https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/11/21/the-suppression-of-free-speech-has-close-to-majority-support-in-america/
An excerpt -In other words, the Western World has it fixed so that everything that is not propaganda and a lie in service to official narratives is defined as “misinformation.” The ruling establishment has set up “fact checkers” whose function is to represent official narratives as the only correct explanations. Many Americans are so utterly stupid that they believe that someone who calls himself a “fact checker” is one. The point has been reached where any American who favors free speech, such as Elon Musk, is a prospect for investigation as a foreign agent.
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My thought is not only the Western world but the united governments of planet Earth and owners of media properties are marching in goose step . Of course generally speaking freedom in any sense of dissent from the Establishment is never welcome. Perhaps what is new is fewer people agree with it axiomatically (a point PCR ignored) and so see the iron fist has no velvet glove unless it is blood. PCR raises alarm. His point is that censorship in this digital age with a dumbed down population bombarded by propaganda is increasing and gaining strength. Everyday life in USA and the West is “Life During Wartime.”. War of course is the health of the State. And enriches the corporations behind the State.
And after 2020 the unelected coup government is engaged in total war against the American population for the WEF masters.
In this nation the excuse of foreign subversion brought the new nation the Alien and Sedition Acts of President Adams. The Sedition Act, passed on July 14, gave Adams tremendous power to define treasonable activity including any false, scandalous and malicious writing. The intended targets of the Sedition Act were newspaper, pamphlet and broadside publishers who printed what he considered to be libelous articles aimed primarily at his administration. Abigail Adams urged her husband to pass the Sedition Act, calling his opponents criminal and vile.
The Civil War had Lincoln arrest and imprison without Habeas Corpus. And -When the Civil War began in April 1861, the Lincoln administration censored telegraph dispatches to and from Washington. His administration created military tribunals to deal with disloyalty. Government officials shut down newspapers, such as the Chicago Times, for criticizing President Lincoln and his cabinet members.
Woodrow Wilson to fight WW1 “….required a clear message and a cooperative public. The federal government established the Committee on Public Information (CPI), which deployed propaganda to convince Americans of World War I's legitimacy and the importance of civic contributions. Congress also passed the Espionage (1917) and Sedition (1918) Acts to enforce loyalty and silence dissent. Postmaster General Albert Burleson used the Espionage Act to ban from the mail those magazines and newspapers he perceived as promoting discord against the government and undermining national unity. Government policies and wartime nationalism encouraged citizens to police one another's loyalty and patriotism. As a result, political dissidents, ethnic minorities, and militant labor organizations and their leaders were subject to increased scrutiny and, on occasion, violence. Ultimately, challenges by citizens to limits on free speech would help create a modern conception of citizenship based on individual rights and civil liberties.
https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/world-war-i-american-experiences/about-this-exhibition/over-here/surveillance-and-censorship/
WW2--The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover emergency authority to censor all news and control all communications in and out of the country.
Before the start of World War II, Congress passed the country’s first peacetime sedition law, called the Alien Registration Act of 1940, sometimes called the Smith Act because Title I of the law was named after Rep. Howard W. Smith of Virginia.
The law prohibited advocating or teaching the “propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United States by force or violence” and the printing or publishing of any material advocating or teaching the violent overthrow of the country.
For a good overview—https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1597/free-speech-during-wartime
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DjShMQw2H2cM&ved=2ahUKEwiX7-SR6r_7AhUZJEQIHROWBTQQ3yx6BAgOEAI&usg=AOvVaw2UP23AjJaeCbZx22U7EpH7
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.”
Thomas Jefferson
At some point Americans are going to take the power of the purse and stop funding the federal government.
The reason the doddering fool in the White House wanted 87,000 new IRS agents was to prevent a tax revolt.
It was a tactic used by the colonists against king George III and in our declaration of independence we explained that when the government is dangerous to the liberty of the people it's our right to abolish it and form one that does.