This Is CNN

6 Replies to “This Is CNN”

1. I’m old enough to remember the days when you required a subpoena (or threaten the site owner with a lawsuit) to reveal an anonymous poster’s identity on the internet…

2. I betcha a LOT of the guys at the plant are watching the video artists back right now.
   full disclosure: it would delight me if some trigger happy wacko got the personal info on the anchor’s whereabouts and
   turned him into a sieve.

3. George Orwell’s fictionalized world where Big Brother reigns supreme is no longer a figment of the imagination, but a prophetic vision of present-day threats. Brent Bozell, founder of the Media Research Center, explains how and why Big Tech is making Orwell’s 1984 a 21st century reality.

   PragerU: Big Tech Is Big Brother
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA6pazfxkxw

   1. Yes, agreed. People who can’t control their emotions feel the need to control others’ actions and, true to Orwell, their words.
      Throw political power and partisanship into that toxic mess makes it rife ground for fascist totalitarianism.
      As Hayek noted, progressives became conservatives to defeat Naziism, then dumped Churchill et al to return to socialism.
      The road to serfdom is paved with bad actors pretending to have good intentions.
      “The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.” H.L. Mencken

4. CNN! it is fact that you can ALL be replaced by two guys in a phone booth.. Fake news is so easy… welcome to the soup-line with all the other broke defendants….

5. Orwell knew what he was talking about. The Ministry of Truth was based on the BBC of the early Forties.

   The best Eric Blair had to say about his former employers is that they told fewer lies than the Germans.