

The Washington Post’s motto is “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” Which is why it’s really strange that they want you to “ignore the hysteria over the Disinformation Governance Board.”

They don’t want you to worry about the fact that your increasingly authoritarian government has created a literal Orwellian Minister of Truth to police your thought and your speech in order to control what the public knows. They don’t want you to concern yourself with the government deciding what qualifies and dis or misinformation, and thus deciding what you’re allowed to say. It is literally “The Post’s View,” and the opinion of the Editorial Board, that the outrage at this blatant attempt at authoritarian censorship is just “hysteria.”
I mean, if democracy dies in darkness, The Washington Post must really want democracy to die because they are gaslighting, downplaying, dismissing perhaps the greatest form of metaphorical “darkness” that could descend upon this nation. One that blocks out the light of truth, expression, ideas, and discussion. If you “ignore the hysteria over the Disinformation Governance Board,” as instructed by The Washington Post, you will be the frog who boils to death in the slowly heated pot of water as authoritarians slowly turn up the heat of censorship until you are powerless to fight back.