Democrats mad court won’t let them censor conservative ideas
Conn Carroll
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A federal judge has enjoined the Biden administration from colluding with Big Tech to censor conservative ideas, and Democrats are mad.
According to the New York Times, “disinformation researchers” are worried that the ruling will make it harder for “civil society organizations” to police online speech.
“That’s the really important distinction here,” University of California at Santa Barbara communications professor Miriam Metzger told the paper. “The government should be able to inform social media companies about things that they feel are harmful to the public.”
Apparently, when left-wing organizations try to police speech on their own, Big Tech companies don’t listen.
“Platforms are very good at ignoring civil society organizations and our requests for help or requests for information or escalation of individual cases,” PEN America director for digital safety Viktorya Vilk told the paper. “They are less comfortable ignoring the government.”
But what is “disinformation” exactly? When does a social media post or a news story become so “harmful to the public” that it merits being silenced?
If the past actions of left-wing activists are any indication, any idea that does not fit with Democratic Party orthodoxy is sufficiently “harmful to the public” that it merits censorship.
Obvious examples like the Biden campaign working with the CIA to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story aside, government-funded organizations like the Global Disinformation Index are constantly working to suppress ideas they don’t like on the grounds that they are “harmful to the public.”
Take this post I wrote titled, “Why are liberal women so unhappy?” Here is what the GDI highlighted from the piece as being dangerously misogynist:
“Looking to explain why liberal women are so unhappy, National Marriage Project Director Brad Wilcox notes that no demographic is happier with their family life than conservative women. Over 60% of conservative women say they are completely satisfied with their family life, compared to 50% of conservative men and just 35% of liberal women.”
“Wilcox argues that liberal women are unhappy because they believe independence, freedom, and work will make them happier than marriage and family obligations. And that is no doubt a big part of it.”
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That’s it. That’s all it takes. Citing completely factual poll results from the American Family Survey is apparently so harmful to the public that it must be labeled “disinformation” and actively suppressed.
If Democrats want allies on fighting actually harmful online content they are going to have to come up with a much better definition of what disinformation is.