{"id":9613,"date":"2025-06-23T12:36:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T12:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=9613"},"modified":"2025-06-23T12:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T12:36:24","slug":"obama-calls-for-government-constraints-for-online-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xstorynews.com\/?p=9613","title":{"rendered":"Obama Calls For Government Constraints For Online Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former President Obama has a twisted plan for what he believes should happen regarding speech online, and it is terrifying.<\/p>\n

The former president believes that the government should have the power to develop \u201crestraints\u201d over what can, and cannot, be posted online in order to avoid having \u201cdisinformation\u201d and \u201cmisinformation\u201d spread.<\/p>\n

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Obama made the comments when he spoke to historian and author Heather Cox Richardson at The Connecticut Forum on June 17, 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve said this before, but I always repeat it. You and I can have an opinion about this little side table. You know, you might not like the design, you might not like the color or how it\u2019s finished, but we can have that discussion,\u201d former President Obama said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I say to you this is a lawnmower, you\u2019ll think I\u2019m crazy. And if I really believe it, I\u2019ll think you\u2019re crazy. And we\u2019re now in a situation in which we are having these just basic factual arguments,\u201d he said to the historian.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that further undermines trust. And those in power, those with money, exploit that space in which nobody knows what\u2019s true. Vladimir Putin and the KGB had a saying that was then adopted proudly by Steve Bannon, which was if you want propaganda to be effective, you don\u2019t have to convince people that what you are saying is true,\u201d he said as he attempted to make his draconian case.<\/p>\n