According to LifeSiteNews, “the
nineteenth ‘Twitter Files’ installment has revealed that a Stanford University
initiative routinely told social media companies to suppress
posts containing ‘[t]rue content which might promote
vaccine hesitancy.’”
Journalist Matt Taibbi posted the latest batch of
files on March 17th. Taibbi stated that a federally funded Stanford
University initiative called the Virality Project instructed Big Tech social
media platforms such as Twitter and TikTok to take action against admittedly
true posts regarding the experimental COVID-19 vaccines as part of its fight
against “disinformation.”
The Virality Project, which is partially funded by the
Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation, also directed the social
media giants to treat “often true posts which could fuel hesitancy” as
“misinformation” on their platforms.
Some of us on “conservative”
sites have long alleged that this has been happening. Those on the left often
deem anything with which they disagree, especially if true, to be
“misinformation” or “disinformation.”
When the powers that be deem it
necessary to suppress what they themselves acknowledge is “truthful”
information, a Rubicon has been crossed from which it is well-nigh impossible
to return, thus sentencing society to potentially permanent slavery and darkness.
Al Stewart wrote a brilliant song
titled “Roads
to Moscow,” chronicling a Soviet soldiers plight in World War II. Upon his
return to the motherland after the war, the soldier discovered he was to be
questioned and sent to a re-education camp…because authorities were worried
that he saw the West…even in the guise of the dying Third Reich. The last lines
of the hauntingly evocative song are:
And
it's cold and damp in the transit camp, and the air is still and sullen
And the pale sun of October whispers the snow
will soon be coming
And I wonder when I'll be home again and the
morning answers "Never"
And the evening sighs, and the steely Russian
skies go on…forever.
Historically, this kind of tragic abuse is what happens when
authoritarians hold all the levers of power. This is what happens when that
power depends on extreme suppression and denial of truth. This is what has
happened in every Marxist/Communist nation from Bolshevik Russia/the Soviet
Union to Laos, Cuba, China, and North Korea in the present day.
Ronald Reagan famously proclaimed it to be “morning in
America.” And, in a sense it was, as he made it so. Today, I am mourning
America, and it seems like evening. Late evening. Perhaps nearing midnight.
It is the death knell for freedom when certain questions
aren’t even allowed to be asked, when considered opinion is reflexively, systemically
labeled “disinformation.” And when the truth is suppressed and branded
“misinformation.”
I pray it is never said of the nation founded on individual
liberty that “the steely American skies go on… forever.”
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