Censorship In The US

In the US, the drive for Internet censorship has been spearheaded by the so-called “liberal” wing of the political establishment, concentrated in the Democratic Party, whose chief media organ is the New York Times. On the eve of the UN assembly, the Times published an unambiguous brief for censorship of the Internet in the form of an op-ed column by the ambassador to the UN under Barack Obama, Samantha Power.

Under the headline “Why Foreign Propaganda Is More Dangerous Now,” and on the pretext of combating Russian disinformation and subversion, Power calls for the use of “professional gatekeepers” to police public discourse on the Internet.

Power, a leading proponent of “human rights” imperialism, looks back nostalgically at the Cold War as a golden age of news dissemination, when “most Americans received their news and information via mediated platforms.” She continues: “Reporters and editors serving in the role of professional gatekeepers had almost full control over what appeared in the media. A foreign adversary seeking to reach American audiences did not have great options for bypassing these umpires, and Russian disinformation rarely penetrated.”

You can read the rest @
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/09/21/pers-s21.html

During the aforementioned "Cold War", I used to listen to and compare Radio Moscow and the Voice of America. It quickly became obvious that both usually were discussing the same facts, and that the biggest difference between the two was the spin they put on those facts.

Today, however, East and West appear to be peddling totally different sets of "facts". The only tool we have to determine which set to believe is the Internet, and I think that is why the US government is trying so hard to discredit it.