Josh Hawley Claims to be the Victim of Censorship

 

Sen. Josh Hawley, who voted against the certification of the 2020 presidential election results even after the U.S. Capitol was attacked with him in it, is complaining that he’s being canceled.

Josh Hawley graduated from Stanford and Harvard Law school yet is to stupid to understand how the first amendment works. It's not like there's a Ministry Of Truth telling Josh what he can and can not say. Publishers and social media companies have to obligation to provide Josh with a platform in which to spew his crap and support for an insurrection.

U.S. Homeland Security Is Literally Spying On Journalists

Physically attacking and arresting journalists just wasn't enough for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security they decided that spying on journalists covering the the protests in Portland should have intelligence dossiers created for further intimidation.  As the first amendment protects journalists from government interference and oversight Homeland Security concluded that violating these guaranteed was the best way to combat negative reporting.   

‘Intelligence reports’ distributed to other federal agencies decried as violation of constitutional right to a free press

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been surveilling the work of American journalists reporting on the unrest in Portland, Oregon, circulating “intelligence reports” on them to other federal agencies in a move that has been decried as a clear violation of the constitutional right to a free press.

The Washington Post obtained the intelligence reports which were compiled by the unit within DHS known as the “office of intelligence and analysis”. The newspaper said the reports were distributed in the past week to law enforcement and other agencies.

They referred specifically to two prominent US journalists whose reporting had revealed the disarray within the Trump administration’s contentious deployment of federal agents to quell protests in Portland.

One of the journalists, Mike Baker of the New York Times, had disclosed a leaked DHS memo that discussed the confusion prevalent among the federal agents sent to Portland. The memo showed that the camouflaged officers had little understanding of the nature of the demonstrations they were being asked to police.

The second journalist was Benjamin Wittes, who edits the national security blog Lawfare. He had also published leaked DHS documents, one of which was a memo warning the department’s officials not to disclose information to reporters.

Police arrest CNN correspondent Omar Jimenez and crew on live television

CNN's Omar Jimenez was taken into police custody during a live broadcast at the site of the protests in Minneapolis, after clearly identifying himself to officers. Jimenez's crew were also placed in handcuffs

Harassment is breaking Twitter's free speech experiment

What happens when “free speech” requires censorship?

Twitter’s announcement that it’s doubling its character limit to give users up to 280 characters per tweet made headlines this week. It was a PR campaign to show off new features that they hope will entice new users onto the platform. What it doesn’t address are the challenges facing current users and their safety on Twitter. Underneath the attention-grabbing, cosmetic changes, the platform is grappling with a much more fundamental question: When and why should it regulate hateful speech?

At its inception, Twitter was designed to be a kind of radical experiment in free speech. Users could tweet anonymously, could contact high-profile users without first getting their permission, and rarely had to worry about Twitter censoring their content. In the preambleto Twitter’s original rules, the company stated, “each user is responsible for the content he or she provides … we do not actively monitor and will not censor user content, except in limited circumstances described below.”

Just How Stupid Is Donald Trump? Very!

Donald Trump over the last few days has issued tweets that threatened to suspend the broadcast licenses of America's  major broadcast networks. What he's done has threatened the constitutional rights of the networks and a free press.

Mr Trump tweeted on Wednesday morning: "With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!"

"It is frankly disgusting the way the press is able to write whatever they want to write, and people should look into it," he said at the White House.

CPJ 

✔@pressfreedom

Trump’s assertion that @NBC’s license could be challenged emboldens other gov'ts to embrace authoritarian tendencies https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/918112884630093825 …

Donald J. Trump 

✔@realDonaldTrump

Fake @NBCNews made up a story that I wanted a "tenfold" increase in our U.S. nuclear arsenal. Pure fiction, made up to demean. NBC = CNN!

Donald J. Trump 

✔@realDonaldTrump

With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!

America's major broadcast networks do not hold broadcast licenses 

The local stations that broadcast their content hold broadcast licenses.

The Week That Was

 The Hair rises to the top.  In an amazing show of ignorance and racism The Hair has ascended to the top of the Republican Presidential national polls.  The Hair appeals to the lowest form of conservative voter, racists, homophobes, the anti immigrant, anti Muslim and the white privilege crowd.  Even with NBC, Univision and and other business partners dropping him like underwater basket weaving 101 it hasn't stopped The Hair from inflecting his racism on the masses at every turn.
 The Hair hit back at Univision by banning them from using his golf course in Florida located next to Univision headquarters.  I'm sure that left a mark.  He'll also be suing Macy's, NBC Universal and Univision. 



Hideo Onishi a member of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party was "reprimanded" by the LDP for voicing their actual feelings about a free press in a public forum.  The editors of the newspapers in question both published in Okinawa slammed Onishi for his asinine remarks.  Last year the LDP sent letters to all of Japan's media outlets "urging" fair coverage in the run up to December's general election. What that letter really meant: LDP policies must always been shown in favorable light.



While America trumpets about freedom of expression and the press the NSA seems to be quite busy not only spying on America's allies but trying to thwart the press in those countries as well.  The NSA's ire was directed at the German magazine Der Spiegel which was involved in the publication of the documents from former NSA contract worker Edward  Snowden.

America loves telling the rest of worlds countries just how screwed up they are. Especially authoritarian governments. Yet, here's America acting just like a second rate dictatorship.




One has to wonder just how obtuse Japanese politicians are?  These people live in, either a parallel universe or  another dimension.  What else explains the ultra stupidity behind nominating  23 sites in the country six of which are associated with forced or slave labour to be designated World Heritage sites by  UNESCO.   That's like nominating the Confederate States of America as a symbol of racial tolerance.  


North Korea is so secretive that most of its citizens have no idea its called North Korea has decided to crack down on the use of the internet by the 50 people who actually have access.  Talk about abject paranoia.  It's like Richard Nixon wiring the Oval Office so he can spy on himself or The East German government hiring half of the population to spy on the other half.  What's Kim Jong-un afraid of?  That given enough information the good citizens of North Korea might rise up and over throw his fat ass after learning they're being allowed to starve just so he can get fat.