{"id":327988,"date":"2022-12-06T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/?p=327988"},"modified":"2022-12-05T04:11:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T09:11:39","slug":"should-there-be-any-censorship-no-none","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/2022\/12\/should-there-be-any-censorship-no-none\/","title":{"rendered":"Should there be any censorship? (NO \u2014 NONE!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Eric Zuesse, The Duran<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Conservatives<\/b>\u00a0say yes, there should be censorship, because otherwise what they feel is repulsive can become spread: they fear its spread and are convinced that censorship (by people who believe as they do) must be imposed. That\u2019s NOT democracy.<\/p>\n

TRUTH LIVES on at\u00a0https:\/\/sgtreport.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Liberals<\/b>\u00a0agree with conservatives on this question, though they want different people to be doing the censoring, because some of their beliefs are different from conservatives\u2019 beliefs. (Anyone who thinks that liberals \u2014 Democrats in the U.S. \u2014 aren\u2019t ardent for censoring, should explain how that can be so, since\u00a0overwhelmingly<\/span><\/a>\u00a0the political money donated by executives and other employees of the gossip-grapevine, Twitter, has gone to Democrats, and those employees decided to censor-out from their site the damning evidence against the Biden family \u2014 Joe, Hunter, and James \u2014 that the Republican Party\u2019s\u00a0N.Y. Post<\/i>\u00a0had published on 15 October 2020 under the headline\u00a0\u201cEmails reveal how Hunter Biden tried to cash in big on behalf of family with Chinese firm\u201d<\/span><\/a>. (Maybe Trump would have won that election if this report of the Biden family\u2019s corruptness had been spread and discussed instead of squelched as \u2018Russian disinformation\u2019, as was done.) Then, the Democratic Party\u2019s Politico \u2018news\u2019-site headlined on 19 October 2020,\u00a0\u201cHunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and buried two-thirds of the way down the key passage (which had been in the top third of the document), in these Deep-State operatives\u2019 letter, the passage which included the fact \u201cthat we do not know if the emails [from Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop computer], provided to the New York Post by President Trump\u2019s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement.\u201d The signers said there that they were signing ONLY to having \u201csuspicions\u201d that this had happened \u2014 but Politico\u00a0suppressed<\/i>\u00a0that\u00a0most crucial of all<\/i>\u00a0the allegations in the document. Also: Glenn Greenwald was forced out of the Democratic Party billionaire Pierre Omidyar\u2019s \u201cThe Intercept\u201d \u2018news\u2019-site on 29 October 2020 for submitting a news-report titled\u00a0\u201cTHE REAL SCANDAL: U.S. MEDIA USES FALSEHOODS TO DEFEND JOE BIDEN FROM HUNTER\u2019S EMAILS\u201d<\/span><\/a>. And, furthermore, the Democratic Party\u2019s\u00a0Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0headlined on 1 November 2020 the lie that\u00a0\u201cFor Russia, Biden is the foe they know. The Kremlin is studying old playbooks.\u201d<\/span><\/a>\u00a0As Greenwald subsequently pointed out,\u00a0\u201cTwitter\u2019s \u2018foreign govt hacking\u2019 pretext for censoring was a lie, and they knew it.\u201d<\/span><\/a>) So, regarding censorship, conservatives and liberals are effectively the same but protect different lies and liars. The two groups believe and protect two different, competing, myths. That\u2019s NOT a democracy. It\u2019s rule by billionaires (who control those politicians and media), NOT by the public.<\/p>\n

Libertarians<\/b>\u00a0say no, because anything that limits a person\u2019s freedom is condemned by them on principle \u2014 they even are sometimes called \u201canarchists\u201d because no principled line (no clear distinction) exists separating libertarians from anarchists (persons who oppose ALL government). HOWEVER, libertarians (even self-declared anarchists) disagree with one-another about whether the\u00a0private<\/i>\u00a0sector, including corporations (such as Twitter), have a right to censor: some say yes, it\u2019s part of their (the private sector\u2019s) freedom; but some say no, no entity has a right to censor, because that limits\u00a0another<\/i>\u00a0person\u2019s freedom. Some say that ONLY parents have a right to censor what their children receive. CONSEQUENTLY: Libertarians don\u2019t ACTUALLY have any clear and principle-based position, for or against censorship. Libertarianism provides no answer to this question \u2014 other than the myth that they are committed to everyone\u2019s \u201cfreedom.\u201d Libertarianism is a nullity, a nothing, on censorship: neither for it nor against it. It allows rule by billionaires (whose agents fool the public), and no democracy would.<\/p>\n

Progressives<\/b>\u00a0say no: Nothing can possibly justify censorship of anything,\u00a0except<\/i>\u00a0of demonstrable (provable) falsehoods. This means that, if a court of law cannot reasonably disprove an allegation, then the public must be able to consider the evidence both for and against it. Neither the Government nor any other entity has a right to prevent the public from considering and debating any allegation. A progressive is devoted to science, and science is based upon this same principle \u2014 ANY possible truth must be considered by the public. (A provably false statement cannot possibly be true.) Progressives can differ with one-another in allocating criminal versus civil liability for the spreading of allegations that are provably false; but, they are united in opposing ANY liability for the spreading of truths. The ONLY exception to this is that if the nation is legally at war and under \u201cmartial law,\u201d then its Government has a right to censor, (or \u201cclassify\u201d) allegations in order to protect the nation\u2019s sovereignty against the legally declared \u201cenemy.\u201d That is the ONLY exception to the progressives\u2019 principle that NO possibly true statement should EVER be censored by ANYONE. Progressivism \u2014 the ideology of science \u2014 advocates clearly for democracy, NOT for any aristocracy.<\/p>\n

Read More @ TheDuran.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Eric Zuesse, The Duran: Conservatives\u00a0say yes, there should be censorship, because otherwise what they feel is repulsive can become spread: they fear its spread and are convinced that censorship (by people who believe as they do) must be imposed. That\u2019s NOT democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[143633],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sgtreport.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}