No sane person is in favor of the “online harassment, stalking, and abuse that now is a too-frequent reality for Americans, particularly for young people and women.”
As this article notes, however, this is a Trojan Horse. Censoring “disinformation” and “hate speech” will in practice mean censoring speech that the elites don’t favor, including explorations of the motivating ideology behind jihad terrorism. Islamic groups and their Leftist allies have been insisting for years that discussing how Islamic jihadis use the texts and teachings of Islam to justify violence and supremacism amounts to “hate speech.” Now their efforts are about to bear fruit.
“Biden Campaign Website Promises Internet Censorship Taskforce,” by Alexander Hall, Newsbusters, November 11, 2020 (thanks to David):
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. The Biden campaign is using causes like women’s safety as a Trojan horse to usher in a new era of internet censorship.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has said that he “plans to convene a task force to create best practices for containing online harassment, which disproportionately affects women and young people,” CNBC summarized in a Nov. 10 report. Biden’s campaign website declared that if he gains the presidency, his administration “will shine a light on the online harassment, stalking, and abuse that now is a too-frequent reality for Americans, particularly for young people and women,” recognizing that “culture change must extend to our online lives.”
CNBC’s reporting consulted multiple experts who eagerly anticipate a new wave of censorship to wipe out their political enemies.
Carnegie Mellon University professor of computer science, engineering and public policy Kathleen Carley proclaimed, “I think the task force could be very important because it’s very clear there is a lot of online disinformation and hate speech and we’ve seen how that’s been a significant way to harm women and vulnerable groups such as a children and minorities,” reported CNBC.
“We know these platforms are consistently the source of online harassment and threats to women, and there’s a connection to extremist consequences,” Vanderbilt University professor of psychology and human development Lisa Fazio commented to CNBC, with zero skepticism about the implications towards free speech.
The Biden-Harris campaign website explained that the task force will combine the power of many elite institutions if he wins the presidency, including: “federal agencies, state leaders, advocates, law enforcement, and technology experts.” The goal of the experts, according to the campaign website is “to study rampant online sexual harassment, stalking, and threats, including revenge porn, deepfakes, and the connection between this harassment, mass shootings, extremism and violence against women.”…
Dude says
One assumes that would mean banning all jihad texts in the desert scriptures. And that is a good start.
mortimer says
The Koran is clearly filled with calls for misogyny, xenophobia, religious bigotry, extortion, robbery and violence.
Under any ‘hate speech’ code, the Koran would have to be banned.
gravenimage says
If only…
E T says
Let everyone of the Biden / Harris, Harris / Biden groupies stay silent for a week. Donald John Trump won the US election on November 3rd in a landslide. Stay tuned.
Henry Mansfield says
Long ago most conservatives figured out that the term ‘hate speech’ is always evolving to suit whatever the Left needs at any given moment.
An adult conversation about governance with a liberal is impossible. Crime rates by race? A minefield of terms that will have you branded.
Islamic terrorism and quotes from the Quran? Right-wing extremism is the real problem and no translation from the original Arabic is possible. Lumping the 1% of Muslims that kill innocent people with the ones who don’t is hate speech.
Examples aren’t hard to find to keep going with a very long list.
mortimer says
Our motto: ‘It’s the ideology, stupid.’
Brando says
They are hypocrites,I am SURE that if somebody were to point out that the KORAN says in CHAPTER 9:111:
“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that
1. They will HAVE PARADISE.
2. They FIGHT in the CAUSE of ALLAH,
so they KILL and ARE KILLED.
3. [It is] a TRUE PROMISE [binding] upon Him
4. In the TORAH and the GOSPEL and the QU’RAN.”
CONCLUSIONS
1.It says a MUSLIM will go to HEAVEN, if he KILLS and GETS KILLED for ALLAH.
2.It even says THAT doctrine is in the TORAH and GOSPEL.
DELUSION
Muslims believe the UNCORRUPTED Torah and Gospel contained it,even if TODAY’s Torah and Gospel do NOT.
CONSEQUENCES
During the IRAN-IRAK war(1980-1988) ,though the figures are only estimates:
some 50,000 IRANIAN CHILDREN ( usually 12,13,14,15 ),always under 18,based on CHAPTER 9:111:
1.Would INTENTIONALLY run across BATTLEFIELDS full of MINES.
