Internet Censorship: So it continues... [Archive] - Page 2

onawah

22nd October 2020, 03:44

Trump Administration, 11 States, Launch Antitrust Lawsuit Against Search Behemoth Google
BY MATTHEW VADUM
October 20, 2020
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-administration-11-states-launch-antitrust-lawsuit-against-search-behemoth-google_3546331.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2020-10-20-3

"The U.S. Department of Justice and 11 states have filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Google accusing the internet search giant of unlawful monopolistic behavior in its search business.

“Google is the gateway to the internet and a search advertising behemoth,” U.S. Deputy Attorney General Jeff Rosen told reporters. “It has maintained its monopoly power through exclusionary practices that are harmful to competition.”

Attorney General William Barr weighed in via press release.

“Since my confirmation, I have prioritized the Department’s review of online market-leading platforms to ensure that our technology industries remain competitive. This lawsuit strikes at the heart of Google’s grip over the internet for millions of American consumers, advertisers, small businesses and entrepreneurs beholden to an unlawful monopolist.”

The lawsuit against Google was filed Oct. 20 in federal court in the District of Columbia by the federal government and 11 states—Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, and Texas—against Google LLC of Mountain View, California.

The proceeding was brought under Section 2 of the Sherman Act, a federal statute, in an effort “to restrain Google LLC (Google) from unlawfully maintaining monopolies in the markets for general search services, search advertising, and general search text advertising in the United States through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices, and to remedy the effects of this conduct,” according to the 64-page legal complaint.

According to the plaintiffs, Google owns or controls about 80 percent of the market for search channels and accounts for 90 percent of all searches in the United States, and 95 percent of all mobile searches. Google’s market power, based upon its immense size and the exclusive agreements it uses allegedly to limit competition, makes it difficult for competitors to enter the search engine field and has the effect of forcing anyone who wants to conduct business online to access the company’s products.

Google is specifically accused of “unlawfully maintaining monopolies in the markets for general search services, search advertising, and general search advertising in the United States through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices.”

“Two decades ago,” the complaint states, “Google became the darling of Silicon Valley as a scrappy startup with an innovative way to search the emerging internet.”

“That Google is long gone. The Google of today is a monopoly gatekeeper for the internet, and one of the wealthiest companies on the planet, with a market value of $1 trillion and annual revenue exceeding $160 billion. For many years, Google has used anticompetitive tactics to maintain and extend its monopolies in the markets for general search services, search advertising, and general search text advertising—the cornerstones of its empire.”

Seton Motley, president of Less Government, a Washington-area nonprofit, noted sarcastically that “Google’s only worth a trillion dollars. And controls 90 percent of Search. And a titanic percentage of online ad sales.”

“Oh—and they have been engaging in massive election interference since at least 2016,” he told The Epoch Times.

“I’m thrilled D.C. finally overcame the massive bipartisan cronyism Google has purchased with huge campaign coin to actually address a major threat to our economy and our republic.”

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a high-profile Silicon Valley critic, described the legal action as “the most important antitrust case in a generation.”

“Google and its fellow Big Tech monopolists exercise unprecedented power over the lives of ordinary Americans, controlling everything from the news we read to the security of our most personal information,” Hawley said in a statement.

Google reacted to the suit.

“Google Search has put the world’s information at the fingertips of over a billion people,” Kent Walker, senior vice president of global affairs for the company, said in a statement.

“Our engineers work to offer the best search engine possible, constantly improving and fine-tuning it. We think that’s why a wide cross-section of Americans value and often love our free products.

“Today’s lawsuit by the Department of Justice is deeply flawed. People use Google because they choose to, not because they’re forced to, or because they can’t find alternatives.

“This lawsuit would do nothing to help consumers. To the contrary, it would artificially prop up lower-quality search alternatives, raise phone prices, and make it harder for people to get the search services they want to use.”

The legal move against Google comes after criticism of the company, and of the large tech companies of Silicon Valley in general, has reached a fever pitch in recent days after Facebook and Twitter moved to suppress a news story centered around alleged corruption involving Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

Republicans, who tend to focus on big tech’s threats to freedom of speech, have been more adamant in their criticism of such companies in recent years than Democrats, who tend to focus on the economic power concentrated in those companies and social justice issues.

On Oct. 19, the Senate Judiciary Committee unexpectedly backed away from voting on subpoenas aimed at the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook, Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg, respectively, whose companies Republican lawmakers say exhibit conspicuous anti-conservative bias, Politico reports.

The panel is expected to move forward with a vote on Oct. 22, Axios reports. Republicans want to question the two CEOs about their platforms restricting the reach of the story about the Bidens, which first appeared in the New York Post."

Ewan

22nd October 2020, 07:47

Today, InfoWars has been removed from view. I get an error code from the web that does not look legit and that I have never seen before.

It says, YOU - OK.
Chicago Cloud - OK.
Inforwars - not ok...

What the heck is a Chicago Cloud? And if there is such a thing why was I sent into it? I want nothing what so ever to do with Chicago, or its mongoloid major!

Something like this Ernie?

https://silvercomputer.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cloudflare-504.png

As far as I know it is common when the hosting site you want to visit is down. The Chicago bit, cloud or not, is probably just the fastest hop the system found to get where you wanted to go. Between you and your destination there is always going to be a network server, routing traffic.

That may be so, that this is how it has always been done. The routing is not, in theory, a complicated concept to understand. It is a bit suspicious that it comes now, and never before. It seems like it could have been a test, and my location has been filed. Alex Jones is warning that big tech has the ability now to selectively shut down IP addresses and web sites - like the Chinese censorship system can already do. He predicts they will deploy the system the day of the election to muzzle the counter narrative when they do the 'official' vote count.

By the way, how did you get that screen to come up like that?

Don't always get that screen Ernie, sometimes its just a bunch of text so I could only speculate.

It would be quite annoying if they block individual IPs, but VPN's or Tor Browser would hopefully circumvent such blocks. I tested TOR with two different ISP Check sites and all results had me in Austria. downnside is it can be quite slow.

Ernie Nemeth

22nd October 2020, 11:27

So, if they wanted to, they could route you around the world and slow down your connection that way. Slow connections often drop out of streaming and times out on forums and can freeze on some web sites. That could explain a lot about my internet experiences of late.

Tintin

22nd October 2020, 23:13

I've made sure that we keep an eye on Dr. Simone Gold's feed on Twitter and, again, this time Vimeo are getting in on the act. :facepalm:

Not surprised of course, but, wow, who isn't now being leant upon?

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rgray222

23rd October 2020, 15:27

Big Tech Slept With Communist China And Brought Venereal Censorship Back To America

Big Tech slept with communist China and brought venereal censorship back home to America. This is why it’s always dangerous to treat one-party authoritarian dictatorships as if they’re as harmless as Canada. If you don’t appreciate the intrinsic threat of governments that ban freedom, then they will spread their despotism faster than you can cure their disease.

https://thefederalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/china-3500976.jpg1-Custom-998x665.jpg

Since Bill Clinton invited China into the World Trade Organization while pretending that the Tiananmen Square massacre never happened, and replaced American manufacturing jobs with China’s slave labor force, the stated foreign policy “dream” was for American society’s freedom and openness to rub off on our old communist foe. Instead, the United States has empowered China’s military might by enriching China with America’s investment wealth, and all Americans received in return was a crappy “Made in China” T-shirt.

Greedy Washington insiders let Wall Street sellout Main Streets across the country with the fairytale promise that we could buy a future-proof peace with China for the next century. China took Wall Street’s money, smiled while Washington whittled away America’s manufacturing expertise, and bought up America’s debt with U.S. citizens’ own money.

American globalists committed to undermining our blue-collar labor force for beads and trinkets have ensured the rise of a Chinese superpower that now threatens the equilibrium of peace and security that this great intercontinental transfer of wealth to Asia was supposed to prevent. China’s President Xi Jinping recently told his military to “prepare for war.” Once again, Clinton Democrats and neoconservative Republicans pursued the exact policies necessary to usher in a dangerous decade with the potential for worldwide conflict on the horizon.

So, what have Americans reaped in return for this debacle? Once proud and self-sufficient towns across America have been wrecked by an industrial exodus that has left a generation of local workers lost, despondent, and alone. Instead of America’s supposed cultural dominance celebrated and coinciding with an expansion of freedom and democracy abroad, the same discarded blue-collar workers get to see American openness recede behind heavy-handed lockdown mandates of Democrat officials, Big Media propaganda, and the torching of free speech at the hands of Silicon Valley’s pirate overlords.

One of the biggest stories of the 2020 campaign is how Facebook and Twitter censored the New York Post’s bombshell story documenting Hunter Biden’s efforts to merchandize his father’s political office for financial gain in Ukraine and China. It paints the picture of a pay-to-play arrangement strenuously denied by Joe Biden for over a year, apparently covered up by an FBI unwilling to pursue investigatory leads dumped in its lap, and transformed into a Trump impeachment by the Schiff-Nadler-Pelosi smear party and their agents in the press.

Let’s not pretend, however, that the Biden family’s solicitation of Ukraine and Chinese payoffs and the coordinated attacks on free speech by Big Media and Big Tech sprang up unexpectedly in the middle of the night. Washington opened up America’s economy 20 years ago to a corrupt communist regime, and we have been paying the price ever since.

Our politicians didn’t sell the idea of freedom to China; China simply made corrupt American politicians more corrupt. In the process, American culture has been refashioned to treat China as a friend, while largely ignoring its suppression of free speech, persecution of Christians, and outright murder of political dissidents.

LeBron James is too young to remember Tiananmen Square, too intentionally ignorant of China’s Holocaust-like sterilizations and genocide against its Uighur citizens, and too well paid by Chinese interests to recognize China’s human rights atrocities as some of the most heinous acts since the Second World War. LeBron can praise communist China while kneeling in protest of the American flag and the freedom it represents because he knows no better. And he knows no better partly because Washington, Wall Street, and our academic elite have pretended for 20 years that Chinese communism is somehow a gentler, more peaceful, free-market kind of communism that Americans can and should get behind.

It is an awful irony that so many freedom fighters in Hong Kong and Taiwan live each day in the shadow of China’s brute authoritarianism, and American leftists attacking President Trump’s policies geared toward fighting back against the ever-growing threat of a rising China.

The worst irony of all, however, is that after welcoming China into the global free trade club with all the international privileges once reserved for freedom-loving nations, Americans are increasingly having information actively censored and suppressed by unelected and unaccountable technology companies that have brought an ample dose of China’s authoritarianism back home to the United States.

We’re now at a point where American tech firms with near-monopoly power and tremendous revenue streams from China can actively censor a breaking news story detailing a presidential candidate’s connection to influence-peddling — in China. There may be a “Manchurian candidate” this election cycle, but those same tech firms have decided that the story should never be told. Who needs to worry about a “Manchurian candidate” when it is clear we have entire “Manchurian industries” playing us for fools?

Big Tech has been flirting with political censorship for quite some time, but its organized efforts to actively influence an American presidential election by embargoing newsworthy information from being seen by American voters represent a complete embrace of near CCP-levels of censorship. Just as these American tech companies have aided China in “scoring” the “social worthiness” of citizens, they’ve turned their systems of thought crime punishment upon Americans.

Whatever glossy hopes of spreading American freedom to China existed 20 years ago have backfired spectacularly. American manufacturing lies in tatters, American wealth has been repurposed toward Chinese imperialism, and American tech companies have become ambassadors for Chinese censorship. For Americans who have lost everything from Washington’s ill-advised dance with a communist superpower that wishes us harm, the “Made in China” label looks more like a takeover than a bargain.

Source: https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/22/big-tech-slept-with-communist-china-and-brought-venereal-censorship-back-to-america/

Tintin

23rd October 2020, 16:04

More on "Truth About Vaccines" here:

I've downloaded 8 of what purports to be a 10 part series.

It'll get done but patience is going to be needed I'm afraid, and definitely by me :)

UPDATE - The Truth About Vaccines has now been uploaded to the library and has its own directory, here:

http://avalonlibrary.net/?dir=The_Truth_About_Vaccines

:popcorn:

Richter

24th October 2020, 19:59

And Then They Came for the Books... (42:34)
In addition to the online censorship, many real-world libraries have shut down. Is there a secret
agreement behind these library closures and changes to how we access physical books?
Z_fGfjZrPfM

onawah

25th October 2020, 22:47

Update from Ty & Charlene <info@thetruthaboutvaccines.com>

Only 7 hours left in the free weekend replay! “Binge watch” while you still can! ;-)
https://go2.thetruthaboutvaccines.com/docuseries/replay/

"If you’ve watched the 10 episodes of TTAV2020, then you’re probably aware that the “powers that be” are trying desperately to “murder” the Bill of Rights and drastically limit our ability to disseminate accurate information on the internet!

https://ci6.googleusercontent.com/proxy/a0Si4OKhordNd4TP_yHu9HDAGbG5vWK57WVdGRRCRIRz4Oz3do9umnieWa_KzgiCIMvXooO7UP6xTVDfH67eRYgAVPAYVc7T7514 hxFd0qMhM3gHXxHE67dwyP4=s0-d-e1-ft#https://cdn-m4m.chd01.com/pro/uploads/account_144/354001/internet-off.jpg

They literally want to get rid of freedom of speech!

Rest assured, they wouldn’t describe it in those exact terms, but that’s the “nuts and bolts” of what’s going on with blatant censorship of information and their “in your face” plans to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine, when it becomes available.

Of course, mandating might not even be necessary if they can continue to effectively brainwash the public. Just last week, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus (the general directors of the WHO) tweeted that Cass Sunstein will chair their ‘Technical Advisory Group’ which will be tasked with discussing COVID-19 “vaccine acceptance and uptake.”

FYI, in 2008, Sunstein wrote a paper proposing that governments employ teams of covert agents to “cognitively infiltrate” online dissident groups and websites which advocate “false conspiracy theories.” So it appears that Sunstein will be focusing on all those “anti-vaxx conspiracy theories” and figuring out ways to brainwash the people into continuing to believe the “safe and effective” nonsense.

But no matter how hard they try to obscure the truth about vaccines, we know that truth will prevail! It must prevail, especially about vaccines, because vaccines are … well … the biggest public health “experiment” … EVER!

Don’t be a “vaccine guinea pig” ... And don’t let your kids be guinea pigs either! It’s time to wake up the world and let everyone know the facts (and fictions) about vaccines.

If you haven’t seen the 2-part “Vaccine Roundtable” then you should take time to watch both of them today. It will really open your eyes to what’s really going on. Here is part 1 https://go2.thetruthaboutvaccines.com/docuseries/roundtable-1/ and here is part 2. https://go2.thetruthaboutvaccines.com/docuseries/roundtable-2/

Thanks again for taking this journey with us, for standing up against the Big Tech tyrants, and for fighting for health freedom. "

Yours in liberty and freedom,
Ty & Charlene

Delight

27th October 2020, 18:39

On PA, can we embed bitchute videos?

October 23rd, 2020.
THIS STUFF IS REAL
Amazing Polly (https://www.bitchute.com/video/59gckyDws0ra/)

I end with some fun.. but first I have to go through the bad part. And that is this: The military is after us, the "journalists" are after us, "Big Tech" is after us, Deep State is after us. I show you exactly how the system is using every means at its disposal for political persecution... and it's not just online personalities they want to get to. It's every single one of us. I talk about the Biden laptop, NBC news doxxing queen, more deplatformings, Steve Bannon with Rudy Guiliani and more. Don't forget to go see the pitch to fund an Emergency Injuction against Google!! details and references below:

My website. Check the contact page to see how to send something to my PO Box. https://www.amazingpolly.net/

EMERGENCY INJUCTION GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-big-tech-whistleblowers

Washington Post on Defeat Disinfo: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/technology-once-used-to-combat-isis-propaganda-is-enlisted-by-democratic-group-to-counter-trumps-coronavirus-messaging/2020/05/01/6bed5f70-8a5b-11ea-ac8a-fe9b8088e101_story.html

Website Doxxing Trump donors: https://www.nationalistreview.net/2020/10/22/anonymous-website-hosts-database-of-all-donald-trump-donors-addresses-in-voter-intimidation-campaign/

Bill Ryan

27th October 2020, 18:49

Ewan

27th October 2020, 19:49

On PA, can we embed bitchute videos?

https://www.bitchute.com/video/59gckyDws0ra

Sure. :thumbsup: Just take the last part of the code — in this case, 59gckyDws0ra — paste that into a new paragraph, highlight it to select it, and then click the little Bitchute icon in the formatting menu. (That's this one: http://projectavalon.net/bitchute_icon.jpg )

The other way is to do it manually, by doing the same thing (copying and pasting 59gckyDws0ra, on its own), and then wrapping the BITCHUTE tags around it, which makes it look like this:

E[/SIZE]]59gckyDws0ra[/BITCHUTE]

:focus:

I'd never tried Bitchute, I rarely use any video hosting site, but due to this post I looked it up.

Wikipedia tells me "BitChute is a video hosting service known for accommodating [B]far-right individuals and conspiracy theorists, and for hosting hateful material." Wiki~Bitchute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitChute)

And so I learnt something else, I never realised what a hopelessly biased source Wikipedia had become. They've devolved a hell of a lot further in the last few years. A site like Wikipedia, in a decent world, would be totally non-partisan.

If you look at some of the notes connected to hateful material its an Alice in Wonderland moment.

Bookmarked Bitchute. Thanks.

Delight

27th October 2020, 20:53

If you haven’t seen the 2-part “Vaccine Roundtable” then you should take time to watch both of them today. It will really open your eyes to what’s really going on.

The round table was GREAT IMO.

"Vaccine Roundtable" (Part 1) (https://go2.thetruthaboutvaccines.com/docuseries/roundtable-1/)

"Vaccine Roundtable" (Part 2) (https://go2.thetruthaboutvaccines.com/docuseries/roundtable-2/)

norman

29th October 2020, 07:19

MIT Technology Review

In Machines We Trust - EmTech Stage: Facebook's CTO on Misinformation (https://podbay.fm/p/in-machines-we-trust/e/1603944540)

Misinformation and social media have become inseparable from one another; as platforms like Twitter and Facebook have grown to globe-spanning size, so too has the threat posed by the spread of false content. In the midst of a volatile election season in the US and a raging global pandemic, the power of information to alter opinions and save lives (or endanger them) is on full display. In the first of two exclusive interviews with two of the tech world’s most powerful people, Technology Review’s Editor-in-Chief Gideon Lichfield sits down with Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer to talk about the challenges of combating false and harmful content on an online platform used by billions around the world. This conversation is from the EmTech MIT virtual conference and has been edited for length and clarity.

In Machines We Trust - EmTech Stage: Twitter's CTO on Misinformation (https://podbay.fm/p/in-machines-we-trust/e/1603946820)

In the second of two exclusive interviews, Technology Review’s Editor-in-Chief Gideon Lichfield sat down with Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s Chief Technology officer to discuss the rise of misinformation on the social media platform. Agrawal discusses some of the measures the company has taken to fight back, while admitting Twitter is trying to thread a needle of mitigating harm caused by false content without becoming an arbiter of truth. This conversation is from the EmTech MIT virtual conference and has been edited for clarity.

Gemma13

29th October 2020, 23:44

Cross posting.

Well, who would have thought it would come to this for Greenwald? He finally quit, perhaps his integrity is rising :muscle:

Recall how The Intercept had the Snowden papers which rather quickly were forgotten about and never heard from again with so very few having been published.

My Resignation From The Intercept (https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept)

The same trends of repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity plaguing the national press generally have engulfed the media outlet I co-founded, culminating in censorship of my own articles.

Today I sent my intention to resign from The Intercept, the news outlet I co-founded in 2013 with Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras, as well as from its parent company First Look Media.

The final, precipitating cause is that The Intercept’s editors, in violation of my contractual right of editorial freedom, censored an article I wrote this week, refusing to publish it unless I remove all sections critical of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, the candidate vehemently supported by all New-York-based Intercept editors involved in this effort at suppression.

The censored article, based on recently revealed emails and witness testimony, raised critical questions about Biden’s conduct. Not content to simply prevent publication of this article at the media outlet I co-founded, these Intercept editors also demanded that I refrain from exercising a separate contractual right to publish this article with any other publication.

I had no objection to their disagreement with my views of what this Biden evidence shows: as a last-ditch attempt to avoid being censored, I encouraged them to air their disagreements with me by writing their own articles that critique my perspectives and letting readers decide who is right, the way any confident and healthy media outlet would. But modern media outlets do not air dissent; they quash it. So censorship of my article, rather than engagement with it, was the path these Biden-supporting editors chose.

The censored article will be published on this page shortly. My letter of intent to resign, which I sent this morning to First Look Media’s President Michael Bloom, is published below.

As of now, I will be publishing my journalism here on Substack, where numerous other journalists, including my good friend, the great intrepid reporter Matt Taibbi, have come in order to practice journalism free of the increasingly repressive climate that is engulfing national mainstream media outlets across the country.

This was not an easy choice: I am voluntarily sacrificing the support of a large institution and guaranteed salary in exchange for nothing other than a belief that there are enough people who believe in the virtues of independent journalism and the need for free discourse who will be willing to support my work by subscribing.

Like anyone with young children, a family and numerous obligations, I do this with some trepidation, but also with the conviction that there is no other choice. I could not sleep at night knowing that I allowed any institution to censor what I want to say and believe — least of all a media outlet I co-founded with the explicit goal of ensuring this never happens to other journalists, let alone to me, let alone because I have written an article critical of a powerful Democratic politician vehemently supported by the editors in the imminent national election.

But the pathologies, illiberalism, and repressive mentality that led to the bizarre spectacle of my being censored by my own media outlet are ones that are by no means unique to The Intercept. These are the viruses that have contaminated virtually every mainstream center-left political organization, academic institution, and newsroom. I began writing about politics fifteen years ago with the goal of combatting media propaganda and repression, and — regardless of the risks involved — simply cannot accept any situation, no matter how secure or lucrative, that forces me to submit my journalism and right of free expression to its suffocating constraints and dogmatic dictates.

From the time I began writing about politics in 2005, journalistic freedom and editorial independence have been sacrosanct to me. Fifteen years ago, I created a blog on the free Blogspot software when I was still working as a lawyer: not with any hopes or plans of starting a new career as a journalist, but just as a citizen concerned about what I was seeing with the War on Terror and civil liberties, and wanting to express what I believed needed to be heard. It was a labor of love, based in an ethos of cause and conviction, dependent upon a guarantee of complete editorial freedom.

It thrived because the readership I built knew that, even when they disagreed with particular views I was expressing, I was a free and independent voice, unwedded to any faction, controlled by nobody, endeavoring to be as honest as possible about what I was seeing, and always curious about the wisdom of seeing things differently. The title I chose for that blog, “Unclaimed Territory,” reflected that spirit of liberation from captivity to any fixed political or intellectual dogma or institutional constraints.

When Salon offered me a job as a columnist in 2007, and then again when the Guardian did the same in 2012, I accepted their offers on the condition that I would have the right, except in narrowly defined situations (such as articles that could create legal liability for the news outlet), to publish my articles and columns directly to the internet without censorship, advanced editorial interference, or any other intervention permitted or approval needed. Both outlets revamped their publication system to accommodate this condition, and over the many years I worked with them, they always honored those commitments.

When I left the Guardian at the height of the Snowden reporting in 2013 in order to create a new media outlet, I did not do so, needless to say, in order to impose upon myself more constraints and restrictions on my journalistic independence. The exact opposite was true: the intended core innovation of The Intercept, above all else, was to create a new media outlets where all talented, responsible journalists would enjoy the same right of editorial freedom I had always insisted upon for myself. As I told former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller in a 2013 exchange we had in The New York Times about my critiques of mainstream journalism and the idea behind The Intercept: “editors should be there to empower and enable strong, highly factual, aggressive adversarial journalism, not to serve as roadblocks to neuter or suppress the journalism.”

When the three of us as co-founders made the decision early on that we would not attempt to manage the day-to-day operations of the new outlet, so that we could instead focus on our journalism, we negotiated the right of approval for senior editors and, especially the editor-in-chief. The central responsibility of the person holding that title was to implement, in close consultation with us, the unique journalistic vision and journalistic values on which we founded this new media outlet.

Chief among those values was editorial freedom, the protection of a journalist’s right to speak in an honest voice, and the airing rather than suppression of dissent from mainstream orthodoxies and even collegial disagreements with one another. That would be accomplished, above all else, by ensuring that journalists, once they fulfilled the first duty of factual accuracy and journalistic ethics, would be not just permitted but encouraged to express political and ideological views that deviated from mainstream orthodoxy and those of their own editors; to express themselves in their own voice of passion and conviction rather stuffed into the corporatized, contrived tone of artificial objectivity, above-it-all omnipotence; and to be completely free of anyone else’s dogmatic beliefs or ideological agenda — including those of the three co-founders.

The current iteration of The Intercept is completely unrecognizable when compared to that original vision. Rather than offering a venue for airing dissent, marginalized voices and unheard perspectives, it is rapidly becoming just another media outlet with mandated ideological and partisan loyalties, a rigid and narrow range of permitted viewpoints (ranging from establishment liberalism to soft leftism, but always anchored in ultimate support for the Democratic Party), a deep fear of offending hegemonic cultural liberalism and center-left Twitter luminaries, and an overarching need to secure the approval and admiration of the very mainstream media outlets we created The Intercept to oppose, critique and subvert.

As a result, it is a rare event indeed when a radical freelance voice unwelcome in mainstream precincts is published in The Intercept. Outisde reporters or writers with no claim to mainstream acceptability — exactly the people we set out to amplify — have almost no chance of being published. It is even rarer for The Intercept to publish content that would not fit very comfortably in at least a dozen or more center-left publications of similar size which pre-dated its founding, from Mother Jones to Vox and even MSNBC.

Courage is required to step out of line, to question and poke at those pieties most sacred in one’s own milieu, but fear of alienating the guardians of liberal orthodoxy, especially on Twitter, is the predominant attribute of The Intercept’s New-York based editorial leadership team. As a result, The Intercept has all but abandoned its core mission of challenging and poking at, rather than appeasing and comforting, the institutions and guardians most powerful in its cultural and political circles.

Making all of this worse, The Intercept — while gradually excluding the co-founders from any role in its editorial mission or direction, and making one choice after the next to which I vocally objected as a betrayal of our core mission — continued publicly to trade on my name in order to raise funds for journalism it knew I did not support. It purposely allowed the perception to fester that I was the person responsible for its journalistic mistakes in order to ensure that blame for those mistakes was heaped on me rather than the editors who were consolidating control and were responsible for them.

The most egregious, but by no means only, example of exploiting my name to evade responsibility was the Reality Winner debacle. As The New York Times recently reported, that was a story in which I had no involvement whatsoever. While based in Brazil, I was never asked to work on the documents which Winner sent to our New York newsroom with no request that any specific journalist work on them. I did not even learn of the existence of that document until very shortly prior to its publication. The person who oversaw, edited and controlled that story was Betsy Reed, which was how it should be given the magnitude and complexity of that reporting and her position as editor-in-chief.

It was Intercept editors who pressured the story’s reporters to quickly send those documents for authentication to the government — because they was eager to prove to mainstream media outlets and prominent liberals that The Intercept was willing to get on board the Russiagate train. They wanted to counter-act the perception, created by my articles expressing skepticism about the central claims of that scandal, that The Intercept had stepped out of line on a story of high importance to U.S. liberalism and even the left. That craving — to secure the approval of the very mainstream media outlets we set out to counteract — was the root cause for the speed and recklessness with which that document from Winner was handled.

But The Intercept, to this very day, has refused to provide any public accounting of what happened in the Reality Winner story: to explain who the editors were who made mistakes and why any of it happened. As the New York Times article makes clear, that refusal persists to this very day notwithstanding vocal demands from myself, Scahill, Laura Poitras and others that The Intercept, as an institution that demands transparency from others, has the obligation to provide it for itself.

The reason for this silence and this cover-up is obvious: accounting to the public about what happened with the Reality Winner story would reveal who the actual editors are who are responsible for that deeply embarrassing newsroom failure, and that would negate their ability to continue to hide behind me and let the public continue to assume that I was the person at fault for a reporting process from which I was completely excluded from the start. That is just one example illustrating the frustrating dilemma of having a newsroom exploit my name, work and credibility when it is convenient to do so, while increasingly denying me any opportunity to influence its journalistic mission and editorial direction, all while pursuing an editorial mission completely anathema to what I believe.

