Clinton Wants Internet “Ministry Of Truth”

Former US president Bill Clinton has proposed the creation of a “Ministry of Truth” for the Internet that would protect against “misinformation and rumors” that find their way to the information superhighway.

In a rough outline Clinton gave during a recent appearance on CNBC, the former president said the agency would be modeled after NPR or the BBC and run by either the US government or the United Nations.

The agency would have to be “independent” and “totally transparent about where the money came from,” Clinton said, because “if it’s a government agency in a traditional sense, it would have no credibility whatever, particularly with a lot of the people who are most active on the Internet.”

“Their mandate would be narrowly confined to identifying relevant factual errors,” Clinton said. “And also, they would also have to have citations so that they could be checked in case they made a mistake. Somebody needs to be doing it, and maybe it’s a worthy expenditure of taxpayer money.”

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Cybersecurity company CEO Mati Kochavi, who appeared with Clinton, said he favors a “credibility bar” on search engine results that would rank a page on the accuracy and authenticity of the information given on the page.

Clinton has had issues with the Internet ever since the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which nearly destroyed his presidency, was broken online by the then-unheard-of Matt Drudge. Clinton’s wife Hillary, in her role as Secretary of State in the Obama administration, has also had her share of cyber-headaches due to the Wikileaks Cablegate leaks. She recently bemoaned that the US was “losing the information war” to independent media outlets online.

Infowars notes that Obama information czar, Cass Sunstein, has demanded websites be mandated by law “to link to opposing information or that pop ups containing government propaganda be forcibly included on political blogs.”

Writes Paul Joseph Watson at Infowars:

In a 2008 article published in the Journal of Political Philosophy, Sunstein outlined a plan for the government to stealthily infiltrate groups that pose alternative theories on historical events via “chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine” those groups.

On page 14 of Sunstein’s January 2008 white paper entitled “Conspiracy Theories,” he proposed that “under imaginable conditions” the government “might ban conspiracy theorizing” and could “impose some kind of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories.”

Sunstein’s definition of “conspiracy theories” includes ideas shared by the majority of American people, such as the notion that the JFK assassination occurred as part of a wider plot, as well as the belief that the threat of global warming has been hyped by governments and global institutions. Both of these ideas would be examples of thought crime under Sunstein’s regime.