2.They were Intentionally Searching MINES to STEP on, to make them EXPLODE.
3.They would be KILLED but go to HEAVEN.
4.All of this was KHOMEINI’s IDEA and all the children killed were VOLUNTEERS and called BASIJIS.
5.After the mines had exploded the REGULAR SOLDIERS would attack, Not Worrying About getting killed by MINES.
6.After all,they were all fighting and doing it for the ISLAMIC REVOLUTION in IRAN,for its SHARIA LAW and RELIGIOUS leader the AYATOLLAH ( SIGN of Allah)
Then that person,for pointing out it is ISLAM’s FAULT, would be CENSORED for Hate Speech.
World@70 says
I also saw in one report back then, that due to Iran’s shortage of weapons and ammunition that Khomeni sent thousands of these teenagers onto the battlefield armed only with a copy of the Quran, apparently to cause the Iraqi army to exhaust their own ammo supply.
Brando says
That is even worse. I dont know if you know it but there there is a little town called JAMKARAN,near QOM ( where KHOMEINI is buried).
1.In Jamkaran is a WELL.
2.The SHIA Muslims of Iran believe INSIDE it is a LIVING MAN who is 1,200 YEARS old.
3.That is called the OCCULTATION and he is the MAHDI ( Guided One )
4.He was a child in the 9th CENTURY who disappeared,a DIRECT descendant of ALI and FATIMA ( daughter of Mohamed).
5.The also call him the 12TH IMAM ( leader ).
6. They believe that man in the well will one day come out and CONQUER the WORLD for Islam.
gravenimage says
These children were given plastic “keys to paradise”, and then sent out to *clear minefields with their own bodies. If they died, as so many did, they were told that the cheap plastic trinket gained them immediate entrance to heaven.
God, I hate Islam.
Bad Penguin says
He also sent thousands of young girls to walk through Iraqi mine fields to detonate the mines so adult male soldiers wouldnt get hurt.
Boycott Turkey says
Well in that case Biden if you want to ban hate speech,violence and harassment against women and children why not ban that filthy book called the Koran full of violence rape against women and hate speech against minorities who are non Muslims? But we know you won’t this is just a BS excuse to stop free speech
owensgate says
Another perfect example of the Biblical End of Days WE ARE IN. Lies become Truth, and Truth is “Disinformation”, Evil is Good, and Good is Evil. But there is a much more Satanic agenda. If “Disinformation” is disallowed on the internet, by calling Biblical Truth “disinformation”, then all “on-line” Bibles will have to be removed. On line Church gatherings, if they are allowed at all, will have to keep all Religious truth silent, let alone any mention of the actual Gospel of Salvation. THAT will be silenced for sure. As for myself, I will NOT stop my “Hate Speech”. I hate evil, socialism, islam, “false prophets”, cacophonous “rap” noise with explicit lyrics (all of it, actually), closet Marxists, despisers of good, and know this Leftists, I hate “Black Lives Matter” signs and banners, and the ignorant people that push that crap. What’s more, “Tartarus” is not deep enough to plunge the NYT or WP into.
Crusades Were Right says
Apparently…
…the voices of the “majority” need to be stifled to spare the feelings of “minorities”…
…because the “minorities” outnumbered the “majority” in an election.
Or something. lol
Andrew says
When I was a wee boy in the old country we had a saying, “Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me”…Its strange that I never hear this anymore as we now have 30 year soy boys running off too find a safe space so they can have a good cry because somebody called him a wanker.
Sad days indeed.
gravenimage says
+1
don vito says
joe $ellout obiden no matter how you label it I continue to see only 4 lights. Your cognitive infirmity is not going to convince me to see reality, your way. I do play the record player now and then, but I know the record player is not my cell. Why don’t you. joe. go zoomin with jeffery toobin?
Ade Fegan says
The truth is haram
E T says
Joe, Obama plus wifelet, Clinton’s, Comey, and many, many others may be in a cell for the New Year, Biden will NOT be in the White House mark my words.
They should pick up some song sheets. I highly recommend:
I’m in the jailhouse now, I’m in the jailhouse now,
If I told you once or twice, I’m through with cheatin
And will try to to be nice
I’m in the jailhouse now.
