Some Senator from Colorado just proposed a bill to give half a billion dollars a year to a new federal commission tasked with censoring the internet and social media.
“(b) PURPOSES OF COMMISSION. The purpose of the Commission is to regulate digital platforms, consistent with the public interest, convenience, and necessity…”
Not even trying to hide it!
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lol they want their own digital Stasi
“(3) USE OF VOLUNTEERS TO MONITOR VIOLATIONS RELATING TO
ONLINE SERVICES… for purposes of monitoring violations of any provision of this Act (and of any regulation prescribed by the Commission under this Act),”
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Look, we get it, you hate JavaScript… but this seems a bit extreme.
fr this is nuts:
“The Commission shall establish a Code Council that shall develop proposed voluntary or enforceable behavioral codes, technical standards, or other policies for digital platforms…”
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If you thought “too big to fail” was bad for the finance industry, let me introduce you to
“SEC. 10. SYSTEMICALLY IMPORTANT DIGITAL PLATFORMS.”
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DONT WORRY THEY’LL [likely] HAVE FISA ACCESS
“INTER-AGENCY SUPPORT.”
TLDR it’s back-door access to every tool of the intelligence community, IRS, DOJ, FBI…
what could go wrong
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They should call it “The @elonmusk better watch out” Commission:
“The Commission may inquire into the management of the business of digital platforms … and … management is conducted and as to technical and business developments in the provision of online services.”
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Budget!
A cool hundred mil in year one, quickly getting to half a billion in year 5!
And who says the government doesn’t understand startups! This is a really solid growth curve.
America can either (1) celebrate public service in America, or we can (2) "reward friends and punish enemies."
But look around. The Left, and therefore, all the major institutions, are doing the second.
The right needs to recognize this and act accordingly.
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Let's level set. Fmr. Dir. Easterly:
> Obama appointee
> Biden appointee
> Initiated + covered up the largest organized censorship operation in American history
> Vocal critic of the current Commander in Chief
So: Why offer former Director Easterly a job at West Point?
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Retiring from senior public service previously meant board seats, University sinecures and book advances.
Today, the left has locked down nearly every major institution in the United States. And those things are only for their "friends."
The media is filled with bad people. We know this. Talking about your parents and their jobs (an implicit threat) is trash behavior.
But — and I can speak from experience — there is a bright side.
I can speak to this from experience:
A few thoughts in no particular order:
1) Most people don't read. They'll see the photo, think it looks cool, and move on.
2) The article for the 1% who will read it is a Rorschach test. Your fans (myself included) see a portrait of a curious, driven, smart, talented guy...
John Adams. Born in Massachusetts in 1735 to Puritan parents, he did well in school and entered Harvard in 1751. While there, he studied law and politics.
Admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1758, Adams began practicing law.
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Adams was inspired by James Otis's legal arguments against Writs of Assistance, which allowed British officials so search colonial homes without justification or notice.
Otis's public actions emboldened the young Adams to take up the cause of liberty.
Gilbert du Motier de Lafayette, the "Marquis de Lafayette."
French nobleman. Military officer. Veteran of the American and French revolutions. Co-author of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
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Born into the French nobility, Gilbert – who would inherit the title "Marquis de Lafayette" from his father – took an early military commission. At twenty, after marrying (well), he purchased a ship and set sail for America laden with arms. He aimed to join the Revolution.
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Lafayette made landfall in South Carolina then made his way to Philadelphia.
With support of Benjamin Franklin, the newly appointed envoy to France, he was commissioned into the Continental Army as a Major General in July of 1777.
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Today we will talk about George Mason, whose 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights inspired the Bill of Rights.
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Mason was born in 1732 in Fairfax County; today it's a suburb of Washington, but when his ancestors settled there, it was the frontier. They were Cavaliers, rewarded for their Loyalty to the crown with land, and built plantations upon which they raised cash crops.
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Without much infrastructure, most transportation in Colonial Virginia was by river, and his father died when his boat overturned in a storm when George was nine.
After years of private education, he inherited the family estates and responsibilities.
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