‘Friendly Fascism’: Biden White House Wanted To Censor Even Private Speech Over COVID Vax
In 1980, the book” Friendly Fascism” foresaw the alliance and unification of Big Government and Big Business in America, stifling the common man and ushering in a new era of tyranny disguised as” smiles” while actually being oppressed.
By targeting personal statement under the guise of COVID – 19 guidelines, the Biden White House may have put even more pressure on Big Tech to adopt a similar style of” Friendly Fascism” than was previously known.
There hasn’t been much coverage up until now about how the executive branch wanted individual and encrypted communications censored, despite the fact that it appears that the U.S. government was working with Big Tech on publicly accessible social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.
Investigative journalist David Zweig claimed on Friday that he was able to obtain White House letters as a result of the court’s Missouri v. Biden ruling, which revealed that only six days into the trump management, important high-ranking employees had already been pressuring Facebook, its parent company, to take action to restrict COVID vaccination” disinformation” across its platforms, including WhatsApp, the corporate messaging service of Meta.
According to that story, Rob Flaherty, Biden’s White House Director of Digital Strategy, sent Meta an email in slow March 2021 asking for clarification on how the company was handling messages on WhatsApp that cast doubt on the COVID vaccine.
According to Zweig,” Flaherty wanted to know what they were doing to lessen damage on the communications game.” On March 22, 2021, he wrote,” If you can’t see the message, I’m genuinely curious— how do you know what kinds of messages you’ve cut down on?” He appeared to be dissatisfied with earlier explanations.
Unlike Facebook, WhatsApp does not have a public-facing component to its system. It is only used by owners to provide an encrypted means of communication. According to the letters Zweig obtained, 90 % of groups contain fewer than 10 people in each group.
Flaherty sent a number of inquiries— all of which appeared to be related to ensuring that Meta could be trusted to restrict free speech — during the White House’s email correspondence with the business.
The WhatsApp consultant once made an effort to respectfully explain to Flaherty how WhatsApp differs from other social media platforms, negating the need for the majority of mitigation efforts present on other platforms.
Flaherty replied that he was” Pretty aware”— replete with a grin emoji, in contrast to the grin that was forewarned about in that 43-year-old book- how the app operated in an effort to intimidate Big Tech into joining forces with Big Government.
Zweig claimed that in order to counter any potentially dangerous speech, WhatsApp had therefore chosen to take specific pieces of information to its customers. Additionally, they claimed that they were restricting the spread of illegal speech because no” popularity” on the request was impossible.
The letters show that Flaherty was really upset with Meta by April 2021 because he hadn’t provided adequate answers to his inquiries.
He emailed to Meta at the time,” I care mainly about what activities and modifications you’re making to ensure you aren’t making our sorry vaccine hesitancy issue worse.” ” I still don’t have a strong, reply answer on how successful you’ve been in reducing the spread of vaccine-skeptic posts and fence to vaccine border pets.”
Given everyone we know from the Twitter Files, the nixed – Government Disinformation Board, and many” propaganda” initiatives, why is this important now?
Democrats have long argued that in order to protect the British government, the government and Big Tech must have a close working relationship because lies that may harm the country can go viral.
However, WhatsApp is essentially the same as a phone call, email, or table conversation with your buddies. As long as it is not encouraging or connected to a crime, what is being said in those conversations is none of the government’s market.
The Biden White House was or is willing to go to strip statement that it does not endorse of, according to new questions raised by Zweig’s article. Even worse, it appears that they will use Big Tech to try to trample on ordinary people while grinning, either in person or in their own letters.
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