So is Obama, Clinton and his old laaaaaady.
somehistory says
All informed people are aware where this will go …if harris is successful in theft (biden was just there because his name was better known than the female shark) of the office.
It won’t be moslims targeted…recall biden’s promise to put a moslim at “every level” of government…and it won’t be blm or like groups being censored.
It won’t be the hateful, threatening, words from the unholy book of filth…unless they are written to inform the ignorant all about the evils of islam. If an imam, mullah, cleric or terrorist belonging to the cult, writes about what their filth says about other people, esp Jews and Christians, it will be allowed…not banned.
If one on their side, of their ilk, writes something actually hateful or threatening toward Mr. Trump or Clarence Thomas, or another person with whom they disagree, it will be allowed as “free speech.” But, if someone writes that harris is ugly and power hungry, or that biden is senile …that will result in an arrest warrant.
When it comes to “hate speech,” the determination of whether or not is in the minds of the ones determining.
It’s kind of like eggplant parmesan. If one likes it, it’s a tasty dish. If one does not like it or says how bad it tastes…it’s all in the taste buds.
Hate speech is all in the mind of the one who doesn’t wish to know that other people disagree, nor allow them to voice their disagreement.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
Screw you. He’s going to be worse than Joe Stalin but without the subtlety or charm!
somehistory says
Get it all out now…just how evil is islam and the actions of those so devoted to it that they can’t tell up from down or right from wrong.
Write of just what kind of slime, lowlife, creepy, slug creature was the fake ‘prophet’ that moslims worship; the mass-murdering, raper of children. lying so and so, son of satan, and what happened to him. Hint: he had a place reserved in the “lake of fire, burning with sulphur, prepared for the devil and his angels (demons)” and he kept the appointment.
Tell everyone that there is no paradise where moslims who murder others will be with their false ‘prophet’ drinking booze and raping, endlessly raping, young children, both boys and girls. There is no ‘paradise’ at all for those who are “liars and disgusting in their filth.” Those ones will be joining the lying so and so in the “lake.”
And…their book of evil filth, which they also worship, will be destroyed forever.
Write that anyone who protects, supports, or encourages this filth and promotes the spreading of it, will face the same Judgment that those committing the murders, rapes and lies have coming.
Get it all written down now because the days may come when it is no longer allowed to tell the Truth, except that the one telling it will be murdered for doing so.
“Hate what Jehovah hates,” and the devil and his agents, his children, will hate you.
Kepha says
This shows that 50.5% of all Americans hold the First Amendment worthless.
Keith O says
The old problem raises it’s monstrous head.
Who decides what is disinformation, hate speech, harassment etc?
The obvious outcome is the death of free speech through censorship.
God help the American people, if this occurs then the next step will be concentration camps.
somehistory says
It was all labeled as conspiracy theory, but several years ago, several people began to see, and film on their phones, buildings inside barbed wire fences with railroad tracks leading in On the tops of the buildings were towers…just like in prisons…and signs saying to keep out.
Numerous videos wee made all over the country of these buildings and the surroundings and comments made that they looked just like concentration camps.
Of course, others said it was all a case of nuts making something out of nothing, but they didn’t provide any reasonable explanation for the setup.
It may not look so much like a “theory” now, but more like a conspiracy.
tim gallagher says
I’m sure that the choice of what is “hate speech” will be very selective and very biased. I consider islam to be on pretty much the same level of evil as Nazism. I believe both these evil ideologies should be attacked relentlessly. It is what they both deserve. But I’m sure that for some reason, which I’m buggered if I can understand, Islam will be protected from being attacked. It’ll be OK to attack Nazism (and rightly so) but Islam , this evil and barbaric ideology, will be protected as it usually seems to be. To me, it is amazing how Islam seems to have pulled the wool over so many people’s eyes and we are told to respect it and attacking it is somehow wrong. Islam deserves to be attacked relentlessly and exposed as the evil force that it is.
gravenimage says
Biden promises to convene Internet censorship task force to combat ‘disinformation and hate speech’
……………
In other words, shutting down freedom of speech.
Does anyone her think this will be used to shut down death threats from Muslims Neither do I. But it will likely be used to shut down those opposing such threats.