Ministry of Truth?

[Dill]

(05-09-2022, 08:18 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Your position on this is surprisingly short sighted.  You don't have to "quash" anything, you just have to officially label it disinformation.  Then you get thrown in with the crackpots and conspiracy theorists, for all intents and purposes rendered a side show attraction.  You don't have to "quash" anything when you effectively render it an extremist position.  This is especially true when you get into the realm of labeling "dis, mis and mal" information as terrorism, with all the government powers to deal with it that this word entails.  You're an obviously well educated person who clearly puts a lot of time and effort into forming their opinions.  And while I frequently think your opinions are wrong they aren't conjured out of thin air.  But you also have a glaring, and for me quite baffling, ability to ignore wrong doing in those who you agree with ideologically.  This may be the most glaring example of this to date.

If the bolded were really the case, Trumpism would be long dead.

You are attributing to government the power Trump actually has for his followers,
and which government might have, should voters put Trump and GOP in control of all three branches. 

You titled the thread "Ministry of Truth?" For some, at least, that rendered Biden's initiative an "extremist" position.  

The "power to quash" you discern here could only appear AFTER all three branches are under control of a regime
party. Yet some folks are arguing as if the mere creation of a DoDis accomplishes that--trumps all the checks.

I don't see a "a glaring example of wrong doing" here amongst those I agree with ideologically. 

Or is the the DoDis that example?   

To you I would pose the same question I posed Hollo--what should be done about disinformation, homegrown and
or imported, and used to make our current system ungovernable?  Resist defining and identifying it does not seem 
like a good option.