{"id":88485,"date":"2024-10-10T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88485"},"modified":"2024-10-11T10:29:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T15:29:52","slug":"bergs-seventh-law-in-action-getcher-speech-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88485","title":{"rendered":"Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law In Action:  Getcher Speech Permits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shot:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2024\/10\/democrats-take-aim-at-free-speech\/\">Democrats act like there&#8217;s an exception<\/a> in the First Amendment for &#8220;misinformation&#8221;, a term so broad literally nobody can define it (emphasis added):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Did someone send out a memo? Or has the shock of encountering the wild variety of views visible on Elon Musk\u2019s X just been too much for grandees used to moving in circles where the acceptable boundaries of disagreement are narrowly drawn? <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/john-kerry-against-the-first-amendment-saying-the-quiet-part-aloud\/\">When John Kerry&nbsp;<\/a>recently spoke of \u201cdislike of and anguish over social media,\u201d he was presumably referring to how he and like-minded others (among them, it turned out, another failed presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton) reacted as they watched the wrong sort of ideas openly discussed on major online platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For his part, Kerry was talking about climate \u201cmisinformation,\u201d a word that, in the hands of those who manipulate its meaning, can encompass not only a misstatement of fact but also, all too frequently, nothing more than the expression of a heterodox point of view. <strong>Such fine distinctions, we suspect, are of little interest to Kerry. Instead, he bemoaned the way that people no longer turn to \u201cthe referees we used to have\u201d to determine what\u2019s true<\/strong>, but \u2014 the horror \u2014 \u201cself-select where they go for their news, for their information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Chaser:  The &#8220;Referees&#8221; we once had to tune into for information are, not misinforming, but actively disinforming us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A giant Fake News Scam by CBS &amp; 60 Minutes. Her REAL ANSWER WAS CRAZY, OR DUMB, so they actually REPLACED it with another answer in order to save her or, at least, make her look better. A FAKE NEWS SCAM, which is totally illegal. TAKE AWAY THE CBS LICENSE. Election Interference.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JRxSda3NeC\">pic.twitter.com\/JRxSda3NeC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1844349221673095258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After Rathergate, and seeing Lesley Stahl humiliated while covering for Hunter Biden in 2020, you&#8217;d think CBS might learn, mightn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>Of course not.<\/p>\n<p>Chalk it up to a self-referential information feedback loop, but when Democrats started yapping about &#8220;misinformation&#8221;, I&#8217;d have bet a roll of quarters something like this was in the offing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shot: Democrats act like there&#8217;s an exception in the First Amendment for &#8220;misinformation&#8221;, a term so broad literally nobody can define it (emphasis added): Chaser: The &#8220;Referees&#8221; we once had to tune into for information are, not misinforming, but actively disinforming us: After Rathergate, and seeing Lesley Stahl humiliated while covering for Hunter Biden in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,130,426],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-88485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-tc-media-bias","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","tag-bergs-7th-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88486,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88485\/revisions\/88486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}