America's Ruling Regime Doesn't Fear Disinformation. It Fears Truth | Opinion/ Newsweek

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In Joe Biden's America, attempting to cancel Joe Rogan is just counter-terror policy.

This is because our ruling class—in the name of "defending democracy"—classifies those who question the regime on any matter of consequence as a threat to the homeland, and pledges to pursue them accordingly.

Our ruling elites have engaged in an overt war on wrongthink masquerading as a domestic counter-terror mission since at least January 6, 2021.

As part of this effort, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently issued a speech-chilling National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin. It claims the United States is in a "heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information."

Among the greatest contributors to the current "threat environment," according to the bulletin, is the "widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding...COVD-19."

It would appear the Biden administration considers the ivermectin-hocking, tequila-swigging, Bernie Sanders-supporting Rogan to be public enemy number one on this issue.

Shortly after hosting dissenters from COVID orthodoxy including Drs. Peter McCullough and the then-recently deplatformed Robert Malone on his podcast, Rogan found himself the subject of a cancel campaign contrived by washed-up musicians, non-medical doctors and corporate media whose ratings he has crushed.

But it wasn't just these parties out for blood.

No less than the president of the United States, his press secretary and surgeon general contributed to the anti-Rogan jihad, calling for war on COVID "misinformation and disinformation."

This effort was, to put it mildly, disingenuous. We know how seriously to take the administration's views on COVID "misinformation and disinformation" because by its own standards the White House, and its media mouthpieces, have been the most powerful and prolific purveyors of "misinformation."

The administration has flip-flopped on virtually every aspect of the coronavirus to positions that its social media adjuncts used to ban people over. It did so not because "the science" has changed, but because the politics have changed.

Biden's White House says its critics are dangerous—not to the public, but to its rule, as if that rule is equivalent to America or democracy itself, as Dr. Anthony Fauci is to science.

As the DHS bulletin notes, the first key driver of the "heightened threat environment" is the "proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions."

Never mind what those government institutions themselves have done to sow discord or undermine public trust, like, say, calling for Twitter and Facebook to censor people.

It's the critics, the dissenters—those with no monopoly on force or multi-trillion-dollar budgets—who are the real scourge.

The bulletin lists as another potential threat "false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud"—perpetuating the narrative of "insurrection" so central to the effort to persecute wrongthinkers, while eliding that Democrats' own election integrity-eroding measures destroyed confidence in the system....