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The Leftist elites gave us another ominous sign that they’re stepping up their campaign against the freedom of speech when Hillary Clinton tweeted Thursday: “For too long, tech platforms have amplified disinformation and extremism with no accountability. The EU is poised to do something about it. I urge our transatlantic allies to push the Digital Services Act across the finish line and bolster global democracy before it’s too late.” Apparently in order to “bolster global democracy,” we have to kill it and allow only opinions that the elites approve to be published and circulated. Not surprisingly, Hillary revealed herself in this tweet to be not only an opponent of the freedom of speech, and therefore of free society itself, but also a hypocrite.
This is, after all, the same Hillary Clinton who tweeted on Oct. 31, 2016, eight days before the 2016 presidential election: “Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.” However, the Washington Times reported just under five years later, on Oct. 21, 2021, that “Special counsel John Durham has obtained the complete FBI investigative file on the bureau’s conclusion that there was no secret internet communication channel in 2016 between then-candidate Donald Trump and Alfa Bank, a large Russian lender controlled by Kremlin-tied billionaire oligarchs.”
So was Hillary peddling “disinformation”? Not knowingly, perhaps, but neither she nor Barack Obama, who has likewise begun a campaign against the freedom of speech recently, have ever given any indication that they think “disinformation” is any less worthy to be silenced if those who are spreading it sincerely believe that it is true. Thus by Hillary’s own standards, she should be silenced for the “disinformation” about Trump’s collusion with Russia that she spread so assiduously over the years and that turned out to be completely false.
But everyone knows that will never happen. Everyone also knows, of course, that when Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama decry “disinformation,” they don’t mean false or inaccurate statements that they themselves or their allies have made. The only “disinformation” they have in mind is that which comes from their political opponents, and even if what those opponents say is entirely true, it will be classified as “disinformation” and censored accordingly if Hillary and Obama and company decide that it is not expedient for the advancement of the Leftist narrative.
Clinton has shown herself to be an opponent of the freedom of speech before. Back when she was Secretary of State, the Obama administration attempted to curtail the First Amendment in numerous ways, including at the United Nations. In October 2009, the U.S. government lent its support to a UN Human Rights Council resolution declaring that “negative racial and religious stereotyping” should be outlawed. The resolution stated that UN member states should condemn and criminalize “any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence.”
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Hank says
” Apparently in order to “bolster global democracy,” we have to kill it and allow only opinions that the elites approve to be published and circulated. Not surprisingly, Hillary revealed herself in this tweet to be not only an opponent of the freedom of speech, and therefore of free society itself, but also a hypocrite.
+100
wpm says
Hillary who keep her personal computer secret server and used a hammer to smash her cell phones and black berries .I wonder how much of her and Biil,s Clinton foundation money is keep in over sea accounts maybe some of it in Eastern Europe or Russia . The democrats have a habit of accusing Republicans of committing crimes they themselves are guilty of. These are the people who want to do away with the first amendment to “protect” us from ourselves?
PRCS says
During the 2016 election, despite her obvious dishonestly. millions of our brain-dead friends and neighbors ignored that and voted for HER anyway.
Given that so many did vote for her at that time, she gets away with the hypocrisy because so few remember it or simply don’t care.
Doomer says
The name to remember is JULIAN ASSANGE,Australian journalist,founder of WIKILEAKS,
who is in danger of being sent to America and held in prison until he dies.
Doomer says
For those who don’t know Assange Never Hacked his way into private emails and documents:
1. He was given them by others, who he hadn’t known before.Others who wanted American WAR CRIMES to be known.
2. They gave him the evidence the American government ( known by antiwar Leftists as the EMPIRE )
had commited war crimes,atrocities,on purpose, killing non-combatants,on purpose in IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN .
3. To imprison Assange is to go Against Freedom of the Press: again,Assange Never Hacked or Stole Secret Documents,
it was given to him. Suppose a journalist were to be given authentic documents giving the names and activities of the members of the
DEEP STATE: documents that prove their crimes.
To imprison the journalist who Never Stole any Secret Documents(but was given them by others) is going against Freedom of Speech,of the Press.
4. WikiLeaks in 2010 published leaks provided by U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.
They included the :
a. Baghdad airstrike Collateral Murder video (April 2010)
b. The Afghanistan war logs (July 2010)
c. The Iraq war logs (October 2010)
d. And Cablegate (November 2010).
5. Assange is NOT even an American CITIZEN ( he is Australian) and he is being hounded by the Empire. He is being charged under the Espionage Act.
