May 18, 2022
Biden Tries Controlling (Dis)Information
By Sloan Oliver
The goal of tyrants, dictators, and oppressive governments is to gain power and then stay in power. They largely do this by controlling information -- the information available and who has access to it. Information is power, and tyrants use information to gain power. So, for a king or dictator, etc., to gain power and stay in control, they tried to monopolize information. Throughout most of history, that was an easy task because there were few books and few people could read. There were no radios, TV, internet, or libraries. For the vast majority, the Bible, Quran, etc. was the single source of information. If it wasn’t in the Bible, you didn’t need to know it. The king, caliph, etc. would tell you what you needed to know, and that was it.
That changed with the rise of modern society. Education and increased literacy, book printing, radio, TV, and the internet provided information to billions of people. However, tyrants and oppressive regimes still managed to control the information available to their citizens. State-sponsored media in countries like the Soviet Union, North Korea, China, Turkey, and Iran insured the people heard only what the government allowed. All other information was labeled “disinformation” and was banned. Facts that made the government look bad were banned as dangerous misinformation, were not allowed to be disseminated, and became a crime to share.
An example of “facts are a crime” is the Armenian (and Christian) massacre by Turkey during WW I. Over 1 million were killed in that genocide. Yet, in Turkey, it’s a crime to teach that Armenians were massacred. The fact that genocide occurred is suppressed, ignored, and criminalized to the point where most Turks have never heard of it; or, if they have, they call it disinformation. Same thing in North Korea, a country totally cut off from the outside world such that the people only know what their government tells them. The old Soviet Union’s leading paper was called Pravda. The Soviets told Pravda exactly what to publish -- disinformation (lies) that was positive toward communism and misinformation (more lies) about the United States and the West, all to keep the people ignorant of the truth.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/05/biden_tries_controlling_disinformation.html
