US government to set up internet Ministry of Truth as communist-style government-run media
It sounds like such an innocent idea, one rooted in “fairness” and wrapped in good intentions. An internet “ministry of truth,” run either by the federal government or the United Nations, to protect against “misinformation and rumors” that find their way to the information superhighway.
Such an agency “would have to be an independent federal agency that no president could countermand or anything else because people wouldn’t think you were just censoring the news and giving a different falsehood out.”
No, that’s not Russia’s Vladimir Putin or Chinese President Hu Jintao making that absurd suggestion. That one came from former President Bill Clinton, the man who lied to the American public about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. If such an agency would have been in existence during his tenure, you have to think he would have been convicted during his impeachment trial in the Senate for sure.
They had a Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s prophetic novel “1984”. In it, The ministry of Truth was in all actuality the “Ministry of Lies” and source of ALL information people were ‘allowed’ to know. People ought to “be in the streets” about this. Whoever can write the history is in charge.