Posted on 04/04/2023 11:11:38 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
Since the 2016 elections, politicians, journalists, and many others have raised the alarm about “foreign election influence” and “disinformation,” demanding greater “content moderation” by social media platforms. It is too easy, they argued, for foreign and malign actors to quickly “go viral” at low cost, leaving the good guys unable to correct bad information. We must become more “resilient” to disinformation.
It’s now clear that all of that rhetoric was cover for a sweeping censorship effort by the federal government and government contractors.
Since December, a small but growing group of journalists, analysts, and researchers have documented the rise of a “Censorship Industrial Complex”, a network of U.S. government agencies, and government-funded think tanks. Over the last six years, these entities have coordinated their efforts to both spread disinformation and to censor journalists, politicians, and ordinary Americans. They have done so directly and indirectly, including by playing good cop/bad cop with Twitter and Facebook. Hundreds and perhaps thousands of people have been involved in these censorship and disinformation campaigns in the U.S., Canada, and the UK.
We now know, thanks to the Twitter Files, emails released by the Attorney Generals of Missouri and Louisiana, and research by others, that the Censorship Industrial Complex is violating the First Amendment by coordinating with government agencies and receiving government funding to pressure and help social media companies to both censor information, including accurate information, while spreading disinformation, including conspiracy theories.
And such efforts are continuing if not accelerating. At Biden’s “Summit for Democracy” last week, US allies in Europe demanded that Facebook censor “false narratives” and news that would “weaken our support to Ukraine.” Facebook agreed........
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How much if their activity appears here on FR?
She looks and dresses like a 1930s Russian immigrant to NY.
Incredible what the Deep State has done to America, right under the vaunted media’s nose while they turned a blind eye, and deliberately sat on their leftist asses.
Also includes such nonprofits as the ADL and SPLC.
The ADL admits its leading role in imposing censorship on Twitter and on PayPal.
However, the World Jewish Congress took the lead in opening the door to censorship on Amazon.
Suggestion:
Go to Rumble (https://rumble.com) and search “Renee DiResta”.
There are a huge number of related video posts.
And you don’t have to sign up to read it.
Her method:
https://jimruttshow.blubrry.net/renee-diresta/
and her smiley Goebbels face:
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It has been going on for a long time. Remember Journolist? It never died, they just changed means of communication.
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I still remember
You dressed in grey
Working undercover
For the CIA
You were cursing Silber
Living in Back Bay
Sailing on the Charles
When I heard you say
Renee Diresta
Was she deceived, or is she a communist. I personally believe the latter.
Did they really, or did they just take it underground and place it under something else? These people are very devious. There is no reason to believe that it has been eliminated at all.
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I like that term, “Censorship Industrial Complex”. It’s more specific than “Deep State”.
To be honest, censorship and “yellow journalism” have always been with us. Rupert Murdoch is a modern version of William Randolph Hearst (Citizen Kane).
That’s why you gotta love what Elon Musk is doing. Daily I try to read his Twitter feed. He is the champion of free speech and he’s showing the world why it’s vital to publicly expose the way the underlying algorithm is applied to keep on-line discussions civil without destroying free speech.
Ha! He’s transforming the “Al Gore-ithms” of Gestapo Censorship and Politicized Science into “Freedom of Speech algorithms”, tools to Make America Great Again.
We are blessed to have this man as the leader and beacon of American industry. Combine that with the courage and wisdom of President Trump and you’ve got a double whammy for saving our Republic and returning it to civil sanity and law-in-order.
Ironically, living in Japan now, I see a country that America thoroughly conquered in World War II, but who — out of the ashes, death, and rubble of total defeat — has nonetheless preserved and built upon the virtues of a free, moral, and civil society better than America has.
I was told that when women were in charge, we’d get comity and good government.
Now that they are, all we get is comedy.
And women make horrible comedians.
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