Did you ever feel like Winston Smith?
"But while that same media decried Trump's comments, it was none other than President
Obama that appeared to demand press freedom be restricted. As AFP reports, Obama on Thursday decried America's "wild, wild west" media environment for allowing conspiracy theorists a broad platform and destroying a common basis for debate.
Recalling past days when three television channels delivered fact-based news that most people trusted, Obama said democracy require citizens to be able to sift through lies and distortions.
"We are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of curating function that people agree to," Obama said at an innovation conference in Pittsburgh.
"There has to be, I think,
some sort of way in which we can sort through information that passes some basic truthiness tests and those that we have to discard, because they just don't have any basis in anything that's actually happening in the world," Obama added.
His remarks came amid an election campaign that has seen Republican candidate Donald Trump repeat ideas and take on key staff from right-wing media outlets, and come just a day after
Google unveils its "Fact Checking" network.
"That is hard to do, but I think it's going to be necessary, it's going to be possible," he added.
"The answer is obviously not censorship, but it's creating places where people can say 'this is reliable' and I'm still able to argue safely about facts and what we should do about it."
So we need "safe spaces" for you to imbibe the government-approved propaganda. And 'No'... it's not censorship when the government does it... it's for your own good!"
Because gov't involvement ALWAYS makes things bettah!