Posted on Jan 11, 2021
Opinion: No, a Twitter ban does not infringe Trump’s freedom of speech
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PO2 Harold Ashton
Nonsense. It "infringes" on the rights of liars to use a private, corporate platform to promulgate their untruths. An article of note:
The Art of the Lie? The Bigger the Better
Lying as a political tool is hardly new. But a readiness, even enthusiasm, to be deceived has become a driving force in politics around the world, most recently in the United States.
In a cable to Washington in 1944, George F. Kennan, counselor at the United States Embassy in Stalin’s Moscow, warned of the occult power held by lies, noting that Soviet rule “has proved some strange and disturbing things about human nature.”
Foremost among these, he wrote, is that in the case of many people, “it is possible to make them feel and believe practically anything.” No matter how untrue something might be, he wrote, “for the people who believe it, it becomes true. It attains validity and all the powers of truth.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/world/europe/trump-truth-lies-power.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20210110&instance_id=25866&nl=todaysheadlines®i_id=39361574&segment_id=48939&user_id=edbda5647e20706bff456999b7d1a079
The Art of the Lie? The Bigger the Better
Lying as a political tool is hardly new. But a readiness, even enthusiasm, to be deceived has become a driving force in politics around the world, most recently in the United States.
In a cable to Washington in 1944, George F. Kennan, counselor at the United States Embassy in Stalin’s Moscow, warned of the occult power held by lies, noting that Soviet rule “has proved some strange and disturbing things about human nature.”
Foremost among these, he wrote, is that in the case of many people, “it is possible to make them feel and believe practically anything.” No matter how untrue something might be, he wrote, “for the people who believe it, it becomes true. It attains validity and all the powers of truth.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/world/europe/trump-truth-lies-power.html?campaign_id=2&emc=edit_th_20210110&instance_id=25866&nl=todaysheadlines®i_id=39361574&segment_id=48939&user_id=edbda5647e20706bff456999b7d1a079
The Art of the Lie? The Bigger the Better
Lying as a political tool is hardly new. But a readiness, even enthusiasm, to be deceived has become a driving force in politics around the world, most recently in the United States.
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Big tech is pushing their communist agenda and if you're agaisnt it they censor you.
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