Progressive Governance Needs a Social Credit State | Mises Wire

Other progressive entities, including the New York Times, also have been critical of China s social credit system but apparently have no problem with the establishment of a similar de facto

system here.  The Washington Post went even further, openly taking part in a social credit scheme by publicly identifying people who recently contributed to the Canadian truck protesters and demanding to know why they gave money.

Understand that the Washington Post accessed an illegally hacked document and then used it as a weapon against people who dared contribute to something with which the newspaper s staff disagreed, and the purpose was not to be informative but rather to endanger contributors and make them vulnerable to job loss, public shaming, and other kinds of attacks. This is not a rendition of Democracy Dies in Darkness but rather an attempt to impose a greater darkness on all of us.

Not that long ago, political liberals universally would have agreed that using massive electronic surveillance to monitor speech and political contributions was unthinkable. Today, not one mainstream journalistic entity has raised a question about the actions taken by Canada s government against dissenters or even questioned the Post s doxing of those contributors. One surmises that the editors of the Post agree with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, since many protesters do not share the political views of the Post s staff.

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