Pizzagate and Fake News Being Used As Excuse To Pass Anti First Amendment Rights Legislation While Censorship Battle Comes to Steemit
Hello fellow steemians and welcome to 1984! I came across this video on YouTube yesterday that poses a powerful question of why #pizzagate has become such a thing:
It seems that question has been answered with Obama quietly signing into law the Countering Disinformation and Propaganda Act of 2016:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/114/hr5181/text
This bill, introduced in March but quietly signed into law yesterday while the majority of us were enjoying the holidays with our loved ones, grants broad powers to US government agencies to attack any media that dares to go against the official state approved narrative, one that has been time and again shown to be disinformation and propaganda, or do we still believe the official 9/11 story? I guess now we know why forces within the intelligence agencies have been steering researchers towards pizzagate-related subjects even before the release of the Podesta emails. I wonder if they'll use that bill to prosecute the Washington Post for the article they wrote that started this whole "fake news" thing that they have since admitted was likely fake:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-07/washington-post-apends-russian-propaganda-story-admits-it-may-be-fake
Somehow I have my doubts that that is on the table.
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Meanwhile, the censorship battle has found new ground right here on Steemit as a certain socialist-leaning (judging by his name) whale who shall remain anonymous has used his steempower to flag pizzagate related posts, drastically reducing researchers payouts ensuring that those who come here seeking one of the last few remaining bastions of free speech don't gain enough steempower to threaten his great whale authority.
https://steemit.com/steemit/@dailybitcoinnews/absolute-steem-power-corrupts-absolutely-steemit-under-assault
So fellow steemians and researchers, it seems the battle is upon us to fight for our right to speak our minds and follow the evidence wherever it leads and share our findings with each other. The good news is that I am working on a project that should help make this fight a little easier for us and help draw other researchers seeking a censorship-free platform to share their findings and hopefully earn a bit of a living in the process. I don't want to reveal too many details before it is time but in the meantime feel free to join us on our discord server dedicated to this project: https://discord.gg/2P46YN7
With the questions of Obama's birth certificate and our new leader soon taking office this clearly unconstitutional bill will hopefully go the way of all their other desperate attempts at violating our rights, provoking wars, and generally making as big a mess as possible on their way out.
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Another well written and spot on post..thank you
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Agreed Steemit is one of the last places on the internet where we can speak freely. Some pro-Hillary person is threatening the Voat site with turning over all accounts to authorities blah blah blah. For those in the US this is our first amendment right.
I wasn't aware of the Voat thing... Probably because I don't use it. I'll have to look into that a little more. Perhaps that will make the next article