When Assange Never Spied and Stole Secret documents. The only way to at least-partially destroy the Deep State of the Empire is
to establish for all time a MULTIPOLAR WORLD ( which will also destroy the GLOBALISTS ( Soros, Karl Schwaub of Davos-World Economic Forum, Big Tech, Big Pharma, the woke Leftists , Antifa, BLM )
Infidel says
I’m not getting what they are complaining about? Facebook & Twitter both have their comrades: conservatives have all but been exiled from Twitter. YouTube still has a minor conservative presence, but even that’s fading fast. And the alternative platforms – Gab, Gettr, Rumble… hardly have the following that they have
And right now, Bill Gates is trying to sabotage Musk’s takeover of Twitter by shorting half a billion Tesla stocks and then asking him to discuss Climate Change philanthropy. Elon Musk responded by sending him away w/ a flea in his ear, and posting a meme of him using the pregnant man ?
Pierre Delecto says
Ad hoc Dictionary requires any use of “democracy” with a possessive adjective by a speaker for the Left be interpreted as Democrat hegemony. Losing elections may be democratic but it isn’t Democrat enhancing, and hence constitutes an attack upon our democracy..
And they claim conservatives employ dog whistles.
Keys says
Yep!
Something is afoot when both Hilary and Obama emerge to publicly talk about on-line disinformation at the same time. I wish it was a foot to her/his ass, but I think something else is about to kick up.
Notice Sharpton is stirring up things again too.
Doomer says
Here is another example of WHY the imprisonment of Assange is Crime Against Freedom of Speech:
in 2013 EDWARD SNOWDEN gave journalists ( Not Assange but others ( Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman, and Ewen MacAskill ) )
thousands of classified US government documents.
Snowden has been charged with breaking the law of the Espionage Act of 1917.
NOTICE that: journalists GLENN GREENWALD, Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman, and Ewen MacAskill were NOT
imprisoned ( like Assange was )
But journalist Assange has been imprisoned for the SAME thing they do: release the contents of secret documents that go against the people.
The ONLY ones who are defending Assange ( who right now is about to be EXTRADITED to America, charged with breaking the ESPIONAGE ACT )
are those of the antiwar Left ( in recent videos ) ( George Galloway, Fiorella Isabel, Richard Medhurst,
Abby Martin, Jimmy Dore, Aaron Mate
AND also GLEN GRENWALD ).
If you check,in NO recent videos or Twitters,defending Assange by the following Defenders of Free Speech and Democracy:
1. ELON MUSK
2. TIM POOL
3. BEN SHAPIRO
4. DAVE RUBIN
gravenimage says
Tim Pool Tweeted this 5/20/21:
Julian Assange is being murdered in an extremely brutal way
https://twitter.com/timcast/status/1395483938395729920
Doomer says
Thanks for the link, but he should say more and more, personally I believe the “CIA sources” that a few months ago
said “Trump had decided to Assassinate Assange using the CIA”
are lies. When they come from MSM: you have to verify 3 or 4 times.
To my surprise the antiwar Left believed it like that.
a. As for Trump not doing anything to stop the persecution of Assange, I think he was lied to by his “experts” who said
that for “so and so technical,legal reasons”
white is black and black is white.
b. In the same way they tricked him into accepting that Ivermectin and Hydroxychloquine are dangerous, that they don’t cure you of Covid.
gravenimage says
Obviously President Trump did not have Julian Assange assassinated.
And your continuing to use the term “antiwar left” to describe those in favor of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is just bizarre.
Daniel Triplett says
She’ll run for POTUS again in 2024, and she will be supported by about half the country. The problem isn’t Hillary and it isn’t Joe. They’re just a couple of self-serving opportunist grifters — just two more examples of know-nothing fools being elected by fools who know even less. The Democrat Party is replete with them. The real problem is the growing, near majority power of Americans who continue putting people like Joe, Hillary, Bernie, Harris, O’Rourke, AOC, Schiff, Schumer, Omar, Talib, Newsome, et al in power.
Walter Sieruk says
It should also be remembered that the reasons why Hillary Clinton lost the Presidential 2016 election is not any kind of Russian hacking or FBI director, angry White men, Facebook, WikiLeaks, Twitter, or Putin. The reasons that Donald Trump won the election was that he had much better policies and politics than Hillary did.
As for example, Trump is for very strong border security and Hillary was not.
In addition, some of the other reasons Hillary Clinton lost the election was, as try as her might to cover it up, was that Hillary was not only extremely incompetent but also she could not hide her the fact that is she is a two-faced, narcissistic vicious, manipulative, corrupt pathological liar.
gravenimage says
Russia Hoaxer Hillary Decries Online ‘Disinformation’
…………
Good grief…