On Sunday, Kate Starbird, who some call “Comrade Starbird,” was on 60 Minutes to complain about free speech, one of her pet peeves. Starbird is an associate professor in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering The segment was titled “The Right to be Wrong.”
Starbird co-founded the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, which was formed in 2019 to resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse. It vigorously participates in a censorship complex tied to the government.
The Supreme Court is currently considering a very important free speech case out of Missouri, which is why the legacy media is giving a platform to people who some say, including me, are anti-free speech. They say they are anti-hate speech and misinformation.
The Supreme Court is considering whether the platforms are like newspapers, which have free speech rights to make their own editorial decisions, or if they’re more like telephone companies that merely transmit everyone’s speech.
Subjects That Must Be Controlled
Tom Elliott wrote on X:
Last night 60Minutes ran a 13-minute segment decrying how unseriously on X takes “misinformation researchers,” aka govt-aligned censors. Lesley R Stahl singled out Jim Jordan for “chilling” the work of these SpeechCops.
“Ironically, Stahl’s segment was itself rife with misinformation, falsely claiming no one is dying from Covid vaccines, that Russia used social media to manipulate the 2016 election, that “no one” questions the legitimacy of the 2020 election, etc.
“Once again, their anger is not about X becoming a safe haven for misinformation; they’re angry that it’s now harder for them to seed misinformation without being called out.
“There were so many stupid parts of this I wanted to focus on; I ultimately decided to just post the whole segment. Note the patronizing tone of Stahl’s voice as she belittles the principle of free speech.
“It’s clear Stahl & the “misinformation experts” she features see the American people not as fellow countrymen with whom they share common values, but rather subjects that must be controlled.”
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Last night @60Minutes ran a 13-minute segment decrying how unseriously @X takes “misinformation researchers,” aka govt-aligned censors. @LesleyRStahl singled out @Jim_Jordan for “chilling” the work of these SpeechCops. Ironically Stahl’s segment was itself rife with… pic.twitter.com/KVQxF4uiU0
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 25, 2024
CBS Interviewed Starbird and Rep. Jordan
CBS News claims that if the “laws are upheld, the platforms could be forced to carry hate speech and false medical information, the very content most big tech companies have spent years trying to remove through teams of content moderators. But in the process, conservatives claim that the companies have engaged in a conspiracy to suppress their speech.”
Starbird is one of the most prolific censors. She opposed doctors’ opinions on the COVID vaccine even though she’s a computer scientist, not a doctor.
Lesley Stahl noted that social media platforms often ignore Starbird’s suggestions. She is especially concerned about X.
Kate Starbird responded. “The statistics I’ve seen are just for the Twitter platform. But my understanding is that they responded to about 30% of the things that we sent them. And, I think on a majority of those, they put labels.”
As a left-wing researcher, she said conservatives are “absolutely” spreading more disinformation. Her example were claims about the election being stolen and Antifa at the Capitol on J6.
Lesley Stahl asked Jim Jordan, So how big a problem is mis and disinformation on the web?
Newt Was Censored for a Truthful Statement
Rep. Jim Jordan: Well, I’m sure there’s some. But I think, you know– our concern is the bigger problem of the attack on First Amendment liberties.
Congressman Jordan’s Judiciary Committee produced a report that concluded there’s a “censorship industrial complex.” The federal government and tech companies colluded with academic researchers to silence conservatives disproportionately.
Kate Starbird denies that with all her heart.
But Congressman Jordan says her group unfairly flagged posts like this tweet by Newt Gingrich:
“Pennsylvania democrats are methodically changing the rules so they can steal the election.” [They changed the rules right before the election, and the changes favored Joe Biden.]
Rep. Jim Jordan: A great example, 36 hours into the Biden administration, the– the Biden White House sends– a email to Twitter and says, “We think you should take down this tweet ASAP.”
The Problem Is the Government Doing It
He says that just a call alone from the government can be unnerving.
Rep. Jim Jordan said, You can’t have the government say, “Hey, we want you to do X.” The Government has the ability to regulate these private companies. Government has the ability to tax these private companies.
Comrade Kate Starbird played a massive role within the Censorship Industrial Complex in the Twitter Files. She continues to lobby hard for access to X to try & control what we can & cannot read or say without a hall monitor’s approval. pic.twitter.com/d5aZDanAYa
— TeasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) March 25, 2024
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This frump isn’t a “misinformation researcher,” whatever that is; she’s a propagandist. Her job is to squelch any view or expression that doesn’t conform to the commie line. Who do these mooks think they’re fooling?
My God its Smallwell in drag.
The communists claiming to be fighting misinformation are the misinformationists.
Here is an example of misinformation from her bio:
She claims to be a computer scientist. She is not. She has a degree in Ph.D. in technology, media, and society, which is certainly not a technical degree. It is a junk degree. We people who are real computer scientists, who have studied sciences hard for years, resent people like her, who pose. She is not the type of person who has the ability or drive to actually learn a science. She is the type of person who chooses to glide through school and pursue riches with her propaganda.
Her thesis focused on how to use crises to brainwash people:
Crowdwork, Crisis and Convergence: How the Connected Crowd Organizes Information during Mass Disruption Events
About half a dozen if not a dozen of what “conservatives” were saying about covid and vaccines, and that was tagged as false by leftist censors, has turned out to be true.
We said it was the flu, last week the CDC downgraded the covid to just the flu.
We said the vaccine had a lot of side effects, a couple days ago the FDA admitted it did cause an alarming amount of side effects for babies ( there is more but I don t remember now )
We said the vaccine had not been tested enough to know if it was safe or effective, and in the last few months Vaccine makers have admitted to that.
We said vaccinated people got covid more than non vaccinated people, it took a while but the stats confirmed we were right.
and so on and so forth
What those leftists censors considered dangerous disinformation, was not disinformation.
And for them – the leftist censors – to still insist today that all that was false information makes them the ones disinforming the public.
Leftists are lying about what is disinformation, and that makes them guilty of disinformation.
and I will sound like a broken record but if you read about sociopathy, psychopathy and narcissism disorder, you will see that it is very common for such people to lie and gas light others as to what is true and what is not.
The ones doing evil fool others into believing they are the victim, and that you, who is telling the truth is the villain.
Beating a dead horse here, But Stahl says most people think the 2020 election was not rigged?
she is lying, that is disinformation
I have seen many surveys and even though more conservatives believe it was stolen, an important percentage of independents and democrats also believe it was stolen
it is at least 60 % of all Americans who believe the election of 2020 was rigged
Sthal is lying, she is guilty of disinformation.
We were told ivermectin was for horses only, and that it could not help fight covid, but those were two lies,
that was a textbook example of disinformation from the people who claim they are fighting disinformation.
I could provide about 50 more examples, but I am preaching to the choir.
The ones who claim are trying to protect us from disinformation are actively spreading disinformation.
they are sociopaths.
God bless you Canadian Friend. You’re the best brother.
Thank and God Bless You.
The Japanese allow it.
Totalitarian trying to assume ‘sheep’s clothing’…