Despite all of this, I did not want to leave The Intercept. As it deteriorated and abandoned its original mission, I reasoned to myself — perhaps rationalized — that as long as The Intercept at least continued to provide me the resources to personally do the journalism I believe in, and never to interfere in or impede my editorial freedom, I could swallow everything else.

But the brute censorship this week of my article — about the Hunter Biden materials and Joe Biden’s conduct regarding Ukraine and China, as well my critique of the media’s rank-closing attempt, in a deeply unholy union with Silicon Valley and the “intelligence community,” to suppress its revelations — eroded the last justification I could cling to for staying. It meant that not only does this media outlet not provide the editorial freedom to other journalists, as I had so hopefully envisioned seven years ago, but now no longer even provides it to me. In the days heading into a presidential election, I am somehow silenced from expressing any views that random editors in New York find disagreeable, and now somehow have to conform my writing and reporting to cater to their partisan desires and eagerness to elect specific candidates.

To say that such censorship is a red line for me, a situation I would never accept no matter the cost, is an understatement. It is astonishing to me, but also a reflection of our current discourse and illiberal media environment, that I have been silenced about Joe Biden by my own media outlet.

Numerous other episodes were also contributing causes to my decision to leave: the Reality Winner cover-up; the decision to hang Lee Fang out to dry and even force him to apologize when a colleague tried to destroy his reputation by publicly, baselessly and repeatedly branding him a racist; its refusal to report on the daily proceedings of the Assange extradition hearing because the freelance reporter doing an outstanding job was politically distasteful; its utter lack of editorial standards when it comes to viewpoints or reporting that flatter the beliefs of its liberal base (The Intercept published some of the most credulous and false affirmations of maximalist Russiagate madness, and, horrifyingly, took the lead in falsely branding the Hunter Biden archive as “Russian disinformation” by mindlessly and uncritically citing — of all things — a letter by former CIA officials that contained this baseless insinuation).

I know it sounds banal to say, but — even with all of these frustrations and failures — I am leaving, and writing this, with genuine sadness, not fury. That news outlet is something I and numerous close friends and colleagues poured an enormous amount of our time, energy, passion and love into building.

The Intercept has done great work. Its editorial leaders and First Look’s managers steadfastly supported the difficult and dangerous reporting I did last year with my brave young colleagues at The Intercept Brasil to expose corruption at the highest levels of the Bolsonaro government, and stood behind us as we endured threats of death and imprisonment.

It continues to employ some of my closest friends, outstanding journalists whose work — when it overcomes editorial resistance — produces nothing but the highest admiration from me: Jeremy Scahill, Lee Fang, Murtaza Hussain, Naomi Klein, Ryan Grim and others. And I have no personal animus for anyone there, nor any desire to hurt it as an institution. Betsy Reed is an exceptionally smart editor and a very good human being with whom I developed a close and valuable friendship. And Pierre Omidyar, the original funder and publisher of First Look, always honored his personal commitment never to interfere in our editorial process even when I was publishing articles directly at odds with his strongly held views and even when I was attacking other institutions he was funding. I’m not leaving out of vengeance or personal conflict but out of conviction and cause.

And none of the critiques I have voiced about The Intercept are unique to it. To the contrary: these are the raging battles over free expression and the right of dissent raging within every major cultural, political and journalistic institution. That’s the crisis that journalism, and more broadly values of liberalism, faces. Our discourse is becoming increasingly intolerant of dissenting views, and our culture is demanding more and more submission to prevailing orthodoxies imposed by self-anointed monopolists of Truth and Righteousness, backed up by armies of online enforcement mobs.

And nothing is crippled by that trend more severely than journalism, which, above all else, requires the ability of journalists to offend and anger power centers, question or reject sacred pieties, unearth facts that reflect negatively even on (especially on) the most beloved and powerful figures, and highlight corruption no matter where it is found and regardless of who is benefited or injured by its exposure.

Prior to the extraordinary experience of being censored this week by my own news outlet, I had already been exploring the possibility of creating a new media outlet. I have spent a couple of months in active discussions with some of the most interesting, independent and vibrant journalists, writers and commentators across the political spectrum about the feasibility of securing financing for a new outlet that would be designed to combat these trends. The first two paragraphs of our working document reads as follows:

American media is gripped in a polarized culture war that is forcing journalism to conform to tribal, groupthink narratives that are often divorced from the truth and cater to perspectives that are not reflective of the broader public but instead a minority of hyper-partisan elites. The need to conform to highly restrictive, artificial cultural narratives and partisan identities has created a repressive and illiberal environment in which vast swaths of news and reporting either do not happen or are presented through the most skewed and reality-detached lens.

With nearly all major media institutions captured to some degree by this dynamic, a deep need exists for media that is untethered and free to transgress the boundaries of this polarized culture war and address a demand from a public that is starved for media that doesn’t play for a side but instead pursues lines of reporting, thought, and inquiry wherever they lead, without fear of violating cultural pieties or elite orthodoxies.

I have definitely not relinquished hope that this ambitious project can be accomplished. And I theoretically could have stayed at The Intercept until then, guaranteeing a stable and secure income for my family by swallowing the dictates of my new censors.

But I would be deeply ashamed if I did that, and believe I would be betraying my own principles and convictions that I urge others to follow. So in the meantime, I have decided to follow in the footsteps of numerous other writers and journalists who have been expelled from increasingly repressive journalistic precincts for various forms of heresy and dissent and who have sought refuge here.

I hope to exploit the freedom this new platform offers not only to continue to publish the independent and hard-hitting investigative journalism and candid analysis and opinion writing that my readers have come to expect, but also to develop a podcast, and continue the YouTube program, “System Update,” I launched earlier this year in partnership with The Intercept.

To do that, to make this viable, I will need your support: people who are able to subscribe and sign up for the newsletter attached to this platform will enable my work to thrive and still be heard, perhaps even more so than before. I began my journalism career by depending on my readers’ willingness to support independent journalism which they believe is necessary to sustain. It is somewhat daunting at this point in my life, but also very exciting, to return to that model where one answers only to the public a journalist should be serving.

LETTER OF INTENT TO RESIGN

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Subject: ResignationDate: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 10:20:54 -0300From: Glenn Greenwald <xxxxxxxx@theintercept.com>To: Michael Bloom <xxxxxxxxx@firstlook.media>, Betsy Reed <xxxxxxx@theintercept.com>

Michael -

I am writing to advise you that I have decided that I will be resigning from First Look Media (FLM) and The Intercept.

The precipitating (but by no means only) cause is that The Intercept is attempting to censor my articles in violation of both my contract and fundamental principles of editorial freedom. The latest and perhaps most egregious example is an opinion column I wrote this week which, five days before the presidential election, is critical of Joe Biden, the candidate who happens to be vigorously supported by all of the Intercept editors in New York who are imposing the censorship and refusing to publish the article unless I agree to remove all of the sections critical of the candidate they want to win. All of that violates the right in my contract with FLM to publish articles without editorial interference except in very narrow circumstances that plainly do not apply here.

Worse, The Intercept editors in New York, not content to censor publication of my article at the Intercept, are also demanding that I not exercise my separate contractual right with FLM regarding articles I have written but which FLM does not want to publish itself. Under my contract, I have the right to publish any articles FLM rejects with another publication. But Intercept editors in New York are demanding I not only accept their censorship of my article at The Intercept, but also refrain from publishing it with any other journalistic outlet, and are using thinly disguised lawyer-crafted threats to coerce me not to do so (proclaiming it would be “detrimental” to The Intercept if I published it elsewhere).

I have been extremely disenchanted and saddened by the editorial direction of The Intercept under its New York leadership for quite some time. The publication we founded without those editors back in 2014 now bears absolutely no resemblance to what we set out to build -- not in content, structure, editorial mission or purpose. I have grown embarrassed to have my name used as a fund-raising tool to support what it is doing and for editors to use me as a shield to hide behind to avoid taking responsibility for their mistakes (including, but not only, with the Reality Winner debacle, for which I was publicly blamed despite having no role in it, while the editors who actually were responsible for those mistakes stood by silently, allowing me to be blamed for their errors and then covering-up any public accounting of what happened, knowing that such transparency would expose their own culpability).

But all this time, as things worsened, I reasoned that as long as The Intercept remained a place where my own right of journalistic independence was not being infringed, I could live with all of its other flaws. But now, not even that minimal but foundational right is being honored for my own journalism, suppressed by an increasingly authoritarian, fear-driven, repressive editorial team in New York bent on imposing their own ideological and partisan preferences on all writers while ensuring that nothing is published at The Intercept that contradicts their own narrow, homogenous ideological and partisan views: exactly what The Intercept, more than any other goal, was created to prevent.

I have asked my lawyer to get in touch with FLM to discuss how best to terminate my contract. Thank you -

Glenn Greenwald

norman

30th October 2020, 18:50

Former Google Design Ethicist Tristan Harris helped develop technology that guides the thoughts and behavior of billions of people worldwide. Now he's the president of the Center for Human Technology: a nonprofit organization devoted to realigning technology with humanity. You can learn more about the Center and its mission in the Netflix Documentary The Social Dilemma.

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https://yt3.ggpht.com/a/AATXAJwVJeeimAaxFQxL7vMQWzc7_ElVpT_Vhjnxwi9X=s48-c-k-c0xffffffff-no-rj-mo (https://www.youtube.com/user/PowerfulJRE)

norman

30th October 2020, 19:53

BBC World Service - Tech Tent - Senators accuse big tech of bias (https://podbay.fm/p/tech-tent/e/1604071800)

+ other news, including Microsoft's booming time, Trump website defacement, more data harvesting companies.

Mark (Star Mariner)

1st November 2020, 16:34

Can you imagine if this was the other way round, and it was Women for Biden?

We all have our strong suspicions of Big Tech. They sit on the dark side of the divide, that is for certain. So when they push one candidate while suppressing the other, that is your strongest tell for what side that candidate is sitting on.

N.J. Women For Trump group, with 29K members, removed from Facebook days before election
Updated Nov 01, 2020; Posted Oct 31, 2020

On Saturday morning there were more than 29,000 members in a private Facebook group for New Jersey women who support President Trump — and by Saturday afternoon the group was gone.

Priscilla Confrey, co-director of New Jersey Women For Trump, says Facebook did not send her any notifications about the removal or explain why the group was removed.

Facebook did not immediately respond to an inquiry from NJ Advance Media about the removal.

Even President Trump jumped into the fracas, tweeting at Facebook to reinstate the group.

More: https://www.nj.com/politics/2020/10/nj-women-for-trump-facebook-group-with-29k-members-removed-from-facebook-days-before-election.html

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1322762168304050176

Tintin

3rd November 2020, 12:00

Quelle surprise.................

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Tintin

3rd November 2020, 15:07

Quelle surprise.................

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Although still on her own website of course, now reinstated, here (http://avalonlibrary.net/Election_Night_Coup_D%27_%C3%A9tat_Plot_Exposed_%28Millie_Weaver%29.mp4):

http://avalonlibrary.net/Election_Night_Coup_D%27_%C3%A9tat_Plot_Exposed_%28Millie_Weaver%29.mp4

Gwin Ru

3rd November 2020, 16:00

British lawyers, activists seek to dismantle racist, anti-Semitic YouTube alternative website (https://www.jns.org/british-lawyers-and-activists-seek-to-dismantle-anti-semitic-youtube-alternative-website/)

BitChute, promoted as a “free speech” alternative to YouTube, has become a safe haven for neo-Nazis, hosting racist, violent and anti-Semitic videos that are later posted on social media.

By Eliana Rudee (https://www.jns.org/writers/eliana-rudee/)
(November 2, 2020 / JNS)

https://cdn.jns.org/uploads/2020/11/bitchute-800-primary-880x495.png
The logo for BitChute. Source: BitChute.

Google Play banned the third-party app BitChute this week, which was promoted as a “free speech” alternative to YouTube that has become a safe haven for neo-Nazis, hosting racist, violent and anti-Semitic videos that are later posted on social media.

Google suspended the app, stating that it is in violation of its affiliate spam policy, although BitChute denies this claim, tweeting a photo of Google’s notification.

Full article: https://www.jns.org/british-lawyers-and-activists-seek-to-dismantle-anti-semitic-youtube-alternative-website/

PurpleLama

3rd November 2020, 22:14

https://mobile.twitter.com/bitchute/status/1323741461972594688

On election day.... Surely, just a coincidence.

RunningDeer

3rd November 2020, 22:35

Looks like Gab is down, too.

http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/News/gab.jpg

RunningDeer

3rd November 2020, 23:11

http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/write.gif
bitchute.com (https://www.bitchute.com) & gab.com (https://gab.com) are back up.

Tintin

3rd November 2020, 23:58

Although, according to the thread commentary, Bitchute is now back 'up' and that both they and 4chan were down at any point tonight of all nights just seems to add fuel to the election meddling by technocrats narrative:

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Noted, by me just now: apologies, just caught up on the thread - this appears superfluous.

Hermoor

7th November 2020, 10:28

We have a long memory, Marianna.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-54738471

Really, that level of 'journalism' is like living in Cartoonlandia.

Bill Ryan

9th November 2020, 19:10

Keri Smith (the former Social Justice Warrior with an Avalon thread about her here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?111381-Former-Social-Justice-Warrior-Explains-Why-Social-Justice-Is-All-About-Power-And-Control)) and Carter Laren of Unsafe Space, whom I follow and who are entertaining, articulate, honest, brave, aware and very very smart, have been banned from YouTube for seven days.

Their broadcast about this is live right now on their backup channel, here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMgE8gdjo8Y
Dark Journalist, Joseph Farrell, and Catherine Fitts may be next. Chris Martenson, too. I'm very glad we have all our own backup arrangements (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?112716-About-forum-backups--important-and-good-news-) in place. Yesterday, I downloaded all 11,000+ Avalon members' email addresses, just in case, and archived them — easy to do. Who knows what might be coming next year.

Journeyman

10th November 2020, 18:27

It's been a little dispiriting to see how many people aren't bothered by the growing online censorship as long as it accords with their own political viewpoint.

Delight

11th November 2020, 00:58

Very enjoyable interaction.

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norman

11th November 2020, 01:40

CloutHub had a contractual guarantee with their service provider I.B.M. (no less) that they would not be censored. Last Saturday, IBM broke that contract.

RunningDeer

12th November 2020, 01:39

YouTube was down for about 5 minutes. I checked 4-5 different content creator sites. They were all down including Fox News.

http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/News/gone-vid.jpg

UPDATE to add mountain_jim's post.

Apparently was down for 30 minutes, according to folks on Gab.

gord

12th November 2020, 05:29

youtube-dl is/was a very popular open source project which was taken down by GitHub on a DMCA request yesterday (Oct 23). Let's see what happened and why

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVkhHax6d9s

onawah

12th November 2020, 06:13

Twitter, Facebook and Google CEOs testify before Senate on Section 230
375,978 views•Streamed live on Oct 28, 2020
Fox Business
1.28M subscribers
"Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Alphabet Inc., Google CEO Sundar Pichai will testify before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation committee. The tech giants are expected to be grilled on Section 230's liability protection after allegedly censoring the distribution of The New York Post article on Hunter Biden."

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norman

14th November 2020, 18:11

Just for the record, I want to dump this little pile of facts in a corner here somewhere. It's kinda internet but mainly old school media.

"fighting the spread of misinformation,"

BBC
NBC
Al Jazeera
ProPublica
National Journal
The Guardian
Univision
Medium
The Financial Times
The Atlantic
The Texas Tribune
Gannett
Washington Monthly
Le Monde
The Center for Investigative Reporting

They shared in $250 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the first half of 2020.

Seeing the Guardian in the list confirms why I didn't trust the photo they published of a massive queue of cars waiting to get to a food bank in somewhere like Texas.

https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/who-funds-facebook-fact-checkers?utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%3A%20Who%20Funds%20Facebook%20Fact%20Checkers%3F%20%28XVm9r q%29&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Daily%20Newsletter&_ke=eyJrbF9lbWFpbCI6ICJucmRhdmllcy5qaW1AZ29vZ2xlbWFpbC5jb20iLCAia2xfY29tcGFueV9pZCI6ICJLMnZYQXkifQ%3 D%3D

TomKat

17th November 2020, 02:24

Wordpress de-platforms The Conservative Treehouse website:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/11/15/the-treehouse-is-deplatformed/

with a vague explanation of not liking the content

Tintin

17th November 2020, 14:22

Exiled New Zealand journalist Suzie Dawson pretty much nails it here with her commentary.

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Here's the article to which she refers:

Source: Reuters (https://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKL1N2I10KL)

Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security
By Joseph Menn | 4 MIN READ

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social media giant Twitter TWTR.N Inc, under increased threat of regulation and plagued by serious security breaches, is appointing one of the world's best-regarded hackers to tackle everything from engineering missteps to misinformation.

The company on Monday named Peiter Zatko, widely known by his hacker handle Mudge, to the new position of head of security, giving him a broad mandate to recommend changes in structure and practices. Zatko answers to CEO Jack Dorsey and is expected to take over management of key security functions after a 45- to 60-day review.

In an exclusive interview, Zatko said he will examine “information security, site integrity, physical security, platform integrity -- which starts to touch on abuse and manipulation of the platform -- and engineering.”

Zatko most recently oversaw security at the electronic payments unicorn Stripe. Before that, he worked on special projects at Google and oversaw handing out grants for projects on cybersecurity at the Pentagon’s famed Defense Advanced Research and Projects Agency (DARPA).

Zatko's colorful career began in the 1990s, when he simultaneously conducted classified work for a government contractor and was among the leaders of Cult of the Dead Cow, a hacking group notorious for releasing Windows hacking tools in order to goad Microsoft into improving security. reut.rs/2IxWD3Q

“I don’t know if anyone can fix Twitter’s security, but he’d be at the top of my list,” said Dan Kaufman, who supervised Zatko at DARPA and now leads the advanced products group at Google.

Twitter faces numerous security challenges. A year ago, the U.S. government accused two men of spying for Saudi Arabia when they worked at Twitter years earlier, saying that they passed along private information about the kingdom's critics. here

In July, a group of young hackers tricked employees and won access to internal tools, which let them change account settings and then tweet from the accounts of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk. here (https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN24O34E).

“The data breach this summer was an important reminder of how far Twitter needs to go in building some of the basic security functions necessary to run a service targeted by adversaries much more skilled than the teenagers arrested for that incident,” said Alex Stamos, a former Facebook chief security officer and current Stanford researcher who has helped lead efforts to fight election disinformation.

Stamos, who once worked for Zatko’s security consultancy, called him a great fit for a company lacking the financial muscle of Facebook and Google. “They are going to have to find creative solutions to these problems, and if Mudge is famous for anything in security, it is being creative.”

Zatko said he was committed to improving public conversations on Twitter. He praised a recent move to increase “friction” by prompting users to comment instead of simply retweeting; a next step could be to force people to understand a long conversation before participating in it, he said.

Zatko said he appreciated Twitter’s openness to unconventional security approaches, such as his proposal for confusing bad actors by manipulating the data they receive from Twitter about how people interact with their posts.

“They are willing to take some risks,” Zatko said of his new employer. “With the challenges of algorithms and algorithmic bias, they are not standing by and waiting until someone else solves the problem.”

Reporting by Joseph Menn in San Francisco. Editing by Jonathan Weber and Richard Pullin

Gwin Ru

18th November 2020, 14:25

Bannon's war room removed from Spotify (https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/spotify-scrubs-war-room/)

Natalie Winters The National Pulse (https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/spotify-scrubs-war-room/)
Mon, 16 Nov 2020 00:01 UTC

https://www.sott.net/image/s29/590058/large/steve_bannon_s_war_room.jpg (https://www.sott.net/image/s29/590058/full/steve_bannon_s_war_room.jpg)

War Room's hundreds of episodes no longer appear on the popular streaming platform - the latest big tech company to crack down on the podcast featuring former White House Chief Strategist Bannon, National Pulse Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam, and Jack Maxey.

This comes as the show doubled down on its effort to expose the left's attempts to steal the 2020 election from President Trump.

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Now, the show can still be accessed on Rumble, (https://rumble.com/c/BannonsWarRoom) YouTube, (https://www.youtube.com/c/CitizensoftheAmericanRepublic/videos) and the Podcast App (https://podcast.app/bannons-war-room-p877619/?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=share).

Natalie Winters is a Senior Reporter at the National Pulse and producer of The National Pulse TV show.

SOTT Comment (https://www.sott.net/article/444496-Bannons-war-room-removed-from-Spotify): It sounds similar to the ongoing issues Joe Rogan is having with the platform. Rogan seems from the outside to be able to continue with his show unhindered. But Bannon, lacking the same massive audience, probably doesn't have the same pull, so he's canned.

Related:

Media maverick Joe Rogan interviews Alex Jones in latest podcast, snowflakes flip out, threaten to cancel Spotify subscriptions - UPDATE (https://www.sott.net/article/443523-Media-maverick-Joe-Rogan-interviews-Alex-Jones-in-latest-podcast-snowflakes-flip-out-threaten-to-cancel-Spotify-subscriptions-UPDATE)

Spotify employees flexing muscles to CENSOR Joe Rogan are getting their revenge, even if it means killing their cash cow (https://www.sott.net/article/441827-Spotify-employees-flexing-muscles-to-CENSOR-Joe-Rogan-are-getting-their-revenge-even-if-it-means-killing-their-cash-cow)

Spotify snowflakes want Joe Rogan canceled for 'transphobia'. His real crime is success as a free thinker (https://www.sott.net/article/441602-Spotify-snowflakes-want-Joe-Rogan-canceled-for-transphobia-His-real-crime-is-success-as-a-free-thinker)

Joe Rogan podcast fans cry 'censorship' as many episodes with conservative guests did not make it to Spotify (https://www.sott.net/article/440707-Joe-Rogan-podcast-fans-cry-censorship-as-many-episodes-with-conservative-guests-did-not-make-it-to-Spotify)

By signing $100 million deal with Spotify, Joe Rogan just blew up the Death Star (https://www.sott.net/article/434925-By-signing-100-million-deal-with-Spotify-Joe-Rogan-just-blew-up-the-Death-Star)

Leaving the compound: Joe Rogan announces he's leaving YouTube for exclusive deal with Spotify (https://www.sott.net/article/434811-Leaving-the-compound-Joe-Rogan-announces-hes-leaving-YouTube-for-exclusive-deal-with-Spotify)

norman

18th November 2020, 14:31

Watch this page for fresh episodes of Bannon's War Room, IF they turn up.

https://podbay.fm/p/bannons-war-room

It's where I've been getting them until last night.

The download link is via podbean :(

So it hangs on what podbean decides to do.

chtbl.com/track/3832G8/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/qejd77/11_17_ep512_Pandemic_EDIT.mp3

Tintin

18th November 2020, 14:38

Allum Bokhari: The Invisible Influence of Big Tech on Politics & Elections [20201103]

Author of the book #Deleted: Big Tech's Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election Allum Bokhari here in discussion with Jan Jekielek a few days before the current election took place discussing "The Invisible Influence of Big Tech on Politics & Elections.".

An engaging 39mins and the observation that this is an issue that has prospective ramifications, although some resolutions are possible including empowering the user experience and giving users filter controls.

Call me cynical though: the likelihood of that happening seems extraordinarily unlikely.

Downloadable here (https://hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/2/a/3/2a36c949aa1f5604/The_Invisible_Influence_of_Big_Tech_on_Politics__ElectionsAllum_Bokhari___American_Thought_Leaders.m p3?c_id=87719429&cs_id=87719429&destination_id=1389029&expiration=1605708672&hwt=1de037d487b18f555a9ded5bb87e4531) as well.

SHOW NOTES
How do big tech companies impact the political beliefs of their users? In this episode, we sit down with investigative journalist Allum Bokhari, author of “#DELETED: Big Tech's Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election.”

Bokhari conducted a number of interviews with big tech insiders to learn more about how Silicon Valley tech giants can influence users, and even elections.

This is American Thought Leaders 🇺🇸, and I’m Jan Jekielek.

Transcript source: The Epoch Times (https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-invisible-influence-of-big-tech-on-politics-and-elections-allum-bokhari_3563789.html)
Podcast source: American Thought Leaders (Podbay) (https://podbay.fm/p/american-thought-leaders/e/1604570400)
Book source: https://www.centerstreet.com/titles/allum-bokhari/deleted/9781546059301/

palehorse

18th November 2020, 15:08

youtube-dl is/was a very popular open source project which was taken down by GitHub on a DMCA request yesterday (Oct 23). Let's see what happened and why

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVkhHax6d9s

what a shame! fortunately `youtube-dl` is distributed with many Linux distros and it is available in their own repositories, I am using it to download this video and it works very well.

[youtube] DVkhHax6d9s: Downloading webpage
[download] Destination: youtube-dl is cancelled-DVkhHax6d9s.f308.webm
[download] 100% of 63.20MiB in 01:19
[download] Destination: youtube-dl is cancelled-DVkhHax6d9s.f251.webm
[download] 100% of 4.92MiB in 00:11
[ffmpeg] Merging formats into "youtube-dl is cancelled-DVkhHax6d9s.webm"
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There is an ongoing attack on open source code for quite a while now, these bastards want to alter our perception at all cost, then they can impose their stupid reality.

Use as much as you can open source software, boycott the corporate world, stop using windows is a great start, and if possible only use GNU programs, they are 100% free and open source, no tricks, no bull****.

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The use of P2P protocol in video platforms is on the rise, I've seem a few websites using PeerTube https://joinpeertube.org/, I never played with it, then I can't tell how easy it is to get it to work, but I guess it involves some costs..
I am using Tox https://tox.chat for communication for many years now, despite some problems with the program, in average it is good p2p messenger that can be proxified via Tor network or any other proxy one might be using, it is very hard to shutdown all its nodes (they use distributed hash table the same tech used with torrents to help find other peers), and anyone can contribute becoming a peer, Tox is a humble project, some says it is the ugly duck of all Apps available today.. I personally like because it does not ask personal info in order to use it, unlikely Signal, WhatsApp and others..

norman

18th November 2020, 18:58

Tintin

21st November 2020, 12:48

Twitter

Okay. One of my hats as many of you know here is keeping an eye on the forum Twitter account. Overnight it seems as if Twitter have now effected a blanket block on playing certain media content, most likely that which runs counter to their preferred narrative (no brainer).

A "Something went wrong: Try again?" message is appearing in abundance now whereas before it was only very occasionally.

Below is but one example of dozens. As would be expected many of the folks we 'Follow' are independent media rightfully critical of mainstream narratives.

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I'm as certain as I can be right now that it isn't a computer problem at my end here either.

Journeyman

21st November 2020, 13:17

onawah

21st November 2020, 18:51

CENSORED in U.S. – Millions Across Europe Protest New Lockdowns
11/20/20

https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/censored-in-u-s-millions-across-europe-protest-new-lockdowns (https://vaccineimpact.com/2020/censored-in-u-s-millions-across-europe-protest-new-lockdowns/)

https://healthimpactnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/covid-protests-berlin-2020-1558x900.jpg

"As the U.S. media continues to focus on the election aftermath, millions of people across Europe are protesting against the second round of lockdowns that are destroying lives and jobs. This is being censored in the U.S. media, of course.

As the U.S. begins new lockdown measures in many states using the fake “cases” that are said to be increasing, will U.S. Citizens also take to the streets to protest the destruction of their lives and jobs, even if it means they might be arrested?

Or will they continue sitting at home in isolation watching the corporate media propaganda and trusting in the TV “doctors”?

Anti-Lockdown Protests All Across Europe

Increasingly draconian lockdown measures, economic destitution, and sweeping police powers are evaporating public trust and eroding public patience.
by off-Guardian

AS THE ALLEGED “SECOND WAVE” OF THE CORONAVIRUS “PANDEMIC” IS REPORTED TO BE SWEEPING ACROSS EUROPE IN RECENT WEEKS, MANY GOVERNMENTS HAVE ENTHUSIASTICALLY EMBRACED THEIR TOTALITARIAN SIDE AND GRANTED THEMSELVES SWEEPING NEW “EMERGENCY POWERS” ALONGSIDE NEW LOCKDOWN MEASURES.

The public has been markedly less co-operative this time around. Rebelling against the seemingly arbitrary limitations which are not supported by either science or common sense. Protests have taken place all across the continent.

