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It's longstanding practice by US and other Western officials, along with their major media the same policy true most everywhere else.
Noted muckraking journalist IF Stone long ago explained that all politicians lie. Nothing they say should be believed.
Notably throughout new millennium years in the US and West, censorship has been the new normal.
Speech, media, and academic freedoms are eroding and threatened.
Social media, Google, and other tech giants are complicit in a campaign to suppress content online that conflicts with the official narrative.
What's going on, perhaps to harden further if the current trend continues, is the hallmark of totalitarian rule controlling the message, eliminating what conflicts with it.
Without speech, media, and academic freedom, all other rights are jeopardized.
When truth-telling and dissent are considered threats to national security, free and open societies no longer exist - the slippery slope where America and other Western societies are heading.
Stengel wants what remains of free expression in the US reconsidered.
Does he favor censoring or silencing independent media, truth-telling journalists, and activists?
Is greater control of the message one of his priorities?
Separately, Luciana Borio is a member of Biden/Harris' so-called Covid-19 task force.
She called for withholding food stamps and other federal aid to Americans in need who refuse to be vaxxed, notably African-Americans and other minorities.
Various polls show that half or more of US Blacks don't intend to submit to covid vaxxing.
Borio favors a national propaganda campaign to convince skeptics to accept what risks vulnerability to any one of a long list of major illnesses from dangerous toxins in all vaccines.
Rushed development and marketing of covid vaccines may be especially hazardous to human health.
Domestic and geopolitical policies favoring privileged interests over the general welfare will be pursued no matter which right-wing of US duopoly rule runs things ahead.
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