"With a pillow..."

[George K]

This story has been percolating for the last few days (link in the tweet). Interestingly, our media, for the most part, has decided to cover the story with a pillow, in the hopes it stops moving.

Well, even the ACLU has taken notice of the illegal interference by the government in social media.

[Mik]

How about that.

[Copper]

In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government.

I wonder if it would be possible for that same information to be in the newspaper.

"The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by the Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan and the name of the first chapter[1] in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, published in 1964.[2][3] McLuhan proposes that a communication medium itself, not the messages it carries, should be the primary focus of study. He showed that artifacts such as media affect any society by their characteristics, or content.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message

OK, maybe not

Concerning the title, McLuhan wrote:

The title "The Medium Is the Massage" is a teaser—a way of getting attention. There's a wonderful sign hanging in a Toronto junkyard which reads, 'Help Beautify Junkyards. Throw Something Lovely Away Today.' This is a very effective way of getting people to notice a lot of things. And so the title is intended to draw attention to the fact that a medium is not something neutral—it does something to people. It takes hold of them. It rubs them off, it massages them and bumps them around, chiropractically, as it were, and the general roughing up that any new society gets from a medium, especially a new medium, is what is intended in that title".[9]

[George K]

@Mik said in "With a pillow...":

How about that.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=dhs+facebook+leaked&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&tbs=

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=dhs+facebook+leaked&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=site%3Awashingtonpost.com&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&tbs=

WaPo homepage search: https://www.washingtonpost.com/search/?query=dhs+&facets={"time"%3A"all"%2C"sort"%3A"relevancy"%2C"section"%3A[]%2C"author"%3A[]}

NYT homepage search: https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=dhs

You'd think this might be a big deal.

Remind me where democracy dies.

[George K]

You'd think that the government having a super-secret portal to access FB's thought police might be an issue for (checks notes) journalists to investigate.

Nope.

[Jolly]

What journalists?

[Copper]

Real journalists

[George K]

Someone said, "Senator Durbin, you took an oath to defend the Constitution, not to understand it."

[Jolly]

I think the Left is a bit nervous, thinking that their monopoly on messaging may be slipping away.

[George K]

[Horace]

@Jolly said in "With a pillow...":

I think the Left is a bit nervous, thinking that their monopoly on messaging may be slipping away.

That's why they've been uncomfortable with the internet from the git go. Funny how the left's most ardent supporters, the mainstream media, are the ones who took the biggest financial hit due to the internet. Entire lives and livelihoods were laid low at the feet of what we are all now led to believe is dangerous misinformation. Gee, I wonder who might be motivated to poison everybody against free and easy communication of ideas? Let's cherry pick that massive heap of information for the craziest bits, hold them high and giggle at them for everybody to see, so everybody can know how ridiculous the world is now that the "journalists" aren't in control of the ideas. Whatever will we do without the adults in the room?