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So, why should anyone want to impose licensing on bloggers? Why did King George want to limit the Colonist’s access to printing presses and their output? Why do the Chinese, Iranian & Egyptian regimes imprison and torture bloggers? Censorship is the tyrant’s way of preserving his grip on power. In a relatively free society, censorship is the first rung on the ladder to tyranny.
All the while, they’ll deny limiting free speech. They won’t jail anyone. They won’t make anyone disappear, but they will use more subtle means to silence bloggers, or anyone else that disagrees with them. And all the while, they’ll couch their fascism in kind terms. That is what is makes it difficult to define. Always remember that totalitarians never announce themselves, or their true intent. They never tell you the real agenda.
The Combating Defamation of Religious resolutions are propaganda, not law. But they serve to add a false patina of legitimacy to existing blasphemy laws in Pakistan and other places where they are used to persecute adherents of minority religions. They also create an atmosphere of support for the proposed protocol to ICERD which is slowly progressing in the Ad Hoc Committee for the Elaboration of Complementary Standards.
They want us to be disconnected, isolated, discouraged, and (especially) silent. By removing the means to exchange information, they seek to disconnect us from our sense of belonging, and more importantly, real news. They mean to isolate us from information that proves what we see and think.
We warned this would happen many months ago. Yet, here we are today, and people are surprised by this blatant move to assert control over the Internet and, indirectly, over those who use it. That would be you and me!
With so many of the President’s advisers being either avowed communists, or at least functional communists, it was only a matter of time before I ended up quoting Marx. Up for discussion today, is the “Diversity officer” of the FCC, Mark Lloyd. He seems to have some interesting ideas about media.
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