Much of what follows would be more difficult to find if not for the arguably more pro-free speech platform that used to be called Twitter and is now called X. Left-leaning Mark Zuckerberg, who per left-leaning NPR: “Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, and Priscilla Chan, his wife, donated $350 million to a nonprofit that gave grants to election officials…” Those donations reportedly focused mostly on Democratic areas that could have tipped the 2020 election in favor of Joe Biden (D) and Kamala Harris (D). Zuckerberg admitted that his Facebook (Meta) platform bent to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) requests to suppress posts that exposed the Hunter Biden laptop story, which has since proven to be true. Hunter has been convicted and found guilty of a number of activities that have apparent ties to Joe Biden. But in the absence of truly free speech, suppressing that information is also likely to have influenced the 2020 election outcome. Why does that matter? Multiple reasons, not the least of which are because whatever has happened before can happen again. When free speech is suppressed or the media often offers manipulated content, the information that citizens may be basing their votes on are tainted. That’s why the founders of the American Republic made the First Amendment a protection of freedom of speech, assembly, religion, and the press. From the more focused perspective of manufactured housing, if not for what is published on MHProNews and MHLivingNews, much of that information would never reach the industry’s pros or outsiders looking into the mysterious world of the manufactured housing industry’s historic underperformance in the 21st century.
Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things:
1. Biden-Harris Admin “pressured” Facebook to censor Americans.
2. Facebook censored Americans.
3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Big win for free speech. pic.twitter.com/ALlbZd9l6K
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) August 26, 2024
CNN — “Hunter Biden has agreed to plead guilty to multiple criminal charges.” pic.twitter.com/1OPjcnyBSg
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) June 20, 2023
First, some macro political items, including a relevant op-ed on free speech by Mike Gonzalez in Part I. Then, in Part II some manufactured housing connected observations and insights as the 15th anniversary of the launch of what today is called MHProNews looms.
Joe admits Kamala has been involved in all decisions during their administrations tenure.
This is all on Kamala too. pic.twitter.com/yPF1w1h2bd
— Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) October 4, 2024
BREAKING: Kamala says she wouldn’t change anything from Biden, confirms she has been part of most Admin decisions pic.twitter.com/BMCegX6mSv
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 8, 2024
Trump in Butler, PA:
“So, as I was saying.” 🔥🔥
Continuing at same place where he was shot at…..
This is called “Leadership”pic.twitter.com/eFtRVJAmVe
— BhikuMhatre (@MumbaichaDon) October 5, 2024
INSANE, look at all these Trump supporters packed into the Pennsylvania field where President Trump was shot in July. Butler, PA pic.twitter.com/TWvus0AzRR
— Ben Deeter (@benpdeeter) October 5, 2024
🚨BREAKING: Blackhawk helicopter in western North Carolina is sabotaging volunteer supply zones.
The mainstream media censored this! Let’s make it go VIRAL! pic.twitter.com/SOf3p2xHNJ
— Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸 News (@DonaldTNews) October 7, 2024
Part I – From the Daily Signal to MHProNews is the Following
Commentary
The Left’s Open Declaration of War on Free Speech
Mike Gonzalez | October 05, 2024
Leftists are becoming increasingly totalitarian in their antipathy for freedom of speech. It’s an obstacle to their desire for power, so it must be crushed.
An exaggeration, you say?
Just listen to what high-profile leftists have been openly saying about denying you your right to information on both sides of the political equation.
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Former presidential candidate and Obama Secretary of State John Kerry has gotten the most attention recently, mainly because of how bluntly he railed against our most fundamental freedom. But former Clinton Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has been just as repressive—and more detailed. And Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has been her usual self as she demands censorship without much specificity.
Kerry made his comments at a World Economic Forum panel on green energy on Sept. 25. A conservative comedian trying to satirize the views of the haughty ruling class could not have come up with better material.
As Kerry put it, “The dislike of and anger over social media is just growing and growing and growing, and it’s part of our problem, particularly in democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue,” Kerry lamented, apparently referring to abhorrence of freedom by members of his ilk.
“It’s really hard to govern today!” The problem, he said, was that the internet and social media have liberated people to choose from different sources of information, adding competition. Little over two decades ago, the country was held hostage to the views of the journalists working at three networks and a handful of national newspapers.
Kerry pines for those days. “The referees we used to have to determine what’s a fact, and what isn’t a fact, have been eviscerated to a certain degree, and people self-select, where they go for their news, or for their information, and you get into a vicious cycle,” said the man who came within 19 Electoral College votes of becoming president in 2004. “So, it’s really, really hard, much harder, to build consensus today than at any time in the 40 to 50 years I’ve been involved in this.”
He continued, “There is a lot of discussion now about how you curb those entities, if people go to only one source, and the source they go to is sick and has an agenda and it’s putting out disinformation, our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to hammer it out of existence.”
Kerry’s solution?
What we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change. … Democracies are very challenged right now, and have not proven that they can move fast enough, or big enough, to deal with the challenges that we are facing, and to me, this is part of what this race, this election is all about—will we break the fever in the United States?
Reich also discussed his desire to hammer persnickety sources of information out of existence with a global audience. Writing in the leading newspaper of the British Left, The Guardian, he engaged in a bit of disinformation himself by mischaracterizing the actions of the man he’d like hammered out, X owner Elon Musk.