Germany

Thousands of people gathered in Berlin over the last few days, protesting the Merkel government passing a new lockdown law. Police turned water cannons on the crowds, and nearly 200 people were arrested.

https://www.bitchute.com/embed/fPLJjKEvSwDO

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The mainstream reported “hundreds” of protesters, but as pictures plainly show it was more like tens of thousands:

"Thanks for the picture Majd Abboud, not hundreds, not thousand, but ten's of thousands protested in Berlin today and it's only the beginning of something big…" Sonja Van Ende#Covid_19 pic.twitter.com/hLxNaTEqYv

— vanessa beeley (@VanessaBeeley) November 19, 2020

Berlin, Berlin, das wird Folgen haben… pic.twitter.com/SbDca1k5FA

— Bajazz3.0 (@BatschkappMZ) November 18, 2020

Spain

After the Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez declared a sixth-month state of emergency in late October, there were days of protests across the country.

Barcelona, already a hot-bed of anti-government feeling due to the brutal repression of the Catalan Independence referendum, saw violent confrontations between riot police and protestors.

https://healthimpactnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/barcelona-covid-protests-nov-20.jpg

France

Emmanuel Macron’s brand new “comprehensive security law”, known by protesters as the “gag law”, would further militarise French police whilst making it a crime to capture or distribute the image of a police officer.

It has met fervent resistance in the shape of angry marches through cities across the country.

Protesters across France took to the streets after a law called the Global Security Bill was passed, which outlawed taking photos of police that could be used to expose an officer's identity.https://t.co/KQjtfWpXhU#StopLoiSecuriteGlobale #StopTheGlobalSecurity pic.twitter.com/WYpy0BCbLU

— Protests.media (@ProtestsMedia) November 19, 2020

Macron’s government has a history of attacking civil liberties, and in response to his “reforms” the country has seen large-scale protests by the Gilets Jaunes for over a year.

Italy

The anti-lockdown protests in Italy reached a fever pitch in late October, and were probably the most extensive on the continent. Marches occurred in dozens of cities across the country, including Rome, Naples, Genoa and Bologna.

BOLOGNA, ITALY: The conscience of a country's population standing against their politicians speaks through this woman who says her life has been destroyed by lockdowns & has nothing to eat or to feed her 3 year old child:pic.twitter.com/84MEBgglkV

— Robin Monotti Graziadei (@robinmonotti) October 29, 2020

The mainstream media went out fo their way to undercut and smear the protests. CNN and Reuters reported only “hundreds” of protesters. Does this photo have “hundreds” of people in it?

https://healthimpactnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/naples-protests.jpg

Politico went so far as to actually blame the protests on the Mafia.

Slovakia

Bratislava was home to a huge march of protesters on November 17th, marking the national holiday known as Fight for Freedom Day. These marches were illegal under the Slovakian emergency law, notionally designed to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA: Anti-Covid restrictions & anti-government protests despite a ban on public gatherings, on the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution of 1989 & the student demonstration against Nazi occupation of 1939: https://t.co/UzfBlhDoKcpic.twitter.com/oWqhlSTfex

— Robin Monotti Graziadei (@robinmonotti) November 18, 2020

DENMARK

The Danish parliament was subject to 9 days of protests right outside its doors, in opposition to the proposed “vaccination law”, which would allow the police to “physically coerce vaccination through detainment”.

DENMARK: 9 days of protests over a new law that "would be able to define groups of people who must be vaccinated. People who refuse the above can be coerced through physical detainment, with police allowed to assist."pic.twitter.com/LN0SBVKUE8

— Robin Monotti Graziadei (@robinmonotti) November 14, 2020

After nine days of protests, it was reported on social media that the Danish gov’t had dropped the law. However, I could find no official confirmation of that, or reports in the media.

DENMARK: GOOD NEWS! After 9 days of banging pots & pans outside parliament the epidemic law is SCRAPPED. PROTESTING WORKS: DO IT!#WeWillNotComply pic.twitter.com/iFuszio05P

— Robin Monotti Graziadei (@robinmonotti) November 15, 2020

In fact, the media have barely covered the proposed law, and literally not mentioned the protests in Copenhagen at all. A search for “Covid protests Denmark” on google, turns up almost no results relating to that topic.

The reason to cover the Danish protest less than the others is that they apparently worked. and the last thing the establishment wants people to see is that civil disobedience can change anything.

*

It’s good to see the general public’s fraying sense of patience with a Covid narrative that has never made any sense, and a “pandemic response” which is likely to do far more damage than it ever could prevent.

Though civil unrest is undeniably a good and powerful thing, this is also a time to be wary. If the establishment feel they are losing control of the situation or the narrative, they are likely to double down or try something desperate.

If you’re aware of other countries experiencing civil unrest due to “anti-covid” measures, please let us know and we will add them to the list."

Read the full article at off-Guardian:
https://off-guardian.org/2020/11/19/anti-lockdown-protests-all-across-europe (https://off-guardian.org/2020/11/19/anti-lockdown-protests-all-across-europe/)

onawah

22nd November 2020, 19:54

Sharyl Attkisson on Media Bias
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
November 22, 2020
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/11/22/sharyl-attkisson-media-bias.aspx?ui=8d3c7e22a03f5300d2e3338a0f080d2da3add85bca35e09236649153e4675f72&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20201122&mid=DM726353&rid=1017253518
Transcript: https://mercola.fileburst.com/PDF/ExpertInterviewTranscripts/DrMercola-SharylAttkisson-HowtheNewsMediaTaughtUstoLoveCensorshipandHateJournalism.pdf

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STORY AT-A-GLANCE
In the 1950s, the CIA ran a covert campaign called “Operation Mockingbird,” in which they recruited journalists as assets to spread propaganda, and while the campaign officially ended in the 1970s, evidence suggests the project never really stopped
In her book, “Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism,” Sharyl Attkisson addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time: media bias and the deterioration of objective journalism
Multinational industries, and the drug industry in particular, also wield powerful influence over content relating to their particular interests. As drug advertising became a major income stream for media companies, their reporting on health and medicine became increasingly biased
Big Tech companies are also masters of censoring anything that might hurt themselves or their technocratic allies
In terms of health, COVID-19 reporting has taken censorship and media manipulation to brand-new heights. All social media platforms are openly censoring dissenting views about the virus, particularly its origin and treatment. Even lauded doctors and scientists have been axed for speaking against the desired narrative dictated by the World Health Organization

"Sharyl Attkisson is an award-winning investigative journalist with uncompromising integrity. Her latest book, “Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism,” is scheduled for release right around Thanksgiving, November 24, 2020.

In this, her third book, she addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time: media bias and the deterioration of objective journalism — a topic on which she has first-hand experience.

A former anchor at CNN and CBS News, Attkisson now produces her own Sunday television news program, “Full Measure,” as well as two podcasts: “Full Measure After Hours” and “The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast,” in which she covers the kinds of stories that mainstream news no longer touches.

Slanted Media
Propaganda through media certainly isn’t a new thing. Starting in the late 1940s,1 the CIA ran a well-documented but at the time covert campaign called “Operation Mockingbird,” in which they recruited journalists as assets to spread propaganda — news slanted in one way or another. While the program is always referred to in the past tense, as it is said to have been ended in the 1970s,2 evidence suggests it never really stopped.

“There are all kinds of ways the Intel community has, and can, manipulate the news,” Attkisson says, “but we reached a new level in 2016, 2017, because they don't even have to whisper in our ear to get us to report stuff. We hired them. Meaning, Brennan, Clapper, Comey — all of them were hired as consultants. They were invited on the news directly.

You didn't have to put them through a filter and anonymous sources, although plenty of anonymous sources were also used. But daily putting forth their propaganda, much of which, obviously, was proven false, particularly on the Trump, Russia narrative.

But every day, we allowed them to plaster the airwaves, even after they were proven admittedly wrong … After two years of spewing this false information, they're still consulted by the media. They're still used. So, it's so easy for an Intel operation if they wish to use the media towards whatever goal they may have …

I firmly believe that there have been ongoing [propaganda] campaigns that continue today. Maybe separate operations by intelligence agencies and officials to manipulate the news, and certainly have things reported a certain way to try to push for certain outcomes in politics here at home and internationally.”

Big Industry Also Influences the News
Multinational industries, the drug industry in particular, also has a similar level of influence over content relating to their particular interests. In 1996, direct-to-consumer drug advertising was legalized, and as drug advertising became a major income stream for media companies, their reporting on health and medicine became increasingly biased.

The reason is simple. They cannot afford to “bite the hand that feeds them.” If an advertiser doesn’t want the public to know about a particular finding, all they have to do to influence the reporting is to threaten to withdraw its advertising, which will hurt the media company’s bottom line.

Drug companies have also become major sponsors of medical education; thus, doctors are taught to prescribe drugs for all ills, but they’re not taught about the side effects and drawbacks of those drugs.

Today, the drug industry also controls fact-checking organizations such as NewsGuard, as it is funded by Publicis, which is supported by drug companies. When feeding from the Big Pharma trough, how could they possibly be objective in their fact-checking? Reality shows us they can’t because they aren’t.

Big Tech — Master Manipulators of Minds
Big Tech companies, of course, are also masters of censoring anything that might hurt themselves or their technocratic allies. As just one of countless examples, you can no longer post a link to Mercola.com on Twitter.

First, they added a false warning that made it look like my site contained dangerous malware when readers would click on a posted link. After a while, they simply blocked the ability to post links to our site altogether.

“This started, and I traced this in my second book, ‘The Smear,’ to Media Matters … the left-wing propaganda group that supported Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and is a big smear organization,” Attkisson says. “They acknowledged going to Facebook about the time when they were worried that Donald Trump was going to get elected.

They really felt that the only thing giving him a leg up, and they still believe this today, is his social media outreach. They tried to think of a way to control, with the kind of social media and news people could get, so Media Matters lobbied Facebook and tried to convince them — and did so successfully — to taking a fact-checking brand-new role that nobody had ever asked for.

We're not begging for our information to be curated. That was a pretend demand created by the propagandists who wanted to control the information. They had to make us think that we needed a third party to step in and tell us what to think and sort through the information … The fake news effort, the fact-checking, which is usually fake fact-checking, meaning it's not a genuine effort, is a propaganda effort …

We’ve seen it explode as we come into the 2020 election, for much the same reason, whereby, the social media companies, third parties, academic institutions and NewsGuard … they insert themselves. But of course, they're all backed by certain money and special interests. They're no more in a position to fact-check than an ordinary person walking on the street …

They have interests. They make sure certain things are not seen, even if true. And I think this is the most serious threat that I'm looking at right now to our media environment.

I'm afraid that our kids will be telling their kids of a time when you used to be able to go on the internet and find most, any, information you wanted, because we are increasingly being pointed only to that which they, people who control the information, wish for us to see.”

Presidential Treatment Takes on a New Meaning
In her book, Attkisson also spends an entire chapter dissecting the highly-biased treatment of President Trump, and how the media have, through their own admission, suspended traditional journalistic ethics simply because they consider him “uniquely dangerous.”

“Therefore, you don't have to follow the normal rules and guidelines when it comes to fair and accurate reporting, which I think is one of the most absurd things I've ever heard in my life, from someone in our profession, because the standards exist precisely so that we report on everybody the same way,” she says.

“In other words, using the same standards, whether we like them or not. Particularly, perhaps, if we don't like or agree with the candidate — that's when the standards become most important. But you need only look at Politico, for example, during the last election.

I interviewed them shortly afterwards. Someone in charge of some of their coverage … in almost every answer to a question, she brought up President Trump and something negative about him.

One of the things she said was how many lies he tells per minute. She said, ‘We actually had a team that calculated the number of lies per minute that President Trump told.’ And I asked the obvious question, ‘Well, what was that compared to Hillary's supposed lies per minute?’ And she actually said, ‘Oh, we didn't have the staffing to do Hillary too.’

Can you imagine a national news organization that purports to cover something fairly and we'll fact-check the lies per minute of one candidate and not the opposing candidate and pretend that that qualifies as fair news?

I also interviewed some noted liberals who have noticed the same thing: That they look at things from a fair-minded viewpoint and are no fan of President Trump, yet are appalled at how the media has dishonestly treated certain topics and information, which should make everybody wonder, ‘Are we getting the truth when it comes to things that don't have to do with President Trump?

If the media can report so many things out of context and incorrectly when it comes to somebody they don't like, what else are we getting that's not in context or that's not fully true?’”

The Invention of Lying
Prior to President Trump, virtually no one in the media would accuse someone of lying. The standard was to question an individual’s statement or point out a discrepancy to another source, but not call it an outright lie, because it’s easy to get confused on specifics. A lie is a very specific allegation that implies an intent to deceive. Just because you misremember a fact doesn't mean you lied.

“[In the book] I talk about the fact that … I know I've probably been lied to many times, but I don't believe I've ever reported that somebody lied to me in a hard news report. Why? Well, a lie is a specific thing that requires you to know the mind of the person. And you as a journalist have to withhold, even if you think something is true without the evidence, you really can't say it's true.

I'll use the example I used in the book: Ford and Firestone tires. The executives consistently said there was no evidence that these tires were dangerous prior to the scandal around the 2000 time period where there were a lot of deaths. I had documents from a source that showed this very danger many years before.

It appeared that they were lying, but I didn't call it a lie because there are many other explanations someone could give. They could say, ‘Well, these guys weren't there at the time. So, they didn't know that these discussions had been had. They didn't have access to the emails, their subordinates didn't tell them.’ So, you don't know whether they're mistaken or lying.

And from a journalistic standpoint, we used to always take the objective road and say something like, ‘Their testimony contradicts the documentary record.’ That's good enough. People at home can make up their own mind.

But there was a turn taken, specifically, to target President Trump, whereby, the media started frequently calling things that he said, lies — even when there was simply something that was a matter of opinion, or could not be proven, or a mistake, none of which are lies.

The New York Times was proud of this when it did it. And I recount in the book the first time they made a headline where they talked about President Trump lying, and how that was cheered on by others in the media who then followed suit.

They were even cheered on by a journalism professor who wrote a big op-ed about how it was time to stop doing this objective reporting and that we needed to call out President Trump's lies frequently and often. It's just, again, from a journalistic standpoint, ridiculous … I think this is a new and dangerous tactic that has really destroyed our objectivity in the eyes of the public. And rightly so.”

Massaging COVID-19 Messages
In terms of health, COVID-19 reporting has taken censorship and media manipulation to brand new heights, eclipsing just about all previous efforts. They don’t even hide the bias anymore.

All social media platforms are openly censoring dissenting views about the virus, particularly its origin and treatment. Even well-respected doctors and scientists have been axed for speaking against the desired narrative dictated by the World Health Organization.

August 26, 2020, the CDC had released data3 showing 94% of people who had died during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. died “with” the virus, not “from” it. Only 6% had COVID-19 listed as the sole cause of death on the death certificate. Hence, the real death toll, those who unarguably died as a direct result of the infection, is only around 10,000.

“For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death,” the CDC stated. This is an important distinction. Yet mainstream media continues to report that nearly 200,000 have died “from” COVID-19 in the U.S, thereby increasing national fear so they can implement their lockdowns and other strategies to limit our personal freedoms and liberty.

“I think we need both numbers, in a separate sense, to have perspective and understanding of what's really happening,” Attkisson says. “And it's something that very few people have shown interest in ... Early on, it was clear … that the primary victims were those with the comorbidities and the elderly population in nursing homes and so on.

But then we sort of lost track of that. And then there seemed to be a propaganda effort to convince people that, initially, after understanding young people were at very little risk of serious illness and death, there seemed to be an effort to convince people that the youth must be very careful. That more young people are dying and getting sick.

I can only guess as to why that's important to some interests, but I suspect it has something to do with the fact that when the vaccine comes out, the market needs to be aimed.

You can't rule out young people, you must make them believe they need it, or else you've ruled out a huge section of the vaccine market. And they certainly don't want to make a vaccine that's not used by a giant percentage of the population. I think they have to create a market. Why do I think this?

Well, I was actually told by a top immunization official for the government, when they learned flu shots are ineffective in the elderly … that the way around that was not to take flu shots away from the elderly — who would think that was dishonest because we've been telling it was necessary for so many years — but to convince parents to get their children and babies flu shots so that they wouldn't ‘carry flu to the elderly.’

I remember him saying to me, ‘The trick is going to be to convince parents to give a vaccine to their children who don't really need it themselves.’ In other words, for a secondary supposed benefit for the elderly. And darn it, if you didn't see in the next season, they recommended flu shots for babies and children.

And they didn't tell anybody at the time that they were doing it because flu shots don't work in the elderly. They just started telling people that your kids need flu shots.”

When a ‘Case’ Is Not a Case
The media are also grossly misusing the term “case,” in reference to the COVID-19 case load. A case is a medical term for a patient with a symptomatic type of infection. It’s not someone who tests positive for antibodies or pieces of viral DNA. By referring to all positive tests as “cases,” they’re able to fan the flames of panic, making the situation sound far worse than it actually is.

We're at a pretty scary time when scientists who are experts on these issues fear speaking what they believe is the scientific truth because they’ll be controversialized. ~ Sharyl Attkisson
Many still do not understand that most of those who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 are asymptomatic. They think these are sick people in the hospital and that rising “case” numbers mean there will be a rise in deaths. Statistics reveal this simply isn’t true, and that there’s not a linear correlation between positive tests and deaths.

“There are just so many things that are misreported,” Attkisson says. “But if you try to report them accurately and factually, you get called out by those in the media who either didn't understand, or are simply so blinded by the propaganda narrative.

The New York Times did this. They actually called me and several other people out as ‘coronavirus doubters,’ although I had never said or written anything that even remotely denies coronavirus or denies the risk of it. But they were working very hard to silence voices who are simply reporting more accurately and with context on what’s really happening.

By the way, when I spoke to some scientists ... and I said, ‘Why don't you speak out or correct what you think is the misconception?’ Separately, several of them told me they feared speaking out publicly because they were afraid they would be labeled a coronavirus doubter, and for fear of contradicting Dr. Fauci.

So, I said, ‘We're at a pretty scary time when scientists who are experts on these issues fear speaking what they believe is the scientific truth because they’ll be controversialized.’"

Search for Truth and Unbiased Facts
The clear take-home message I got from reading, “Slanted: How the News Media Taught Us to Love Censorship and Hate Journalism,” is that there’s a profoundly serious problem with most mainstream conventional media.

The obvious question is: Where can you go to get the truth? We would like to be informed, but we also want the truth. We don't have time to waste to be brainwashed by propaganda. At the end of her book, Attkisson lists a variety of sources she’s come to trust. It may be worth getting the book for those recommendations alone.

“I didn't make a comprehensive list,” Attkisson says. “I'm sure I left many people out, but I tried to point to a few outlets and people, and I consulted some of my colleagues for their recommendations. It’s not an easy answer. There isn't a place you can go. I can't say, ‘Watch this news every day or read this publication.’ It's more granular than that.

You have to find a reporter that you trust on a topic and then chase that reporter around … That's where I think you can find a segment of truth. And it's not always, sadly, going to be objective truth.

Some of the reporters I name are coming from the left viewpoint or coming from a right viewpoint, but they have proven themselves to be brave reporters of a particular topic or controversy that I think you can rely on. But it's just not so simple as it used to be where you could just point to a person or an outlet and say, ‘Watch that, and you'll get your fair shake at the news’ …

I would say, in closing, that I do think a new paradigm will develop when it comes to news reporting. There are people looking at how news and information can be reported in a way that it cannot be censored by big tech giants, political figures and nonprofits and so on …

I'm told there's a way to develop a social media platform where you can post freely and also not be subject to censorship. I think things will evolve because people are tired of what they're seeing. And I hope something really positive, being an optimist, develops out of all of this down the road.” "

+ Sources and References
1, 2 Encyclopedia of intelligence and counterintelligence (First ed.). Routledge, Operation Mockingbird
3 CDC.gov August 26, 2020

Bill Ryan

23rd November 2020, 22:01

Of some interest to Avalon members and readers may be that at 13:34 in his latest video update (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDet863CKgE), Dave Paulides tells his followers he's leaving Twitter and moving to Parler.

Succinct and arrow-straight as he always is, he explains that he doesn't talk politics on any of his platforms. But he does talk rights, and he cares very deeply about the right to free speech.

onawah

24th November 2020, 22:40

BREAKING: German Lawsuit Against "FactCheckers" Would Force Them To Prove Legitimacy of C0VlD Tests
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onawah

26th November 2020, 02:57

ICAN suing Facebook
Del Bigtree's ( Highwire) of the Informed Consent Action Network email update today 11/25/20

(This post is not meant to solicit funds from Avalon members for ICAN, just to let you all know about an important development. )

"Facebook removed The HighWire page on Saturday night.

With it, 360,000 followers lost critical, scientific and fair information that we post each and every day.
With it, our 30,000,000 views of The HighWire were unpublished.
With it, our 4 million weekly viewers of The HighWire on Facebook lost all access to our content.
The brazen censorship by Big Government and Big Tech has crossed multiple lines--and anyone who knows me knows we’re not going to roll-over and play dead.

Nope. We’re fighting back.

We’re suing Facebook.

And we need your help.

Here’s why:

The Informed Consent Action Network is launching a Legal Defense Fund in order to protect our First Amendment rights of free speech and a free press.

As you can imagine, fighting Facebook is an expensive endeavor.
Facebook will not go down without a serious legal fight and we need to bring the same level of resources, legal and experts, to bear in order to prevail within the legal system.

Which is why I am asking you to consider a gift of $50, $100, $250 or even more if possible. Gifts to ICAN are tax-deductible.

I cannot share all of the details right now, but suffice it to say that our team has worked around the clock since the news hit that Facebook shut us down.

And as you know, this comes a few months after YouTube, owned by Google, did the same thing.

The bottom line: you and I have become too powerful for Big Government and Big Tech to sit back and watch, and their aim is to put ICAN and The HighWire OUT OF BUSINESS.

There can be no dissent, no alternative view, no questions asked. The propaganda being forced on us by Big Government and Big Tech is literally having a chilling affect on what it means to be an American.

So, instead of debating our non-partisan, unbiased view of science--they take the easy way out: they throttle down our page--from 4 million page views a week down to 1 million, then they flag every single one of our posts, then they eliminate us from their platform altogether.

These extreme actions violate the Bill of Rights, they violate what it means to be an American, they violate our liberty and the right to free speech and a free press!
They violate these rights because absent the hand of government, these tech companies would not have engaged in this censorship.

Who appointed Facebook and their government handlers, such as Rep. Adam Schiff, to be the final arbiter of what is news, and what is not, so that they can cancel anyone at any time without any regard?

With your help, that is going to change right now.

Your gift will help ICAN pay for our Legal Defense team and continue our preparations to take on Facebook. Your contribution will help us see our day in court!

So please, if you are in a position to do so, let me hear from you. Perhaps you can become one of our monthly supporters. Whatever you do, please act today. https://secure.egsnetwork.com/donate/7DAB3393C290413
There is so much more that is coming--and I cannot wait to share it with you in the coming days!

Be Bold! Be Strong! Be Brave!"

Del Bigtree, CEO
Informed Consent Action Network
Host, The HighWire

norman

27th November 2020, 20:16

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1332175155104247808
https://www.infowars.com/posts/trump-says-big-tech-immunities-must-be-terminated-for-national-security-reasons/

RunningDeer

29th November 2020, 16:03

YouTube temporarily suspends, demonetizes OANN

Ashley Gold
Nov, 24, 2020

YouTube has barred One America News Network from posting new videos for a week and stripped it of its ability to make money off existing content after the Trump-friendly channel uploaded a video promoting a phony cure for COVID-19, YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi tells Axios.

Why it matters: YouTube has been criticized for allowing OANN to spread misinformation using its platform, particularly around coronavirus and the election. This marks the Google-owned service's first crackdown against OANN.

Details: OANN's one-week suspension from posting new videos or livestreams is the result of a "strike" YouTube issued for violating its COVID-19 misinformation policy, which prohibits saying there is a guaranteed cure to the virus. YouTube took down the video that triggered the strike.

OANN is also suspended from the YouTube Partner Program, which means if it wants to monetize its videos again, it will have to re-apply.
YouTube has a three-strikes policy before an account is terminated. This is OANN's first strike, but it has violated the platform's COVID-19 misinformation policy before, meaning it gets no more warnings if it breaks the rules again — just additional strikes.
YouTube says it does not consider OANN an authoritative news source.

The big picture: YouTube, like other platforms, has grown more willing to take action against conservative-leaning accounts that spread misinformation. It has also been trying to provide greater visibility to legitimate news outlets.

A quartet of Democratic senators sent a letter Tuesday to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki pressing her company to do more to stem the tide of election misinformation.

Posting videos that make false claims about election results isn't against YouTube's rules.

The other side: Trump and his allies have urged followers to tune into alternative news sources such as OANN and Newsmax that have questioned Joe Biden's victory, eschewing Fox News, which they feel has gone soft.

full article & links (https://www.axios.com/youtube-temporarily-suspends-demonetizes-oann-420e8ea9-66c1-4eab-9754-6e3b708483c9.html)

norman

29th November 2020, 22:08

The Zach Vorhies section of this show is very relevant to this thread topic.

Pete Santilli Show - EP 2215_(edited) - Zachary Vorhies (Google Whistleblower) first half, Chris Kitze second half (https://app.box.com/s/po2z611vlpp60lz9uh6d8tp0tu8npmxh)

I've edited this down from a 4+ hours extended show.

At the start there is a section of recording of an IT expert witness.

Zach talks about the big tech big picture and gives his assessment of various alternatives to Twitter and Youtube etc. Chris talks about the election fraud and where it is likely heading next.

Delight

2nd December 2020, 02:41

Thought this should go here

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RunningDeer

2nd December 2020, 03:47

Thought this should go here

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How unfortunate for Praveen. The range on his vids in the last six months on PraveenMohan channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/Phenomenalplacetravel/videos) is between 120,000 and 698,000 views. He has 973,000 subscribers, and over 4 million views (https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/phenomenalplacecom) for the last 30 days.

It's been less than a day, and there's almost 144,000 views for this video. Judging by some of the 9,100+ comments, people are taking notice of the corporate games.

onawah

2nd December 2020, 07:38

Spy Agencies Threaten to 'Take Out' Mercola
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
December 01, 2020
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/12/01/anti-vaccine-propaganda-censorship.aspx?ui=8d3c7e22a03f5300d2e3338a0f080d2da3add85bca35e09236649153e4675f72&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20201201_HL2&mid=DM734805&rid=1024243039

"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
British and American intelligence agencies are collaborating to eliminate “anti-vaccine propaganda” from public discussion using sophisticated cyberwarfare tools
According to Imran Ahmed, chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, anti-vaxxers are “an extremist group that pose a national security risk,” because “once someone has been exposed to one type of conspiracy it’s easy to lead them down a path where they embrace more radical world views that can lead to violent extremism”
In September, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) seized 92 online domains suspected of belonging to Iraqi government-backed militia. Seizures were done in collaboration with the FBI, Google, Facebook and Twitter
In November, the DOJ seized 27 online domains — including the American Herald Tribune — suspected of being founded by Iranian interests
Among the websites cited by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate as promoting extremism that poses a national security risk to the U.K. are Mercola.com, Children’s Health Defense, the Informed Consent Action Network, the Organic Consumers Association and the National Vaccine Information Center

I’ve been warning you about the seeming inevitability of mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for several months now, and have discussed the ever-tightening grip of media and online censorship even longer. As an independent source of health news, Mercola.com has been in the crosshairs of globalist interests for years, and the attacks are intensifying with each passing day.

While, on the surface, health recommendations and geopolitics may appear to have nothing in common, they are in fact intertwined.

As more and more information about the Great Reset and the 4th Industrial Revolution is starting to surface, we can clearly see that eliminating medical freedom is a central part of the plot, and mandatory vaccination will be used as a tool to usher in biometrical surveillance and enslavement through a centrally-controlled all-digital finance and identification system.

Intelligence Collective Unleashes Cyberwarfare on Public
While censorship has reached new heights this year, that’s likely only the tip of the iceberg. According to recent media reports,1,2,3 intelligence agencies are now collaborating to eliminate “anti-vaccine propaganda” from public discussion using sophisticated cyberwarfare tools.

As reported by independent investigative journalist Whitney Webb in an article for Unlimited Hangout:4

“British and American state intelligence agencies are ‘weaponizing truth’ to quash vaccine hesitancy as both nations prepare for mass inoculations, in a recently announced ‘cyber war’ to be commanded by AI-powered arbiters of truth against information sources that challenge official narratives …

Cyber tools and online tactics previously designed for use in the post-9/11 ‘war on terror’ are now being repurposed for use against information sources promoting ‘vaccine hesitancy’ and information related to COVID-19 that runs counter to their state narratives …

The UK’s GCHQ [Government Communications Headquarters5] ‘has begun an offensive cyber-operation to disrupt anti-vaccine propaganda being spread by hostile states’ and ‘is using a toolkit developed to tackle disinformation and recruitment material peddled by Islamic State’ to do so.6

In addition, the UK government has ordered the British military’s 77th Brigade, which specializes in ‘information warfare,’ to launch an online campaign to counter ‘deceptive narratives’ about COVID-19 vaccine candidates.

