{"id":37203,"date":"2018-08-31T18:52:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T23:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37203"},"modified":"2018-08-31T18:52:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T23:52:32","slug":"us-senator-chris-murphy-says-that-the-survival-of-our-democracy-depends-on-more-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37203","title":{"rendered":"US Senator Chris Murphy Says That \u201cThe Survival of Our Democracy\u201d Depends on MORE Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/senator-murphy-more-censorship\/\">US Senator Chris Murphy Says That \u201cThe Survival of Our Democracy\u201d Depends on MORE Censorship<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"m-f\"><\/div>\n<p>Welcome to the United States of Censorship.<\/p>\n<p>Your tour guide today is Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, tweeted some pro-censorship nonsense the other day. In doing so, Murphy proved that (a) he doesn\u2019t understand the First Amendment, (b) he wants the internet to be an echo chamber, and (c) he must have slept through high school civics class.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy\u00a0tweeted that \u201c<strong>the survival of our democracy<\/strong>\u201d was dependent upon even MORE censorship.<\/p>\n<p>(Psst: <strong>NOT a democracy.<\/strong>\u00a0I\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diffen.com\/difference\/Democracy_vs_Republic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Googled it for you<\/a>, Chris. How the heck did you get elected when you don\u2019t even know this? I guess there isn\u2019t a quiz you\u2019ve gotta pass to be a Senator.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyone north of a Hillary-Clinton-loving liberal knows that there\u2019s war on our opinions, while the folks who control the media can say practically anything they want. (Like when <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/401699-cnns-cuomo-defends-antifa-those-who-oppose-hate-are-on-the-side-of-right\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN anchor Chris Cuomo defended Antifa a<\/a>nd freaking <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisCuomo\/status\/897820041273626626\/photo\/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E897820041273626626&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fdougp-3137%2F2017%2F08%2F16%2Famazing-antifad-day-hero-comparisons-caught-on-fast-in-the-media%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compared them to WWII soldiers storming the beach at Normandy<\/a>,\u00a0even though <a href=\"https:\/\/twitchy.com\/brettt-3136\/2018\/08\/29\/chris-cuomo-who-compared-antifa-to-wwii-soldiers-says-he-never-endorsed-antifa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he says he didn\u2019t.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h3>Some background information on the wave of censorship<\/h3>\n<p>At the center of this brouhaha is Alex Jones\u2019s InfoWars, an ultraconservative, conspiratorial media outlet who was recently deplatformed by anyone who matters in the media world.<\/p>\n<p>While I\u2019m personally not a fan of Jones or his website, I\u2019m even less of a fan of censorship. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfweekly.com\/news\/social-media-giants-deplatform-alex-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple, Facebook, Spotify, and YouTube<\/a> all removed Jones\u2019s accounts within\u00a0hours of one another, which is blatantly a colluded effort to silence his opinions. And whether you like Jones or not, this should scare the crap out of you if you don\u2019t wish to live in an America that only allows one philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>But it didn\u2019t start with Infowars. The purge\u00a0has been going on for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Senator Chris Murphy Says That \u201cThe Survival of Our Democracy\u201d Depends on MORE Censorship Welcome to the United States of Censorship. Your tour guide today is Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, tweeted some pro-censorship nonsense the other day. In doing so, Murphy proved that (a) he doesn\u2019t understand the First Amendment, (b) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21460,21288,6156,204,1237,21459],"class_list":["post-37203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censoreship","tag-chris-murphy","tag-daisy-luther","tag-democracy","tag-us-senate","tag-us-senator-chris-murphy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37204,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37203\/revisions\/37204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}