No sane person is in favor of the “online harassment, stalking, and abuse that now is a too-frequent reality for Americans, particularly for young people and women.”
As this article notes, however, this is a Trojan Horse. Censoring “disinformation” and “hate speech” will in practice mean censoring speech that the elites don’t favor, including explorations of the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism. Islamic groups and their Leftist allies have been insisting for years that discussing how Islamic jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism amounts to “hate speech.” Now their efforts are about to bear fruit.
“Biden Campaign Website Promises Internet Censorship Taskforce,” by Alexander Hall, Newsbusters, November 11, 2020 (thanks to David):
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. The Biden campaign is using causes like women’s safety as a Trojan horse to usher in a new era of internet censorship.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has said that he “plans to convene a task force to create best practices for containing online harassment, which disproportionately affects women and young people,” CNBC summarized in a Nov. 10 report. Biden’s campaign website declared that if he gains the presidency, his administration “will shine a light on the online harassment, stalking, and abuse that now is a too-frequent reality for Americans, particularly for young people and women,” recognizing that “culture change must extend to our online lives.”
CNBC’s reporting consulted multiple experts who eagerly anticipate a new wave of censorship to wipe out their political enemies.
Carnegie Mellon University professor of computer science, engineering and public policy Kathleen Carley proclaimed, “I think the task force could be very important because it’s very clear there is a lot of online disinformation and hate speech and we’ve seen how that’s been a significant way to harm women and vulnerable groups such as a children and minorities,” reported CNBC.
“We know these platforms are consistently the source of online harassment and threats to women, and there’s a connection to extremist consequences,” Vanderbilt University professor of psychology and human development Lisa Fazio commented to CNBC, with zero skepticism about the implications towards free speech.
The Biden-Harris campaign website explained that the task force will combine the power of many elite institutions if he wins the presidency, including: “federal agencies, state leaders, advocates, law enforcement, and technology experts.” The goal of the experts, according to the campaign website is “to study rampant online sexual harassment, stalking, and threats, including revenge porn, deepfakes, and the connection between this harassment, mass shootings, extremism and violence against women.”…