New in PJ Media:
Is there hope for freedom of speech in America after all, despite all of the Left’s efforts to destroy it? Maybe: the Washington Post announced Wednesday that “just three weeks after its announcement, the Disinformation Governance Board is being ‘paused,’ according to multiple employees at DHS, capping a back-and-forth week of decisions that changed during the course of reporting of this story.”
The Post’s notorious Taylor Lorenz, whom PJM’s Stephen Green referred to as a “garbage human” who “still talks and whines like an underage Mean Girl when she isn’t busy ruining people’s lives for fun and profit,” reported the apparent demise of the Board in a funereal tone and as a victory for evil right-wingers, but for anyone who values the freedom of speech, the end of the Board is a cause for celebration.
The Board, however, may not even really be dead. Lorenz claims that “on Monday, DHS decided to shut down the board, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation. By Tuesday morning, Jankowicz had drafted a resignation letter in response to the board’s dissolution.” However, there are plenty of enemies of the First Amendment within the DHS, and so after the Board was killed, it became undead: “But Tuesday night, Jankowicz was pulled into an urgent call with DHS officials who gave her the choice to stay on, even as the department’s work was put on hold because of the backlash it faced, according to multiple people with knowledge of the call. Working groups within DHS focused on mis-, dis- and mal-information have been suspended. The board could still be shut down pending a review from the Homeland Security Advisory Council; Jankowicz is evaluating her position within the department.”
Lorenz laments that the sainted Jankowicz, who is such an enthusiastic fascist that the thought of censorship moves her to sing, has fallen victim to the very purveyors of “disinformation” that, in happier times, she would have had deplatformed, silenced, and (oh joy of joys) maybe even sent to the gulag. “Within hours of news of her appointment,” Lorenz writes, “Jankowicz was thrust into the spotlight by the very forces she dedicated her career to combating. The board itself and DHS received criticism for both its somewhat ominous name and scant details of specific mission (Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said it ‘could have done a better job of communicating what it is and what it isn’t’), but Jankowicz was on the receiving end of the harshest attacks, with her role mischaracterized as she became a primary target on the right-wing Internet. She has been subject to an unrelenting barrage of harassment and abuse while unchecked misrepresentations of her work continue to go viral.”
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Dave says
Good
mortimer says
Perhaps Nina Jankowicz is a snowflake who can DISH IT OUT TO OTHERS, but herself melts whenever she receives criticism.
Or perhaps the department realized they chose someone who is completely out of touch with the constitutional issues of free speech … someone who is an obviously fanatical partisan with no sympathy whatsoever for dissenters.
Nina Jankowicz has the appearance of being a modern Robespierre, like many of the Leftists who have taken hold of the Dem Party.
wpm says
The trouble is the crazy woke idiots that are controlling puppet man Biden will regroup and try this again with a less public exposed censor control freak. Woke robot Alejandro Mayorkas will find a more low key person and a different name for the branch he wants to add to his Homeland Security agency ,time to cancel do away this agency. Its inability to control our borders ,it wanting to attack free speech of its citizens ,its seeing “right wing terrorist ” as anyone voicing disagreement with the present government policies as left wing groups burn down businesses ,threated and murdered people in the summer of love BLM rioting in 2020.
mortimer says
Nina Jankowicz’s credo:
“FREE SPEECH FOR ME, BUT NOT FOR THEE.”
mortimer says
Nina Jankowicz self-revealed her nefarious plan: namely, to edit online comments or news that was not ‘politically correct’ in her opinion. As the Czarina of Truth, Nina Jankowicz would command the authority to CHANGE and REWRITE personal opinions of people online so that those comments would be SYNCHRONIZED with the Party Line of the Ruling Party.
This truly is fascistic, and Robert Spencer has called it as such.
Nina Jankowicz does not want people to express an opinion that is not identical to her own.
somehistory says
Yes, as I noted on a thread yesterday, it’s always that these creeps get “death threats” and suffer “abuse” due to their wonderful persona and their excellent work and they just have to put on a brave face and whine about it.
Just as, imo, i.elmi lies about getting threats, this idiot too is lying about that. Whining and lying about threats and abuse is a tool, a weapon they use to get their way.