In the wake of fresh revelations that The Department of Homeland Security has been working relentlessly to shut down speech it deems to be ‘dangerous’ or ‘disinformation,’ Senator Rand Paul has promised to introduce legislation that would make it illegal for government agencies and private big tech to secretly collude on such enterprises.
Appearing on Fox News, Paul said of the Democratic Party, “You know, for all the talk of democracy, it seems to be that they’re undermining the very basic principles of our constitutional republic.”
“Freedom of speech was listed in the first amendment because it was one of the most important rights that our Founders thought should be protected. But having the government collude with Big Tech to censor speech is something that goes against every grain of everything that anyone has ever spoken about as far as freedom of speech,” Paul urged.
The Senator continued, “So when we get back in session, I’m going to introduce legislation that will forbid the government from colluding with private companies to censor speech.”
Paul further explained that “this is a tricky situation because many people believe that the First Amendment doesn’t allow us to regulate the speech of private companies. But without question, we can regulate the government, and we can prevent and forbid the government from colluding with private tech on speech.”
“I think we should also preclude them and prohibit them from gathering up our data,” Paul further asserted, adding “we can’t really tell people on the Internet they can’t collect our data, you know, for sales and for marketing. But we can tell the government they can’t collect that data, because I don’t want the government profiling every citizen.”
“That goes against everything that we all believe in as far as the foundation of our constitutional republic,” The Senator proclaimed.
Paul further charged that Democrats “actually want to emulate China,” noting that “They would weld your doors shut if they could.”
“This is the party of authoritarianism. The impulse to authoritarianism came with COVID. But the impulse to gather our information actually probably started with the Patriot act, all the way back to 2001. There was this impulse — we must be safe, we must be protected from terrorists,” Paul explained.
Referring to his father former Texas Congressman Ron Paul, The Senator noted “my dad warned — he warned early on that this kind of going after terrorists would ultimately be used on us.”
“When they finally came and used the Patriot Act on Donald Trump, that was when we knew this wasn’t about terrorism, it was about suppressing dissent from people they disagree with,” Paul stated.
As we highlighted yesterday, ‘fact checking’ isn’t the real principle driving the Biden regime’s drive to censor, as they continue to pump out their own disinformation on social media.
Exclusive: Ye Suspended From Twitter For Seven Days For Saying N-Word
Rapper suggested term ‘antisemite’ now being used as pejorative like the N-word to smear black individuals who leave the political correctness plantation.
Published
3 days ago
on
5 November, 2022
Jamie White
MEGA/GC Images via Getty Images
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has received a seven-day suspension from Twitter over his use of the N-word, according to his conversation with Alex Jones.
Ye’s suspension reportedly occurred after he tweeted on Friday, “I’m starting to think anti Semitic means ni**er.”
This may be the first time Twitter has ever censored a black person for saying the N-word.
Notably, Ye’s comment was not an attack or insult directed at anybody, nor was it a call for violence. Nevertheless, the tweet was taken down for “violating the Twitter rules.”
Ye was simply pointing out that the term “antisemite” is now being used as a new pejorative like the N-word to demonize blacks who left the political correctness plantation.
“What he’s saying is it’s being used as racism against black people, like calling people antisemitic is the new N-word,” Alex Jones said Saturday. “All he’s saying is calling black leaders who left the politically correct reservation ‘antisemitic’ is the new derogatory term. Since when are black people not allowed to use the N-word?”
And for that, Kanye is now being censored.
Is Twitter’s new CEO Elon Musk aware of this development?
It’s likely Musk does not yet have full operational control of Twitter and its censorship mechanisms, but hopefully that will change, and Ye’s account may be the litmus test.
Despite meeting with Musk this week over “content moderation” concerns, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the premier pro-Israel lobbying group, ordered a global advertiser boycott of Musk’s Twitter on Friday for not doing enough to censor Kanye “Ye” West and other critics of their power.
George Soros-linked advocacy groups have also been organizing advertising boycotts against Twitter following Musk’s acquisition of the social media platform over concerns he’s not doing enough to “moderate content.”
The censorship pressure isn’t just coming from far-left dark money groups or corporations.
Recall that earlier this week, the extent of the cozy relationship between the federal government and Big Tech companies was revealed in an in-depth piece by The Intercept outlining the mechanisms by which the tech companies censor content on the government’s behalf, a clear violation of the First Amendment.
First they came for Alex Jones. Then they came for President Donald Trump.
Now they’ve come for Ye.
Pretty soon, they’ll come for you.
“There’s a lot of facets to this,” Alex Jones said. “The social engineers are desperate, the power structure is desperate, and they are targeting individuals to try to set the precedent to ban, restrict, censor and surveil anybody they want.”
Conspiracy author David Icke has been banned from entering the EU and designated as a “level three terrorist,” according to his son Gareth Icke.
The public speaker and former BBC television host was due to attend an event in Amsterdam this weekend, but will now reportedly be prevented from entering any country in the European Union for a period of two years.
“Received an email from the Dutch. My dad, David Icke, has been banned from entering the EU for two years,” tweeted Gareth Icke. “They claim he is a “level three terrorist,” he added.
“The old man is banned from entering the Netherlands,” wrote Icke in another tweet. “Zero convictions, zero crimes committed. Banned by the government. Wow.”
Icke had been set to feature at an event called Together for the Netherlands, but far-left activist groups complained to the government and demanded he be barred from entering the country.
The municipality of Amsterdam also asked the Dutch IND (Immigration and Naturalisation Service) “to investigate whether Icke can be refused entry to the country,” an appeal that was apparently successful.
The municipality complained that Icke had made “anti-Semitic statements in the past that are unacceptable and deeply hurtful,” although it didn’t cite any specific examples.
The same authority even asked that if Icke had been allowed into the country, his speech at the event “be closely monitored by the Public Prosecutor to assess whether criminal statements are being made.”
Questions about the event were also asked in the Dutch parliament.
It remains to be seen what justification Dutch authorities actually used to ban Icke from speaking in the country, and why the ban also reportedly applies across the entire European Union.
Icke was previously deplatformed by multiple Big Tech platforms for opposing lockdown and vaccine mandates.
Some respodents to the news asserted that Icke had been banned for being outspoken against former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his role within the World Economic Forum.