Hey, now, when the pandemic is spreading, what is a little censorship of freedom of speech??
If you suggest that politicians should call for the removal of published works, the initial response of many people is to back down and issue condemnation. The notion that the government seeks to silence certain individuals runs counter to our core beliefs. However, one of our politicians is currently calling for this action, and the response is so hollow that you have to wonder how far we have drifted as a country.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has launched an action against Amazon. Whether you have a Prime membership or not, you should immediately chill. Following the tradition of her party’s desire to take advantage of the crisis, Warren is taking action against the overall retailer and restricting access to products in the name of pandemic protection. This does have an appropriate veil because she mentioned concerns about potential counterfeit medical supplies, but then she took excessive measures because she also wanted to restrict published works under the same security pretense.
To say that the media accepts the infringement of the First Amendment too casually is an understatement. In the past year, we have seen members of the media support the stifling of personal content, cheer for the eradication of Donald Trump’s social media accounts, and defend the de-platformization of the entire social media platform. In addition, some reporters asked other reporters and the media to keep silent.
This is a new and frustrating reality, and those who rely on the field of free expression are actually introducing this meaningless pathology. Oliver Darcy of CNN has been one of the more outspoken activists who oppose his best interests. After becoming the main voice that pushed Alex Jones to remain largely silent, when Steven Crowder was expelled, he went on to say that Paller was locked, and when the target individual was removed from the platform, he Remind that technology companies still “allow” the use of another service in some way.
Darcy has been working recently to get cable and satellite providers to remove conservative news channels from their channel packages. Shut down the publication and unplug the TV station; this is a reporter who called for the approach usually seen in the communist dictator in Tin Kok.
For her efforts, Liz Warren sent a letter to Amazon asking the company to take on the tasks of its practice, and it takes almost no time to feel troubled. The opening remarks opened the door to authoritarianism.
Dear Mr. Jassy: I am writing to express my concern about Amazon peddling misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments through its search and “bestseller” algorithms.
This is the grenade of the review, because it uses the judgment we have been through for more than a year. The use of the term “misinformation” sounds correct and appropriate at first, but its dark side has to do with who is deciding what is misinformation. Since the coronavirus outbreak, we have repeatedly witnessed people being flagged and punished for content deemed inaccurate, but the results have been proven to be correct.
Warren sounded sane at first, because her first page focused on concerns about medical masks that were mislabeled or attributable. But then she started to turn.
When every step towards ending the pandemic can save countless lives, misinformation constitutes a huge obstacle. In February 2020, the World Health Organization announced an “information epidemic” to describe the difficulty of finding reliable information about COVID19 in today’s media environment.
This became a channel for her to promote censorship of works provided by merchants. She explained that she and her employees ran searches on the site, and these queries brought some disturbing results. The result of their investigation was, “Top ranked and well-labeled books based on false information about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. ”
Without the ominous attachment to her goal here, her next paragraph would be very interesting. She quoted a book that appeared in their search, “The truth about COVID-19: exposing the big reset, lockdown, vaccine passport and the new normal,” Written by Joseph Mercola and Ronnie Cummins. First, Mercola is a doctor. Second, you can see from the title why this book makes her unhappy because it solves the pandemic in her party Very authoritarian practices during the period-including a politician who wanted to suppress what had already been said.
But Liz here not only showed indifference to the subtleties, but also bluntly dismissed the matter. She went on to describe how the book was listed on Amazon, where “It was marked by Amazon as the “No. 1 Best Seller” in the “Bestseller” and “Political Freedom” categories. “That’s all you need to know to understand how vicious her mission is here.
Although this move to suppress freedom of speech made a politician uneasy, the media’s silence on this move is worrying. Few people in the media have read her letter objectively. CNBC sees it as A common sense move As far as she is concerned.As for Oliver Darcy, he described her message in detail with a positive attitude exist Reliable source communication.
“Sen. Elizabeth Warren called Amazon on Wednesday and wrote a stern letter. She said she was worried that the tech giant “peddled misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.” He said ecstatically, maybe he was jealous that he didn’t think of such a move. “Warren asked the company to respond to her letter within two weeks. ” Hardly any criticism can be found.
Warren’s push also ignores one of the most obvious criticisms that the First Amendment is threatened by prejudice. The thing to note here is that this will be a private company carrying out these actions, so this is not a 1-A problem. However, to solve this problem, you must ignore the mandatory requirements of current politicians. Q-What happens if Warren does not receive a response within two weeks?
This is a new way for the government to exercise control while avoiding violating the Constitution. They try to use truncated law enforcement methods because they just pass it on to private companies, but when these companies cooperate with the government-whether obedient or forced-they are actually government officials. government.
The media played with this strategy, making the rest of the country more troublesome.
