Facebook: Official Censor for the Biden Administration
Yesterday Press Secretary Jen Psircle admitted that “senior staff” at the White House are using Facebook as the Administration’s official censor.
Well, that certainly would explain why Jen Psircle looks like Mark Zuckerberg in a wig.
If you’re surprised that Psircle would brazenly admit this cozy relationship between the White House and Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention.
During the COVID lockdowns we discovered that several state governments also employed Facebook at Official Censor – demanding that the social media giant remove posts promoting anti-lockdown protests. At the time, I called it “Government Censorship by Proxy.”
Only now, the “proxy” part is starting to blur. When “senior staff” are charged with “flagging” posts that go against White House talking points, Facebook is no longer a proxy censor; its become the official censor for the state.
Democrats never met a slippery slope they didn’t want to slide down while screeching “WEEEEEEEE!!!”
Sure, even with this discovery there are people who repeat that idiotic mantra “Facebook is a private company. The First Amendment applies to the government, not to private companies.”
But when a private company becomes the official censor of the state, that mantra it utter bullshit.
Corporations and the State are blending together, and this should concern everyone.
It’s striking to me that Trump was called a fascist every damn day by people who have absolutely no problem with the State instructing a so-called “private company” to act as its official censor in order to violate the First Amendment rights of American citizens.
This is a big red flag.
Bryan would know. He’s a former intel officer.
These are state-controlled-media tactics we rightfully condemn in dictatorships. If an administration has a message to get out, let them express it. But when the government works to throttle speech with which they disagree, it has crossed a line.
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) July 15, 2021
It should concern you deeply that Jen Psircle doesn’t hesitate to admit, live during a press briefing, that the administration is using Facebook as its official censor of free speech.
This administration has no fear that it will be held to account for violating the First Amendment.
Why should they?
The press won’t say a damn thing. They love censorship.
All the civil liberties organizations will stay silent because the people targeted by “senior staff” in the White House are guilty of what they believe is “wrongthink.”
Democrats control Congress. Do you think they care that Facebook has become official censor for the White House? Remember after the 3-hour melee at the Capitol on January 6, Democrat members of Congress were urging Big Tech to destroy Parler. I’m sure Congressional Democrats are thrilled that powerful social media companies are doing as instructed by the State.
At this point, China doesn’t need to invade America to conquer us. Why should they when our own government is adopting China’s censorship policies with eager abandon?
—
Hit the Tip Jar!
Every dollar makes a difference! Hit the DONATE button in the side bar. Or, set up a recurring monthly contribution by choosing SUBSCRIBE.
Please White List Patriot Retort
Not everyone can afford to make a donation. But you can still help keep this site solvent by white listing PatriotRetort.com in your ad blocker. Ads help pay for this site and ad-blockers hurt that effort. I made sure that the ads that appear here will not obstruct or interfere with your enjoyment of the content. So please add PatriotRetort.com to your white list.
Books by Dianny
Check out Dianny’s collection of ebooks available at all of these fine stores: Amazon Kindle Store, Apple iBooks, Barnes & Noble Nook Store, and smashwords.com.
That statement just added a lot to Trump’s lawsuit. Censorship is antithetical to our first Amendment. The government sanctioning it and Fascist Book ‘acting as the government censor’ cements the notion that FB and its ilk are ‘public utilities’ and therefore cannot discriminate.
Remember when everything that Trump did, said, thought or imagined was called “fascist”?
I would suggest that a lot of people need to look up the textbook description of what Fascism means. Pay attention to the part where they mention the role of business in the classic definition.
This actually is becoming fascism.
This is “deeply disturbing.”
“The union of corporate and state power” to increase unconstitutional censorship. The warm, ripe and disgustingly smelly part of this is: the political ideology that currently encourages creeping fascism. If leftists yell that some information or ideas are fascist, it means they will implement worse with a haughty self-righteous smile — and call it something else — all day long
..
That just might be the most disturbing, yet appropriate photoshop ever. The bigger problem is the intent/politics behind this policy. Unfortunately, most of the sheeple in the US don’t understand, or care about, the danger this represents. As long as they have access to Netflix and their sports channels, their interest in our slow demise is essentially nonexistent. Now I have to find some bleach for my eyes to remove any trace of that image.
Well, that certainly would explain why Jen Psircle looks like Mark Zuckerberg in a wig.
Wow. I didn’t even realize what you’d done at first. I wondered why you had that plain pic of Psickie.
Noticed that someone else had a similar thought (if they weren’t ‘inspired’ by yours).
https://i1.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/07/IMG_3652-2.jpg
They’re both in the “uncanny valley.”
The Left are so far removed from understanding what legitimate government is they don’t know enough to know when they reveal themselves to be for illegitimate government.
When the government uses a private agent to act for the government, that private agent becomes an agent for the government and is bound by Constitutional restrictions.
Police cannot go around the Miranda Decision by getting you to question a friend about a crime he committed: by having you do the questioning, you have the same restrictions as do the police.