“Enlightened despotism” vs individual rights

If you can’t do it yourself, get someone else to do it for you.  Keeps your hands clean but still gets the dirty work done.  The end justifies the means - in our quickly evolving totalitarian world.   

If one is publishing a point of view, how can that be “misinformation”?  He who controls language - the meaning of the words we use -  controls thought and action.  

 From Johnathan Turley’s legal blog —

Res ipsa loquitur – The thing itself speaks

..Increased Corporate Controls to Protect Citizens From Their Own Dangerous Curiosities 

Two centuries ago, rulers sought to convince subjects that they should embrace the notion of “enlightened despotism,” living without rights under the beneficent watch of overlords. Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II summed up the idea with the maxim “everything for the people, nothing by the people.”

Today, we seem to be living in an age of enlightened corporate despotism, where social media and technology companies watch over what we read and what we discuss to protect us from ourselves.

Once considered unAmerican and authoritarian, censorship has become a rallying cry from the left. Indeed, a new poll shows roughly half of the public supports not just corporate censorship but government censorship of anything deemed “misinformation.”