago
I understand that in our intensely polarised environment, free speech has become a divisive issue
I would reverse the direction of cause-and-effect: by limiting the free speech of their opponents, the elite (who are mostly on the left) have created an intensely polarized environment.
the elite (who are mostly on the left) have created an intensely polarized environment
Not created, greatly amplified.
Alex Lekas
3 months ago
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle can still unite to voice concerns about the erosion of free expression and government efforts to regulate political discourse.
That’s going to be difficult when lawmakers from one side – as was amply demonstrated with Matt Taibbi, among others, testified – are openly hostile to free speech.
Apostates like Taibbi and Bari Weiss should be burned at the stake according to many Progs.
B Davis
3 months ago
“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves…. To let you see things you’d like to see…to say things you’d like to say… But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades…sometimes you’d see & say wrong things… and then where should we be?”
Indeed.
It’s really quite simple. There is the Truth. And that’s what I believe in…and that’s what I want to see…and that’s, of course, always what I have to say. And then there lies, damned lies, and really really really damned lies.
Why on earth would you — or anyone for that matter — want to see & say lies, damned lies, and really really damned lies? Of course you wouldn’t. Who would?
I’m from the government and I’m here to help. Plus, I have the very special, highly expert assistance of every HiTech data sorter AI out there. Protecting you from all that bad, wrong, lying stuff is really so easy. Just check this box telling me you want nothing but the Truth, and we’ll all be good.
Here, I’ll just check it for you!
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.” Stalin
Sensible Citizen
3 months ago
The democrat party is no better than Xi’s CCP or the Russian Independent party of Putin.
Katalin Kish
3 months ago
Being born and having lived the 1st 30 years of my life on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, I can confidently say: Orwell was a naive optimist.
Living with Australia’s absurd crime reality, at times I am nostalgic about the uniform certainty we all had in Hungary under the Russian yoke.
Western ills are far more insidious, metastasised, divisive.
Thank you for that. Illuminating.
Seems like Orwell was only off by half a century.
…or nothing’s essentially changed in half a century. In our era, as in Orwell’s, plugging any and all information loopholes with the potential to threaten The Narrative is still the goal of would-be authoritarians.
Excellent journalism. Thanks.
Agreed, we need more like this, Meta needs to me cancelled, sorry guys you will need to do something else with your time… 🙂
I understand that in our intensely polarised environment, free speech has become a divisive issue
I would reverse the direction of cause-and-effect: by limiting the free speech of their opponents, the elite (who are mostly on the left) have created an intensely polarized environment.
the elite (who are mostly on the left) have created an intensely polarized environment
Not created, greatly amplified.
Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle can still unite to voice concerns about the erosion of free expression and government efforts to regulate political discourse.
That’s going to be difficult when lawmakers from one side – as was amply demonstrated with Matt Taibbi, among others, testified – are openly hostile to free speech.
Apostates like Taibbi and Bari Weiss should be burned at the stake according to many Progs.
“No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves…. To let you see things you’d like to see…to say things you’d like to say… But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades…sometimes you’d see & say wrong things… and then where should we be?”
Indeed.
It’s really quite simple. There is the Truth. And that’s what I believe in…and that’s what I want to see…and that’s, of course, always what I have to say. And then there lies, damned lies, and really really really damned lies.
Why on earth would you — or anyone for that matter — want to see & say lies, damned lies, and really really damned lies? Of course you wouldn’t. Who would?
I’m from the government and I’m here to help. Plus, I have the very special, highly expert assistance of every HiTech data sorter AI out there. Protecting you from all that bad, wrong, lying stuff is really so easy. Just check this box telling me you want nothing but the Truth, and we’ll all be good.
Here, I’ll just check it for you!
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.” Stalin
The democrat party is no better than Xi’s CCP or the Russian Independent party of Putin.
Being born and having lived the 1st 30 years of my life on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, I can confidently say: Orwell was a naive optimist.
Living with Australia’s absurd crime reality, at times I am nostalgic about the uniform certainty we all had in Hungary under the Russian yoke.
Western ills are far more insidious, metastasised, divisive.