The newly announced GCHQ ‘cyber war’ will not only take down ‘anti-vaccine propaganda’ but will also seek to ‘disrupt the operations of the cyberactors responsible for it, including encrypting their data so they cannot access it and blocking their communications with each other.’

The effort will also involve GCHQ reaching out to other countries in the ‘Five Eyes’ alliance (U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Canada) to alert their partner agencies in those countries to target such ‘propaganda’ sites hosted within their borders.”

Vaccine Discussion — A National Security Risk?
According to a November 9, 2020, report in The Times,7 the British “government regards tackling false information about inoculation as a rising priority as the prospect of a reliable vaccine against the coronavirus draws closer.”

In July 2020, chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, Imran Ahmed, told The Independent8 he considers anti-vaxxers “an extremist group that pose a national security risk,” because “once someone has been exposed to one type of conspiracy it’s easy to lead them down a path where they embrace more radical world views that can lead to violent extremism.”

In other words, Ahmed implies that people who question the safety and necessity of a COVID-19 vaccine might be prone to violent extremism. His statement is no small matter, considering Ahmed is also a member of the Steering Committee on Countering Extremism Pilot Task Force under the British government’s Commission for Countering Extremism.

“It seems that, from the perspective of the UK national-security state, those who question corruption in the pharmaceutical industry and its possible impact on the leading experimental COVID-19 vaccine candidates (all of which use experimental vaccine technologies that have never before been approved for human use) should be targeted with tools originally designed to combat terrorist propaganda,” Webb writes.9

Government With Help of Big Tech Is Seizing Online Domains
U.S. intelligence is also part of this campaign. According to Webb, the U.S. government will help the GCHQ determine whether a website is part of a foreign disinformation operation or not. While the GCHQ claims that only foreign state actors will be targeted, and not “ordinary citizens,” there’s little evidence to suggest citizens won’t be swept up in this information blackout operation.

For example, November 4, 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it had seized 27 online domains — including that of the American Herald Tribune — suspected of being founded by Iranian interests.10,11 The domain seizures are said to be part of the U.S. enforcement of sanctions against Iran.

In early September 2020, 92 online domains suspected of belonging to Iraqi government-backed militia were similarly seized.12 All of these DOJ seizures were done in collaboration with the FBI, Google, Facebook and Twitter.13 As reported by Webb:14

“The U.S. government made this claim about the American Herald Tribune after the cybersecurity firm FireEye, a U.S. government contractor, stated that it had ‘moderate confidence’ that the site had been ‘founded in Iran’ …

It is certainly plausible that GCHQ could take the word of either an allied government, a government contractor, or perhaps even an allied media organization such as Bellingcat or the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab that a given site is ‘foreign propaganda’ in order to launch a cyber offensive against it.

Such concerns are only amplified when one of the main government sources … bluntly stated that ‘GCHQ has been told to take out antivaxers [sic] online and on social media. There are ways they have used to monitor and disrupt terrorist propaganda,’ which suggests that the targets of GCHQ’s new cyber war will, in fact, be determined by the content itself rather than their suspected ‘foreign’ origin.

The ‘foreign’ aspect instead appears to be a means of evading the prohibition in GCHQ’s operational mandate on targeting the speech or websites of ordinary citizens.”

Clues that U.S. intelligence supports this cyberwar against the public can also be found in a white paper15 published in the InfraGard Journal in June 2019. InfraGard, founded in 1996, is a nonprofit national security group affiliated with the FBI.16 They collaborate on a variety of educational and information-sharing initiatives “that help mitigate threats.”17

The InfraGard paper18 claims the American anti-vaccine movement is being orchestrated by Russian government-aligned organizations seeking to “sow discontent and distrust in topics and initiatives that serve U.S. interests,”19 and that “The biggest threat in controlling an outbreak comes from those who categorically reject vaccination.”20

Does InfraGard speak for the FBI? Not directly, but considering it serves as “a public-private partnership among U.S. businesses, individuals, and the FBI,” according to an FBI spokesperson,21 it’s bound to have some degree of influence.

According to The Guardian, the unnamed FBI spokesperson noted that “It is important to distinguish among the statements, views and comments made by official FBI representatives and InfraGard Members.” He or she declined to comment on or clarify the FBI’s stance on whether vaccine safety advocates might be classified as a national security threat.

This Site Identified as a Cyberwar Target
Five sites specifically targeted by the Centre for Countering Digital Hate as promoting extremism that poses a national security risk to the U.K. are:

Mercola.com
Children’s Health Defense (run by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)
The Informed Consent Action Network
The Organic Consumers Association
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)
In fact, the organization specifically named yours truly as being one of just two people responsible for funding the “anti-vaxx nonprofits” that have the greatest reach. Financier Bernard Selz is the other. Selz allegedly finances The HighWire and Physicians for Informed Consent, as well as “some of the tech giants that make the modern anti-vaxx movement possible.”22

It was really entertaining to read what the Centre for Countering Digital Hate wrote about me in their report, as I consider their disparagement a badge of honor. I encourage you to read it.23 For example, they commented that we have a decreasing Facebook following. Well that isn’t surprising at all as we haven’t posted for 18 months as a part of our “Forget Facebook” campaign. As noted by Webb in her article:24

“It is worth pointing out that many so-called ‘anti-vaxxers’ are actually critics of the pharmaceutical industry and are not necessarily opposed to vaccines in and of themselves, making the labels ‘anti-vaxxer’ and ‘anti-vaccine’ misleading.

Given that many pharmaceutical giants involved in making COVID-19 vaccines donate heavily to politicians in both countries and have been involved in numerous safety scandals, using state intelligence agencies to wage cyber war against sites that investigate such concerns is not only troubling for the future of journalism but it suggests that the UK is taking a dangerous leap toward becoming a country that uses its state powers to treat the enemies of corporations as enemies of the state.”

Intelligence Apparatus Weaponizes ‘Truth’
Indeed, it certainly appears as though the U.K. and U.S. are now lumping enemies of the state and enemies of private companies into the same category. If you criticize one you criticize the other. In short, if you impede or endanger the profitability of private companies, you are now viewed as a national security threat.

Primer’s ultimate goal is to use their AI to entirely automate the shaping of public perceptions and become the arbiter of ‘truth,’ as defined by the state.
Importantly, the right and freedom to critique one’s government is a hallmark of democracy, so this state-sponsored war against truthful information is in turn evidence of a radical detour from democratic rule. Technocratic totalitarianism is quite literally banging at our front door. As reported by Webb:25

“Similar efforts are underway in the United States, with the U.S. military recently funding a CIA-backed firm — stuffed with former counterterrorism officials who were behind the occupation of Iraq and the rise of the so-called Islamic State — to develop an AI algorithm aimed specifically at new websites promoting ‘suspected’ disinformation related to the COVID-19 crisis and the U.S. military-led COVID-19 vaccination effort known as Operation Warp Speed …

In early October, the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Special Operations Command announced that they had awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to the U.S.-based ‘machine intelligence’ company Primer. Per the press release,26 ‘Primer will develop the first-ever machine learning platform to automatically identify and assess suspected disinformation …

Primer’s ultimate goal is to use their AI to entirely automate the shaping of public perceptions and become the arbiter of ‘truth,’ as defined by the state …

According to Primer’s director of science, John Bohannon, ‘Primer will be integrating bot detection, synthetic text detection and unstructured textual claims analysis capabilities into our existing artificial intelligence platform currently in use with DOD … This will create the first unified mission-ready platform to effectively counter COVID-19-related disinformation in near-real time …

Given that the Covid-19 vaccine candidate produced by Pfizer is expected to be approved by the end of November, it appears that the U.S. national-security state, which is essentially running Operation Warp Speed, along with ‘trusted messengers’ in mass media, is preparing to enter the second phase of its communications strategy, one in which news organizations and journalists who raise legitimate concerns about Warp Speed will be de-platformed to make way for the ‘required’ saturation of pro-vaccine messaging across the English-speaking media landscape.”

Protect Your Human Rights
As mentioned at the beginning, health and geopolitics are far from separate issues. One is feeding into the other, as mass vaccination is being used as a way to implement a whole host of “new world order” directives, including the introduction of an all-digital centralized currency model tied to digital IDs and a social credit system.

Together, all of these bits and pieces will allow an unelected technocratic elite to dictate every facet of your life, from where you live to what you own (which according to the World Economic Forum will be nothing). For an introduction to this globalist takeover, which is now being rolled out at a rapid clip, see James Corbett’s report featured in “What You Need to Know About the Great Reset.”

As for the sharing of information, it seems inevitable that the attacks on Mercola.com will intensify. Already, Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have either throttled down or banned our online presence, making it very difficult to find and share our content.

So, if you find value in these articles, be sure to subscribe, encourage your friends and family to subscribe, and share articles via email. At the bottom of each page, you’ll find an “Email Article” button that makes it easy to share. Also consider eliminating Facebook and all Google-based services from your life to cut down on their data mining of your personal information.

Remember, your personal data is being used against you. It’s fed into machine learning programs that train artificial intelligence, which is then used to manipulate you and shape your perception of the world. This technology is so sophisticated, most don’t even realize it’s happening in general, let alone that it’s happening to them specifically.

To say that we’re living in extraordinarily dangerous times would be an understatement, but if we keep our wits about us and continue to share the facts and coordinate our resistance, we still have a chance to turn away from the dystopian future that has been planned for us. For some encouragement, listen to Kennedy Jr.’s speech in “Hope Despite Censorship.” "

+ Sources and References

1, 6, 7 The Times November 9, 2020
2 UK Defense Journal November 10, 2020
3 The National News November 9, 2020
4, 9, 14, 24, 25 Unlimited Hangout November 11, 2020
5 GCHQ.gov.UK
8 The Independent July 7, 2020
10, 13 Justice.gov November 4, 2020
11 Antiwar.com November 4, 2020
12 Antiwar.com September 3, 2020
15, 18 The Infragard Journal June 2019; 2(1) (PDF)
16 InfraGard
17 InfraGard About Us
19 The Infragard Journal June 2019; 2(1) (PDF), page 27
20 The Infragard Journal June 2019; 2(1) (PDF), page 25
21 The Guardian April 27, 2020
22, 23 CCDH, The Anti-Vaxx Industry (PDF), Page 9
26 PR Newswire October 1, 2020

gord

2nd December 2020, 20:34

Thought this should go here

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For a channel like Praveen's, the stated reason and the real reason for this sort of thing rarely coincide.

510 out of 520 archived.

GitHub Reinstates youtube-dl After RIAA’s Abuse of the DMCA (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/github-reinstates-youtube-dl-after-riaas-abuse-dmca)

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” --George Orwell

RunningDeer

9th December 2020, 20:47

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By The YouTube Team
December 9, 2020

Supporting the 2020 U.S. Election

Yesterday was the safe harbor deadline for the U.S. Presidential election and enough states have certified their election results to determine a President-elect. Given that, we will start removing any piece of content uploaded today (or anytime after) that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, in line with our approach towards historical U.S. Presidential elections.

For example, we will remove videos claiming that a Presidential candidate won the election due to widespread software glitches or counting errors. We will begin enforcing this policy today, and will ramp up in the weeks to come. As always, news coverage and commentary on these issues can remain on our site if there’s sufficient education, documentary, scientific or artistic context.

article (https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/supporting-the-2020-us-election/)

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https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1336676707554758657

Bill Ryan

10th December 2020, 13:32

Tintin

10th December 2020, 14:18

Chris Martenson's 3 December video about the clear efficacy of Ivermectin as a Covid treatment, carefully citing and reading through published scientific papers, was removed. (I have it downloaded, as I have 80 other videos of his in case his whole channel goes.)

He uploaded a video last night about what happened:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE2EcKm5Uj4

Related: the two papers that his Dec 3rd video predominantly referred to are these:

https://osf.io/wx3zn/ - Title:Review of the Emerging Evidence Demonstrating the Efficacy of Ivermectin in the Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19

https://covid19criticalcare.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FLCCC-Protocols-%E2%80%93-A-Guide-to-the-Management-of-COVID-19.pdf Title: An overview of the MATH+ and I-MASK+ Protocols - A Guide to the Management of COVID-19

I'll pop these in the library just as soon as.

onawah

10th December 2020, 20:53

URGENT NEWS: Congress is attempting to ram through dangerous SOPA-like copyright provisions that would threaten online streamers with jail time as part of a must-pass government spending bill. Sign the petition to stop this!
Today's update from: Fight for the Future <team@fightforthefuture.org>
12/10/20

"SIGN PETITION: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-congress-dont-threaten-streamers-with-prison-time-keep-sopapipa-like-copyright-provisions-out-of-the-must-pass-spending-bill?link_id=0&can_id=4870e31ee9d2b4c95e94bdd1b8471b48&source=email-dont-let-congress-put-online-streamers-in-jail-2&email_referrer=email_1019081&email_subject=a-new-terrible-copyright-law-threatens-free-speech-on-the-internet

This is a red alert. Lawmakers in the pocket of giant corporations like Comcast and Sony are attempting to ram through dangerous changes to copyright law as part of a last-minute, must pass government spending bill.1

One of the provisions would threaten online streamers with JAIL TIME for copyrighted content––the text isn’t even public yet (which is a huge problem in and of itself) but it appears frighteningly similar to some of the worst pieces of SOPA/PIPA, the Internet censorship bills that sparked the largest online protests in history.2

Another could lead to ordinary Internet users facing $30,000 in fines for inadvertently sharing copyrighted content as part of everyday activities like posting memes, sharing videos, and downloading images.3

The good news is that the vote on the “Continuing Resolution” spending bill has been delayed, which has bought us a tiny bit of extra time to try to stop this. If House leadership hears from enough people, they can take these controversial provisions out of the bill.

Sign the petition to tell Congress: don’t threaten streamers with jail time! No SOPA-like censorship provisions in the must-pass spending bill.

For the Internet,

Evan "

[1] Real Sludge
https://readsludge.com/2020/12/07/tillis-pushes-prison-time-for-online-streamers-after-pre-election-hollywood-cash-blitz/

[2] Protocol

https://www.protocol.com/amp/copyright-provisions-in-spending-bill-2649260098
[3] EFF

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/09/congress-continues-ignore-dangerous-flaws-case-act

Fight for the Future works to protect your rights in the digital age."

RunningDeer

11th December 2020, 00:02

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http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/tweet11.gifIt appears Jack Dorsey is taking it up a notch.

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https://twitter.com/ellymelly/status/1336872258564833281

onawah

11th December 2020, 05:57

Facebook Fact-Checker Funded by Chinese Money Through TikTok
BY PETR SVAB December 10, 2020
https://www.theepochtimes.com/facebook-fact-checker-funded-by-chinese-money-through-tiktok_3610009.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2020-12-10-2

"While Facebook portrays its army of fact-checkers as independent, the money behind at least one carries a distinct taint.

One such fact-checker, Lead Stories, is partly paid through a partnership with TikTok, a social media platform run by a Chinese company that owes its allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). TikTok currently is being probed by U.S. officials as a national security threat.

Moreover, the organization that’s supposed to oversee the quality of fact-checkers is run by Poynter Institute, another TikTok partner.

Lead Stories says it’s been contracted by ByteDance “for fact-checking-related work,” referring to TikTok’s announcement earlier this year that it has partnered with several organizations “to further aid our efforts to reduce the spread of misinformation,” particularly regarding the CCP virus pandemic, which originated in China and was exacerbated by the CCP regime’s coverup.

Lead Stories was started in 2015 by Belgian website developer Maarten Schenk, CNN veteran Alan Duke, and two lawyers from Florida and Colorado. It listed operating expenses of less than $50,000 in 2017, but had expanded sevenfold by 2019, largely because of the more than $460,000 Facebook paid it for fact-checking services in 2018 and 2019. The company took on more than a dozen staffers, about half of them CNN alumni, and became one of Facebook’s most prolific fact-checkers of U.S. content.

This year, the funding sources included Google, Facebook, ByteDance, and several online advertising services. Advertising brought it less than $25,000 last year, the group said.

“The bulk” of the funding still comes from Facebook, it says.

Part of its revenue comes from subscriptions to “Trendolizer,” its viral content tracking tool. “For privacy reasons, we cannot reveal the list of Trendolizer users … but none of them individually accounted for more than 5% of our revenue,” it says.

The Trendolizer website only shows three pages “powered” by it: Trendolizer.com, LeadStories.com, and StoryTide.com, a news aggregator started by LeadStories in 2016.

Lead Stories didn’t immediately respond to emailed questions from The Epoch Times."

onawah

12th December 2020, 18:13

New Bill Could END Section 230
Tulsi Gabbard Backs Trump On Section 230 Over Big Tech Censorship,
150,830 views•Dec 11, 2020
Timcast IRL
881K subscribers
"Tim, Ian, Lydia, and Luke host guest and elections scrutineer Matt Braynard (@MattBraynard on Twitter) a recent bill introduced to break up the big tech companies and reduce censorship."
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norman

15th December 2020, 03:46

Mike Adams

This explains the election censorship: YouTube has been infiltrated by Chinese Communist Party-linked engineers (https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-12-14-youtube-infiltrated-chinese-communist-party.html)

Monday, December 14, 2020 by: JD Heyes (https://www.naturalnews.com/author/jdheyes)

https://www.naturalnews.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/91/2020/12/China-social-media.jpg

(Natural News (https://www.naturalnews.com)) In recent days, YouTube made an alarming announcement that the video platform behemoth would begin censoring any content questioning the deep state narrative: “Joe Biden won and is now your leader — accept it.”

Even while the Trump campaign and others were legally contesting the results for Biden in just enough swing states to ‘win’ — challenges that were accompanied by literally hundreds of witness statements in the form of sworn affidavits, the platform issued its blanket dictate: ‘There shall be no content allowed questioning Biden’s legitimacy.’

Now we know why.

As reported by the National Pulse, YouTube employs several software engineers who have ties (https://thenationalpulse.com/news/youtube-employs-ccp-operatives/) to the Chinese Communist Party, and since we all know that Biden and his spawn do as well, that explains a lot.
Here’s what the outlet discovered:

— Tai Jinjiang is a software engineer who’s been with YouTube since 2019 and who previously worked for Guanghzou Shian Technology as a project manager. Tia provided details about his work for the firm, which is based in China, noting that he played a “major role in successful PLA certification of ShiAn terminal by [the] Minister of Public Security, State Secrecy Bureau, and IT Evaluation Center.”
Notes the National Pulse:

In other words, Jinjiang led software efforts on behalf of the PLA – appearing to reference China’s People’s Liberation Army – and a host of Chinese government-led intelligence bodies. What’s more, he notes he “garnered numerous staff awards for excellent performance.”

— Xiao Chen is listed as having become a software engineer at YouTube last month. He previously worked as a research assistant at Sun Yat-Sen University, which recently sent a researcher to the United States who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI over his China ties. The university’s Supercomputing Center has been on the U.S. government’s entity list since 2015. The list contains “people and companies the U.S. government deems a national security risk.”

— Xifei Huang is another software engineer and has been with the platform since February 2014 though he previously worked as a developer for Peking University in Beijing.

Researchers from Peking University have been sentenced in the U.S. for stealing American intellectual property and for failing to disclose to immigration officials their Chinese Communist Party affiliations.

“The university also counts former and current party apparatchiks among its leadership, including its leader (https://apnews.com/article/1eae981a33f242d886bbf3fcafd715d2): a former head of the country’s spy agency’s Beijing branch,” The National Pulse noted.

— Fan Yang has been employed as a software engineer by YouTube since April 2017 after doing an internship at China Telecom, which has been deemed by the Defense Department as having collaborated with the Chinese military for at least 20 years.
Fan was a research assistant at Fudan University, which recently took out “freedom of thought” from its charter after acceding to demands from the Chinese Communist Party. During Fan’s stint as an assistant, five Chinese military-tied hackers based at Fudan University were indicted for pilfering U.S. secrets.

The National Pulse adds:

The unearthed ties cast YouTube’s decision to ban all content disputing a victory for Joe Biden – the Chinese Communist Party’s preferred (https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/08/07/intelligence-report-china-prefers-that-trump-loses-election/) candidate – in an interesting light. It similarly calls into question reports of YouTube automatically deleting (https://nypost.com/2020/05/27/youtube-removing-phrases-critical-of-chinese-communist-party/) Chinese-language phrases critical of the Chinese Communist Party, which the platform attributed to “an error in our enforcement systems.”
The revelations also add to a growing list of American tech corporates hiring Chinese Communist Party-linked individuals including Facebook (https://www.mediaite.com/news/new-york-post-hits-facebook-for-hiring-censors-from-china-after-social-media-companies-block-report-on-hunter-biden/) and Twitter (https://thenationalpulse.com/news/twitter-hires-ccp-fei-fei-li/). (https://thenationalpulse.com/news/twitter-hires-ccp-fei-fei-li/)

As previously reported, ‘China Joe’ Biden and son Hunter have extensive business and financial ties to the ChiComs. What’s more, nearly his entire transition team (https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-10-21-biden-transition-team-compromised-by-chinese-elites.html) and several people he has chosen to be in his Cabinet, if he is, in fact, actually inaugurated, also have close ties to the Communist regime in Beijing.

So essentially, after four years of Donald Trump trying to break down the ties China developed with U.S. officials and corporations, Biden is getting ready to reinstate them and give Beijing’s authoritarians a seat at the table of American government.
Where is the ‘mainstream media’ now? Or are they still focused on the ‘Trump-Russia’ lie?

Stay current with the growing China threat at NationalSecurity.news (http://www.nationalsecurity.news).

Bill Ryan

16th December 2020, 16:41

Chris Martenson's video update yesterday was his second-shortest ever. He now encourages everyone to go to his site (peakprosperity.com (http://peakprosperity.com)) and register to view his uncensored content. It has to be behind a register wall to keep the googlebots from it.

(Richard Dolan does much the same thing these days, but his is a paywall. Chris Martenson's is free.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNM7BhysCq0

Gemma13

18th December 2020, 04:26

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/instagram-is-using-false-fact-checking?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxODk0ODg0MiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MjU5OTM3MTcsIl8iOiJDY3FXUyIsImlhdCI6MTYwODI1O TkxNywiZXhwIjoxNjA4MjYzNTE3LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTI4NjYyIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.l1cNImUA-eSsgaAbh9FMcHKnn16dHBo4Sr9LFwypSik

Instagram is Using False “Fact-Checking” to Protect Joe Biden’s Crime Record From Criticisms

The Facebook-owned platform’s denunciation of a well-established view of Biden shows the dangers of internet censorship and the fraudulent use of “fact-checking.”

Glenn Greenwald 18 Dec, 2020

A long-standing and vehement criticism of Joe Biden is that legislation he championed as a Senator in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly his crime bill of 1994, contributed to the mass incarceration of Americans generally and African-Americans specifically.

Among the many on the left and libertarian right who have voiced this criticism (along with President Trump) is then-Senator Kamala Harris, who said during the 2020 Democratic primary race that Biden’s “crime bill -- that 1994 crime bill -- it did contribute to mass incarceration in our country.” When Hillary Clinton was running for President in 2015, Bill Clinton, who as president signed Biden’s bill into law, told the NAACP: “I signed a bill that made the problem worse. And I want to admit it.”

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) told Biden during a 2019 presidential debate: “There are people right now in prison for life for drug offenses because you stood up and used that tough-on-crime phony rhetoric that got a lot of people elected but destroyed communities like mine.” Booker then said in an interview with The Huffington Post that that Biden’s “crime bill was shameful, what it did to black and brown communities like mine [and] low-income communities from Appalachia to rural Iowa,” also denouncing it for “overwhelmingly putting people in prison for nonviolent drug offenses that members of Congress and the Senate admit to breaking now.”

In 2016, author and scholar Michele Alexander argued that Hillary did not deserve the votes of black people due to her and her husband’s support for numerous bills, including Biden’s 1994 crime bill, that led to the mass incarceration of African-Americans. Harvard’s Cornel West said in 2019: “When says [the 1994 crime bill] didn't contribute to mass incarceration, I tell him he has to get off his symbolic crack pipe."

While that debate over the damage done by Biden’s crime bill has long raged in Democratic Party politics and the criminal justice reform movement, it is now barred from being aired on the Facebook-owned social media giant Instagram, or at least is formally denounced as disinformation. With Joe Biden about to enter the White House — one that will exercise significant influence in determining Silicon Valley’s interests, will be filled with tech executives, and was made possible in large part by Silicon Valley’s largesse poured into the Biden/Harris campaign — Instagram has arrogated unto itself the power to declare these well-established criticisms of Biden and his crime bill to be “False” and having “no basis in fact.”

As first noted on Monday by former Sanders campaign organizer Ben Mora, Instagram publicly denounced as “False” a post on Sunday by the left-wing artist and frequent Biden critic Brad Troemel, who has more than 107,000 followers on that platform. Troemel’s post said nothing more than what Biden’s chosen running mate, Kamala Harris, has herself said, as well as numerous mainstream media outlets and countless criminal justice reform advocates have long maintained.

Troemel posted a 1994 photo of a smiling, mullet-sporting Biden standing next to then-President Bill Clinton. The photo contained this caption: “Find someone that looks at you the way Biden looked at Clinton after Clinton signed Biden’s crime bill into law. Bringing mass incarceration to black Americans.” This was the same photo and caption which an anonymous Trump supporter under the name “realtina40” first posted back in June.

Shortly after Troemel posted this on Sunday, Instagram appended a note in red letters, with a warning sign that read: “Learn why fact-checkers have indicated that this is false.” That was followed by a note plastered over Troemel’s original post with the title: “False,” and which claimed “independent fact-checkers say this information has no basis in fact.” The same thing was done by Instagram to the original post from “realtina40” back in June.

This is not the first time Troemel has been censored by Instagram for posting criticisms of Biden. In response to questions, he told me he first earned the “false” label when posting a meme in April which he had created that mocked Biden’s campaign messaging. Instagram’s retaliation happened after the Biden campaign loudly complained about Troemel’s satirical ad. Biden campaign operatives falsely blamed the Trump campaign for having created it, and then induced Twitter to censor it.

As Troemel told me: “Here you can see Dems using the Russia-tinged cover of disinformation as a way to discredit any and all criticism of Biden found on social media.” When Troemel re-posted that meme last month with the clear notation that it was satirical, Instagram began “shadow banning” him: severely limiting the reach of his posts. It was those events — all involving Troemel’s criticisms of Biden from the left — that caused Instagram to heavily scrutinize his postings, culminating in its blurring of his latest post with a “False” label that contained these well-documented criticisms of Biden’s crime bill.

The only thing that is demonstrably “false” here is Instagram’s Biden-shielding assertion that there is a “fact-checking” consensus that this criticism of Biden’s 1994 crime bill is false. It is true that one media outlet, USA Today, fact-checked the identical claim posted back in June by the anonymous Instagram user and concluded that “our research finds that while the crime bill did increase the prison population in states, it did not bring about a mass incarceration relative to earlier years.” But that article so concluded even while admitting that Biden’s “crime bill did increase the prison population in states” and “any increase in the overall prison population would automatically translate into a larger number of Black inmates.” The article’s own premises thus bolster, not refute, the claim at issue.

But numerous other media outlets and fact-checking organizations — far more than just one — concluded the opposite: namely, that there is at least a reasonable and substantial basis for these claims about Biden’s bill:

PolitiFact rated as only “Half True” Biden’s claim that the 1994 crime bill “did not generate mass incarceration,” noting the bill provided funds to states on the condition that they force prisoners to serve longer sentences and that it bolstered the tough-on-crime climate that led to higher incarceration rates in the states (that was the same point Bill Clinton made to the NAACP: “the federal law set a trend…. [W]e had a lot people who were locked up, who were minor actors, for way too long”);

The Washington Post’s designated fact-checker Glenn Kessler assigned two Pinocchios to Biden’s insistence that his crime bill “did not generate mass incarceration,” noting that “the bill encouraged states to build more prisons — with more money coming to them if they increased penalties.” Kessler cited a Brennan Center report that “the 1994 Crime Bill is justly criticized for encouraging states to build and fill new prisons.”

