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Cass Sunstein, the information csar in the Obama administration, published some truly horrible ideas some years back. In order to remove unwanted critical voices he and his co-author encouraged the government to do the following:

Conspiracy theories by Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule (2008):
Freely available here:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1084585
“…What can government do about conspiracy theories? Among the things it can do,
what should it do? We can readily imagine a series of possible responses. (1)
Government might ban conspiracy theorizing. (2) Government might impose some kind
of tax, financial or otherwise, on those who disseminate such theories. (3) Government
might itself engage in counterspeech, marshaling arguments to discredit conspiracy
theories. (4) Government might formally hire credible private parties to engage in
counterspeech. (5) Government might engage in informal communication with such
parties, encouraging them to help. Each instrument has a distinctive set of potential
effects, or costs and benefits, and each will have a place under imaginable conditions.
However, our main policy idea is that government should engage in cognitive infiltration
of the groups that produce conspiracy theories, which involves a mix of (3), (4) and (5)…”

The thing is that Sunstein and his co-author want to use this methods against people that produce legitimate and much needed critics. What is the democracy worth without legitimate critical voices?

Sunstein has been confronted with his utterly undemocratic proposals, here…
Obama Information Czar Cass Sunstein Confronted on Cognitive Infiltration of Conspiracy Groups:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OIiOztc52g

As one can see, Sunstein does not retract these utterly irresponsible suggestions. He even tries to give the impression that he cannot remember that he has produced this nonsense together with a lot of bla bla bla responses.

Recently Cass Sunstein was invited to Fritt Ord in Norway, an “Association of the Freedom of Expression Foundation”
http://www.frittord.no/en/

I have not asked Fritt Ord what they have to say about Cass Sunstein proposals on how to deal with people that use their “freedom of expression” to get the truth out to the masses, but Sunstein held at talk in Oslo titled: “Fifty Shades of Manipulation”:
I found a document by Sunstein online, in that document, the expert manipulator Sunstein write the following (on page 4):

“…A qualification is necessary. If a disclosure requirement focuses on one of many
aspects of a situation, and fixes people’s attention on that aspect, a charge of
manipulation would not be unreasonable. Consider the controversy over the idea that
sellers should have to disclose that food has genetically modified organisms (GMOs). See
Charles Noussair et al., Do Consumers Really Refuse to Buy Genetically Modified
Food?, 114 Economic Journal 102 (2004). For those who object to compulsory labeling
about GMOs, there is a plausible claim that labels are a form of manipulation, activating
public concern where there is no objective reason for that concern. Of course those in the
private sector might engage in similar forms of manipulation, drawing people’s attention
to a feature of a product that, while real, appears far more important than it actually is…”

The document is to be found here…
Fifty shades of manipulation:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2565892

If one does not know about the quirks about the GMO-industry, the regulatory bodies (e.g. the FDA) and the politics that set the course for the GM-industry (as revealed in the excellent book Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: http://alteredgenestwistedtruth.com/ ), most people will probably believe the subtle GMO-propaganda from Sunstein. But for the rest of us, with knowledge about Sunstein’s anti-democratic publication (first link here), should quickly see that the talk about manipulation is told by an expert manipulator.

It might be that Fritt Ord (the Association of the Freedom of Expression Foundation) in Norway thought it would be a good idea to use one expert manipulator, to talk about manipulation. But, I did not see one word from the Fritt Ord, where they warned the audience about what kind of deception several of Sunstein’s papers represents.

via The Hawaii Independent

As the University of Hawai‘i was cozying up to ‪#‎GMO‬ giant Monsanto, one of the school’s professors says that he was forced to tolerate a climate of “bigotry, retaliation and hostility” for speaking out about the potential risks of genetic engineering. The university disputes his charges.

‪#‎FoodSovereignty‬ ‪#‎MonsantoMoney‬ #AlohaAina #KukiaiHawaiiNei

http://hawaiiindependent.net/story/the-silencing-of-hector-valenzuela

http://grannygoodfood.blogspot.com/2008/10/the-ugly-truth-about-food-that-nobody.html

http://www.alternet.org/food/meet-controversial-mit-scientist-who-claims-have-discovered-cause-gluten-sensitivty