The New Orthodoxy: Jurisdiction over your Thoughts. by Techno Fog
Question the government and the retaliation will be swift.
Let us start with a principle: that civil government has zero jurisdiction over thought. Let us also recognize that this isn’t just about what they perceive to be the “truth.” It is about power over what can be said.
Their problem is that the truth is an ever-fixed mark. While they cannot transform the truth – the truth, by its very nature, is unchanging – they circumvent this limitation by exercising power over what can be said.
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This gives the impression that what can be said is what is supposed to be said, and that what is prohibited must certainly be false. Not by the merits of the claim but whether the claim is allowed to be communicated or researched or even debated. This is how falsehoods win over the truth, and how politics corrupts it all.
Reporting on studies of vaccine effectiveness – even by the inventor of the mRNA technology used in some COVID vaccines – are banned from YouTube. Medical experts and scientists who present evidence and arguments contrary to government-approved thoughts are silenced. It seems the only authorized information on these platforms is that which is approved by “the CDC, FDA and other local health authorities.”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki, expressing the position of the Biden Administration, called for Americans to be banned from all social media platforms if they dare think for themselves and disagree with “science.”
Jen Psaki just suggested that people spreading misinformation be banned from other/all platforms if they're banned from one. pic.twitter.com/SlNXJTXi0I
— jordan (@JordanUhl) July 16, 2021
The U.S. Surgeon General demands consequences against those who discuss what he considers to be “misinformation,” with a particular emphasis to target “live streams.”
How paternalistic. As if Americans cannot think or reason for themselves and need bureaucrats to do it for them. But it goes further than that. They’re worried that you might start thinking dangerously if you start thinking for yourself. Or are they trying to get in front of something that might be bad?
Anyway, this is concerning teamwork between public and private, with the CDC and other governmental agencies and officials setting out the guidelines of what we may think, and the platforms banning those who believe different. It is government-sanctioned punishment of thought: question the government and the retaliation will be swift.
