The fight against government-backed online censorship has achieved important victories in the United States but is rapidly losing the global war.
| Category | Main Developments |
|---|---|
| United States | ● President Trump significantly defunded domestic parts of the Censorship Industrial Complex → Major rollback of federal involvement in content moderation pressure |
| Global trend | ● Censorship is dramatically expanding worldwide → EU, Brazil, Australia, Stanford network, BRICS coordination → European Union preparing huge fines against X (≈ €140 million threatened) |
| Most dangerous new EU proposals | ● End of online anonymity ● Chat control (scanning private messages) ● "Democracy Shield" – protecting bureaucrats from democratic accountability → Overall direction: stronger narrative control, less citizen freedom |
| Historical proof (Twitter Files) | ● 2021 – Harvard professor Martin Kulldorff censored for correct statement about natural immunity ● Shadow-banning of Jay Bhattacharya ● Suppression of real vaccine injury stories ● Pre-censorship + narrative control of Hunter Biden laptop story |
| Core mechanism | ● Governments + ex-intelligence + universities + NGOs act as "trusted flaggers" → Demand secret removal/suppression of true but inconvenient information → Goal is not fighting "misinformation" → goal is narrative & behavior control |
| Prediction | ● Within a few years the most intolerant people on Earth could dominate and control the global internet → Unless the current acceleration is stopped |
Shellenberger's final message:
Free speech is essential for science, democracy, journalism and civilization itself.
It is the only cause worth dying for.