Biden-Big Tech COVID Censorship Collusion Is Tip of Ruling Class' Spear
Plus, how Wokeness in the NatSec apparatus threatens American lives
Biden-Big Tech COVID Censorship Collusion Is Tip of Ruling Class' Spear
As America witnesses with shock the Biden administration's open and unabashed collusion with Big Tech to censor those engaging in COVID speech it deems problematic, the administration's allies promising the same with respect to SMS carriers and a threatened door-to-door vaccination campaign, C.S. Lewis' old saw that "a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive" comes to mind.
The issue at play here is manifestly not coronavirus vaccine efficacy, vaccination rates or public policy messaging, but the deeper question of who gets to determine the content of speech and the contours of our public discourse: A free, sovereign people or an insular Ruling Class?
Free peoples begin their descent to unfreedom when they permit their leaders to grab powers in violation of their natural rights on grounds of public health and national security. Typically, said leaders begin with seemingly minor interventions in the most seemingly unobjectionable areas, so as to generate the least resistance.
Our Ruling Class' effort to control the information sphere—to monopolize The Narrative—on issues from Hunter Biden’s laptop to election integrity, has been underway for years.
What has fundamentally changed is that it is now official public policy for relevant state and private-sector power centers to jointly eliminate ideas that do not comport with the Ruling Class' agenda—ideas that might threaten its ability to rule.
The administration’s domestic counterterror policy demands it.
And as the Biden administration has made clear, the pretext is public health and national security.
The combating of coronavirus misinformation represents the intersection of the two.
I connect the dots in a new piece at Newsweek, which you can read in full here.
This was also the topic of a segment I led in this week’s “The NatCon Squad,” which you can watch below:
Separately, in this week’s Weingarten Report, I discuss how Wokeness is corrupting our national security apparatus, the threat it poses to American life and limb, and the broader implications for America. You can watch the whole thing here: