I keep solving these thorny problems. I really should get paid for the work.
In this case, I need to define “liberal.” It’s anyone who wants to censor free speech. Simple.
Spotify
needs to issue a statement to its contracted contributors: “You have 48
hours to tell us whether you favor censoring free speech. If you do
favor that policy, we’re cutting you loose. You’re a menace. If you
claim you stand for free speech, but later prove, by word or action,
that you’re lying, we’ll cut you loose and find some ground to sue you.”
Right
away, the Joe Rogan problem disappears. The wrangle with Neil Young,
Joni Mitchell, and other liberals who want Rogan banned is over. Spotify
offloads those two aging singers.
Then
to prove they mean business, Spotify creates special sections of
content. For example, the Holocaust archive. This is for commentators
who assert the Holocaust never happened, Hitler was a genius and a
prophet of salvation, and the Jews run the world.
Then
you have another section for pundits who claim Trump IS Hitler, he was
foiled from declaring martial law and enlisting the Army to put all
minorities into concentration camps, and he came close to destroying the
reliable trusted news networks.
Here’s
one more section. This is a mixed bag. People argue that white people
are devils, the ills of American society all stem from systemic racism,
while others claim black people are born with lower IQ’s than white
people, and selling and buying slaves in Africa was widespread before
the white man ever showed up, etc.
Then Spotify stands back and waits.
And nothing happens.
Except
a hurricane on social media, in the press, and in the halls of
government bloviation. Otherwise, people go about their lives.
Free speech is confirmed as a non-threat to the safety and security of the nation.
We
have to deal with a special case of free speech: “COVID
misinformation.” Because here the charge is: allowing people to
contradict the official party line AUTOMATICALLY puts all our lives in
danger: the ranks of vaccine refusers grow; living unvaccinated out in
the open, without masks, gathering in large groups spreads the “deadly
virus.”
So
Spotify hosts a free live-streamed event for the world audience. A
six-month every-day all-day discussion from ALL quarters. Government
scientists, dissenting scientists, vaxxers, anti-vaxxers, semi-vaxxers,
WHO/CDC reps, Constitutional lawyers, mainstream reporters, independent
reporters, Fauci, Gates, Rand Paul, Scott Atlas, etc.
The question under discussion: IS THE GOVERNMENT COVID POLICY EFECTIVE?
Air it out. Air it all out.
Let the chips fall where they may.
If
governments can launch a global open-air clinical trial of an
experimental RNA vaccine, involving 8 billion people, in order to see
what happens, then Spotify can host a continuous demonstration of free
speech about COVID---and we can see what happens.
Open the doors, open the windows, let people speak.
Run the experiment.
It’s
no mystery. The promotion of censorship is based on fear. The
inducement of puddling and huddling fear of what will happen if “we”
allow the 1st Amendment to stand.
Here’s
another great idea. I’m just giving away these ideas to Spotify for
nothing. The platform hosts an event called META-FEAR. This one features
a full spectrum of speakers who claim, or reject the notion, that free
speech has, in fact, directly incited criminal violence.
Why
is this event necessary? Because AFTER Spotify breaks out the massive
free-speech campaign I’ve described above, the government will surely
come in behind that and claim the consequences HAVE BEEN awful and
tragic. They always play that card. “Freedom is a threat to our free way
of life.”
At
the META-FEAR event, the Department of Homeland Security can step up
and sprinkle the air with vague generalizations about “elevated
terrorism threats” stemming from “online misinformation inciting violent
anti-government groups.” And other speakers can demand specifics and
offer counter-narratives.
I
would certainly put my two cents in: You guys at Homeland Security HAVE
TO invent dire threats to the nation. If you don’t, you have no reason
to hold down your jobs and collect your paychecks. If you say, “Well,
another week has just gone by and nothing happened,” you’re in trouble.
At
the META-FEAR event, you DHS guys will also need to explain why you
feature certain types of threat warnings and ignore other types. Do you
have a list of protected terrorist groups? Do you have a list of other
groups who aren’t threatening anybody---but you’re pretending they are?
Well,
this wraps up my business plan for rescuing Spotify. I hereby give
permission for other elite platforms to deploy it as well.
In lieu of paying my usual fee of one billion dollars, you can make a donation to the Canadian truckers.
And
remember what someone way back there said. It still applies today:
Censorship of the people, by the people, for the people is an idea whose
time has come, if you’re a complete idiot.
~~~
(The link to this article posted on my blog is here.)
(Follow me on Gab at @jonrappoport)
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