{"id":1646710,"date":"2022-09-19T08:22:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T12:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1646710"},"modified":"2022-09-19T08:28:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T12:28:59","slug":"steven-w-mosher-government-censorship-should-scare-us-just-as-much-as-covid-once-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/steven-w-mosher-government-censorship-should-scare-us-just-as-much-as-covid-once-did\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven W. Mosher: Government Censorship Should Scare Us Just as Much as COVID Once Did"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fsteven-w-mosher-government-censorship-should-scare-us-just-as-much-as-covid-once-did%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=1646710&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>I imagine the takedown went something like this:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey, Zuck.\u00a0This is Tony Fauci, America\u2019s top expert on all things COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHi, Tony.\u00a0What can I censor for you today?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTop of the list is this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/02\/22\/dont-buy-chinas-story-the-coronavirus-may-have-leaked-from-a-lab\/\">new article<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0New York Post\u00a0by this guy named Steven Mosher.\u00a0He\u2019s a China expert who argues that you can trace the virus back to our Wuhan lab.\u00a0\u00a0Oops, I mean, <em>the<\/em> Wuhan lab.\u00a0\u00a0Anyway, this is dangerous misinformation.\u00a0The\u00a0<em>science<\/em>\u00a0tells us it came from a bat.\u00a0That\u2019s what our Chinese colleagues tell us, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t worry, Tony.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ll get my people on it right away.\u00a0We\u2019ll put a \u2018False Information\u2019 alert on top, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/04\/17\/facebook-fact-checkers-foul-again-after-censoring-post-story\/\">prevent anyone<\/a>\u00a0from clicking through to the original article to read it for themselves.\u00a0We\u2019ll show The\u00a0Post\u00a0what happens to those who write and publish these kinds of crazy conspiracy stories.\u00a0\u00a0Not to mention who controls the flow of information in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/dr-fauci-1.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Fauci had a direct line to Facebook CEO Zuckerberg, whose company suppressed a Post story and other news that questioned the COVID party line as \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fauci chuckles.<\/p>\n<p>The above conversation is purely imaginary, of course.\u00a0I really don\u2019t know how Facebook received its marching orders in my case.\u00a0All I know is that it quickly complied.<\/p>\n<p>Within hours my article was taken off line.\u00a0This was insulting enough, both to me and The\u00a0Post.\u00a0\u00a0But Facebook didn\u2019t stop there.\u00a0The largest social media company in the world added injury to insult by wrongly labeling my work, based ultimately on decades of study of Communist China, as \u201cfalse information.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/wuhan-lab.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/wuhan-lab.jpg\" alt=\"The Wuhan lab, which many now believe leaked the coronavirus into the world, leading to 6.5 million deaths.\" class=\"wp-image-23880109\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/wuhan-lab-1.jpg 1236w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/wuhan-lab-2.jpg 927w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/wuhan-lab-3.jpg 618w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/wuhan-lab-4.jpg 309w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/wuhan-lab-5.jpg 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>The Wuhan lab, which some believe leaked COVID into the world.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While I was among the first to be censored, I was far from the last.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fauci and others in the federal government were colluding with social media to shape the COVID narrative from the beginning, and this effort quickly expanded as time went on.\u00a0Anyone who questioned lockdowns, school closures, masking and social distancing was shadow banned, if not destined for the \u201cdelete account\u201d button.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/02\/biden-administration-asked-instagram-to-take-down-fauci-parody-account-report\/\">lawsuit filed<\/a>\u00a0by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, we now know that dozens upon dozens of federal officials were engaged in the effort to pressure social media to remove \u201cmisinformation.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Schmitt\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eric_Schmitt\/status\/1565349718091505664\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">characterizes this<\/a> \u2014 correctly \u2014 as \u201ca vast censorship enterprise.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/nyc-school-children.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/nyc-school-children.jpg\" alt=\"Fauci also orchestrated America\u2019s vast school-closure mandates even though he knew children were at very low risk of becoming seriously ill from COVID infections.\" class=\"wp-image-23880105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/nyc-school-children-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/nyc-school-children-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/nyc-school-children-2.jpg&amp;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Fauci also called for America\u2019s vast school closures, even though he knew children were at very low risk of becoming seriously ill from COVID infections. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And it was an enterprise that, for all intents and purposes, was directed by Fauci.<\/p>\n<p>There was a direct line between the man who posed as America\u2019s leading expert on the coronavirus and Mark Zuckerberg, a man who controlled Facebook and Instagram, two major conduits of COVID information for the American people.<\/p>\n<p>I mean that literally.\u00a0\u00a0It turns out that Fauci\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/09\/faucis-direct-line-to-zuck-proves-facebook-covid-censorship-was-all-about-power\/\">really did have<\/a>\u00a0Zuck\u2019s personal cellphone number.