AZJoe
10-14-2016, 09:07 AM
Obama Argues Need for Ministry of Truth
https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-decries-wild-west-media-landscape-214642552.html
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President Barack Obama on Thursday decried America's "wild, wild west" media environment for allowing conspiracy theorists a broad platform and destroying a common basis for debate. ...
"We are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of curating [censoring] function that people agree to," Obama said. [How can people "agree" to sources if you are censoring it. They only way people can agree to sources is by not censoring any sources. What he means is that government bureaucrats agree to and ergo in Obama's mind the people agree to] ...
"There has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard [censor], because they just don't have any basis in anything that's actually happening in the world [expose the truth of what is happening in the world]," Obama added. ... "That is hard to do, but I think it's going to be necessary, it's going to be possible," he added.
"The answer is obviously not censorship [we'll give it a dfiferent name like truth "curating"], but it's creating places where people can say 'this is reliable' and I'm still able to argue safely about facts and what we should do about it." [We already have that - its called uncensored free speech]
https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-decries-wild-west-media-landscape-214642552.html
[added comments in brackets]
President Barack Obama on Thursday decried America's "wild, wild west" media environment for allowing conspiracy theorists a broad platform and destroying a common basis for debate. ...
"We are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of curating [censoring] function that people agree to," Obama said. [How can people "agree" to sources if you are censoring it. They only way people can agree to sources is by not censoring any sources. What he means is that government bureaucrats agree to and ergo in Obama's mind the people agree to] ...
"There has to be, I think, some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard [censor], because they just don't have any basis in anything that's actually happening in the world [expose the truth of what is happening in the world]," Obama added. ... "That is hard to do, but I think it's going to be necessary, it's going to be possible," he added.
"The answer is obviously not censorship [we'll give it a dfiferent name like truth "curating"], but it's creating places where people can say 'this is reliable' and I'm still able to argue safely about facts and what we should do about it." [We already have that - its called uncensored free speech]