The Post added: “There are many factors that contributed to the United States having such a high incarceration rate, but few dispute the crime bill was a contributor. Bill Clinton has acknowledged this.” The paper’s “two Pinocchio” rating means Biden’s denial contains “significant omissions and/or exaggerations….Similar to ‘half true’”);

CNN purported to fact-check the same claims from Biden and found that Biden’s denial “misses the broader impact that federal policy can have on the way that states incarcerate, including the influence of federal money,” concluding that the view that the 1994 crime bill was a significant factor in mass incarceration was, at the very least, debatable.

The fact-check from NBC News flatly stated that “though the bill was not the root cause of ‘mass incarceration,’ it was ‘the most high-profile legislation to increase the number of people behind bars,’ according to a Brennan Center analysis in 2016.”

Fact-checking Sen. Booker’s accusations against Biden, The Atlantic said: “it is true that the bill—which extended the death penalty to 60 new crimes, stiffened sentences, offered states strong financial incentives for building new prisons, and banned a range of assault weapons—helped lead to the wave of mass incarceration that’s resulted in the United States accounting for 25 percent of the world’s prison population.” It added that “a 2016 analysis by the Brennan Center concluded that the 1994 bill contributed both to the subsequent decline in crime and to the doubling of the rate of imprisonment from 1994 to 2009.”

The New York Times’ fact-check of Biden’s denial rated it “Exaggerated,” quoting a criminologist to say that Biden’s bill “encouraged [states] to mass incarcerate further.”

Regarding Biden’s denial that his 1994 crime bill “led to more prison sentences, more prison cells, and more aggressive policing — especially hurting Black and brown Americans,” Vox pronounced: “The truth, it turns out, is somewhere in the middle,” noting that “the law imposed tougher prison sentences at the federal level and encouraged states to do the same” and also ensured “an escalation of the War on Drugs.”

One could spend literally all day listing media outlets, criminal justice experts, and politicians from both parties who have insisted that Biden’s 1994 crime bill was a significant factor in mass incarceration generally and of African-Americans specifically, or that the assertion is at least reasonably debatable and grounded in empirical facts — exactly what Instagram has decided is out of bounds to state. It is axiomatically true, or at the very least logically reasonable, that if Biden’s crime bill led to more mass incarceration — and few doubt that it did — then the bill, in the words of the denounced Instagram post, “brought mass incarceration to black Americans.”

On Monday, The New York Post sought comment from Facebook about Instagram’s “False” label. The tech giant, in the words of that paper, said “that Instagram won’t end its censorship unless USA Today changes its assessment.” Yet the Post — long an advocate for tough-on-crime legislation — itself echoed virtually every other media outlet by noting that “whether Biden’s law contributed to mass incarceration is a matter of debate.”

Indeed, from what I can tell, USA Today is the only prominent media outlet of all the ones which fact-checked this issue to conclude that the claim about Biden’s bill is “false.” The overwhelming consensus of fact-checkers and experts is that the 1994 crime bill at the very least contributed to mass incarceration generally and of African-Americans specifically, and that the magnitude of that role is debatable.

[B]But Instagram has closed this debate, at least on its platform. They have announced that the claims about Biden’s 1994 crime bill as expressed by not only Brad Troemel — but also Kamala Harris, Bill Clinton, Cory Booker, Cornel West, the Brennan Center and countless others — has been proven false.

Gwin Ru

20th December 2020, 13:12

Free Speech Streaming Site Bitchute Deplatforms Law-Abiding Nationalist Groups On Behalf of Leftist NGOs (https://national-justice.com/free-speech-streaming-site-bitchute-deplatforms-law-abiding-nationalist-groups-behalf-antifa)

Eric Striker (https://national-justice.com/authors/eric-striker)
Dec 18, 2020

https://national-justice.com/sites/default/files/styles/w726xauto/public/2020/12/18/bitchute.jpg?itok=H_Vs0xgu

Alt-tech powerhouse Bitchute has grown exponentially, going from a humble volunteer project to a rising Youtube competitor. Yet after tasting a degree of success, it is now finding itself mired in controversy over betrayal of its founding beliefs.

While the platform itself is technically clunky, the key to its business model is their promise to protect political dissidents and not censor their speech.

But last week, members of the Sweden-based activist organization, the Nordic Resistance Movement, were shocked to find (https://nordicresistancemovement.org/bitchute-bans-the-nordic-resistance-movement/) that Bitchute not only deleted all of the videos on their official channel, but actually put them on a "Proscribed List of Terrorists" (https://support.bitchute.com/policy/proscribed-terrorist-violent-extremist) alongside ISIS and Al-Qaeda. By placing NRM on the list, Bitchute can get around its promise to defend free expression by claiming they are an officially designated violent terror group.

NRM is not engaging in armed struggle and it does not have a militia, nor does it engage in terrorism. It is an above-ground advocacy organization that runs candidates in Swedish elections. The group does not hide its activities, and its actions are published to their website (https://nordicresistancemovement.org/) for everyone to see.

The main goal of NRM is to create a united confederation of Scandinavian nations through political, not violent means. The group takes painstaking efforts to obey the law and prohibits members from engaging in violence except in cases of self-defense, as "Antifa" groups often target them.

Bitchute's designation of NRM as a "terrorist" group seems to stem entirely from a controversial ruling by Finnish courts to ban the group's local branch. The Finnish government was pressured by Israel to ban the Finnish activist group in September 2020 after Israeli diplomats claimed (https://newsnowfinland.fi/finland-international/anti-semitic-vandalism-prompts-diplomatic-protests-and-jewish-community-concern) their embassy was vandalized following an anti-war protest, even though the culprits were never actually identified.

Also on Bitchute's terrorist list is Golden Dawn, the Greek nationalist group that until recently held 18 parliamentary seats and was the country's third largest party. This year, Golden Dawn's parliamentary bloc was declared a "criminal organization" and imprisoned.

Neither NRM or Golden Dawn are classified as terrorist or criminal organizations in the UK. British companies are not tethered to the rules and whims of individual European Union states. Bitchute's choice to take away the voice of dissidents while they face unfair political persecution is selective and self-defeating, making the whole concept of free speech pointless. Last July, the Chinese government declared leaders (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests/hong-kong-man-accused-of-terrorism-in-first-use-of-new-china-security-law-idUSKBN2440A6) of the Hong Kong protests to be terrorists, yet they are not banned from using Bitchute.

A spokesman for the Nordic Resistance Movement told National Justice that he believes Bitchute's owner, Ray Vahey, is buckling under Jewish pressure. Last June a UK-based Zionist organization, the Community Safety Trust, listed Bitchute (https://archive.is/IH34b) as a "purveyor of anti-Semitism" because it allows members to criticize Jews and discuss the Holocaust. The next month, Bitchute released a press release vowing to give (https://support.bitchute.com/announcements/response-to-hope-not-hate-report-on-bitchute) Hope Not Hate -- the British equivalent of the Southern Poverty Law Center -- say over who can and cannot use their platform.

Bitchute has been able to grow largely thanks to support from political dissidents who groups like Hope Not Hate would love to see banned. Censorship is always a slippery slope, by shutting down legitimate political parties and parliamentary groups facing political oppression, Bitchute ends up being nothing more than a buggy and small version of Youtube.

onawah

22nd December 2020, 05:57

Really Comcast? Data caps during COVID-19?
https://action.consumerreports.org/20201221_finance
12/21/20

"Comcast: Drop the internet data cap and fees!It’s hard enough for so many of us to be home together sharing the same internet connection for school, work, and streaming. But Comcast plans to make it even harder for American households during the pandemic!

The nation’s largest internet service provider is slapping a data cap on all its customers’ internet usage, and charging overage fees that could top out at $100 a month!

Help us stop Comcast’s money grab! Sign our petition demanding Comcast stop this data cap before it goes into effect next year!

Sign the petition

Beginning in January, Comcast has said it will place a 1.2 TB internet data cap on its most of its residential customers. And starting in March, it will start charging customers who go over that cap fees that could add up to $100 a month.

During this national health crisis when affordable and reliable home internet is more important than ever, Comcast’s decision to cap data and charge big overage fees is just plain wrong.

Join us in telling Comcast to be part of the solution — not part of the problem — in helping American families learn and work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sign the petition https://action.consumerreports.org/20201221_finance

This is a critical moment where we can get Comcast’s attention before they implement the data cap and fees. Please share this with friends and family so they can help us put on the pressure.

Thank you,

Tim Marvin
Consumer Reports"

RunningDeer

7th January 2021, 21:21

Trump banned from Facebook and Instagram indefinitely, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says. The move follows temporary bans of Trump’s accounts by both Twitter and Facebook.

https://i.imgur.com/Eqr3PbL.jpg

Tintin

7th January 2021, 22:09

Well, what grates completely here is the wanton ignorance of context.

Donald Trump's statement yesterday was addressed as a 'thankyou' to all those who attended the rally in support, and not related in any way to the incident that took place at the Capitol building. As is typical of the mainstream media and behemoths such as Facebook is the deliberate conflating of his statement to that incident. Donald Trump made no mention of the incident in that statement and no inference should have been made to the contrary.

One only need listen to it, properly in context to know just how mendacious this statement from Facebook is. Zuckerberg, clearly one of Satan's many concubines but we knew this already.

But we are of course dealing with the enemies of humanity here so one shouldn't be too surprised, sadly.

Tintin

8th January 2021, 23:39

This tweet says it all......

1347687282111885313

RunningDeer

8th January 2021, 23:51

This tweet says it all......
Also others...

From a Fellow Avalonian: RIG FOR RED - It's Happening

Twitter is purging any & all Pro-Trump/Q "influencers"**; as of today, they have suspended General Flynn, Sidney Powell, Vincent Kennedy, Praying Medic, CodeMonkeyZ (Ron), Techno Fog, Entheos Shines also & a host of others (incl local influencers I've been following "where I live".)

Most important - **Trump's Account suspended!**
**RIG FOR RED - IT's ON!!!!**

https://i.imgur.com/uIicH6A.jpg

PurpleLama

8th January 2021, 23:53

Only a matter of time, now, before my ISP decides PA is too "dangerous" for me to read.

Tintin

9th January 2021, 00:08

Only a matter of time, now, before my ISP decides PA is too "dangerous" for me to read.

A Prof Dolores Cahill video link via Vanessa Beeley's The Wall Will Fall website was "blocked" by (I think) Google yesterday - browser issue I think - claiming that this "material wasn't legal in your country" (paraphrasing). Today, it's fine.

It was this link: https://thewallwillfall.org/2021/01/07/why-people-will-start-dying-a-few-months-after-the-first-mrna-vccines/

RunningDeer

9th January 2021, 00:51

Twitter, Facebook and now Steve Bannon’s War Room got nixed off YouTube. They’re @podbay (https://podbay.fm/p/bannons-war-room) (audio), @parler (https://pandemic.warroom.org) and @pandemic.warroom.org (https://pandemic.warroom.org/2021/01/08/ep-642-pandemic-the-rise-of-the-oligarchs-w-fogcitymidge-jack-maxey-raheem-kassam-jack-posopiec-brandon-straka/) is a list of other places.

YouTube took down the live chat during this War Room episode.

@ 20:40 (https://youtu.be/29RAcMYsLSg?t=1240) - Part One: Professor John Eastman, the president’s constitutional lawyer breaks down what happened yesterday and with Vice President Pence. (10 minutes)

@ 35:10 (https://youtu.be/29RAcMYsLSg?t=2110) - Footage where Kelly Loeffler reneged on her promise to fully object to the certification of the votes to the people of Georgia and to Trump at the rally less than a day before where he encouraged Georgians to get out and vote for her. Her reason? Because of the violence, lawlessness and siege of the Halls of Congress… Steven Bannon points out that a couple of hundred million dollars was raised to get her back into the Senate. Up to that point Loeffler was vague on where she stood on the certification. It wasn’t until she realized that her chances of winning were waning that she came up on stage and made that promise.

@ 36:30 (https://youtu.be/29RAcMYsLSg?t=2190) - Part Two: Professor John Eastman continues. (10 minutes)

War Room: Pandemic Ep 637
29RAcMYsLSg

Gwin Ru

9th January 2021, 01:06

TRUMP IS NOW ON PARLER. (http://82.221.129.208/.uw0.html)

Donald J. Trump 揃 @DonaldJTrumpOfficialPresident
6 hours ago 揃

The Corrupt Democratic Media is trying to bring me down, but I will come back stronger than ever! Just joined Parler and I love it! Echo this post so everyone can follow me!

@DonaldJTrumpOfficialPresident

PurpleLama

9th January 2021, 01:21

Folks, Parler is not viewable by the public.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/157/itsatrap.jpg

PurpleLama

9th January 2021, 01:30

RunningDeer

9th January 2021, 01:54

Folks, Parler is not viewable by the public.

I got @DonaldJTrumpOfficialPresident from Gwin Ru's link (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?80790-Internet-Censorship-So-it-began...&p=1402319&viewfull=1#post1402319) but it said I had to be verified. So I spent the last bit of time trying to sign up on Parler because I had to be verified to join Trump. What a hassle. They expect you to give them a cell number, so I gave them my old one. The password was 12 letters and symbols and they said it wasn't 'safe enough', so I allow my computer to generate one. Again it wasn't 'safe enough'. So I went back to the 12 letter one and added another 4 strokes. Finally I made it but got kick off right away. I tried to log back on and they've instructed me to create a new account.

In my search for President Trumps parlor address I found: ThePotus45. I learned that it was a fake one. I don’t know if it’s true because this link (https://www.mediaite.com/news/official-trump-account-appears-on-parler-after-twitter-and-facebook-suspension-see-the-posts-now-marked-private/) supposedly has posts by President Trump.

BoR

9th January 2021, 02:14

RunningDeer

9th January 2021, 02:14

Donald Trump is also on GAB, and GAB will be the way to go forward. Mark my words, Parler is up to no good, all it will do is shuffle everyone off into an echo chamber. I follow a lot of news on Twitter, and I am not a member. Parler? Yeah, good luck with that. I cancelled my membership months ago, when I saw what was going on with it.

I bookmarked President Trump on Gab a while ago: realdonaldtrump (https://gab.com/realdonaldtrump). Also, x22report (https://gab.com/x22report) and iPot1776 (https://gab.com/IPOT1776), but the Gab site won’t come up.

RunningDeer

9th January 2021, 02:22

BoR

9th January 2021, 02:29

I tried to sign up as well. I have an account now, after a long struggle, but when I click on my profile to change my profile name, it says my profile name (which they automatically assigned to me) doesn’t exist....

I now know why Donald Trump has been quiet between his first and last video message. He was busy trying to get an account on Parler!

That's what kept coming up for me, too. "It doesn't exist." and to create an account. I've bookmarked a couple of people on Parler. The company must be off-line because this is what's coming up:

https://i.imgur.com/8UiTT5w.jpg

Yes, this came up twice for me as well. I guess they are under attack, which was to be expected.

It seems the deep state is desparate now. This censorship is going to make a lot of people, who are not necessarily Trump advocates, but are just liberals in the true sense of the word, feel very uncomfortable, to put it mildly. These are Stalinistic measures. When you try to block the president from speaking to the people, you are undeniably in the act of a coup d’état.

RunningDeer

9th January 2021, 02:34

Yes, this came up twice for me as well. I guess they are under attack, which was to be expected.

It seems the deep state is desparate now. This censorship is going to make a lot of people, who are not necessarily Trump advocates, but are just liberals in the true sense of the word, feel very uncomfortable, to put it mildly. These are Stalinistic measures. When you try to block the president from speaking to the people, you are undeniably in the act of a coup d’état.

UPDATE: Parler is back up for less than a minute. I was able to grab a couple of links before I was redirected. Nope...wait... it's back up again.

IPOT1776 (https://parler.com/profile/IPOT1776/posts)
warroompandemic (https://parler.com/profile/warroompandemic/posts)
@MonkeyWerxUS (https://parler.com/profile/MonkeyWerxUS/posts)
@GenFlynn (https://parler.com/profile/GenFlynn/posts)

UPDATE THE UPDATE it's off again but at least people will have the links above when it comes back up.

PurpleLama

9th January 2021, 02:37

The shennanigans with Parler is making the controlled opposition seem legitimate, in my opinion. Aside from what I already said, I will only add that I have a bad feeling about it.

pyrangello

9th January 2021, 02:53

Let's kind of look at this for a moment in a snapshot of where we are now, feel free to join in and add please
1 trump supposedly is in Texas
2 Pelosi immediately want a removal of the President using the 25th amendment , why is she so paranoid ? He only has 12 days
3 why is trump in Texas?
4 why is trump suspended from Twitter, Facebook, and all othe r social media, he only has 12 days
5 he still has not conceded but instead said to stay calm
6 trump has exhausted all legal means , the elections have been certified right or wrong
Now what, why is everyone trying to shut trump down, what are they so afraid of? He only has 12 days ? Or does he?

iota

9th January 2021, 03:00

https://thefederalistpapers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ministryoftruth.jpg

Once they succeeded in ending democracy and turning Germany into a one-party dictatorship, the Nazis orchestrated a massive propaganda campaign to win the loyalty and cooperation of Germans. The Nazi Propaganda Ministry, directed by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, took control of all forms of communication in Germany: newspapers, magazines, books, public meetings, and rallies, art, music, movies, and radio. Viewpoints in any way threatening to Nazi beliefs or to the regime were censored or eliminated from all media.

During the spring of 1933, Nazi student organizations, professors, and librarians made up long lists of books they thought should not be read by Germans. Then, on the night of May 10, 1933, Nazis raided libraries and bookstores across Germany. They marched by torchlight in nighttime parades, sang chants, and threw books into huge bonfires. On that night more than 25,000 books were burned. Some were works of Jewish writers, including Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud. Most of the books were by non-Jewish writers, including such famous Americans as Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, and Upton Sinclair, whose ideas the Nazis viewed as different from their own and therefore not to be read.

The Nazi censors also burned the books of Helen Keller, who had overcome her deafness and blindness to become a respected writer; told of the book burnings, she responded: "Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas." Hundreds of thousands of people in the United States protested the book burnings, a clear violation of freedom of speech, in public rallies in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and St. Louis.

Schools also played an important role in spreading Nazi ideas. While some books were removed from classrooms by censors, other textbooks, newly written, were brought in to teach students blind obedience to the party, love for Hitler, and antisemitism. After-school meetings of the Hitler Youth and the League of German Girls trained children to be faithful to the Nazi Party. In school and out, young people celebrated such occasions as Adolf Hitler's birthday and the anniversary of his taking power.

Key Dates
December 5, 1930
Joseph Goebbels disrupts premiere of film
In Berlin, Joseph Goebbels, one of Adolf Hitler’s top deputies, and Storm Troopers (SA) disrupt the premiere of "All Quiet on the Western Front," a film based on the novel of the same title by Erich Maria Remarque. Nazi protestors throw smoke bombs and sneezing powder to halt the film. Members of the audience who protest the disruption are beaten. The novel had always been unpopular with the Nazis, who believed that its depiction of the cruelty and absurdity of war was "un-German." Ultimately, the film will be banned. Remarque will emigrate to Switzerland in 1931, and the Nazis, after coming to power, will revoke his German citizenship in 1938.

March 13, 1933
Joseph Goebbels heads Reich Propaganda Ministry
Joseph Goebbels, one of Adolf Hitler's most trusted associates, is appointed to head the Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda. This agency controls the writing and broadcast of all media (newspapers, radio programs, and movies) as well as public entertainment and cultural programs (theater, art, and music). Goebbels integrates Nazi racism and ideas into the media.

May 10, 1933
Joseph Goebbels speaks at book burning in Berlin
Forty thousand people gather to hear German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels speak in Berlin's Opera Square. Goebbels condemns works written by Jews, liberals, leftists, pacifists, foreigners, and others as "un-German." Nazi students begin burning books. Libraries across Germany are purged of "censored" books. Goebbels proclaims the "cleansing of the German spirit."

source:
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-propaganda-and-censorship

RunningDeer

9th January 2021, 03:03

Reddit Bans Subreddit Group “r/DonaldTrump”

January 8, 2021
article (https://www.axios.com/reddit-bans-rdonaldtrump-subreddit-ff1da2de-37ab-49cf-afbd-2012f806959e.html)

Reddit has banned the subreddit group "r/DonaldTrump," a spokesperson confirmed to Axios.

Why it matters: While not an official group or page hosted by the president, it's one of the company's largest political communities dedicated to support for President Trump.

What they're saying: "Reddit's site-wide policies prohibit content that promotes hate, or encourages, glorifies, incites, or calls for violence against groups of people or individuals. In accordance with this, we have been proactively reaching out to moderators to remind them of our policies and to offer support or resources as needed," a spokesperson tells Axios.

"We have also taken action to ban the community r/donaldtrump given repeated policy violations in recent days regarding the violence at the U.S. Capitol.”

The big picture: It's the latest in a string of platforms to take action against Trump's accounts following the historic pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

Twitch and Snapchat disabled Trump's accounts.
Shopify took down two online stores affiliated with the president.
Facebook and Instagram banned Trump from posting for at least the next two weeks, and faced calls to boot him permanently, including from former First Lady Michelle Obama and high-ranking Hill Democrats.
Twitter froze Trump out of his account Wednesday before reinstating him Thursday once he deleted problematic tweets.
YouTube says it's accelerating its enforcement of voter fraud claims against President Trump and others based on Wednesday's events.
TikTok is removing content violations and redirecting hashtags like #stormthecapitol and #patriotparty to its community guidelines.

Flashback: Reddit over the summer banned the controversial subreddit channel r/The_Donald, one of the company's largest political communities and a longstanding hub of support for President Trump, along with 2,000 other subreddit groups and users that violated new content policies aimed at hate speech.

Go deeper & links to article (https://www.axios.com/reddit-bans-rdonaldtrump-subreddit-ff1da2de-37ab-49cf-afbd-2012f806959e.html)

PurpleLama

9th January 2021, 03:03

Sadieblue

9th January 2021, 03:40

Bannon's War Room..his videos have all been taken down, just went there to check.
on Parler.

RunningDeer

9th January 2021, 04:11

Bannon's War Room..his videos have all been taken down, just went there to check.
on Parler.

That's because he/they uploads them on to the YouTube platform and YouTube kicked them off a couple of hours ago. An alternative site is podbay.fm (https://podbay.fm). It's audio only. Here's the link to Bannon-war-room (https://podbay.fm/p/bannons-war-room).

Gemma13

9th January 2021, 04:32

Cross posting.

The Epoch Times has this article (https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-responds-to-twitter-account-suspension_3649738.html?utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-01-08-5) about Trump's latest response regarding his permanent ban from the Twitter:

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President Donald Trump speaking on video posted on his Twitter released on Jan. 7, 2020. (Screenshot/@realDonaldTrump)

Trump Responds to Twitter’s Permanent Account Suspension

BY MIMI NGUYEN LY January 8, 2021 Updated: January 8, 2021

President Donald Trump (https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-president-donald-trump) responded to Twitter (https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-twitter)’s move to permanently suspend his account from its platform late Friday, condemning the big tech giant and saying that it does not stand for free speech.

“As I have been saying for a long time, Twitter has gone further and further in banning free speech, and tonight, Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my account from their platform, to silence me—and YOU, the 75,000,000 great patriots who voted for me,” Trump said in a statement

“Twitter may be a private company, but without the government’s gift of Section 230 they would not exist for long,” he added.

“Twitter may be a private company, but without the government’s gift of Section 230 they would not exist for long,” he added.

The president said he anticipates a “big announcement” soon and that this team is negotiating with various other sites” and is also looking at building a separate platform.

“I predicted this would happen. We have been negotiating with various other sites, and will have a big announcement soon, while we also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future. We will not be SILENCED!” he said.

“Twitter is not about FREE SPEECH. They are all about promoting a Radical Left platform where some of the most vicious people in the world are allowed to speak freely,” Trump continued. “STAY TUNED!”

The statement came out from the account @POTUS but the Twitter posts were gone within a few minutes.

Twitter late on Friday permanently suspended (https://www.theepochtimes.com/twitter-removes-trump-from-its-platform_3649669.html) Trump’s Twitter account @realDonaldTrump, citing violation of its “Glorification of Violence” policy. It cited two of the president’s most recent posts as justification for its action.

Subsequently, the president posted, “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.” This was the last Twitter post before Trump’s account was removed from the platform.

Twitter said that the two posts had violated its “Glorification of Violence policy,” which aims to “prevent the glorification of violence that could inspire others to replicate violent acts.”

Its assessment determined that Trump’s last two Twitter posts “highly likely to encourage and inspire people to replicate the criminal acts that took place at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.” Twitter said its determination is “based on a number of factors,” including five points it listed in its statement (https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html).

The White House and the president have both separately condemned the violence that broke out on Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, when lawmakers gathered for a joint session of Congress to count and certify electoral votes from the Nov. 3, 2020 election. The events of the day left at least five dead, three of whom died due to medical reasons, according to DC police.

The Epoch Times cannot independently verify the claims made by Twitter in its determination. The Epoch Times has reached out to Twitter asking whether it had any evidence that Trump’s statements were directly linked to any violence. Twitter did not immediately respond.

Earlier in the day, Twitter suspended the accounts (https://www.theepochtimes.com/twitter-suspends-accounts-of-sidney-powell-michael-flynn_3649578.html) of former national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and lawyer Sidney Powell, citing “Coordinated Harmful Activity.” Powell told The Epoch Times that there “was no warning at all” about her account being deleted.

The account deletions suggest that big tech firms, including Twitter, are moving suspend or penalize the accounts of people on their platforms who post claims of voter fraud and irregularities about the Nov. 3, 2020 election.

There have also been multiple claims by various Twitter accounts of having lost followers, sometimes in the thousands, within the past 24 hours.

Brandon Straka, the head of the conservative WalkAway movement, told The Epoch Times (https://www.theepochtimes.com/facebook-bans-conservative-walkaway-campaign-group_3649327.html) Friday that Facebook removed the group’s page and banned individual accounts belonging to the team.

Follow Mimi on Twitter: @MimiNguyenLy (https://twitter.com/MimiNguyenLy)

Waldo

9th January 2021, 04:39

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safara

9th January 2021, 13:37

Gwin Ru

9th January 2021, 14:06

When you try to block the president from speaking to the people[...]
Why did he not have his own messaging, blog, sms site etc - that he had full control over, and just share his comments from there to Social Media.Well, in order to do so, he would have had to rely on Silicon Valley big tech, CIA, NSA, etc... which all his maneuvers (if, indeed, maneuvers they were) have shown to be treasonous or, to the least, very unreliable; all the way up to his - so-called - "aides."

RunningDeer

9th January 2021, 14:33

When you try to block the president from speaking to the people

Does he not have any official channels to speak to the people?

What I have never understood is why Donald Trump used twitter as his official mouthpiece? Use someones elses private system for your offical messages as POTUS!

Seems lazy to have done so, and always with the risk of the whims of a someones elses rules.

Why did he not have his own messaging, blog, sms site etc - that he had full control over, and just share his comments from there to Social Media.

Many use Twitter, so President Trump set up an account it as do many professionals. IIRC there was talk about six months ago that President Trump may set up his own TV or radio station. This was supposedly after he leaves office.

There’s a website donaldjtrump.com (https://www.donaldjtrump.com). Though, it doesn’t come up for me as I post this. Pages like events (https://www.donaldjtrump.com/events/) & media (https://www.donaldjtrump.com/media) work, the YouTube (www.youtube.com/channel/UCAql2DyGU2un1Ei2nMYsqOA) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/) accounts are functional. For how long? http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/noidea.gif

The Library of Congress has a list of President Trump’s sites (https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0016078/). As of January 8th many of them are no longer available. Which goes to your point. As President of the United State, he should be able to speak to us directly and at a moments notice. Big tech, news papers, magazines have hardly been fair, impartial sources.

"…the President is authorized, if he finds it necessary for the national defense and security, to direct that such communications as in his judgment may be essential to the national defense and security shall have preference or priority with any carrier subject to this chapter….”

As a last line of defense, there’s 47 U.S. Code § 606 - War powers of President (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/606).

snippet:

(a) Priority communications
During the continuance of a war in which the United States is engaged, the President is authorized, if he finds it necessary for the national defense and security, to direct that such communications as in his judgment may be essential to the national defense and security shall have preference or priority with any carrier subject to this chapter. He may give these directions at and for such times as he may determine, and may modify, change, suspend, or annul them and for any such purpose he is authorized to issue orders directly, or through such person or persons as he designates for the purpose, or through the Commission. Any carrier complying with any such order or direction for preference or priority herein authorized shall be exempt from any and all provisions in existing law imposing civil or criminal penalties, obligations, or liabilities upon carriers by reason of giving preference or priority in compliance with such order or direction.

safara

9th January 2021, 14:33

RunningDeer

9th January 2021, 14:42

He was not short of a penny by all accounts - would not have cost much to have his own website hosted outside of the USA, even have his own Service Provider.
Hehe, he could have called it TRUMPnET :D

You're still dependent upon the company where you host your website. There's a lot of fine print in the conditions agreement.

