Editor’s note: this article was originally published at DailySignal.com
Joe Biden’s bad idea factory just belched out a doozy: The Disinformation Governance Board rolled off the assembly line to the sound of shrieks — and deservedly so.
The last thing American citizens need is a taxpayer-funded thought police bureau that monitors public utterances, condemns them as “disinformation,” and then flags them for dutiful erasure by the Democrat Left’s social media henchpersons in Silicon Valley.
This wretched concept echoes the mind control of the USSR. Indeed, these bumbling neo-totalitarians gave this monstrosity a name whose acronym is DGB, which rhymes with KGB. One feels sorry for Team Biden — almost.
It would be bad enough if the DGB were a small, stand-alone panel, a la the National Endowment for the Arts. Instead, the DGB operates within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a massive law enforcement agency with ample guns, ammo, and well-trained federal agents whose firepower would inspire the average enemy of the state to clam up.
“The fact that a federal department with approximately 240,000 employees would set up a ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ to enforce the government’s judgement of what information is allow ...