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And he had our number as well.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/coronavirus-molecule.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/coronavirus-molecule.jpg\" alt=\"Fauci said the vaccines would prevent infection from COVID. That turned out to be false.\" class=\"wp-image-23880103\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/coronavirus-molecule-1.jpg 1236w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/coronavirus-molecule-2.jpg 927w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/coronavirus-molecule-3.jpg 618w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/coronavirus-molecule-4.jpg 309w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/coronavirus-molecule-5.jpg 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Fauci had originally said vaccines would prevent infection from COVID.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">API\/GAMMA-RAPHO<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The thin-skinned bureaucrat \u2014 who once\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/21\/fauci-attacks-on-him-are-actually-criticizing-science\/\">claimed<\/a>\u00a0that to criticize him was to criticize science itself \u2014 turned out to be one of the chief purveyors of misinformation during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci wasn\u2019t just wrong about the lab origins of the COVID virus.\u00a0He was wrong about lots of other things as well.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/23\/dr-anthony-faucis-5-disastrous-covid-mistakes\/\">demanded<\/a>\u00a0school closures despite knowing that kids were at low risk from COVID and pushed for lockdowns despite studies showing that this would cost lives. He insisted on universal masking despite privately admitting that masks offered little protection against COVID and ridiculed the idea that those who recovered from COVID infections would have natural immunity.\u00a0He claimed that the vaccines would prevent infection and that any effort to focus on protecting those who were at the highest risk was \u201cnonsense and very dangerous,\u201d neither of which turned out to be true.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/big-brother-facebook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/big-brother-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook\u2019s popularity and scale mean that other crucial global debates could, like COVID, be easily declared \u201cfalse information\u201d and removed from public debate.\" class=\"wp-image-23880096\" width=\"618\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/big-brother-facebook-1.jpg 1236w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/big-brother-facebook-2.jpg 927w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/big-brother-facebook-3.jpg 618w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/big-brother-facebook-4.jpg 309w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/big-brother-facebook-5.jpg 1024w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Facebook\u2019s popularity and scale mean that other crucial global debates could, like COVID, be easily declared \u201cfalse information\u201d and removed from public debate.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We have come a long way since early 2020.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We no longer \u2014 most of us anyway \u2014 lock ourselves in our homes and our children out of schools.\u00a0Companies are abandoning mask and vaccination mandates.\u00a0Most of us are putting COVID in the rear-view mirror.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fewer and fewer people are paying attention to Fauci, who by all appearances is being quietly shunted aside by the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>But one worry remains.\u00a0\u00a0The vast censorship enterprise\u00a0with social media platforms that allowed Fauci to collude with, if not control, messaging through Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms remains in place.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/hunter-joe-biden-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/hunter-joe-biden-1.jpg\" alt=\"President Joe Biden with his embattled son, Hunter, whose dubious business deals and scandal-filled personal life have also, like COVID, been censored by social media.\" class=\"wp-image-23880092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/hunter-joe-biden-1-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/hunter-joe-biden-1-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/hunter-joe-biden-1-2.jpg&amp;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>President Biden with his embattled son, Hunter, whose dubious business deals and scandal-filled personal life have also, like COVID, been censored by social media.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And the Biden administration is not at all averse to using this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/23\/twitter-whistleblower-surfaces-presenting-challenge-for-u-s-surveillance-state-enter-cnn-and-the-washington-post\/#more-236864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public-private partnership<\/a>\u00a0to stifle free and open debate on questions of vital concern to the country.\u00a0Think Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n<p>Americans should be just as afraid of collusion between Big Government and Big Tech as they were of COVID back in the spring of 2020.\u00a0\u00a0Such collusion provides endless opportunities to plant destructive viruses in our minds.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Viruses to which we have no natural immunity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Steven W. Mosher is the President of the Population Research Institute and the author of\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Politically-Incorrect-Guide-Pandemics-Guides\/dp\/1684512611\/?tag=nypost-20&amp;asc_refurl=https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/09\/17\/government-censorship-should-scare-us-as-much-as-covid-did\/&amp;asc_source=web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">The Politically Incorrect Guide to Pandemics<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine the takedown went something like this:\u00a0 \u201cHey, Zuck.\u00a0This is Tony Fauci, America\u2019s top expert on all things COVID.\u201d \u201cHi, Tony.\u00a0What can I censor for you today?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1646712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1646712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}