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Home Front: Politix

Democrats' sneak attack on the free press

2021-02-28

[NYPOST] Democrats’ hot new idea for responsible dialogue is to muscle cable and satellite providers to drop Fox News and other outlets they dislike.In the runup to a House hearing this week, Reps. Anna Eshoo
...Democratic Congresswomen-for-Life from Caliphornia, representing Silicon Valley. She began her career as chairman of the San Mateo Democratic Party in 1978, and was first elected to Congress in 1993. When she leaves she'll probably be carried out...
and Jerry McNerney (both D-Calif.) sent out letters to a dozen providers to silence conservative channels, demanding to know the "ethical or moral principles" behind "disseminating misinformation to millions."

Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr called out the "concerted effort by Democrats to drive political dissent from the political square."

Indeed: At the actual hearing, the subcommittee chief, Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) gave the real agenda away: "More free speech just isn’t winning the day over the kind of speech that we’re concerned about."

Sadly, this kind of intimidation works. As lefty Matt Taibbi notes, the last Democratic push for censorship got Facebook and Twitter to go along, with results like their blackout of The Post’s pre-election Hunter Biden scoops.

The government doesn’t have to actually ban speech by law (in violation of the First Amendment) when politicians simply can threaten the private sector into doing their will.

Too bad Taibbi was one of only a few lonely voices on the left to call out this concerted assault on basic democratic freedoms.

Posted by:Fred

#7 All if ‘em are totalitarians of one sort or another. The details don’t really matter.

Posted by: trailing wife 2021-02-28 19:27

#6 Quit calling them Democrats. They have no problem calling you white supremacists. Call'm Commies or Socialist, then the idea of authoritarianism is not as hidden.

OK, look. Here's the deal: Joe Stalin gave communism a bad name so now they call themselves Democrats.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-02-28 16:32

#5 Socialists of the Franklin Roosevelt era called themselves Democrats to appeal to stupid voters in the South. It worked and they still call it the Democrat party to this day.

Posted by: jpal 2021-02-28 16:11

#4 Centralization and concentration of power coupled with the belief and actions that the masses exist for the programs of those ruling pretty much covers everything that is the Left with all the "isms". It's like an athletic league, they may wear different uniforms, but they all play the same game.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-02-28 12:38

#3 Call'm Commies or Socialist

Fascists.

Posted by: Shavinter Omeamp5213 2021-02-28 07:39

#2 Ah, yes, the old "private industry doing the government's dirty work" trick.

Posted by: Clem 2021-02-28 06:46

#1 Quit calling them Democrats. They have no problem calling you white supremacists. Call'm Commies or Socialist, then the idea of authoritarianism is not as hidden.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-02-28 06:39

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