The censoring of Joe Rogan is a tactic right out of old Soviet UnionBy Rebekah Koffler
February 5, 2022
Make no mistake, the recent Joe Rogan vs. Spotify scandal is not about COVID and what constitutes proper medical protocols to fight it. It’s about the future of free speech in America.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s statement on Tuesday, directing Big Tech and Spotify to do “more” to eradicate alleged COVID “misinformation” on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, suggests that the future of the First Amendment is bleak. A representative of a ruling party dictating to a private company what content is “accurate” and what is not, is a clear sign that the US government has embraced censorship.
Just like the Soviets, the benevolent authoritarians want to “protect” you from the bad influence of the Rogan type “rogues.” Consider that the Rogan interview deemed wrongheaded by America’s elites was not with some charlatan but with a medical doctor, a clinician, Dr. Robert Malone. Malone’s thought crime is that he doesn’t sing in unison with the “The Science” espoused by Tony Fauci, who has been stood up as the COVID Minister of Propaganda whose every word must be accepted as truth.
As someone who grew up behind the Iron Curtain, in the former USSR, I am all too familiar with the dangers of censorship, a hallmark of communist totalitarianism. There’s a reason why repressive states like Russia and its predecessor, the Soviet Union, cling to it. That is how the ruling class stays in power. Totalitarian states do not tolerate alternative viewpoints because they don’t want their subjects to engage in critical thinking, which can lead to the end of their regimes. Therefore, they control what the people say, write, and even think by punishing those whose opinions stray from an established orthodoxy.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2022/02/05/the-censoring-joe-rogan-is-a-tactic-out-of-old-soviet-union/
