{"id":1293454,"date":"2022-02-12T09:23:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T14:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1293454"},"modified":"2022-02-12T14:37:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T19:37:47","slug":"the-rebirth-of-pat-robertson-and-tipper-gore-glenn-greenwald-destroys-censorship-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-rebirth-of-pat-robertson-and-tipper-gore-glenn-greenwald-destroys-censorship-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Rebirth Of Pat Robertson And Tipper Gore\u2019: Glenn Greenwald Destroys \u2018Censorship Culture\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-rebirth-of-pat-robertson-and-tipper-gore-glenn-greenwald-destroys-censorship-culture%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1293454&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-133044013-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald laid into \u201ccensorship culture\u201d in a Saturday tweet, saying that it had clearly emerged as the weapon of choice in Democratic politics.<\/p>\n<p>Greenwald began by predicting that because of the resounding failure of the campaign to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/jon-stewart-goes-to-bat-for-rogan-again-on-the-iraq-war-i-was-promoting-what-they-would-call-misinformation\/\">cancel podcast juggernaut Joe Rogan<\/a>, attempts to censor others in the future might not have the desired impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour campaign to censor and silence Joe Rogan failed, which means the next time you launch a similar censorship campaign, you will be weaker and less intimidating,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Your campaign to censor and silence Joe Rogan failed, which means the next time you launch a similar censorship campaign, you will be weaker and less intimidating.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1492558966831955973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is the inevitable destination of the censorship culture that has emerged as the primary weapon in Democratic politics: back to demanding that music and books be censored. The re-birth of Pat Robertson and Tipper Gore,\u201d Greenwald continued, sharing a video of newly-elected New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1492559317073113094\">calling<\/a> for social media companies to remove certain videos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had no idea what drill rapping was, so I called my son and he sent me some videos, and it is alarming,\u201d Adams said. \u201cWe are going to pull together the social media companies and sit down with them and state that you have a civic and corporate responsibility, you know, I mean \u2014 we pulled Trump off Twitter because of what he was spewing yet we are allowing music \u2014 displaying of guns, violence, we\u2019re allowing it to stay on these sites \u2014 because look at the victims.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe pulled Trump off Twitter \u2026 yet we are allowing music displaying of guns, violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NYC Mayor Eric Adams (D), after his son sent him drill rap videos, says he will try to get the videos banned from social media. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ATGmhpi4Bo\">pic.twitter.com\/ATGmhpi4Bo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1492247548387631108?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Stephen Miller appeared to agree with Greenwald\u2019s assessment, adding, \u201cThe speed at which these guys are starting to suggest mass censorship for every policy solution is not surprising but nonetheless alarming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan NYC just have a mayor who is not openly running for president in week 6?\u201d Karol Markowicz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karol\/status\/1492332809888964611\">asked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis cop is attempting to scapegoat music as the cause of a \u2018crime wave\u2019 in order to justify instituting even more draconian policies on the city &amp;create an even worse police state,\u201d @andrejgee <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrejgee\/status\/1492305675988393992\">added<\/a>. \u201cDon\u2019t let it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quite a few critics mentioned Tipper Gore and her efforts to remove offensive lyrics from music in their replies to the video of Adams\u2019 comments, saying that it was giving them \u201cflashbacks\u201d to the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>As Business Insider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/35-years-pmrc-rock-lyrics-senate-tipper-gore-frank-zappa-2020-9\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>It\u2019s become known as the \u201cPMRC Senate hearing\u201d or the \u201cTipper Gore-Frank Zappa hearing\u201d or the \u201crock-porn hearing.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To me, they\u2019ll always be the hearing where Al Gore sarcastically asked Twisted Sister\u2019s Dee Snider if his band\u2019s fan club, the \u201cSick Motherf\u2014\u2014 Fans of Twisted Sister,\u201d was a Christian group.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It was September 19, 1985, smack dab in the middle of the Reagan era. Moral panics \u2014 including claims that heavy-metal music and Dungeons and Dragons were somehow the root cause of real issues like child sex abuse and teen suicide \u2014 were the order of the day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The hearing on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?69484-1\/rock-lyrics-record-labeling\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" data-analytics-post-depth=\"20\" data-uri=\"214ed20fc3ce2e4f8873ab6ca88bfb58\">objectionable<\/a>\u201d rock lyrics was one of the most widely publicized committee hearings in Senate history. But rewatching the nearly five-hour hearing now, it seems more like a DC satire about puritanical censorship, farcical conflicts of interest, and members of the World\u2019s Greatest Deliberative Body clutching their proverbial pearls over a Prince record.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. 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