Joe Biden and the Democrats have resorted to censorship because their policies are a failure.
That’s why the Left have been so eager to crack down on free speech.
And Biden’s Ministry of Truth czar revealed the hilarious reason the department went down in flames.
The Biden administration was forced to put the Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board on pause after a deluge of backlash, even from some people on the Left.
The DGB, which was under the scope of the Department of Homeland Security, claimed that it was only attempting to curtail disinformation spread from bad foreign actors like drug cartels, but nobody bought that excuse.
Nina Jankowicz, the short-lived head of the DGB, resigned her post, and complained about it to the corporate press.
During an interview with Lauren Coates on CNN, Jankowicz ironically blamed the failure of the DGB on disinformation.
Jankowicz explained that “unfortunately and ironically we were undone exactly by a disinformation camdpaign coming from folks who apparently want to put our national security behind their own personal political ambitions.”
The federal government, particularly the Biden administration, has zero credibility when it comes to a project like this.
In 2020, Jankowicz herself said that she wouldn’t want the Executive Branch to have the power to determine what constitutes “fake news.”
Jankowicz added, “I understand Americans’ concerns about the idea of government getting involved in policing speech. But the good news is the board had nothing to do with policing speech. The idea was that the board was going to be an internal coordinating mechanism making sure that DHS subcomponents, things like CBP, customs and border patrol, FEMA, which deals with natural disasters, all these components within DHS were equipped with the tools they needed to continue the work to fight disinformation that they’ve been doing for more than a decade already. This absolutely could and should have been communicated better. I wanted it to be communicated better. But the reality is that the type of disinformation that DHS is charged with combatting or addressing is stuff that keeps Americans safe and secure.”
That is an absurd defense.
DHS does not need to create an entirely new department to combat “disinformation,” which has become a catch-all justification for censorship.
And the government is notorious for mission creep.
Even if Jankowicz’s words could be taken at face value, which they cannot, it would take about five minutes for the DGB to expand its role in tackling so-called disinformation.
The bottom line is that the Biden administration thought it would police speech, and it found out the hard way that the American people were not up for it.
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