Covid Tyranny Invades your SMS! By Chris Knight (Florida)
Who would have thought that all of this could happen in the so-called land of the free? Well, not very free anymore, if it ever was. Now the Biden administration and other hangers-on intend to engage fact-checkers to work with SMS carriers to attack what they classify as misinformation about vaccines sent over social media and text messages. Over Text messages, say to my mom? So, these are all under surveillance are they? So much for privacy. Let a million law suits flow!
“The Biden administration and allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee (DNC), are “planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS [Short Message Service] carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines sent over social media and text messages,” according to a report today in Politico by White House correspondents Natasha Korecki and Eugene Daniels.
The initiative is part of the administration’s attempt to get more people vaccinated for COVID after failing to reach its goal of having 70% of American adults receive at least one vaccine dose by July 4.
“We are steadfastly committed to keeping politics out of the effort to get every American vaccinated so that we can save lives and help our economy further recover,” White House spokesperson Kevin Munoz said, according to Politico. “When we see deliberate efforts to spread misinformation, we view that as an impediment to the country’s public health and will not shy away from calling that out.”
Politico did not clearly define what the administration meant by “monitoring” of text messages, including if messages would be flagged or if they would be prevented from being delivered.
The media outlet also did not clarify how the administration or social media platforms would determine what exactly constitutes “misinformation.”
This isn’t the first time the White House signaled its intent to work with social media platforms to monitor or suppress information it believes will deter people from getting the vaccine.
As The Defender reported in February, the White House asked Big Tech giants Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet Inc.’s Google to “clamp down on chatter that deviates from officially distributed COVID-19 information,” according to the New York Post and other news reports.
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