Nina Jankowicz is back.
During the Biden administration, Jankowicz, scourge of “disinformation,” lost her perch as head of an incipient Disinformation Governance Board.
People learned that the Board existed; were aghast; got it closed.
If only government censorship were always so easy to kill.
Now this nag, with no prospect of getting a job muzzling people she disagrees with from the Trump administration, is making a nuisance of herself internationally.
She’s preaching to the European Union, which Jonathan Turley calls “the global hub for censorship efforts,”warning that the Trump administration wants “to force EU institutions to roll back regulation like the DSA [Digital Services Act],” which seeks to impose a regime of online censorship.
We want the right to say false things if we’re not trying to defraud anyone. Why? For several reasons, but we often inadvertently say untruths.
We also want the right to say true things.
When people disagree with each other, both can’t be 100 percent right, but they can both be trying to find the truth. And discourse is often crucial to finding it. Truth doesn’t arrive readymade in the form of secure and impenetrable revelation.
Neglecting all this, censors like Jankowicz and the EU’s mandarins prefer to enforce current government viewpoints and punish contradictions of them that exceed a certain threshold of annoyingness.
They seem unaware of the great fact that even governments (!) can be mistaken.
By the way, if you haven’t listened to Jankowicz warble her censorship rap to the tune of “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” you really should do so in expiation of whatever sins you may have committed in this life.
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Elsewhere, I have noted that Europeans and Canadians are canaries in the coal mines of the WEFfy policies and programmes of censorship, personal disarmament, and generation of power without fossil fuels.
The mainstream of our media doesn’t want us to understand how dire those coal mines are, let alone how dire they will become. But we’ve seen European officials fine a pundit and demand that he apologize for mocking a public official, and attempt to restrict expression not only at home but abroad, to the extent even of seeking to deplatform an American Presidential candidate on an American social network. We’ve seen their rates of violent crimes soar. And we’ve seen two of their nations go dark.
Even with the sacrifice of those canaries, many Americans are on-board with policies and programmes of the same sort. But that number would be still greater were we not to be shown how diminished are the peoples of Europe and of Canada.
Watching Jancowitz testify as a democrat witness before congress re:censorship, my conclusion is she is very articulate, well versed demon. She should be nowhere near any censorship regime.