If you cheer for this, remember, the government that can suppress your political opponent, can also suppress you. If you dismiss it because it’s InfoWars and Alex Jones, note that it’s simultaneously being praised by Gizmodo as a method to squelch free speech.
As Helen Buyniski warns, the true intent of the program “seems to be to stamp out dissent.”“To hear them tell it, the Pentagon just wants to even the playing field between the ‘good guys’ – the fake-hunters pursuing the cause of truth in media – and the ‘bad guys’ sowing discord one slowed-down Nancy Pelosi speech at a time,” she writes. “But the Pentagon’s targets aren’t limited to deepfakes, the bogeyman-of-the-month being used to justify this unprecedented military intrusion into the social media and news realm, or fake news at all. If the program is successful after four years of trials, it will be expanded to target all “malicious intent” – a possibility that should send chills down the spine of any journalist who’s ever disagreed with the establishment narrative.”
Found at www.infowars.com
