Barack Obama Openly Advocates for Censorship by the Elites to Help the Unwashed Masses

Obama is clearly advocating the need for censorship in this video:

Part of what we’re going to have to do is to start experimenting with new forms of journalism and how we use social media in ways that reaffirm facts and separate facts from opinion. We want diversity of opinion. We don’t want diversity of facts. That, I think, is one of the big tasks of social media. By the way, it will require some government regulatory constraints…

I'll paraphrase: "We," (the pre-ordained elites) will be in charge of what you can say and hear. We're helping you and you need our help because you're too dumb to think for yourself. You'll love it!

This is no one-off for Obama. Despite being a former professor of law, who taught constitutional law, Obama considers himself one of the elite leaders of the censorship industrial complex.  Consider this brand new article by Michael Shellenberger: "Obama-Linked Stanford Center Held Secret Meeting With Foreign Governments To Plot Global Internet Censorship: Top EU, UK, Brazil, and Australian officials met in September with US censorship advocates to combine and coordinate efforts." Excerpt:

In the spring of 2022, former President Barack Obama gave a major policy address at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center, where he laid out a sweeping proposal for government censorship of social media platforms through the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act. Six days later, President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security announced that it had created a “Disinformation Governance Board” to serve as an Orwellian Ministry of Truth with the clear goal of controlling the information Americans could access online.

At the heart of Obama’s vision for Internet censorship was legislation that would have authorized the US government’s National Science Foundation to authorize and fund supposedly independent NGOs to censor the Internet. The DHS and Stanford Internet Observatory, which was part of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, pioneered this censorship-by-proxy strategy as a way to get around the First Amendment in 2020 with posts raising concerns about the 2020 elections and in 2021 with “narratives” expressing concern about the Covid vaccine.

The 2024 election of President Donald Trump significantly reduced the threat of Obama, DHS, and NSF censoring the American people. Trump defunded much of the Censorship Industrial Complex. The Platform Accountability Act is going nowhere in Congress.

To be fair, Trump is no saint on free speech. As FIRE's Will Creely testified recently, Trump has been bludgeoning numerous entities to curtail free speech:

To be sure, the government may speak for itself, and the public has an interest in hearing from it. But it may not wield that power to censor. As Judge Richard Posner put it: The government is “entitled to what it wants to say — but only within limits.” Under no circumstances may our public servants “employ threats to squelch the free speech of private citizens.”

So the law is clear: Government actors cannot silence a speaker by threatening “we can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way,” as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission did last month. Nevertheless, recent examples of jawboning abound: against private broadcasters, private universities, private social media platforms, and more. The First Amendment does not abide mob tactics.

Democrats, however, are more on board with Obama's approach to censorship than republicans:

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Men’s Jobs and Women’s Jobs

Steve Stewart-Williams reports on a new study confirming what many of us intuit:

One of the most robust findings in psychology is that men and women have somewhat different career-related interests: On average, men are more interested in working with things, whereas women are more interested in working with people. A fascinating analysis of the apprenticeship system in Switzerland shows how these preferences help shape young people’s real-world occupational choices.

The study examined 130 apprentice occupations, dividing these into jobs involving machines, materials, and tools sat at one end; jobs involving care, communication, and social interaction sat at the other.

The results are shown in the graph below. As you can see, the more people-oriented a profession is, the more female-dominated it tends to be, and the more things-oriented it is, the more male-dominated. The effect is extremely strong, making the things-people dimension one of the most powerful known predictors of occupational sex differences.

I highly recommend Steve's "The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter." He is always responsibly reporting on scientifically-grounded topics that are highly relevant to issues of the day.

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What America Needs for Better Health

First, the problem. Robert Malone, MD explains:

The MAHA agenda as defined in these two key planning documents identifies four potential drivers behind the rise in childhood chronic disease that present the clearest opportunities for progress:

Poor Diet: The American diet has shifted dramatically toward highly processed foods, leading to nutrient depletion, increased caloric intake, and exposure to potentially harmful or unhealthy additives. Over 60% of children’s calories now come from highly processed foods, contributing to obesity, diabetes, and other chronic conditions.

Chemical Exposure: Children are exposed to an increasing number of synthetic chemicals, some of which have been linked to developmental issues and chronic disease. The current regulatory framework should be continually evaluated to ensure that chemicals and other exposures do not interact together to pose a threat to the health of our children.

