{"id":116168,"date":"2022-05-16T07:51:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T11:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=116168"},"modified":"2022-05-16T07:52:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T11:52:38","slug":"predictably-new-york-governor-calls-for-even-more-social-media-due-to-buffalo-mass-shooting-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=116168","title":{"rendered":"

Predictably, New York Governor calls for even more social media censorship due to Buffalo mass shooting…HOAX!<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cSilence the Voices of Hatred\u201d: N.Y. Governor Hochul Uses the Buffalo Massacre to Renew Calls for Censor-
\nship of Social Media<\/strong><\/h1>\n

JONATHAN TURLEY<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Politicians have long viewed tragedies and crises as opportunities not to be \u201cwasted.\u201d Most recently, Samantha Power, Biden\u2019s Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, told ABC that they\u00a0did not want to waste the war in Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0as a way of pushing green initiatives. She explained to George Stephanopoulos that you should \u201cnever let a crisis go to waste.\u201d Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY), adopted the same approach to\u00a0the massacre in Buffalo<\/a>\u00a0in renewing calls for censorship on the Internet. While\u00a0many drew the connection<\/a>\u00a0between the shooting and the need for greater gun control measures, Hochul notably went further to demand the curtailment of free speech protections. Speaking later at a church, she\u00a0pledged<\/a>\u00a0to \u201csilence the voices of hatred and racism and white supremacy all over the Internet.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/span>On CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d Hochul declared<\/p>\n

\u201cThey need to be called out. And leaders elected officials from both parties need to stand up at this moment and call it out and to shame it and to make sure these people crawl back into their holes and stay there. This cannot be part of our mainstream dialogue here in the United States of America. Leaders have a responsibility to call it out \u2026 we are dealing with it on the gun side but also on the social media side. And the combination of the wild access to guns, unfettered, we need national laws to deal with this as well as the unfettered sharing of hate information on the internet, that is a lethal combination. We saw that on display here just hours ago yesterday.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The reference to \u201cnational laws\u201d is the latest example that Democratic politicians are moving beyond their long push for corporate censorship and rediscovering good old-fashioned state censorship. Both\u00a0Hillary Clinton<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Barack Obama<\/a>\u00a0have recently called for legislation internationally and domestically to limit free speech.<\/p>\n

As it became more likely that Elon Musk could buy Twitter, there was a notable shift in the comments of pro-censorship figures. Hillary Clinton\u00a0went to Twitter<\/a>\u00a0to call on the European Union to quickly pass the Digital Services Act in Europe to force censorship \u201cbefore it\u2019s too late.\u201d Since figures like Clinton cannot count on corporate surrogates to censor, they are\u00a0returning to state censorship<\/a>. If the DSA is passed, they hope to force Twitter to resume censoring material \u2013 a warning echoed by EU officials this week.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the United Kingdom is pushing its own Online Safety Act and recently\u00a0Musk was summoned to Parliament<\/a>\u00a0to answer for his alarming suggestion of restoring free speech on social media. The British are assuring citizens to \u201cstay calm and censor on\u201d despite Musk\u2019s pledge. It is threatening to take ten percent of the company\u2019s profits if Musk does not censor users.<\/p>\n

Now, Hochul is trying to rally voters to the cause of censorship in the wake of the Buffalo tragedy. To defend free speech in response to such a call is to risk being denounced as supporting violent extremists or dishonoring the fallen.<\/p>\n

The government would then be able to determine what constitutes \u201cunfettered sharing of hate information on the internet.\u201d Indeed, the Biden Administration already created\u00a0a Disinformation Governance Board<\/a>\u00a0that is ready to start that work with great eagerness. It may be a bitter pill for some who value free speech, but it is hard to defend the abstraction of free speech in the aftermath of a massacre. That is why this is a crisis that cannot be wasted. As\u00a0the Biden\u2019s Administration\u2019s \u201cMary Poppins of Disinformation\u201d<\/a>\u00a0might say, a crisis \u201chelps the censorship medicine go down in a most delightful way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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