Emphasis mine:
“Seeing this censorship industry go from, well, we’re just fighting ISIS to well, we’re just fighting Russian disinformation bots to well, now we need to fight domestic misinformation, which is just saying we need to fight against people who are saying things we disagree with online, that’s all that means. And I — I mean, it’s not a slippery slope. It’s an immediate leap into a terrifying mechanism that I — we only see in totalitarian societies of attempting to gain control over what the social media platforms are allow — are allowing. And so yeah, for me, it’s just — it starts at DHS, but we basically see almost every government agency involved in this.”
-Michael Shellenberger, Journalist (US House Hearing on the Twitter Files, March 9, 2023)
What we have seen over the last few decades is 1) People keep assuring me that the idea of The Slippery Slope just doesn’t exist and then 2) someone or some group decides “oh, we want that” and then “oh, this other thing” and of course “NATIONAL SECURITY!!!”.
Just look how fast we went from “Gas stoves are polluters” to “you can’t save yourselves, we need to regulate them” to “we’ve NEVER wanted to take your stoves away” (yep, the REAL “gaslighting slippery slope”) to SecEnergy Granholm admitting that they ARE looking to take enough gas stoves off the market so that there isn’t the possibility for a normal person to have the choice to buy one.
And now they’re after our refrigerators, air conditioners, and dish washers (again!).
We DO distrust government because they just are unable to leave us alone!
From Tolerance to Acceptance to Affirmation to Civil Unions to Gay Marriage;
Gender Dysphoria to toleration to forced affirmation to sexual organ multilation affirmation through coerced speech and lying to Parents. Oh yeah, now mandatory homosexuality (e.g, transwomen w/out surgery stating they are lesbian and then demanding that other lesbians have sex with them).
Go ahead, let’s see YOUR Slippery Slope examples!
(H/T: HotAir)