Musk and former President Donald Trump “have both floated the idea of governing together if Trump wins a second term,” wrote Reich, whereas, in fact, as Reich admitted himself, all Musk has done is recommend that Trump have in a second term a “government efficiency commission” in which Musk “would be happy to help out.” But apparently unaware that he was committing the same crime he accused Musk to be guilty of, Reich went on with his recommendation for how officials around the world should “rein in Musk.”
The first one was for people to boycott Musk’s electric vehicle, Tesla, and his social media company, X. But Reich wants much more. “Regulators around the world should threaten Musk with arrest if he doesn’t stop disseminating lies and hate on X,” he wrote. As for the U.S. government, it “should terminate its contracts with him, starting with Musk’s SpaceX,” wrote Reich, who published his screed weeks before the U.S. government had to come to SpaceX, hat in hand, asking it to retrieve two astronauts stranded by NASA.
Ocasio-Cortez has been far less trenchant and specific. The young representative, who’s been repeatedly dinged by left-leaning PolitiFact for spreading falsehoods, also wants to “rein in” media she considers guilty of spreading misinformation.
“We’re going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can’t just spew disinformation and misinformation,” she posted on social media. “It’s one thing to have different opinions, but it’s another thing entirely to just say things that are false, so that is something that we’re looking into.”
Unfortunately, these unhinged comments by American politicians don’t come in a vacuum.
There is a sustained attack on freedom of information from Brazil to our ally the United Kingdom to next door in Canada. Of course, that makes it all the more important that we speak up for freedom. ##
Originally published by Restoring America
Mike is the Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow in the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Read his research. ###
Part II – Additional Information with More MHProNews Analysis and Commentary
1) Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS) bought Datacomp, MHVillage and MHInsider.
2) There is an array of stories that the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) linked trade media have either not mentioned at all or have downplayed. Meaning, without the trade publications we launched starting with MHProNews and later MHLivingNews, much of what is known about apparent collusion between insiders at MHI for the sake of consolidation of the industry at discounted rates would not be known. Much of the research, for example, of Samuel Strommen with Knudson Law on apparent antitrust violations in manufactured housing was performed on MHProNews and MHLivingNews, as he said.
3) On the trade association side, without the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), many facts about the manufactured home industry would likewise not be exposed from a national trade association’s critical vantagepoint.
4) Even many of the reports connected to the Congressional hearings would not have the same impact, or perhaps not have been made at all, had MHARR and MHARR members not stepped up to the plate to testify.
5) In terms of free speech, former Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton (D) and John Kerry (D) have made stunning statements that call for suppression and control of free speech. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to realize that the speech they would suppress is anything that they think would not fit their favored narrative.
Ex US State Sec. John Kerry explains how free speech stands in the way of building consensus and they are losing control of the narratives in order to control democracies.
“It’s really hard to govern today.” pic.twitter.com/T05MaA4q9k
— 🔥⭐️Edwin⭐️🔥 (@Nuked4Every1) October 7, 2024
Hillary Clinton warns that allowing free speech on social media means ‘we lose control’ https://t.co/nEZKK3rESH pic.twitter.com/FSLy15St93
— New York Post (@nypost) October 6, 2024
The above are screen captures from the video posted below.
6) While the insiders at MHI have apparently thrown down in favor of Democrats and Democratic policies, instead of steering a nonpartisan approach that seeks to get good existing federal laws that were enacted in a bipartisan fashion to benefit manufactured housing sales and production, it should be clear that those MHI insiders believe that Democrats will benefit consolidation.
7) MHProNews warned the industry years ago with evidence from researcher and documentary filmmaker Trevor Loudon and other sources that a Biden-Harris administration would be far more leftist than moderate, as they claimed in the run-up to 2020.
“The Enemies Within,” Pacific Freedom Foundation, Author Trevor Loudon
2/23/2018 was the date of the second report linked above. There were many others. But one point is that not only has MHProNews and our MHLivingNews sister site reported on manufactured housing industry specific issues, we went the extra mile and shed periodic light on the macro-picture that manufactured housing operates in. That combination of inside and beyond manufactured housing is essentially unparalleled by any other trade media in the industry.
8) Perhaps due to such a potent combination of information for industry professionals and researchers into the world of MHVille, all the known evidence – per Bing’s AI powered Copilot and other sources – strongly suggests that we dominate manufactured housing industry news, tips, and views pros can use.
We thank all involved for their readership and for the various types of support. It would not be possible without a fervent desire for free speech and free press.
Let’s wrap this article by noting that while we critique others for their failure to report the evidence for why manufactured housing is underperforming. But we respect their right to publish what they do. They may be wrong, but they have the right to be wrong. See the related reports to learn more and check out our series on increasingly popular series on the Patch. To fix what’s going wrong in MHVille, a rigged system has to be fixed. In this election, that means we must “swamp the vote.” Vote Wisely and if Possible Vote Early! ##
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By L.A. “Tony” Kovach – for MHProNews.com.
Tony earned a journalism scholarship and earned numerous awards in history and in manufactured housing.
For example, he earned the prestigious Lottinville Award in history from the University of Oklahoma, where he studied history and business management. He’s a managing member and co-founder of LifeStyle Factory Homes, LLC, the parent company to MHProNews, and MHLivingNews.com.
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