[ April 24, 2024 ]
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy has taken to social media to call for the big tech companies to “do more than take down one website.”
The message was in reference to the censorship of InfoWars and Alex Jones. He’s basically asking for more action — more censorship.
Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart. These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it.
— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) August 6, 2018
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Think about it — think about what that means: A U.S. senator in the business of upholding the Constitution has called on social media companies to cut out all the conservative chatter.
Truly, could the Democratic Party be any more treasonous?
From Breitbart:
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) is calling on social media monopolies to “do more than take down one website,” meaning take down more websites on top of InfoWars, which was de-platformed by YouTube, Facebook, and others on Monday.
“Infowars [sic] is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart,” Murphy tweeted Monday afternoon. “These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it.”
Obviously, what Murphy sees here is an opportunity to go around the First Amendment, to kill free and open speech he disagrees with, and to accomplish that using social media giants as his hit squad.
Democrats and the establishment media are desperate to return America back to the pre-Internet days when a very few corporations controlled the free flow of information, those corporations being the four television networks and a handful of newspapers and wire services.
Conservatives now find themselves, once again, in the precarious position of being at the mercy of just a handful of companies: Twitter, Facebook, Apple, YouTube, Pinterest, etc… And what Murphy and his left-wing confederates want is to crush speech, to control the flow of information, to strangle certain ideas in the crib, and to use these monopolies as a way to go back to the “good old days” when the left-wing establishment fully controlled the dissemination of news.
If America had a media that was worth a damn, Murphy would be asked for a list of these “websites” he would like to see de-platfomed and disappeared. Unfortunately, the same media outlets that claim the First Amendment is being violated whenever they are criticized, have joined in this unholy and un-American crusade to silence their critics on the political right.
What’s more, Murphy’s call for these big companies to remove websites is not a small deal. As a sitting United States Senator, he has the power to threaten and regulate these corporations to do his bidding.
In more ways than one way Alex Jones and InfoWars are the canary in the coalmine of free speech.
While I personally find InfoWars ridiculous and dishonest (although there are some good people working there), as a free speech extremist, I want to protect the rights of those who lie and spread nonsense in the same way I want to protect the rights of pornographers and even an outlet like CNN that spreads hate and foments violence.
If InfoWars and pornographers and CNN are safe from censorship, than so are you and I. Moreover, there is no speech out there (unless it’s an open call for violence) that results in something worse than what we see when speech is regulated or silenced.
In other words, I prefer a world where people are allowed to lie to a world where someone decides what is and is not a lie.
nfoWars being silenced tightens the free speech circle, brings the line closer to you and I, especially in a terrifying and chilling climate where the left-wing establishment are deciding what “lies and hate” are.
Killing the InfoWars canary, however, will also embolden the censors at CNN and those like Murphy in the political world. They see that dead canary as a success, and as a blueprint to come after the rest of us. And make no mistake, we are all next.
Finally, and this is important, what Murphy is calling for is even more extreme than what happened to InfoWars.
Murphy is calling for “websites” to be taken down — entire websites.
In deleting their accounts, what Facebook and YouTube did to Infowars is bad enough, but Jones still has his own site, his own outlet; and now we have a sitting United States Senator is calling for that to be removed.
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24 Comments
5 years ago
sue them out of existence……….or they will continue their fascist intimidation to shut down conservative free speech.
This is how patriots fightback and win http://tinyurl.com/y8yzso88
Most “conservatives” won’t put of united front to fightback, nor fund and support conservative websites, channels
that are fighting against Left/Lib/pro-jihadi mafia and think First amendment will jump up and protect itself .
That is what encourages the more organised Left/jihadi mafia funded by corporates , qatar, OIC etc
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
This reveals much about the voters in Connecticut who actually voted to put this clown into the US Senate.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mark Steiner
Connecticut….home of “The Jerry Springer Show”. A state full of clowns…..
5 years ago
Does Infowars have an independent web site like Rebel.media which can’t be shut down by these left wing giants?
