Hillary on why Internet forums must be censored: "We'll lose total control"

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Hillary Clinton Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

“ … Hillary Clinton let the cat out of the bag during an interview with CNN on Saturday, where she spoke about the need to control social media. She said it should be ‘at the top" of every legislative agenda’. “

We should be, in my view, repealing something called section 230, which gave platforms on the internet immunity because they were thought to be just pass-throughs, that they shouldn’t be judged for the content that is posted. But we now know that that was an overly simple view. Whether it’s Facebook or Twitter or X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don’t moderate and monitor the content we lose total control and it’s not just the social and psychological effects, it’s real harm.

Hillary has company in her quest to shut down dissent, naturally.

Nick Arama: “The First Amendment was specifically created to protect incendiary speech, speech people may not have liked or might find wrong. That’s the very purpose of the Amendment.

“Here's George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley talking about how these are dangerous times for free speech with these thoughts. “

Governor Walz has been out there saying that misinformation and hate speech are not protected under the Constitution. And there's a crushing irony there. I mean, in calling for the censorship of other citizens accused of disinformation, the governor is spreading disinformation. He's been told repeatedly by many of us that he's wrong, that that's just completely and demonstrably wrong. The Constitution does protect those forms of speech.

…. "You have two former Democratic presidential nominees who have been going to this sort of global elite, asking for Europe and others to censor fellow Americans. Hillary Clinton did that after @elonmusk took over Twitter, went to Europe and said, please use the Digital Services Act. This really horrific new law to censor fellow Americans because Musk isn't going to do it, force him to do it." "These are the same voices. Who's saying the same things since the beginning of our republic, that they have a reason to silence others."

Hillary, instigator of the most significant misinformation campaign in recent memory with her Russian conspiracy claim, and her two Democrat friends shown above are not alone in their thirst to place citizens’ speech back under the control of the state; it’s the goal of all Democrat politicians and their corporate allies (as a very tiny example, Google Ad Sense has permanently closed my account for violating its “Publisher Guidelines”, which prohibit, among other topics:

Dangerous or derogatory content

We do not allow content that:

  • incites hatred against, promotes discrimination of, or disparages an individual or group on the basis of their race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or other characteristic that is associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization.

Unreliable and harmful claims

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  • makes claims that are demonstrably false and could significantly undermine participation or trust in an electoral or democratic process.

    Examples: information about public voting procedures, political candidate eligibility based on age or birthplace, election results, or census participation that contradicts official government records

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    Examples: Anti-vaccine advocacy, denial of the existence of medical conditions such as AIDS or Covid-19, gay conversion therapy

  • contradicts authoritative scientific consensus on climate change.

Mine is a very small matter; sites with real influence, however are also being demonetized, and that threatens to put them out of business. PJ Media, parent host of Town Hall, Red State, Hot Air, Daily Caller, and Twitchy, and has been hammered by Google, as detailed in the article below, and the list of articles shown includes only articles that appeared on PJ Media itself; dozens more on the other sites have also been flagged and demonetized.

Google Is Completely Out of Control

PJ Media, like all independent conservative/populist media outlets, is constantly demonetized by Google.

(Emphasis on “independent; we’re not competing on an even playing field with certain unnamed “conservative” outlets that are boosted in the algorithms via sweetheart Silicon Valley deals and then pretend they are besieged by “cancel culture,” nor are we talking about legacy media behemoths like Fox News that are not throttled in the same manner.)

A little definitional housekeeping: by “demonetized,” we mean that any article smeared by the fickle Google gods with this black mark of shame is no longer eligible to host Google ads, which means it cannot generate any ad revenue for the company.

Many readers might be generally aware of the demonetization warfare tactic designed to suppress dissident media but may not be aware of just how many PJ Media articles are demonetized on a regular basis, which has the intended effect of crippling revenue and, ultimately, putting us out of business forever.

So, just how many PJ Media articles has Google demonetized?

One? Two? A dozen?

Oh, you sweet summer child!

The answer is 109.

Google currently has attached “demonetized” flags to 109 PJ Media articles.

Here we have the complete list of demonetized PJ Media articles:

Demonetized PJ Media Articles - PJMedia (1) by PJ Media on Scribd

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Oct 27, 2022Free Speech. Yes, You Can Yell 'Fire'inaCrowdedTheater On Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito repeated the common myth that "shouting 'fire'inacrowdedtheater" is unprotected speech.

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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston (1902), from the Library of Congress. People often argue some speech is unprotected by analogizing to shouting fire in ...

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Just as you cannot yell "fire" in a crowded theater, they argue, you can't say insert false speech here. But you often can utter or publish a falsehood without a regulator or court having the ...

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America's Favorite Flimsy Pretext for Limiting Free Speech

Shouting "Fire" inacrowdedtheater, a metaphor that dates to a 1919 Supreme Court ruling by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., is widely—and wrongly—held to be a far-reaching exception ...

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Yes, Tim Walz, You Can Shout 'Fire' In A Crowded Theatre (opinion) - Yahoo

4 days agoIt's a common misconception that shouting "fire" inacrowded theatre isn't protected by the First Amendment—a myth that originates from a hypothetical used in Justice Oliver Wendell