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LIZ WARREN FINALLY HAS A GOOD IDEA

From Powerline Blog, by Blogger John Hinderaker, 29 January 2020.

Here is the lede plus one:

Elizabeth Warren wants to jail fellow Democrats who spread the Russia collusion hoax and, more recently, the Ukraine impeachment fraud.  That, at least, is how I read her latest proposal:  “Elizabeth Warren proposes criminal penalties for spreading voting disinformation online.”

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday released a plan to fight disinformation and to hold tech companies accountable for their actions in light of the 2016 election.

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Warren proposed to combat disinformation by holding big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google responsible for spreading misinformation designed to suppress voters from turning out.

“I will push for new laws that impose tough civil and criminal penalties for knowingly disseminating this kind of information, which has the explicit purpose of undermining the basic right to vote,” Warren said in a release.

I assume she refers to Democrats who spread the ridiculous Russia collusion hoax, which was implausible on its face, in an effort to discourage Republican voters from turning out and to dissuade other voters from voting for Donald Trump.  As to 2020, the most obvious targets of her proposed statute would be the Democrats who smeared President Trump on the basis of the Ukraine fraud.

Yes, the question is who gets to decide truth from fiction?

Not the Government.  They have been recently found to have lied, numerous times, to the FISA Court, thus abusing the rights of Citizens.

Not the media, which distributed the lies of the Steele dossier, a collection of political lies.

The Judiciary?  Not likely.

Maybe this is about what we call social media, which is replacing newspapers,♠ and the idea is that faceless corporate censors will, in the absence of journalistic skills, decide right from wrong for us.

Senator E Warren's idea is one that may look good at first glance, but is actually fascist in its execution.  Like a couple of Senator Warren's ideas.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Here is a short history of newspapers, which became a common thing after the invention of the printing press, with the first European newspaper beginning publication in 1605 AD.