5 years ago
Reply to
Newspaniard
In answer to your question, that’s what the article stated: ” … but Jones still has his own site, his own outlet; and now we have a sitting United States Senator is calling for that to be removed.”
5 years ago
I can hardly stand the sound of Buck Sexton’s voice now, since I’ve heard him jump in with the likes of this obama-junta crony thug Connecticut Senator and the Leftist social media tyranny, viciously criticizing Alex Jones, while parenthetically mentioning how he “support[s] Jones’s right to express his opinion, no matter how odious.”
If Buck Sexton thinks he’s making his brand as a Conservative American Patriot — he really stepped in it.
5 years ago
Liberals who want to abolish the freedom of speech are a far greater threat to western civilization than Alex Jones. It’s true they just want to silence Conservatives or any other view that they don’t like.
Alex Jones has never called for censoring anyone, that makes him a freedom-lover in my view. Also these Libtards think normal citizens are like children who can’t think for themselves so they need to appoint themselves authorities over what we can or can’t hear/read. FU Libtards!!
Jeez I wonder which religion is going around and killing and jailing people for speech it doesn’t like? Is it any wonder Muslims and Liberals get along so well? Both are different strains of fascism and we must never allow them to get away with it.
5 years ago
What a complete Turkey: Kill freedom of speech to ensure democracy. I can’t stand these kind of sick Commo comments. He should go live in North Korea or Pakistan where this traitor belongs.
5 years ago
Senator Chris Murphy needs to be replaced ASAP. He despises the Constitution. Senators should also be well informed enough to know that even speech the SPLC and other Soros funded organizations label hate speech has been ruled protected speech by the Supreme Court. He can move to the EU if he wants to be around subjected peoples.
5 years ago
Cuz we too Stuuupid to know the difference between entertainment & real news or a mixture of both. Democracy is doing just fine– look to the Universities if your worried. They believe Anythig!
5 years ago
This deranged snowflake must be EXPELLED from office and explain the ToS of his office. Mainly, he took an oath to uphold the Constitution, but for some deranged (t)reason is going against it.
Be nice but firm. They are such sensitive SPOILT BRATS!! Anyone know who his daddy is?
5 years ago
What are these progressives afraid of? Answer: The Truth!!!! If more of the American people were made aware of what these liars and thieves in D.C. are doing, the better the chance of ridding ourselves of the pestilence.
5 years ago
since the gellar report staff find InfoWars ridiculous and dishonest i can have no faith in your articles so i am unsubscribing
5 years ago
Democrats are a disease like Ebola! We need a vaccine for them. Or they my become the walking dead.
5 years ago
MID-TERMS: Time to dispose of the Democrat Trash!
5 years ago
I hope Infowars IS taken down. Jones apparantly doesn’t see anything wrong with islam, since he had a nice chatty chat with his buddy Farakhan! I’m sorry, for anyone who supports the evil of islam, is a no one to me, and no one I want to listen to.
5 years ago
The DemoCracks new motto should be “friendly fascism by proxy”.
5 years ago
This guy needs to be jailed for treason, pending his execution.
5 years ago
If you sit still and critically think about this, it is to me, frightening. A government official demanding private company’s censor speech. It is different when the “private” company quashes speech. I don’t agree with Fakebook but I understand they are not our “government” therefore First Amendment does not apply. However till these social medias are recognized by our government as the current “Public Square”. Free Market will have to rule. We are free to boycott them, not buy their stock, bad mouth them etc. In other words hit them in the pocket book. Unfortunately I do not know how many millions of shares you may own in your 401K and 99% of you don’t know either. Me? not one share as I divested all personal shares and own no mutual funds. My first wife of 42 years who still works probably owns some in her 401K. I have to figure out how to keep her working as I am on her health insurance.
5 years ago
They are lying, as they swear their oaths of office. When they take their oath, they should be connected to a lie detector with a 20,000 volt response if they lie.