Lack of Physical Activity and Chronic Stress: American children are experiencing unprecedented levels of inactivity, screen use, sleep deprivation, and chronic stress. These factors significantly contribute to the rise in chronic diseases and mental health challenges.

Overmedicalization: There is a concerning trend of overprescribing medications to children, often driven by conflicts of interest in medical research, regulation, and practice. This has led to unnecessary treatments and long-term health risks.

All indicators show that America’s health is failing, and the American people know we all need a dramatically new approach to healthcare in this country.

Now, Congress is required to do heavy lifting. To summarize:

They are grouped into five categories: 1) Food, nutrition, and consumer protection reforms, 2) Public health, medical, and regulatory systems reforms, 3) Agricultural, environmental, and process deregulation, 4) Agency restructuring and governance reforms, and 5) Oversight and systemic transparency reforms.

Malone has written a long comprehensive list of needed changes, with relevant links. Highly recommended.

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The Inner Workings of Transgender Medical Centers

rom 2018 to November 2022, Reed worked as a case manager at the Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital in Missouri, where she handled patient intake for transgender youth. In this role, she observed the clinic's operations, which involved prescribing puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to adolescents. In 2023, she blew the whistle on her employer.

In 2023, she authored a 23-page affidavit and an essay published by The Free Press, accusing the clinic of rushing minors onto irreversible medical interventions without adequate mental health screenings. Key allegations included:Doctors downplaying co-occurring conditions like depression, anxiety, autism, or peer pressure/social media influences in favor of gender dysphoria diagnoses.

  • Prescribing hormones (e.g., testosterone) after minimal consultations, sometimes on the first visit, with only one parent's consent required.

  • Patients experiencing severe side effects, such as deformed genitalia, rectal bleeding, bone density loss, and infertility, with little follow-up care.

  • A high rate of "detransitioners" who later regretted treatments, including one patient who attempted suicide after realizing the changes were not reversible.

What follows is a transcription of her recent video statement:

My name is Jamie Reed, and I hold a Master's of Science in Clinical Research Management from Washington University in St Louis. I am also a lifelong Democrat, a mom of five boys, three of whom were adopted out of the foster care system. And I'm a lesbian. I am also the public whistleblower from inside a pediatric Gender Center.

I participated in transitioning nearly 1500 unique patients who ranged in age from three to 26 now I understand I participated in an industry that was based on fraud, deception, and in layman's terms, we were running a racket. Patients were treated using unethical and deceptive informed consent practices. They were minor patients. They had significantly presenting comorbidities, some even meeting the criteria for a legal medical disability, the entire diagnosis is based on regressive stereotypes and self described feelings. For an assessment to be diagnostic, there must be a statistically significant number of patients who will not meet the diagnostic criteria, parents and the public have been deceived into believing that these assessments are diagnostic, that they're consistent, that they're comprehensive, and that no child is ever receiving treatment without one.

But even if this field was completing a true biopsychosocial assessment and saying no to a significant percentage of the patient population, those who would be told yes would be homosexuals, and especially the gender non-conforming homosexuals. We would still be okay to be rendered sterile, without sexual function, with destroyed endocrine systems, and be allowed to die early simply because we are gender non conforming homosexuals.

One of my patients, after her radical bilateral mastectomy at 19 called begging for her breath to be put back on. Another patient's intellectual function was so impaired that they could not identify to me where they lived or explain what type of identification they possessed. This patient even stated that they desired to have biological children, yet they were prescribed a treatment that would ultimately render them sterile for life.

We as clinicians in the gender industry openly stated it does not matter if patients even had gender dysphoria. If a patient said they were trans, then they were trans. Parents were unaware that patients were self diagnosing, that clinicians had completely abandoned the diagnostic process entirely.

Parents who didn't agree with our lives were isolated, abandoned by our centers. And we tore children apart from caring parents who told us no.

Imagine if children went in self-declaring that they had a malignant cancer, if that child demanded to go through chemotherapy and surgery, that the clinicians would comply. This is precisely what we were doing in the Gender Center. What finally led me to speak up is that we significantly harmed our patients. We didn't just deceive them or their parents. I hurt the very children I was employed to protect.

Reed now serves as executive director of the LGBT Courage Coalition, a nonprofit advocating for improved standards in youth gender medicine, emphasizing mental health support and caution with interventions.

In this next video, Erin Friday lays out the economics of gender medicine, including the fact that puberty blockers, which cause irreversible damage to the reproductive system, are "handed out like candy."

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