Although it is important that we question everything we read, it is just as important that we do not let the government control what we read.
Thanks to unprecedented advances in technology, people are able to access information at rates and levels that would have been unimaginable even a couple decades ago. We can store information that would have taken entire libraries to fill in times past on devices no bigger than our hands today, and transmit it faster than anyone could have dreamed of. This has made it possible for ordinary people to not just find news, but disseminate it as well.
The downside of this is that since everybody can share news, anybody can, leading to misleading and even outright false stories spreading. Even worse, this gives the busybodies in Washington a pretext to exert their control over alternative media.
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Just what we need. More government regulation.
So they just created a Ministry of Truth?
In Nov 2010 Obama repealed a law passed in the late 1940’s. That law stated that the government shall not use media sources for propaganda purposes. It was intended to keep anyone from becoming another adolf$#%&!@*by use of media propaganda just as$#%&!@*did in Germany. Since Obama repealed that law what has happened? The media have been paid to outright lie to everyone. Now, who is really to blame here?
This bill has not become law. The last action taken was in March when it was referred to committee. Where are you getting those numbers? What is that 2/3rds stuff?
The bill that passed house not Senate
U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) today announced that their Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act – legislation designed to help American allies counter foreign government propaganda from Russia, China, and other nations – has passed the Senate as part of the FY 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Conference Repo
IIT was passed in the house within another bill
I see that now. A “minister of truth”. Another attack on the First Amendment.
I do not think anybody should try to suppress the 1st Amendment.
Screw them. People need to do their own research before they believe all the c**p being published, especially by the main stream liars.