Love the TRUMPnET idea. http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/laugh-point.gif

Gwin Ru

9th January 2021, 15:17

...

... :facepalm:

Mozilla says ‘deplatforming’ Trump isn't enough, wants to shield internet from ‘bad actors’ as users uninstall Firefox in disgust (https://www.rt.com/usa/511996-mozilla-firefox-deplatform-trump-internet/)

RT
9 Jan, 2021 08:27
Get short URL (https://on.rt.com/az24)

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Mozilla, developer of the Firefox internet browser, has argued that more must be done to keep Donald Trump and other “bad actors” out of cyberspace, prompting many to vow to never use the group’s services again.

In a blog post titled (https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/) ‘We need more than deplatforming’, the open-source software community said that Twitter’s decision to permanently ban Trump from its platform didn’t go far enough in weeding out “hate” on the internet. While blaming Trump for the “siege and take-over” of the US Capitol on January 6, the non-profit tech group argued that “white supremacy is about more than any one personality.”
“We need solutions that don’t start after untold damage has been done.Changing these dangerous dynamics requires more than just the temporary silencing or permanent removal of bad actors from social media platforms,” Mozilla wrote.
The group proposed a number of measures to help protect the internet from verboten views. Internet ads should list who paid for them, how much they are paying, and who is being targeted, Mozilla said. There should also be “meaningful transparency” of platform algorithms so that people can examine what kind of content is being promoted.

The group also demanded that “tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation” are added to the default settings of internet platforms, and said that independent research must be carried out to determine how social media is affecting society and what can be done to “improve things.”

The blog post concluded by stating that the answer to Trump and other allegedly bad voices was not to “do away with the internet,” but rather to “build a better one” that can “withstand” such “challenges.”

Mozilla tweeted the statement, claiming that the unrest at the Capitol was the “culmination of a four-year disinformation campaign orchestrated by the President.”

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The statement was not particularly well received on social media, however. Many Twitter users said they would no longer use Firefox, as a protest against Mozilla’s unvarnished political posturing.

Others argued that the statement was a clear example of how “Big Tech” is able to control “the narrative.”
“You quieted voices you didn’t like until violence occurred. Now you’re using the violence as justification to completely purge those voices,” noted (https://twitter.com/phuqker/status/1347779602954006530) one reply.
Similarly unimpressed observers urged Mozilla to focus on fixing its browser, rather than diving into politics.

But many others rallied around the organization’s call.

A supporter told Mozilla that it has a “big voice on this subject” and expressed hope that the group was doing all it could during this “big moment.”

Trump was booted off Twitter on Friday, prompting both applause and jeers. The US president denounced the “Radical Left” for silencing him and has vowed to move to a new platform, even suggesting that he could make his own.

Related:

With unilateral censorship of a sitting US president, Big Tech has proven it’s more powerful than any government (https://www.rt.com/op-ed/511958-social-media-politicians-censorship-riots/)

safara

9th January 2021, 15:26

Oooh, I see he has an official POTUS account - why not use this as POTUS?

https://twitter.com/potus

So, he has not been "blocked from speaking to the people" by Twitter in his role as POTUS???

PurpleLama

9th January 2021, 15:33

RunningDeer

9th January 2021, 15:42

Oooh, I see he has an official POTUS account - why not use this as POTUS?

https://twitter.com/potus

So, he has not been "blocked from speaking to the people" by Twitter in his role as POTUS???

https://i.imgur.com/XJJo3Aq.jpg

It’s not an account that he use to post on. Perhaps it’s someone that’s part of his PR team. He used @realDonaldTrump to separate the real from the faux accounts.

Once you’re kick off Twitter, you can’t open another account. I could be wrong in which case, they’d find some lame excuse to shut it down.

http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/tweet11.gif It says the tweets are archived at whitehouse.gov (http://wh.gov/privacy). It’s another avenue blocked if President Trump can't tweet. Too, there's not many days left that he'll be able to use the government site if all goes the way of those that want to send him packing.

Gwin Ru

9th January 2021, 16:25

...

From Jim Stone:
Big tech has made it's move. LET ME REPEAT: (http://82.221.129.208/.uw0.html)

This report is MY EXPERIENCE, either you follow it or your site is dead.

1. Firefox has, for a long time, been a rigged browser. No details, other than team mozilla has a few problems and has had them since about 2015.

2. Google Chrome is as bad or worse than team mozilla, but Google is a lot more discreet about it and focuses more on making sure independent media does not get money than they do on censorship but they have both features built right into the browser. Just because your browser is telling you a site is not there does not mean it does not exist, if you insist, Chrome still lets you in on about the third try. But if someone never hit a site before, the three tries ruse works.

3. DO NOT USE CLOUDFLARE. When you do, you are counting on evil people to protect you, and they can shut ANYONE out at will, including your readers. They have your IP, so obviously they'll make it look to you like all is well, all the while there is serious atrition.

4. DO NOT use Google analytics. They used to be far worse about this, back around 2014 they were AWFUL about hanging sites with the analytic script but they backed off. That weapon is still there however.

5. DO NOT use Bitly. I have busted Bitly many times with censorship. Trust me, you do not need your links shortened. That's a false need. Who cares how long a link is? it is in the background code anyway. Here is how Bitly works: You give them a long link. They give you a short link, TO THEM. You put that short link on your site. People click that. It goes to Bitly, gets matched with the long link and then you go to wherever the long link would have sent you. PROBLEM: If Bitly does not like what you linked to, it will work when YOU hit the link but it won't work for your readers. Why TH would anyone compromise the information path by so needlessly putting someone else in the chain? I am sure that's the only reason why Bitly really exists, the entire context of that place is in my opinion STUPID anyway.

6. Wordpress has already shown it's hand clearly and irrefutably. For years I was warning people to NOT use Wordpress for ANYTHING. Oh, but I am only using their sitebuilder, so I don't have to worry, RIGHT? well, NO. Even if you don't use the Wordpress server for your hosting, YOU ARE TOAST. They were all about censorship all along, and they whacked EVERYONE they hated, (or are finalizing that process now).

If you have your own hosting, why would you ever even consider using the Wordpress sitebuilder? ALL HOSTING COMPANIES HAVE SITE BUILDING SOFTWARE RIGHT THERE ALONGSIDE WORDPRESS IN CPANEL. You don't need to use wordpress just because it works like Facebook. You do not need it THAT EASY when they have already proven that if you step out of line, they are going to blow you away.

7. BIGGEST ONE OF ALL: IF THERE IS NO REASON FOR YOUR SITE TO BE SECURE, DO NOT, FOR ANY REASON, USE HTTPS. IF YOU ARE NOT TAKING CREDIT CARD NUMBERS AND BANK INFO, DO NOT USE HTTPS. HTTPS IS THE BIGGEST CON JOB OUT THERE FOR NEWS SITES, THAT WANT EVERYTHING ON THEM KNOWN BY EVERYONE. THEY CAN SHUT YOU DOWN WITH HTTPS IN A NANOSECOND.

Hey everybody, I have Cloudflare, HTTPS, Wordpress, and EVERYTHING ELSE "people in the know use" AND IT IS ALL SWITCHED OFF. I have BETTER **** THAN ANYONE, More options available than ANYONE and I only use what no one else uses, DIRECT IP ROUTING. No one has that, you have to pay extra for it, it is not a freebie, it takes more than word processor level skills. GEE, I WONDER WHY I CHOSE THAT AND ONLY THAT to keep this site visible. If you are wondering, the answer is BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS. This site has been saved by that TWICE now. I'd have blinked out in 2017, they tried to kill the site off already and that stopped them because they could not just delete me off the internet by taking me out of the DNS servers.

No one who hits this site needs to be told about Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or any of the other obvious ones, RIGHT? You're smart enough to not be in diapers, RIGHT? I have said ALL OF THE ABOVE repeatedly since about 2014 when I figured it out, and now that everyone is being vaporized perhaps, since no one listened they'll use it for troubleshooting.

And now I'll say THIS:
Now we are going to get to see what happens to everyone when the election theft proved to us there is no system of law in America. What kept your privately hosted site from being nuked up until now? Fear of prosecution, that's what. But with the courts proving they don't exist with this election, they are likely, once Trump is out, going to play their hand, break the law EVERYWHERE and will simply totally and illegaly wipe everyone off the DNS servers and/or simply ban their PAID FOR accounts. WHO IS GOING TO STOP THEM? Come on now, you saw how this election went, WHO IS GOING TO STOP THEM?

CurEus

9th January 2021, 16:57

Firefox is going to block Trump now.

https://www.rt.com/usa/511996-mozilla-firefox-deplatform-trump-internet/

Bill Ryan

9th January 2021, 17:25

RunningDeer

9th January 2021, 17:46

Firefox is going to block Trump now.

https://www.rt.com/usa/511996-mozilla-firefox-deplatform-trump-internet/Many thanks, but that article didn't really tell me anything solid (as best I could see!).

To anyone who understands these things better than I do, what does it mean that "Firefox is censoring Trump"? Firefox isn't a search engine. Does it mean that the browser won't load some sites? Do we know of any examples?

I wondered the same thing when it was posted elsewhere, but I got sidetracked.

Based on my quick skim of this article “How Firefox Works (https://computer.howstuffworks.com/internet/basics/firefox.htm)” from HowStuffWorks.com, it confirms what I thought. FoxFire is another browser. No where in the article does it claim to oversee who can use its services, nor deplatform whomever. I should add that there's no time stamp on the article, so it may be outdated.

Ivy23

9th January 2021, 18:13

From what I could tell it was stemming from Mozilla’s tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/mozilla/status/1347633954497548289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1347633954497548289%7Ctwgr% 5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F511996-mozilla-firefox-deplatform-trump-internet%2F

In the blog entry that is linked they suggest these measures:

Additional precise and specific actions must also be taken:

Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.

Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.

Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.

Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.

I don’t think there’s anything they are specifically doing to block Trump or that they even could, since they’re just a browser. Very slippery slope they are on with the censorship. Extremely unsettling!

RunningDeer

9th January 2021, 18:51

I’m 8 minutes into Bannon’s War Room, Episode 644 (https://podbay.fm/p/bannons-war-room) and they report that President Trump was not only permanently suspended from twitter (88 million followers), but when he tweeted from the @POTUS account to make a statement that tweet was removed. It’s the official White House account. Twitter also took down the Team Trump account. They essentially cut off the campaign and cut off any direct access to the American people. This is what people loved about Trump. They felt like he was speaking directly to them.

Also alarming they suspended or banned his services to email people. Most people who donated to his campaign received many emails over the months leading up to the election. This overreach from across platforms has silenced his ability to reach the people.

Thousands of accounts were knock out and/or followers. This coordinate efforts also included all the people that worked for President Trump including the volunteers. They were taken off Facebook. These were their personal accounts.

Franny

9th January 2021, 19:35

Looking into the Firefox deplatforming of Trump, a quick look and I only found that FF and Chrome have plugins to block Trump.

Found this one on Snopes for the Chrome browser. I know, not usually reliable, but in this instance it seems to be true.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-browser-filter/

This is for 🦊 Firefox and it's upsetting some users who are uninstalling the browser.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/detrumpify/

Checking in to see what's going on with Twitter I saw a post from James Todaro MD whom I follow for his info on CV and Vaxx. He posts that Google and Apple announced they will remove the Parler app from their stores if they won't censor blacklisted sites. A short time later he posts that Google has removed the Parler app from its store.

A bit later Laurence Fox cites a BBC article for the same, including that Apple will remove the app on Sat, Jan 9.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55598887

Google suspends 'free speech' app Parler

Google has suspended "free speech" social network Parler from its Play Store over its failure to remove "egregious content".

Parler styles itself as "unbiased" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.

But Google said the app had failed to remove posts inciting violence.

Apple has also warned Parler it will remove the app from its App Store if it does not comply with its content-moderation requirements.

On Parler, the app's chief executive John Matze said: "We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!"

Launched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.

While Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.

It briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.

However, both Apple and Google have said the app fails to comply with content-moderation requirements.

Analysis: Necessary or draconian action?

By Shayan Sardarizadeh, BBC Monitoring

For months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.

As major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.

This turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.

In the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.

Unsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.

Google and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.

However, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.

This is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.

In a statement, Google confirmed it had suspended Parler from its Play Store, saying:

"Our longstanding policies require that apps displaying user-generated content have moderation policies and enforcement that removes egregious content like posts that incite violence.

"In light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat, we are suspending the app's listings from the Play Store until it addresses these issues."

Apple has warned Parler it will be removed from the App Store on Saturday in a letter published by Buzzfeed News.

It said it had seen "accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate" the attacks on the US Capitol on 6 January.

Mr Matze said Parler had "no way to organise anything" and pointed out that Facebook groups and events had been used to organise action.

But Apple said: "Our investigation has found that Parler is not effectively moderating and removing content that encourages illegal activity and poses a serious risk to the health and safety of users in direct violation of your own terms of service."

"We won't distribute apps that present dangerous and harmful content."

The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.

In a related development, Google has kicked Steve Bannon's War Room podcast off YouTube, saying it had repeatedly violated the platform's rules.

The ex-White House aide's channel had more than 300,000 subscribers.

"In accordance with our strikes system, we have terminated Steve Bannon's channel 'War room' and one associated channel for repeatedly violating our Community Guidelines," Google said in a statement.

"Any channel posting new videos with misleading content that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential election in violation of our policies will receive a strike, a penalty which temporarily restricts uploading or live-streaming. Channels that receive three strikes in the same 90-day period will be permanently removed from YouTube."

The action was taken shortly after the channel posted an interview with Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, in which he blamed the Democrats for the rioting on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

One anti-misinformation group said the action was long overdue after "months of Steve Bannon calling for revolution and violence".

"The truth is YouTube should have taken down Steve Bannon's account a long time ago and they shouldn't rely on the labour of extremism researchers to moderate the content on their platform," said Madeline Peltz, Senior Researcher at Media Matters for America.

Franny

9th January 2021, 20:41

Just saw that the Mexican president, AMLO, is not happy with Trumps censorship on platforms.

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Here is a link:

https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/mexico-president-andres-obrador-condemns-twitter-facebook-for-blocking-donald-trumps-accounts-936489.html

Mexico's President on Thursday condemned the decision by social media platforms to block the accounts of US President Donald Trump.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at the same time declined to condemn the assault by Trump supporters on the US Capitol on Wednesday, citing his policy of not interfering in other countries' affairs. He said only that he regretted the loss of lives.

But Lopez Obrador, who is seen as friendly to Trump, was quick to criticise what he called the censorship of the US president.

Read | Facebook bans Donald Trump 'indefinitely': CEO Mark Zuckerberg (https://www.deccanherald.com/international/facebook-bans-donald-trump-indefinitely-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-936350.html)

“I don't like anybody being censored or taking away from the right to post a message on Twitter or Face(book). I don't agree with that, I don't accept that,” López Obrador said.

“How can you censor someone: 'Let's see, I, as the judge of the Holy Inquisition, will punish you because I think what you're saying is harmful,'” Lopez Obrador said in an extensive, unprompted discourse on the subject.

“Where is the law, where is the regulation, what are the norms? This is an issue of government, this is not an issue for private companies.” Presidential spokesman Jesus Ramirez doubled down later in the day, writing in his Twitter account that “Facebook's decision to silence the current leader of the United States calls for a debate on freedom of expression, the free exchange of information on the web, democracy and the role of the companies that administer (social) networks."

Facebook and Instagram said Thursday that they will bar Trump from posting at least until the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Twitter said that it's still evaluating whether to lift or extend what started as a 12-hour lockdown of Trump's account.

Also Read | Facebook, Twitter lock Trump's account; YouTube removes his video after Capitol violence (https://www.deccanherald.com/international/facebook-twitter-lock-trumps-account-youtube-removes-his-video-after-capitol-violence-936065.html)

Lopez Obrador also said he was not planning to attend Biden's inauguration. Earlier, he refrained from congratulating Biden on his election victory until after the Electoral College vote in mid-December. The Mexican leader's only trip abroad so far in his presidency was to visit Trump in Washington in July to celebrate the implementation of the Mexico-US-Canada trade agreement.

andyangel1205

9th January 2021, 20:44

We are now quickly becoming a Chinese communist state, and it should worry everyone. Anything pro-Trump or anything that questions the sham election and tries to shine a light on that fraud is in the process of being purged. On the side, I design t-shirts - a few very innocent designs I submitted to Merch by Amazon & Zazzle were removed with this completely BS explanation:
your design graphically portrays violence or victims of violence. It will amaze me if these designs don't get purged from other sites as well. So, simply questioning the election irregularities (everyone read Peter Navarro's report) equals violence to these totalitarians. Additionally, YouTube banned one of my wife's channeled videos simply because the mantis being we talked to called the COVID vaccine "fruitless." The being didn't say not to take the vaccine, just questioned its effectiveness. Scary times, my friends. Welcome to the oligarchy.

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/15874830-remember-when-your-vote-actually-counted?store_id=483844
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/16152976-join-the-resistance?store_id=483844
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/15874420-lincoln-crying-rigged-never-forget?store_id=483844

RunningDeer

9th January 2021, 22:55

Cool tee-shirts, andyangel1205. Your images don’t come up for me. Based on the links in your post these are what I found @ TeePublic.com (https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/15874830-remember-when-your-vote-actually-counted?store_id=483844).

One of the topics covered today on the Bannon’s War Room, Episode 644 (https://podbay.fm/p/bannons-war-room) is how they’ve taken down all the merch sites that promote anything Trump. It’s one more avenue to punish and financially cripple citizens.

https://i.imgur.com/JnAYbV4.jpg

We are now quickly becoming a Chinese communist state, and it should worry everyone. Anything pro-Trump or anything that questions the sham election and tries to shine a light on that fraud is in the process of being purged. On the side, I design t-shirts - a few very innocent designs I submitted to Merch by Amazon & Zazzle were removed with this completely BS explanation:
your design graphically portrays violence or victims of violence. It will amaze me if these designs don't get purged from other sites as well. So, simply questioning the election irregularities (everyone read Peter Navarro's report) equals violence to these totalitarians. Additionally, YouTube banned one of my wife's channeled videos simply because the mantis being we talked to called the COVID vaccine "fruitless." The being didn't say not to take the vaccine, just questioned its effectiveness. Scary times, my friends. Welcome to the oligarchy.

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/15874830-remember-when-your-vote-actually-counted?store_id=483844
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/16152976-join-the-resistance?store_id=483844
https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/15874420-lincoln-crying-rigged-never-forget?store_id=483844

justntime2learn

10th January 2021, 01:34

Apple suspends Parler from App Store after unrealistic 24-hour deadline to introduce moderation expires

https://www.rt.com/usa/512049-apple-suspends-parler-moderation/

justntime2learn

10th January 2021, 03:01

Some realistic comedic relief:

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Franny

10th January 2021, 03:40

A friend just sent this, Parler is being booted from its Amazon cloud service.

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Lin Wood also mentions it on Parler.

https://parler.com/profile/linwood/posts

happyuk

10th January 2021, 11:30

Is it just coincidence that I lost ~5% of my Twitter followers last night?
Others are reporting the same.

Bill Ryan

10th January 2021, 12:04

From Breitbart:

https://breitbart.com/tech/2021/01/09/free-speech-platform-gab-reports-750-increase-in-traffic/

Free Speech Platform Gab Reports 750% Increase in Traffic

Gab.com (https://gab.com), the free speech friendly social network, says traffic has increased by more than 750 percent in the past few days, following the blacklisting of President Donald Trump from most mainstream tech platforms.

“Our traffic is up 753% in the past 24 hours. Tens of millions of visits,” said Gab in response to a question about slow loading speeds.

The free speech network announced that it would bring ten new servers online to handle the increased traffic volume. Gab was the first free speech alternative to Twitter. It takes a hardline stance on freedom of speech, allowing all legal content except pornography. Users are allowed to control their own experience on the platform through the creation of custom word filters and blocks.

Gab takes an equally hardline stance on illegal content and threats of violence, encouraging users to proactively report such content for removal.

Despite this longstanding policy, both Apple and Google have, for years banned the Gab app from their app stores, a fate which has also befallen Parler (https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/01/09/apple-joins-google-in-blacklisting-parler/).

https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1348013897576370181

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Launched in May 2017, Gab has faced attempted censorship and suppression from multiple quarters, leading to innovative approaches to circumvent it.

To avoid censorship by cloud hosting companies, Gab maintains its own physical servers. Gab is also in the process of developing the Gab phone, to circumvent app store censorship.

https://twitter.com/getongab/status/1348078952204550144

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Gab also developed Dissenter, a browser extension that adds a comments section to every website on the internet. When mainstream browsers like Chrome and Mozilla Firefox banned the extension, Gab launched its own web browser, also called Dissenter. (https://dissenter.com/)

In response to the surge in traffic, Gab founder and CEO Andrew Torba gave a concise comment to Breitbart News: “Checkmate, Silicon Valley.”

greybeard

10th January 2021, 12:47

SilentFeathers

10th January 2021, 12:58

In response to the surge in traffic, Gab founder and CEO Andrew Torba gave a concise comment to Breitbart News: “Checkmate, Silicon Valley.”

Personally I believe Mr. Torba is underestimating what is exactly happening right now....

On January 20th the Biden Administration can "Checkmate, Gab" by declaring Gab a domestic terrorist organization and before January 21st Gab could be completely shut down and eliminated.

What we have seen over the last few days is that there is an effort to shut down anyone and everyone that doesn't 100% agree with the incoming Biden Administration and the Globalist Agenda.

Look for a HUGE False Flag Event within days, not weeks, that'll be blamed on Trump supporters and conservatives that will usher in even more draconian and destructive actions....controlling the narrative on the internet is only a small piece of the tyrannical pie.

Gwin Ru

10th January 2021, 13:40

The creator of this cartoon got his account suspended (http://www.womensystems.com/2021/01/the-creator-of-this-cartoon-got-his.html)

Women System (https://www.blogger.com/profile/03123176379654101986)
January 09, 2021 (http://www.womensystems.com/2021/01/the-creator-of-this-cartoon-got-his.html)

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/anQY1oq_700b.jpg

onawah

10th January 2021, 20:39

Rep. Nunes Calls for Racketeering Investigation Into Big Tech Companies Following Parler Ban
BY ZACHARY STIEBER
January 10, 2021
https://www.theepochtimes.com/rep-nunes-calls-for-racketeering-investigation-into-big-tech-companies-following-parler-ban_3650863.html.

"A top Republican in the House of Representatives on Sunday called for a racketeering probe into large technology companies who over the weekend took action against Parler, a social media website.

“This is clearly a violation of antitrust, civil rights, the RICO statute. There should be a racketeering investigation on all the people that coordinated this attack on not only a company but on all of those like us, like me, like you, Maria,” Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo.

After Twitter banned President Donald Trump and some other users, Parler saw its traffic explode. Soon, though, Google announced it had removed Parler from its online store, a move followed by Apple. Then, Amazon announced it was suspending Parler from its web hosting services.Parler CEO John Matze told The Epoch Times his company is prepared to take legal action, but in the meantime authorities should investigate the possibly-coordinated actions, Nunes argued.

“The effect of this is that there is no longer a free and open social media company or site for any American to get on any longer,” he said, because Amazon, Google, and Apple, “have just destroyed” Parler.

“It’s preposterous. So I don’t know where the hell the Department of Justice is at right now, or the FBI,” he added.

Nunes also said the CEOs of the companies should be prosecuted criminally. He also said he has been talking to fellow members of Congress and that they’re exploring their legal options. And he also called on the Supreme Court and federal judges to step in and intervene.

The Department of Justice, Apple, Google, and Amazon didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment."

happyuk

10th January 2021, 21:53

A little off-topic given that Mike Pompeo has not had his Twitter zapped (yet).

An interesting snippet from Simon Parkes who says that the action will increase as Pompeo's posts get closer and closer in time:

Watch Mike Pompeo - As his posts get closer and closer together so the action will increase. This is code to all US patriots.

1 hour gap - Then 30 mins - Then could go to 20 mins. & then 10 mins then 5 mins etc.

This is what is planned.

I can’t say it will happen today - But is the sign of the developing situation even if his messages have nothing to do with the current situation.

it’s the time gap between them that matters not the content.

So since yesterday approximately, depending on what time zone you're in, we've had for the last 8 hours or so pairs of tweets coming in at one hour intervals.

Since about an hour ago, Pompeo's tweets have been coming in at half hour intervals, as Simon Parkes said they would.

https://www.simonparkes.org/post/watch-mike-pompeo

And as he says it's not the content of the posts we should be observing, but the time gap between them.

happyuk

10th January 2021, 22:01

Wow.

Another one come in a few seconds ago exactly on the half hour interval as Parkes said it could.

RunningDeer

10th January 2021, 22:34

Wow.

Another one come in a few seconds ago exactly on the half hour interval as Parkes said it could.
Secretary Pompeo @SecPompeo (https://twitter.com/SecPompeo?s=20)

Time interval Tweets:
hours: 9, 9, 8, 8, 7, 7, 6, 6, 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1,
down to minutes: 35 min, 5 min (it still continues)

NOTE #1: the minutes change as time ticks on

NOTE #2: Secretary Pompeo has uploaded a boat of tweets the last several days. So in theory, the ones above will become all the same date - January 10th. For now, one can say there is/was a pattern to his posting.

http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/red-line.gif

(repost) RE: Simon talks about what happyuk points out in terms of the clock ticks down. I understood it to already take place unless it's another thing that he mentions that would happen on Wednesday, January 13th.

The Insurrection Act of 1807 is a United States federal law that empowers the President of the United States to deploy U.S. military and federalized National Guard troops within the United States in particular circumstances, such as to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, and rebellion.

A lot is cover in this 25 minute vid. Here’s some of it from the first 7 minutes (I left a lot out):

Original plan was for President Trump to speak to the people @ midnight EST. It was changed because an operation was brought forward. Ten days ago, Simon was given the date of Wednesday, January 13th.
40% of Pakistan experience a power outage. The reason? China was involved in a deal to purchase American companies. These companies weren’t aware that they were being sold to a Chinese conglomerate, i.e. the CCP. The Chinese people realized that President Trump was on to them through Nancy Pelosi’s laptop and fifteen others that were taken durning the January 6th mayhem. (see Ba-ba-Ra and norman’s post (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?100318-The-Qanon-posts-and-associated-US-political-analysis&p=1402599&viewfull=1#post1402599) for a point of view)
An Italian judge sign an arrest warrant for the Italian Prime Minister and a high ranking general responsible for Leonardo satellites.
Considerable and intentional power outage in Berlin.
The troop movement in California was also part of the operation.
President Trump signed the Insurrection Act last evening.
Do not expect President Trump to go to congress to be inaugurated. It’s not the first time that a president has been inaugurated in the White House.

SimonParkes.org (https://www.simonparkes.org) & Simon's Blog (https://www.simonparkes.org/blog)

10th January Update Current News
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http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/red-line.gif

Thanks, Satori. http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/hat-baseball.gif

The Insurrection Act was not signed by Trump. That Act was passed into law in 1807. At most, he may have approved invocation of the Act. I’ve seen no evidence, yet, that he has. (On a related note, I do not think the troops in DC are there because of anything Trump has done.)

It may seem that I’m splitting hairs. I’m not. It is important to be as accurate as possible, lest one cause to be dismissed what may be important information.

happyuk

10th January 2021, 22:43

RunningDeer

10th January 2021, 22:45

Simon's video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzheebPuCGU) has 863,414 views since this morning.

Wow.

Another one come in a few seconds ago exactly on the half hour interval as Parkes said it could.
Secretary Pompeo @SecPompeo (https://twitter.com/SecPompeo?s=20)

Time interval Tweets:
hours: 9, 8, 7, 7, 6, 6, 5, 5, 4, 4, 3, 3, 2, 2, 1, 1,
down to minutes: 35 min, 5 min

Note: the minutes change as time ticks on

Yet more half hourly tweets have rocked up since.
Gosh this is fun!

Olam

11th January 2021, 02:10

TelosianEmbrace

11th January 2021, 08:33

There is a huge amount of money and market share to be made here in a very short period of time by Gab, Parler and the like. We are still in a free market economy, and new powers will arise.

