However, he wants ramped up penalties for anything that he considers “harmful lies and conspiracy theories.”Of course, one person’s “conspiracy theory” is another person’s news. In recent hearings on the government’s censorship programs, Democratic members and pundits attacked witnesses as “Putin lovers” or supporters of “insurrectionists” in opposing censorship. His administration is unabashedly and unrepentantly pursuing the silencing of those with opposing views. Even raising the lab theory on the origin of Covid 19 was denounced as a conspiracy theory. Yet, what remains is release from reason in the blind pursuit of those with opposing views.

Source: The Guardian November 08, 2023 00:37 UTC