{"id":120891,"date":"2021-12-21T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=120891"},"modified":"2021-12-20T19:42:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T00:42:54","slug":"online-thoughtcrime-to-be-outlawed-under-new-pentagon-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=120891","title":{"rendered":"Online thoughtcrime to be outlawed under new Pentagon policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The_Pentagon-e1540061114493.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-82427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The_Pentagon-500x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, as expected, the Brandon Administration has taken the fight against &#8220;extremism&#8221; in its ranks to an unconstitutional extreme. The latest Amendment of the Bill of Rights under assault is the First. Servicemembers will now be prohibited from liking or retweeting things online if their command thinks it&#8217;s &#8220;extremism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/12\/20\/likes-shares-and-posts-now-prohibited-in-pentagons-new-anti-extremism-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Military Times;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Membership in extremist groups is still not prohibited by the Defense Department, but an updated instruction released Monday seeks to prohibit pretty much everything that one might do in association with an extremist group.<\/p>\n<p>The project of defining extremism for the purpose of punishing those who engage it is like \u201cthreading a very fine needle, when we\u2019re engaging in prohibiting conduct that may be protected by the First Amendment,\u201d a defense official told reporters Monday, as the Countering Extremism Working group released its final report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to push forward with the same standard that we had in our previous iterations of this policy, which is that active participation,\u201d an official said. \u201cSo it was really important to us that we preserve First Amendment rights to the extent that we could, and that we focus on an individual\u2019s actions, regardless of whether they did that on their own or as part of an organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the new policy expands the previous definition of prohibited activity, for the first time explicitly including online interactions that might promote terrorism or the overthrow of the U.S. government, as well as attending rallies, fundraising or organizing in support of those ideologies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The weekend safety brief will now have to include a warning from the First Sergeant not to participate in any online activities that run counter to the government approved narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, as expected, the Brandon Administration has taken the fight against &#8220;extremism&#8221; in its ranks to &hellip; <a title=\"Online thoughtcrime to be outlawed under new Pentagon policy\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=120891\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Online thoughtcrime to be outlawed under new Pentagon policy<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,213,518,237,47,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-biden","category-big-pentagon","category-liberals-suck","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120895,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120891\/revisions\/120895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}