RunningDeer

11th January 2021, 10:11

Military Personnel Explains What Happens Next; Twitter Censorship: Massive Conservative Exodus

Beyond The Noise with David Zhang
122K subscribers
We have footage from a military personnel with some insights into the day after the inauguration and what is to come as the year goes by if Biden is inaugurated.

Then we will dive into the all roads lead to ROME if you understand what I mean.

Finally, to finish off this episode, discuss my reaction to Big Tech censorship on President Trump and Parler. Which is a step towards communist censorship.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww-zO53HaZk

At the moment Im reluctant to post anything as so many statements with good intention dont turn out as predicted or proclaimed.
However this source tends to be well grounded.
Chris

The whistleblower sound just like Sydney Powell sped up.
I’m not so convinced. http://paula.avalonlibrary.net/smilies/noidea.gif
I slowed the playback speed down to .5
and compared it to Sidney Powell in another video at slow speed.

https://i.imgur.com/REehKtQ.jpg

Sidney Powell on Robert Mueller's 'poster boy for prosecutorial misconduct’
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happyuk

11th January 2021, 12:13

There is a huge amount of money and market share to be made here in a very short period of time by Gab, Parler and the like. We are still in a free market economy, and new powers will arise.

People I know on Twitter continue to hemorrhage followers.

Many are considering cancelling Twitter as a protest against censorship.

I say yes join gab, parler etc by all means, but carry on highlighting deception on Twitter.

Even Merkel is saying Trumps Twitter ban is "problematic". If I were a world leader and I saw a corporation silence an even bigger world leader I'd be nervous too. 'Q' predicted the POTUS Twitter ban roughly 6 months ago, perhaps that's why she's nervous.

Olam

11th January 2021, 14:14

Olam

11th January 2021, 14:55

Bill Ryan

11th January 2021, 16:04

I have down some work on the audio file, hear for yourself, it now sounds like a man so it seems the newscaster was right in saying it was a man...

Can anyone help me upload a MP3 audio file here please, it's not working.
The file is 3.5 MB....It needs to be uploaded to a server (somewhere!) in order to be posted. If you email it to bill@projectavalon.net as an attachment, I'll happily put it on the Avalon server.

:thumbsup:

Olam

11th January 2021, 16:56

Olam

11th January 2021, 17:05

OK here is the file.
While I am at it, I can do this type of work easy, so in the future please don't hesitate to ask me if I am not aware of any audio services needed here....
Thanks Bill...

https://projectavalon.net/Olam_audio.mp3

RunningDeer

11th January 2021, 17:25

ExomatrixTV

11th January 2021, 22:53

And Then They Came for Computing Forever
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https://odysee.com/@ComputingForever:9
Computing Forever (https://www.bitchute.com/channel/computingforever/)
Good Beye YouTube (https://odysee.com/@ComputingForever:9/Goodbye-youtube-:2)

kl2oj4kEFc7d

source (https://www.bitchute.com/video/kl2oj4kEFc7d/)

Computing Forever Banned on YouTube (https://computingforever.com/2021/01/10/computing-forever-banned-on-youtube/)

Dave Cullen (https://computingforever.com/author/dave/)

https://computingforever.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-10-at-08.59.02.png

After 14 years, 500,000+ subscribers and over 100 million views, my channel, Computing Forever has been deleted off YouTube. I knew it was coming. It’s okay. I was always knew this time would come. I’m delighted to be part of a free speech, Alt-Tech revolution. I’ve developed platforms on Minds, Gab, Odysee and Bitchute and I’m excited at the prospect of a new beginning. Silicon Valley monopolies will be defeated. The people will be triumphant. Thank you all for your support, love and encouragement, you guys keep me going. I’m only just getting started. God Bless you all.

I’m very proud of maintaining a strong commitment to the truth. I regret nothing I’ve said in the fight against the evil forces threatening our freedoms. Today’s banning on YouTube will just liberate me further. Power levels rising! Onwards and upwards! Here’s where you can find me:

Bitchute Channel: bitchute.com/channel/hybM74uIHJKf/ (https://www.bitchute.com/channel/hybM74uIHJKf/)
GabTV Channel: tv.gab.com/channel/DaveCullen (https://tv.gab.com/channel/DaveCullen)
Odysee Channel: odysee.com/@ComputingForever:9 (https://odysee.com/@ComputingForever:9)
Minds: minds.com/DaveCullen/ (https://www.minds.com/DaveCullen/)

We soldier on till the bitter end.

computingforever.com (http://computingforever.com)

Correction: 516,000+ Subscribers 107,788,012+ Total Views

see tab "details" here (https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/lack78)

ExomatrixTV

11th January 2021, 23:27

Your Missing The SCARIEST Thing About Trumps Banning From Twitter, Facebook, Shopify & More:

k9GM2sAacdw

And Trump, with his head and his heart in the right place the whole time, who said he has never seen it this bad in America. Well, now we know how bad it gets, and the President of the United States is now officially banned on social media.

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source (https://banned.video/watch?id=5ff8f4f60429ec3746038b02)

Kryztian

11th January 2021, 23:52

Ron Paul, one of the great peace activists in the world, has, without explanation, been banned from Facebook.

https://i.imgur.com/FYreLMN.jpg

ExomatrixTV

11th January 2021, 23:54

There are currently 59 users browsing this thread. (5 members and 54 guests) but stats says "5 views" :O

45789

compare with:

45790

update: it says "137 views" now ... 1 hour later

RunningDeer

12th January 2021, 00:09

I catch his Monday-Friday reports @ RonPaulLibertyReport YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/RonPaulLibertyReport/videos). Daniel McAdams usually co-hosts and it's about a 20-30 minute long program.

Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity (http://ronpaulinstitute.org)
RonPaulLibertyReport.com (http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com)
Twitter - @RonPaul (https://twitter.com/ronpaul)
Stitcher (https://www.stitcher.com/show/ron-paul-liberty-report)
SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/ron-paul-liberty-report)
He's also on several other podcast networks.

Here's his son's tweet:

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https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1348704640486014982[/TWEET]

Ron Paul, one of the great peace activists in the world, has, without explanation, been banned from Facebook.

ExomatrixTV

12th January 2021, 01:15

The Big Tech Antitrust Report (https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/6/21505027/congress-big-tech-antitrust-report-facebook-google-amazon-apple-mark-zuckerberg-jeff-bezos-tim-cook) has one Big Conclusion: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are all Anti-Competitive!

gini

12th January 2021, 08:25

meat suit

12th January 2021, 09:03

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JSVdT8PjS8

Bill Ryan

12th January 2021, 10:07

1JSVdT8PjS8IAF is Ice Age Farmer.

