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July 16, 2021
The Biden administration boasts about controlling discourse on Facebook
By Andrea Widburg
For years, I’ve been telling anyone who will listen that the tight link between government and big tech is a hallmark of fascism: Unlike fascism’s socialist brother, communism, which has government take over the means of production, fascism, as Hitler and Mussolini practiced it, is an intertwining of private enterprise and government, which each serving the other. Genocidal megalomania is not a prerequisite for fascism, so I’m not calling Biden “Hitler.” However, we should all be concerned when Biden’s spokesman boasts that the White House is flagging “problematic” content for Facebook so it can know what to censor.
Here is Jen Psaki, telling a roomful of admiring “reporters” (read: flacks) that the Biden administration is making sure that only government-approved information ends up in the hands of the social media outlets that are the way many Americans get their news:
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1415727354463281159
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