The video text:

~~~

Just as big tech is cutting our comms, big food is cutting our supply lines: siege warfare. We are witnessing a first battle in a much larger, protracted war on humanity -- and as with any war, ensuring our own food supply is an absolute priority. Start growing food and raising animals, that free humanity may have a chance!

And yes, @IceAgeFarmer is banned from twitter (despite only speaking about food issues!).

Find me on

https://gab.com/iceagefarmer (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgab.com%2Ficeagefarmer&redir_token=QUFFLUhqblVXT1lYdE54blJ5RmVqbjhsWjBxYkZkSG1VZ3xBQ3Jtc0tsemlWV2s3czVtck9XWDJSenZwZW9qZnI1 OFBTRk9yR0NFdEh1dTZaLVEzaXBQc0ZVQk9oYkwyMFFuaVZTZzdZY1ZsWGJYMlMtdUFwTjY1OFVGM20wSUJPVnM4Y21MTFZrN1lf Tl9kZjBsWmRYVkdVdw%3D%3D&v=1JSVdT8PjS8&event=video_description)
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I'll see you on the free platforms:

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Alecs

12th January 2021, 10:35

Tulsi Gabbard criticizes colleagues cheering for free speech crackdowns. Tucker Carlson asks Tulsi Gabbard,whats goin on??? why nobody stands up for the right of freedom of speech anymore? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0hR7wb8X48. 12 January 3.51 min.

To address the other point that former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard raises--about the need to break up the power that big tech companies have amassed by executing legislative changes and reforms, this, IMO, is a passive and high risk solution at this point due to the weakened power that the US representatives who see this as a solution actually have.

The American people have, right now, a small window of opportunity to execute reforms themselves--by electing to not support big tech companies that amass power that takes away basic rights. This means moving to alternative, truly free-speech platforms, and doing so as often as needed.

It also means putting his/her money into other tech companies. As Katherine Austin Fitts says, a new monetary (transactional) system may soon be put in place whereby the people's individual decisions about where their money goes, or whether it's even accessible, can be controlled on the turn of a dime if he or she doesn't behave in the "right way".

And then, yes, the shell of the federal government that still stands on the constitution MAY continue to exist if Americans choose to vote in the right people. And about that, Tulsi makes an important point (if I understand her correctly)--that it's not about supporting the voices of candidates who we agree with, but rather voting for those that recognize the country that the founders envisioned.

Granted, well-talked about solutions, and only partial solutions at that, but they should be kept in the foreground.

Gwin Ru

12th January 2021, 15:00

WRH (http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/)
Jan 12 08:22

Gab CEO Pulls Off The Impossible For Trump… INCREDIBLE! (https://populist.press/gab-ceo-pulls-off-the-impossible-for-trump-incredible/)

Gab CEO completely backed up President Trump’s Twitter account before it was deleted and recreated him on Gab! What’s even more impressive is the did this while traffic was up 700% and under attack from leftists. Gab is currently having servers upgraded to handle the large influx in traffic [and] we’re told it should stabilize soon.

President Trump’s new account: https://gab.com/realdonaldtrump

RunningDeer

12th January 2021, 18:22

UPDATE: Ron Paul’s account is restored (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZXIhfQ9zaQ). Facebook said it was a mistake.

I catch his Monday-Friday reports @ RonPaulLibertyReport YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/RonPaulLibertyReport/videos). Daniel McAdams usually co-hosts and it's about a 20-30 minute long program.

Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity (http://ronpaulinstitute.org)
RonPaulLibertyReport.com (http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com)
Twitter - @RonPaul (https://twitter.com/ronpaul)
Stitcher (https://www.stitcher.com/show/ron-paul-liberty-report)
SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/ron-paul-liberty-report)
He's also on several other podcast networks.

Here's his son's tweet:

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Ron Paul, one of the great peace activists in the world, has, without explanation, been banned from Facebook.

happyuk

12th January 2021, 18:31

Facebook and Twitter are de facto examples of how socialism works.
If promoted, praised, advertised, applauded, critically acclaimed and especially "free", be wary.
Seldom is anything worthwhile "free" - with the notable exception of Project Avalon of course - and even that's far from "free" in the sense it needs conscientious contributors, moderators, administrators, documentarians etc.
If you want something for free, then that is what it is worth.
You will have no say in how it works.
The guy who runs it will control how you use it.
You will have no privacy, and if you say anything they don't like, they will close you down.

muxfolder

12th January 2021, 21:26

Clearly there's a huge purge going on right now on social media. Those who have a lot of followers and are considered as conspiracy theorists, (or people who are not supporting MSM) are losing a lot followers on Twitter. We are about to be silenced for good.

ExomatrixTV

12th January 2021, 22:09

PURGE: Twitter Targets Tom Fitton – And Purges Judicial Watch Followers!

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Big Tech Cleans House! - Everything We Want You To Think:

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I genuine truly wondering how many of the so called "extremists" that are active on #parler are actually 100% FAKE ... just posers ... (partially payed) trolls & shills to give the appearance it is "so bad" ... "we must use mass censorship" & "mass de-platform them" ... Meanwhile all big liberal mainstream platforms have even more REAL (leftists) extremists types (globally) being allowed. ... The HYPOCRISY is harrowing and an insult to any intelligence.

cheers,
John

ExomatrixTV

13th January 2021, 00:34

The Purge Continues

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You're Nuts if You Aren't Using Alt Tech:

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De-listed?, shadow-banned?, buried?, comment-ghosted?, news-feeds rigged?, suspended? falsely accused thus flagged? totally banned? censored? cancelled? etc. etc.

http://d.tube
http://pscp.tv
http://loola.tv
http://gab.com
http://lbry.com
http://flote.app
http://hive.blog
http://vidlii.com
http://invidio.us
http://3speak.co
http://share.tube
http://parler.com
http://mewe.com
http://minds.com
http://plextube.nl
http://waarheid.tv
http://rumble.com
http://odysee.com
http://periscope.tv
http://newtube.app
http://bitchute.com
http://bittube.video
http://onstellar.com
http://diytube.video
http://metacafe.com
http://freetubeapp.io
http://altcensored.com
http://web.telegram.org
http://video.wakkeren.nl
http://voluntarytube.com
http://brandnewtube.com (HD720p & 1080p)
http://newpipe.schabi.org
http://joinpeertube.org/en

andyangel1205

13th January 2021, 01:08

ExomatrixTV

13th January 2021, 01:53

Twitter BANS President Trump:

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source (https://www.facebook.com/OfficialLizWheeler/videos/252448263059407)

Twitter BANS President Trump:
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Akasha

13th January 2021, 09:03

Bill Ryan

13th January 2021, 09:33

Mozilla's collusion with the purge got me on the hunt for an alternative net explorer. My first discovery was Vivaldi. Can anyone recommend this program or is it just more "out of the frying pan into the fire"? If the latter, do any tech' savvie Avalonians recommend an alternative? Thanks in advance.I'm not a tech-savvy Avalonian! But good alternatives might be

Brave (see brave.com (http://brave.com))
Dissenter (created by Gab: see this video intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z3r2Gao8f8), and dissenter.com (https://dissenter.com/))

Olam

13th January 2021, 11:38

Anybody using GAB? I signed up last night and it seems to be pretty good - kinda slow, but the interface is nice and there are lots of groups to join to connect with likeminded people.
I'm impressed thus far, however, will not be shocked when the site gets targeted for destruction like Parler.

They have their own servers, so physically cannot be taken down but might have to fight regulations.

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Mozilla's collusion with the purge got me on the hunt for an alternative net explorer. My first discovery was Vivaldi. Can anyone recommend this program or is it just more "out of the frying pan into the fire"? If the latter, do any tech' savvie Avalonians recommend an alternative? Thanks in advance.

Check the " Brave" browser......

RunningDeer

13th January 2021, 14:10

YouTube suspends President Trump

Posted by Kane
January 13, 2021 8:25 am

https://i.imgur.com/r0Pht5l.jpg

YouTube suspends Trump channel over concerns about ‘potential for violence’

YouTube announced late Tuesday night that it was suspending Trump’s channel for at least seven days.

“After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J. Trump’s channel for violating our policies. It now has its 1st strike & is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a minimum of 7 days,” YouTube said in a statement.

“Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump’s channel, as we’ve done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section.”

article (https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/youtube-suspends-president-trump/)

Gwin Ru

13th January 2021, 15:14

Editors Choice

Conservative Commentator Says AIG Canceled His Insurance Over His Social Media Posts (https://www.infowars.com/posts/conservative-commentator-says-aig-canceled-his-insurance-over-his-social-media-posts/)

by Paul Joseph Watson (https://www.infowars.com/author/11/)January 13th 2021, 7:37 am

Deplatforming reaches new heights of absurdity.

Conservative commentator and former baseball star Curt Schilling says that AIG canceled his insurance policy over his “social media profile,” a new level of deplatforming not yet seen.
“We will be just fine, but wanted to let Americans know that @AIGinsurance canceled our insurance due to my “Social Media profile,” tweeted Schilling.

“The agent told us it was a decision made by and with their PR department in conjunction with management,” he added.
While innumerable Trump supporters have lost their Twitter and Facebook accounts due to social media censorship and cancel culture, cases of individuals being cut off by banks and other financial services are now growing too.

The purge has gone beyond the realm of simply silencing people on major platforms for their opinions, but punishing them for expressing them by trying to make their lives unlivable.

Numerous respondents pointed out the obvious – that without insurance it’s impossible to mortgage a home or register a vehicle.

However, other leftists applauded the move and said that Schilling deserved it for his support of Trump.
“You’ve definitely earned it,” remarked one.

“I mean…. capitalism right? They calculated the risk and decided your premiums weren’t worth the long term exposure?” added another.
What happened to Schilling is yet another chilling example of how Chinese Communist social credit score system is being implemented in America.

In August 2019, the Communist state bragged about how it had prevented 2.5 million “discredited entities” from purchasing plane tickets and 90,000 people from buying high speed train tickets in the month of July alone.

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Communist China "Demerit Points" at work...

Akasha

13th January 2021, 17:07

For some reason I thought Brave was "Firefox 2.0" as I seem to remember it being bolted onto a firefox update? I guess I was mistaken. Thanks Bill and Olam.

Ernie Nemeth

13th January 2021, 17:36

Oh the car insurance thing happened here in Ontario Canada 13 years ago now. Here we called it 'no fault' insurance. Meaning, everyone had to get their own coverage because no one would be at fault in an accident, regardless. This means that in an accident, fault is not an issue as far as property damage goes, your own insurance pays. So if I am hit and I only have minimum coverage, too bad for me.

In this law we also have a limited damages suit. This means that body parts have a predetermined value - $200 for a baby finger, $2000 for a thumb - like that.

And since insurance is protected by law, the cost of insurance has almost doubled, compared to other jurisdictions without 'no fault' terminology. The official number from five years ago was 15%, which most believed to be very low by half. Today it is far worse.

My own insurance went from $78 before the change to $128 immediately after. Then when I said no, they upped it to $200 as a bonus. And when I still said no it went to 300, 400, 500, 600...and finally ended up at $700 per month! And I was out of insurance for life. Then after two massive fines that had been $400, but was changed after 'no fault' to $6,500!, and $13,000 in debt, I gave up driving forever.

But we had our communist take-over early here in Canada, so it doesn't even matter anymore.

ExomatrixTV

13th January 2021, 19:15

The Purge Continues. The Inside Story:

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Parler CEO says 'there's nothing left' after Big Tech kicks app off platforms:

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Alecs

13th January 2021, 20:06

Parler CEO says 'there's nothing left' after Big Tech kicks app off platforms:

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Seriously, for any organization, it's time rethink the business continuity strategy.

ExomatrixTV

13th January 2021, 20:36

Twitter HUMILIATED as Nations Around the World RISE UP Against Big Tech CENSORSHIP!

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Hypocrisy Going Super Nova

Corporatism Thrive when in bed with a Corrupt Government. Big Tech + Biden/Harris + CCP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party) = Extreme ULTRA Dystopian Corporatism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism)!

cheers,
John

ExomatrixTV

13th January 2021, 21:28

Dan Bongino details behind-the-scenes “SMEAR” against Parler:

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HOLY COW! Now They're Going To Police The PRESS!

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Franny

13th January 2021, 21:45

Got this email from Sarah Westall yesterday, she is an interviewer that many are at least familiar with. She found on Jan 11 that her website had been removed by her hosting provider GoDaddy.

Might be a good time for people with controversial websites to start looking for hosting in safer territories. I would also add that people with controversial material using free services like WordPress, Blogger, Wix and others should be even more diligent to consider paid alternatives.

Notice to my subscribers:

You may have noticed that my website, SarahWestall.com, is no longer functioning. Unfortunately, GoDaddy decided to remove my site on January 11th, 2021. The company did not give me any explanation or warning. When I called customer support, I spent over an hour on the phone with a sympathetic support person who could not figure out why my website was removed either. I did learn that it was removed by GoDaddy's "Federal Crimes Unit"; which means no one other than that unit can help me. I was also told I would get a response within 3 to 5 business days. After further investigation, it appears they were probably instructed to take down the website by someone in law enforcement, perhaps the FBI, but I cannot confirm at this time.

At this time, I have created a new website that you can reach at SarahWestall.net or SarahWestall.org. It is currently being hosted outside the country in a safer hosting environment.

Of all the blatant censorship, platforms removals, hit pieces, and attempts to completely remove my presence from society, this one act has hit me the hardest. While I will recover soon, it will be time consuming and will affect your experience on the website until we are able to fix the links and other issues. Some issues, such as links on old posts, will never be fixed. The shop links are mostly broken on post pages, but the main menu throughout the site is working properly. If I am able to recover the SarahWestall.com domain (which I own), SarahWestall.org and SarahWestall.net will still be functional.

Thank you for sticking with me, for your continued support and for fighting for the future of the United States and humanity. I will continue to fight along side all of you.

God Bless,
Sarah Westall

Strat

13th January 2021, 21:48

All this censorship is going to push more and more folks to the dark web. It would be great if we had a place to meet up on the dark web for this very reason. I'm aware of a few forums similar (albeit much smaller) to Avalon on the dark web, the only problem is the dark web isn't very user friendly. It takes a bit of getting used to.

RunningDeer

13th January 2021, 22:54

The Purge Continues. The Inside Story:

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Dan Bongino (https://www.youtube.com/c/Bongino/videos) has 764,000 subscribers. His "show clips" channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5XxM6wDEpSyDustrt4-DyQ/videos) cuts out the commercials and redundancy. So using today as an example, the 1:09:00 minute show is a total of 23 minutes in 3 clips.

bonging.com (https://bongino.com)
twitter @dbongino (https://twitter.com/dbongino)
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/dan.bongino)
Parler (http://parler.com/profile/dbongino/posts)

ExomatrixTV

13th January 2021, 22:59

I genuine truly wondering how many of the so called "extremists" that are active on #parler are actually 100% FAKE ... just posers ... (partially payed) trolls & shills to give the appearance it is "so bad" ... "we must use mass censorship" & "mass de-platform them" ... Meanwhile all big liberal mainstream platforms have even more REAL (leftists) extremists types (globally) being allowed. ... The HYPOCRISY is harrowing and an insult to any intelligence.

John Kuhles aka 'ExomatrixTV'

ExomatrixTV

13th January 2021, 23:42

Twitters Epic Ugandan Election Self-Own:

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https://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=45809

source (https://archive.vn/zV6FJ)

ExomatrixTV

14th January 2021, 00:27

Ron Paul Taken Off Facebook Because He Challenged Big Tech!:

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Freedom Of Speech: Parler or Twitter?; Second Impeachment: Chasing the End of MAGA And Trump:

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Gwin Ru

14th January 2021, 01:55

...

... from Jim Stone:
CONFIRMED: THEY WILL DE-PLATFORM SITES BEYOND THEIR CONTROL VIA DNS. (http://82.221.129.208/.uv5.html)

What is DNS? When you type a site name, it is meaningless to a computer. Your computer sends the site's name to a DNS server and the DNS server then tells your computer what IP address the site is at, and your computer then accesses that IP address. Having the IP address work correctly has to be set up on purpose. Normally you cannot just hit a site's IP and have it load. This site is an exception. This site's IP address is 82.221.129.208 and when you hit only that number, it still loads the most current page.

WARNING TO ALL ALT MEDIA:
GET YOUR DIRECT IP ADDRESS WORKING TO LOAD YOUR SITE AND MAKE IT LOAD THE WAY MINE DOES, WHERE THE SWITCH OVER IS AUTOMATIC. IF YOU DO NOT DO THIS AND YOU ARE LEGIT, YOU WILL SOON BE GONE. THIS ARRANGEMENT ALREADY SAVED THIS SITE TWICE. THEY TRIED TAKING ME OUT OF THE DNS SERVERS TWICE, ONLY TO HAVE IT NOT WORK WELL ENOUGH. PLEASE NOTE: SHARED IP'S CANNOT BE SET UP TO DO THIS. YOU HAVE TO HAVE YOUR OWN IP, AND EVEN DRUDGE DOES NOT HAVE THAT. A majority of web sites do not. You have to buy your IP like I did.

IMPORTANT: Both ways to this site still work (because it looked too bad to have this site still about 55 percent alive with me tattling about how they took it out of the DNS servers,) so they put it back in. Once DNS is removed again, you will have to hit the site directly again at 82.221.129.208 for it to work. They might not take it out of the DNS servers at all, because they know it will be hopeless They cannot take this site down because I made damn good and sure that works and that the servers are out of their reach.

You won't find another site on the web that switches over automatically the way this one does. And everybody HAD DAMN WELL BETTER DO IT THAT WAY, NOW.

IDIOT SAYS: HEY, if they do that, I'll just switch over to direct IP!!! I'll WAIT. Problem: Once you are gone, how TF are you going to tell anyone what your direct IP is? You had better do that while you are still alive.

TO BE CLEAR: Migrate your server offshore. The best place to put your server is Iceland. The best web host in Iceland is Orangewebsite. (http://www.orangewebsite.com) With them, set up a dedicated IP, for now migrate your domain name and files, and then re-direct to the IP address via your .htaccess file. You'll be COMMIE PROOF.

Keep in mind that once you do this, your site will be ranked ZERO, going to direct IP will do that. This site gets over a million visits a month and is not even rated. So what. I can't get ads on it anyway and the readers keep it going (many thanks!)

ExomatrixTV

14th January 2021, 02:59

Parler CEO On Fighting Censorship and Double Standards, and Restoring Free Speech | Crossroads:

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A wave of censorship has been launched by mainstream news outlets, big tech, and a handful of businesses that is mainly targeting conservatives. Among the hardest hit by this was social media website Parler, which had its internet services dropped by Amazon, its app removed by Apple, among other forms of censorship. To learn more about the situation we've invited to speak with us Parler CEO John Matze. Parler CEO On Fighting Censorship and Double Standards, and Restoring Free Speech

ExomatrixTV

14th January 2021, 03:06

ExomatrixTV

14th January 2021, 17:28

Answer to Trump Social Ban and Parler Removal"De-centralization"?

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ExomatrixTV

14th January 2021, 18:03

Facebook Has RESTRICTED My Page Effectively Shutting it Down, The Purge Is Real And Will Get WORSE:

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Ernie Nemeth

14th January 2021, 18:10

I do not understand this mindset.

I haven't been to facebook in two years. I don't have skype or facetime, but sure would like to. I don't even run anti-virus programs. I would never support the enemy like these folks do.

I won't even load an app of any kind, ever. If it adds to the enemy's bank account, it must be boycotted.

ExomatrixTV

14th January 2021, 23:27

Elon Musk LASHES OUT Against CANCEL CULTURE as a POPULIST REVOLT SURGES!:

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Twitter Insider Secretly Records CEO Jack Dorsey Detailing Agenda For Further Political Censorship:

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source (https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZFhHg8QXTE8/)

backup video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp6F7Yzr9vY)

onawah

14th January 2021, 23:44

Twitter Insider Secretly Records CEO Jack Dorsey Detailing Agenda For Further Political Censorship
105,510 views•Jan 14, 2021
19K Project Veritas
831K subscribers
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ExomatrixTV

15th January 2021, 05:25

Tucker Carlson On Democrats Wanting To De-Program Republicans & Seeking To Control Media:

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Seems like they just love to be 100% control-freaks! That insecure they are about themselves.

Kryztian

16th January 2021, 00:21

Jack Dorsey warns Twitter crackdown will be ‘much bigger’ than Trump ban in leaked video

https://nypost.com/2021/01/15/jack-dorsey-twitter-crackdown-will-be-much-bigger-than-trump/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey warned staffers that the social media giant’s recent crackdown after the US Capitol riots will be “much bigger” than just banning President Trump’s account.

Dorsey’s message during the meeting last Friday was leaked to Project Veritas, and a Twitter spokesperson has confirmed it is authentic.

“We are focused on one account right now, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and it’s going to go on for much longer than just this day, this week, and the next few weeks, and go on beyond the inauguration,” Dorsey said in the video meeting published by the conservative outlet on Thursday.

“So, the focus is certainly on this account and how it ties to real-world violence. But also, we need to think much longer term around how these dynamics play out over time. I don’t believe this is going away anytime soon.”

Dorsey then goes on to discuss Twitter’s massive cleanup of 70,000 QAnon-related accounts in the wake of the deadly Jan. 6 riot in Washington, DC — calling it “one such example of a much broader approach that we should be looking at and going deeper on.”
see also

Jack Dorsey justifies Trump ban, but says he did not ‘celebrate’ it

In an unprecedented move, Twitter permanently banned Trump from the platform two days after the Capitol siege “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”

“It’s not going away,” Dorsey warned during the Friday meeting. “The US is extremely divided. Our platform is showing that every single day. And our role is to protect the integrity of that conversation, and what we can do is make sure no one is being harmed based off that.”

James O’Keefe, who founded Project Veritas, known for its sting operations against liberal organizations, said the video was recorded by an “insider whistleblower” who works for Twitter.

A Twitter spokesperson confirmed the video’s authenticity to Fox News.

“The remarks shown in the video were delivered to our more than 5,400 employees and are nearly the same words Jack shared in a recent Tweet Thread offering context around and reflections on our work to protect the conversation in recent weeks,” the spokesperson said.

Story continues at: https://nypost.com/2021/01/15/jack-dorsey-twitter-crackdown-will-be-much-bigger-than-trump/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter

ExomatrixTV

16th January 2021, 00:59

The US Federal Trade Commission Sues Facebook (https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2020/12/ftc-sues-facebook-illegal-monopolization) for Illegal Monopolization

onawah

16th January 2021, 01:33

ExomatrixTV

16th January 2021, 01:37

That article is dated December 9. Any updates on this?
Thanks!

The US Federal Trade Commission Sues Facebook (https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2020/12/ftc-sues-facebook-illegal-monopolization) for Illegal Monopolization

nope sorry :(

46 States and FTC file Antitrust Lawsuits (https://thehill.com/policy/technology/529504-state-ags-ftc-sue-facebook-alleging-anti-competitive-practices) Against Facebook

Twitter & Facebook Lose $51 Billion:
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ExomatrixTV

17th January 2021, 00:51

Dan Bongino “Is there anyone more feared in America right now than James O’Keefe of Project Veritas”:

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Gwin Ru

18th January 2021, 18:03

...

... the end is nigh:

WRH
Jan 18 10:15

Feds Warn Amateur Radio Operators "Not To Commit Criminals Acts" Ahead Of Inauguration (https://www.zerohedge.com/political/feds-warn-amateur-radio-operators-not-commit-criminals-acts-ahead-inauguration)

As tech giants shift into censorship overdrive - between Parler's deplatforming, Twitter purges, and Facebook seemingly cracking down on just about any political discussion ahead of the inauguration - and Sunday's imagery of anti-government anarchists who showed up to several US capitols on Sunday, those who wish to coordinate peaceful protests (and perhaps not-so peaceful protests) may try to use less-monitored methods to coordinate efforts.

As such, the feds have put would-be criminals on notice.

ExomatrixTV

18th January 2021, 22:05

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source (https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1351200658817507336)

ExomatrixTV

18th January 2021, 23:32

BREAKING NEWS: CNN Just Calls To Censor, Cancel Newsmax:

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Matthew

20th January 2021, 00:00

I thought this one was worth sharing

https://2b6aerandom.blob.core.windows.net/public/censorship.mp4

I only put a token effort into seeing if it was posted already, so if it is, apologies, and ..."Bump!" :Angel:

It's hosted on a temporary fileshare, so if you like it please download it/re-post (menu is on the bottom right hand corner of the video where you can select download)

ExomatrixTV

20th January 2021, 00:44

Twitter Might Be in BIG Trouble! Lawyer Explains:

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Is Amazon GOING DOWN? Lawyer Explains Parler's Response:

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Rumble is SUING Google for Anti-Trust Violations:

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onawah

25th January 2021, 00:58

Over 78,000 Facebook, Instagram Users Removed for QAnon, ‘Militarization’ Policy Violations
BY JACK PHILLIPS
January 24, 2021
https://www.theepochtimes.com/over-78000-facebook-instagram-users-removed-for-violating-qanon-and-militarization-policies_3669061.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-01-24-4

"Facebook removed more than 78,000 profiles on both Facebook and Instagram, saying they had posted QAnon content and content related to “militarized social movements” since August 2020.

“We continue to strengthen our enforcement by identifying additional militarized social movements, new terms associated with QAnon and how people attempt to skirt our detection, including focusing more on Facebook profiles used to organize and promote these movements and groups on our platform,” Facebook said in an update on Jan. 19.

The company added that “these groups are constantly working to avoid our enforcement and we’ll continue to study how they evolve in order to keep people safe.”

Facebook added that “as of January 12, 2021, we have identified over 890 militarized social movements to date and in total, removed about 3,400 Pages, 19,500 groups, 120 events, 25,300 Facebook profiles and 7500 Instagram accounts. We’ve also removed about 3,300 Pages, 10,500 groups, 510 events, 18,300 Facebook profiles and 27,300 Instagram accounts for violating our policy against QAnon.”

A Facebook spokesperson told Fox Business last week that in all, about 78,000 Facebook and Instagram accounts were deleted as of Jan. 12 of this year.

Other Big Tech companies such as Twitter and Google’s YouTube have also removed tens of thousands of accounts related to the movement in recent weeks.

“These accounts were engaged in sharing harmful QAnon-associated content at scale and were primarily dedicated to the propagation of this conspiracy theory across the service,” Twitter said on Jan. 11, citing the violence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

The coordinated purge started on the same day Twitter announced it will permanently suspend the account of President Donald Trump. Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, conservatives, and civil liberties groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and American Civil Liberties Union decried Trump’s suspension.

The QAnon movement follows clues from cryptic messages posted to anonymous imageboards. A prominent aspect of the theory alleges that global elites are part of a satanic pedophile ring.

Prominent pro-Trump figures, including former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who embraced some of QAnon’s slogans, and Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell—who filed a number of third-party lawsuits related to the November 2020 election—were also purged from Twitter.

Last week, the social media company suspended several Antifa-linked accounts related to riots on Inauguration Day.

One of the most prominent accounts suspended was “The Base.” It was first reported by journalist Andy Ngo.

“Our comrades w The Base (@TheBasebk), an anarchist social center in Brooklyn, NY of 9 years now took this Twitter thing seriously,” Antifa Sacramento wrote on the platform. “Reaching a platform of 17k followers they pushed a very specific line where politics were never blurred. Today, Twitter took their account down, and now there's a void.” "

onawah

25th January 2021, 02:47

On the Efforts to Silence Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity
by Brad Bird
January 23, 2021
https://www.theepochtimes.com/on-the-efforts-to-silence-tucker-carlson-and-sean-hannity_3667979.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-01-24-5

"Commentary

Fox News Channel’s political commentators Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity are under attack, with many calling for their removal from the airwaves.

While this is perhaps a predictable extension of cancel culture’s ongoing persecution of those who uphold traditional values, the attack on these men is a particularly offensive attempt at censorship—a line in the sand.

This is because they’re among the few remaining voices in North American journalism with the courage and commitment to report views and facts that challenge the wisdom of progressive thinking. They also defended and respected President Donald J. Trump, who was endlessly and unjustly attacked and maligned by most in the media who betrayed the tradition of fair and balanced reporting.

Carlson and Hannity have been accused, among other things, of spreading “harmful propaganda and downright fiction,” according to one source.

This is rich, considering what the mainstream media has been doing in recent years. We need to understand this clearly: Carlson and Hannity make no pretense of being objective newscasters such as the late Walter Cronkite or the current Lester Holt. They’re commentators who present their opinions in the same way the acclaimed William F. Buckley once did.

The problem is that people who want just the facts can’t get them anymore in the legacy media, such as The New York Times, because it’s so tainted by wokeness, political correctness, and the anti-Trump parade. So they turn to Carlson, Hannity, and others such as Laura Ingraham for relief and common sense.

I don’t know Carlson or Hannity personally, and I’m not in the pay of either of them. I have never spoken or communicated in any way with either of them. I’m an independent Canadian writer, a semi-retired reporter/editor with more than 40 years of experience, including work in war zones and positions in Canada at both large daily (Winnipeg Free Press) and small weekly newspapers. At the age of 62, I don’t fear retribution from those who might wish to silence me for defending my American colleagues.

After a lifetime of seeking and reporting the truth as best I could—not always succeeding, at times being in error, but having won many awards for my body of work, which includes five books—I decided, inspired by the brilliant books and columns of Conrad Black, to speak up and defend traditional values, our basic freedoms, and others who embrace them.

And since my late father, Clayton Bird, fought to defeat fascism and protect our freedoms in World War II as the pilot of a Halifax bomber, I also owe him, and his peers, a great debt of gratitude.

Thriving on Diversity
Democracy, like nature itself, thrives on diversity. Just as monoculture in agriculture is scorned as damaging to soils and crops alike, so too does a single voice in democracy lead to sterility and rot. We need a rich panoply of opinions like a meadow needs grasses, shrubs, and wildflowers, so they can help each other grow and thrive. We need progressive voices to help society evolve and improve—but we also need conservative views to protect the wisdom we’ve inherited.

Just as yin needs yang in Chinese philosophy for balance and harmony, so, too, does democracy need divergent views for a healthy intellectual life, for testing ideas and rejecting those that prove unfit and fallacious and embracing those that pass tests of reason and utility.

The truth emerges not from a single source—surely we learned that from Pravda’s propaganda in the Soviet Union and from the Chinese regime’s current censorship—but from a multiplicity of competing viewpoints that challenge each other, allowing the best to prevail.

You don’t have to agree with all that Carlson and Hannity say. I don’t, and they don’t expect us to. What matters is that they give many millions of people a different perspective to that in the mainstream media; they offer a conservative point of view to balance and question the progressive creed of those who now dominate our elected offices, the halls of academia, legal institutions, public schools, and the bastions of popular culture.

Attack on Free Speech
Whatever your nationality, you will recall that the First Amendment in the U.S. Bill of Rights protects freedom of speech and freedom of the press, which covers TV news and commentary. The United States has been the world’s bulwark of free speech for 245 years, since 1776.

In modern history, the only affront to freedom of speech in America similar to what we see today occurred during the post-war period of McCarthyism in the late 1940s and early 1950s when people suspected of harboring communist sympathies were removed from their jobs. William L. Shirer, an esteemed war-time radio reporter and author of the best-selling “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” about Hitler’s destructive rule, was among those silenced.

Today the situation is reversed. It’s progressives, some clearly sympathetic to the Antifa-Marxist fringe of the Democratic Party, who are doing the persecuting, and they do so with impunity. We saw this last summer when Antifa and related groups toppled statues, injured hundreds of police officers, burned cruisers and private businesses, and actually took control, for many weeks, of portions of inner cities such as Seattle. Yet they were allowed this rampage in direct violation of the law. The mainstream media insisted these were “peaceful protests.” Thanks to Carlson and Hannity, we got some sanity on this madness.

In his inaugural address, President Joe Biden correctly declared that “The American story depends not on any one of us … but on all of us.” Yes it does, and that includes all of your voices, our voices, including those of Carlson and Hannity. Biden is right, so don’t censor them, help them and others carry on their good and necessary work."

ExomatrixTV

28th January 2021, 18:57

Leftist Big Tech Censorship Targets Judicial Watch/Fitton—MASSIVE Purge:

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Gwin Ru

31st January 2021, 15:28

In 2017, Soros Drafted Plan to Silence Patriots "by 2020" (https://www.henrymakow.com/2021/01/soros-planned-to-silence-trump.html)

henrymakow.com
January 30, 2021

https://henrymakow.com/upload_images/SOROS-SILENCE.jpg

The weaponizing of oligarch social media and internet tech companies to censor and ban President Donald Trump and his supporters 'by 2020' - and the full-on Bolshevik censorship against conservatives we see now being imposed - was well-planned by George Soros teams at a meeting in January 2017, its presentations publicly documented in 2018.

by Brabantian
(henrymakow.com)

From August 2018: 'Soros: Online Trump Supporters Will Be "Silenced" By 2020' (https://www.shiftfrequency.com/soros-online-trump-supporters-will-be-entirely-silenced-by-2020/)
"Billionaire globalist George Soros is planning to eliminate the majority of Trump supporters from the Internet by 2020 ... A leaked document outlines plans by Soros to exert his influence, via his immense personal wealth, to pressure Big Tech to censor and purge pro-Trump journalists, citizens and outlets ahead of the 2020 election."
The document was presented in January 2017 by David Brock, leftist operative and Clinton loyalist, founder of Soros-backed 'Media Matters', hosting 100-plus donors at Turnberry Isle Resort, Aventura, Florida, to map out how Democrats will "kick Donald Trump's ass." The document can be read in full here: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3440721-337535680-Full-David-Brock-Confidential-Memo-on.html (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3440721-337535680-Full-David-Brock-Confidential-Memo-on.html)

https://henrymakow.com/upload_images/big-tech-censorship-Image-99-10-01-2021.jpg

The document slanders conservative or independent information and opinion as 'fake news', 'extremism' and 'toxic propaganda', as it plans the war to impose oligarch leftism upon the USA. They clearly understand Trump as a symbol above all, a symbol who must be destroyed, as part of destroying people who hold conservative views. The document promises a 'state of the art Trump War Room', with which:
"Right-wing propagandists will be exposed ... journalists, activists, allies will utilize and weaponize our research to take action against extremists ... right-wing targets will see their influence diminish.

Internet and social media platforms, like Google and Facebook ... will no longer host fake news and propagandists ... Facebook will adjust its model ... Google will cut off access to revenue ... Toxic campaigns will be punished and halted ... alt-right figures will lose credibility and influence

We will focus on voters in swing states ... knock down Trump's daily narrative ... Trump will be afflicted by a steady flow of damaging information ... We aggressively call out Trump's strategy: To foment a white nationalist awakening.

We're on track toward our top outcomes - defeat Trump 2020, change the balance of power"
They told us what they would do, and they did it.

ExomatrixTV

1st February 2021, 10:21

FACEBOOK INSIDER LEAKS: Zuckerberg & Execs Admit Excessive Power

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Every day Tech Oligarchs are squelching free speech rights of more Americans:

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Matthew

2nd February 2021, 00:17

Andrew Torba (Gab.com) talks about the ongoing storm of cancel culture against him and the platform he's built, having had a fresh attack against the platform very recently.

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Source: Gab news - https://news.gab.com/2021/02/01/the-silent-christian-secession/

The Silent Christian Secession
By Andrew Torba, February 1, 2021

Over the course of the past week Gab has been deplatformed by one of our banks, a business we were working with to source new server hardware, third-party infrastructure analysis software, and even our accountant.

This isn’t anything new for us. We’ve been deplatformed by 25+ service providers including both app stores, PayPal, dozens of payment processors, hosting providers, email services, and more.

...

His rhetoric is hugely Christian, with a heavy bias characterised as 'War against Christianity'. Torba doesn't take this as a chance to be a martyr though, more a chance to double down on doing business with the right people.

...
We aren’t victims, we are builders.
...

I am in the process of transitioning every part of my financial expenses to support Christian businesses, Christian media companies, Christian content creators, and Christian people.

I am done giving my money to The Enemy and funding the destruction of our country and values. I encourage everyone else to do the same. If they are not serving God, they are serving Satan and I’m simply not going to fund that activity.

...

What's definitely true is they want Gab dead.

ExomatrixTV

2nd February 2021, 15:54

The Polish Government Just Issued a DIRE Warning To The American People! Be Ready It’s About To...

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onawah

4th February 2021, 00:58

CNN, MSNBC, Fox Ratings CRASH As Biden Takes Office
217,817 views• 2/3 /21
9.6K
Krystal and Saagar: The Hill
1.11M subscribers

"Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss how cable news networks, such as CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News, are handling political coverage no longer centered around Donald Trump."
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rgray222

5th February 2021, 04:10

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onawah

5th February 2021, 04:42

LAWSUIT: What is Biden Hiding? PLUS Leftist Lies About Big Tech Censorship
24,849 views•Feb 3, 2021
2.4K
Judicial Watch
452K subscribers

READ MORE HERE: https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-r...
SIGN OUR PETITION HERE: http://jwatch.us/coTjV3
STAY IN TOUCH HERE: http://jwatch.us/4tM5qz

"Judicial Watch announced recently it filed a notice of appeal to the Supreme Court of Delaware, asking for a reversal of the opinion of the Superior Court of Delaware, which is blocking a state Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for access to records about President Joe Biden’s senatorial records held by the University of Delaware. Biden’s papers include more than 1,850 boxes of archival records from his senate career.

The appeal comes in Judicial Watch and the Daily Caller News Foundation’s lawsuit filed after a Delaware Attorney General’s opinion denied access to the records (Daily Caller News Foundation v. University of Delaware (No. N20A-07-001)). The Delaware FOIA lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware on July 2, 2020.

The appeal is challenging the Superior Court of Delaware’s January 4, 2021, ruling upholding the Delaware state attorney general’s opinion that the records are not “public records” because, the opinion concludes without evidence, no public funds are used to support the Biden records project at the University of Delaware.

Judicial Watch responded in court that it is impossible for the housing of Biden’s senatorial records in the University of Delaware’s Library to not be supported by any public funds. Judicial Watch noted that the University admitted that “[t]he State of Delaware provides the University with approximately $120 million each year through an appropriation in the state budget,” but has yet to show how public funds are not used to support the papers."
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5th February 2021, 13:11

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ExomatrixTV

5th February 2021, 15:30

Tucker Exposes Major Bank Giving Private Data To Feds To Bypass 4th Amendment Right, Fascism Is Here:

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ExomatrixTV

5th February 2021, 22:44

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Gwin Ru

5th February 2021, 23:32

Absolute Proof (https://michaeljlindell.com/)

John, if I am not mistaken, this thread is about internet censorship... not about everything else and the kitchen sink...
:focus:

ExomatrixTV

6th February 2021, 10:24

Absolute Proof (https://michaeljlindell.com/)

John, if I am not mistaken, this thread is about internet censorship... not about everything else and the kitchen sink...
:focus:

Almost all of it is CENSORED and explained how & why it was censored and by who it was censored! ... I guess you did not listen to the first 5 minutes!

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February 6th, 2021

Matthew

6th February 2021, 13:17

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cheers,
John Kuhles aka 'ExomatrixTV'
February 6th, 2021

I was looking around for a new software firewall.. appreciate the recommendation

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Also more indirect news: Dan Bongino is disheartened about Parler's sincerity as a free speech/counter-censorship platform:

Jump to 5m 30s
Then again to 15m 30s
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In some report I found about this, from the internet*1 (just to give a quick text summary) the writer says:

“There were two separate visions for the company…this free speech vision, that was ours – the other owners of the company,” he said. “Let me be crystal clear on this. He makes two points, ‘oh I was a big advocate for free speech, it was my vision and I was a big advocate for product stability.’ That is not true.”

“The relationship with Parler and the CEO did not work out because the CEO’s vision was not ours,” he said. “Our vision was crystal clear. We needed to get up and fight back. Some terrible decisions were made in the past that led to this, that led us to getting pulled down by Amazon and others.”

( *1 - https://humanevents.com/2021/02/04/dan-bongino-spits-the-truth-on-why-parler-ceo-was-fired/ )

ExomatrixTV

8th February 2021, 14:06

DETAINED, FINED & BANNED 🚨: Why I Believe This Was A Politically Motivated Stoppage - Brian Rose:

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ExomatrixTV

8th February 2021, 17:10

Biden To Ignite Americas Death Blow—No More Questioning Anything—What They Say Goes...

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meat suit

9th February 2021, 09:14

Facebook to BAN claims about ‘man-made’ Covid-19 & ‘unsafe’ vaccines as it launches election-like campaign to promote vaccination

https://www.rt.com/news/514977-facebook-covid-vaccine-campaign/

RunningDeer

13th February 2021, 00:18

I received this email from Greg Hunter:

YouTube deleted the USWatchdog.com channel Today

The USAWatchdog.com YouTube channel was taken down today. This action was taken without warning after 11 years and more than 90 million video views that were watched by more than 260,000 subscribers. I had gotten two strikes in the last few months, and I did not want to get a third. I had never gotten a “Community Guideline” strike until then. So, I stopped posting in-depth content and promoted USAWatchdog.com (https://usawatchdog.com).

I was going to wait until my 2 strikes expired (in April) before I started posting content again on my YouTube channel because I did not want to take a chance of getting that third strike that would take down the channel.

Apparently someone at YouTube wanted me gone no matter what I did. My account has been terminated. I have been a loyal YouTube content creator. I have asked You Tube “what gives?” I don’t expect to get an answer, but I think we all know the reason.

YouTube does not like the truth, and does not like anyone with a narrative different than their approved Deep State, globalist, pro-China, anti-America message. So, from now on, you will find all my content exclusively on USAWatchdog.com (https://usawatchdog.com). Follow the link to the truth and Real News: Real News from Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog: Economic News and Breaking News Reports (https://usawatchdog.com).

Twitter @USAWatchdog (https://twitter.com/USAWatchdog)
USAWatchdog.com (https://usawatchdog.com)
Rumble (https://rumble.com/user/USAWatchdog)

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Ernie Nemeth

13th February 2021, 18:35

RunningDeer

13th February 2021, 19:59

So, Paula, you allow censorship of yourself willingly?

I simply do not understand, and all respect.

I have given everything up in order to stay in integrity. I would never allow anyone to censor me like that. But then again if people followed my example we would have destroyed this cabal a long time ago and would have been able to get on with an authentic life, not this slavery/serf arrangement we are all seemingly okay with. Oh well, in that case, life will be postponed indefinitely - because this thing we do now is not living.

I'm not sure I understand your question, Ernie. If you mean that I gave out my email address to USAWatchDog.com, then yes. I've followed Greg Hunter since before I knew of Project Avalon. One other that had my email address was Dark Journalist. I've since unsubscribed because I preferred not to receive the weekly email update. Whereas in the case of Greg Hunter, in all the years I've followed him, I've only received no more than a total of five. All but one were recent, which was to inform his subscribers of the current YouTube issues.

Avalon is the only social media where I participate. I've never had accounts with Twitter, Instagram or other forums. I had a blog and a Facebook account that lasted only a couple of months. It was before I became a member of Avalon in February, 2012. There are a myriad of other ways in my life where I stay under the radar.

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ExomatrixTV

16th February 2021, 16:13

Parler (https://parler.com/) Has Been REVIVED Amid Democrat Calls For "Truth Commission" To Weed Out Trump Supporters:

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Parler (https://parler.com/) Has Been REVIVED amid Democrat Calls For "Truth Commission" To Weed Out Trump Supporters. Freshman House Democrat Sara Jacobs want's to weed out Trump supporters. With Impeachment failing and Democrats still needing an enemy to unify around many are calling for truth and reconciliation commissions in order to get rid of fake news and misinformation. While it sounds noble we can reasonably expect it to be anything but. The Truth Commission would likely be the exact opposite pushing out disinformation to manipulate the public. This is why sites like Parler are so important right now. Parler is a space for people to speak much more freely about political issues and that means the establishment political machine and big tech will not be able to control it.

Gina Carano Is UNCANCELLED, Woke Leftist Attempt To Ruin Her Fail As Ben Shapiro Announces New Movie:

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ExomatrixTV

17th February 2021, 16:02

Timcast IRL - Youtube Is Giving us The Business, Wont Let Us Stream w/ James Okeefe:
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Greta Thunberg BURNED In Effigy In India, Accused Of International CRIME After Activist Toolkit Leak:

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onawah

17th February 2021, 19:43

LITTLE-KNOWN CIVIL RIGHTS LAW COULD BRING BIG TECH TO ITS KNEES
2/17/21
JOHN G. WEST FEBRUARY 16, 2021
https://mindmatters.ai/2021/02/little-known-civil-rights-law-could-bring-big-tech-to-its-knees/?fbclid=IwAR1ITscptuNEe9XcSMDVx0HoJVN6q8w1uqyMvcu2cKJVhhkA_j9B5OenjlU

"An existing law could provide grounds to sue Amazon, Facebook, Apple and other big tech companies if they engage in political censorship
SEATTLE—As state and federal lawmakers consider drafting new legislation to counter big tech censorship of dissenting political voices, few seem to realize that an anti-discrimination law already on the books could spell big trouble for big tech companies that engage in political censorship.

Ironically, the law was enacted by one of the most politically progressive cities in the country: Seattle.

Unlike most political jurisdictions in the United States, Seattle expressly forbids discrimination on the basis of “political ideology.” Seattle defines political ideology expansively as

any idea or belief, or coordinated body of ideas or beliefs, relating to the purpose, conduct, organization, function or basis of government and related institutions and activities, whether or not characteristic of any political party or group. This term includes membership in a political party or group and includes conduct, reasonably related to political ideology, which does not interfere with job performance.

Seattle’s sweeping ban on discrimination based on political ideology doesn’t just apply to employment or public accommodations. It also includes a “Fair Contracting Practices Ordinance” banning discrimination in contracting.

This is important because contracting includes almost anything a business does when interacting with consumers and other businesses. Whenever a business sells a product or a service to customers, it is contracting with those customers to provide something.

The potential reach of Seattle’s law is breathtaking. An attorney asked by Mind Matters News to review the law explains that

the definition of a “contract” covered by the ordinance means “any agreement to perform a service or provide goods that entails a legally binding obligation, where such contract is executed within, or intended to be wholly or partly performed within The City of Seattle.” A “contractor” means “any business enterprise” excluding landlords that are “contracting to do business within the city.” And the definition of “contractor” includes “vendors[] and suppliers selling or furnishing materials, equipment, goods or services.”

A person doesn’t necessarily have to live in Seattle or even Washington State in order to file legal action under the law. The attorney asked to review the ordinance for Mind Matters News adds:

a “person” entitled to protection under the ordinance includes one or more individuals or business entities. This definition does not impose any residency requirement. If a person enters into a contract with a business enterprise doing business in the City and the contract is performed at least in part within the City then the ordinance applies.

There are two ways individuals or groups can raise a complaint under Seattle’s anti-discrimination contracting ordinance: They can file an administrative complaint, or they can file a lawsuit. Unlike some civil rights laws, Seattle’s fair contracting ordinance does not require someone to file an administrative complaint before filing a lawsuit. They can file a lawsuit immediately.

The Seattle anti-discrimination law packs a punch. According to the attorney retained to analyze the law, the ordinance authorizes remedies available under Washington State law, and state law authorizes “actual damages plus the costs of bringing the suit… plus remedies authorized by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Federal Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988.” Those remedies include “injunctive relief, orders requiring affirmative action, and punitive damages.”

Damages requested under the law could be severe. The attorney says: “Although the administrative process appears to limit pain and suffering damages to $10,000, there is no similar limit on causes of action filed in court… Additionally, the ordinance makes expressly clear that damage awards for humiliation and mental suffering are not subject to the ordinance’s limits for the administrative process.”

Seattle’s fair contracting ordinance could spell big trouble in particular for Amazon.com.

Amazon is headquartered in Seattle, and so there is little question that the Seattle law applies to it with full force. In the words of the attorney retained by Mind Matters News, “under the ordinance… any individual or business entity who is allegedly harmed by an unfair contracting practice by Amazon most likely would have a cause of action in a court of law against Amazon.”

Amazon landed in hot water last month when its Amazon Web Services (AWS) company dropped web hosting services for Parler, the conservative social media platform. Amazon said it canceled the services because Parler hosted “content… that encourages and incites violence against others, and… Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.”

Parler claimed otherwise, arguing in federal court that such content violated its community guidelines and that it did act to remove the content. Parler’s federal lawsuit against Amazon faces an uphill battle because its agreement with Amazon Web Services explicitly grants Amazon the right to cancel its service for any reason without notice.

But Seattle’s anti-discrimination law would seem to supply Parler with another basis to sue Amazon in Washington State court.

Under Seattle’s fair contracting law, Amazon could still impose politically neutral standards on businesses it contracts with to provide web services. For example, Amazon.com could decide it doesn’t want to provide hosting services for any websites that include violent, sexually explicit, profane, or abusive material.

But under the Seattle law, Amazon’s standards would have to be applied impartially to all websites regardless of their political ideology. In other words, Amazon could cancel its contract with Parler for hosting “content… that encourages and incites violence against others,” but only if Amazon applied this standard in the same way to everyone without regard to political ideology. Amazon could not discriminate by adopting one standard for politically conservative customers and another for politically progressive customers.

In one of its court filings, Parler suggests that Amazon may have done just that. Parler alleges that the Amazon Web Services representative assigned to it “repeatedly asked” whether President Donald Trump “had joined or would join Parler now that he was blocked by Twitter and Facebook.” In a separate court declaration, former Parler CEO John Matze claimed that this Amazon representative was “a Joe Biden supporter” and that “it was only after Twitter announced its intention to terminate Trump from its platform that AWS expressed any concern about Parler’s compliance with its agreement.”

If Amazon’s actions against Parler were due in part to Parler’s political orientation, then those actions could constitute unlawful discrimination under Seattle law. It doesn’t matter if Amazon had a non-political reason for its policies if it applied its policies more strictly against Parler because of its political orientation.

There is more. In December 2020, it was announced that Twitter would begin using Amazon Web Services. Twitter has been accused of not adequately policing violent content on its own platform, especially violent content from the political left. If Amazon Web Services treats Twitter more leniently than Parler, it could provide evidence that its actions against Parler were discriminatory.

Amazon’s potential liability goes far beyond its web hosting services.

Amazon also runs a self-publishing platform that enables authors and groups to publish their own paperback or Kindle books for sale on Amazon. Last year, Amazon’s self-publishing platform initially rejected a Kindle booklet by former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson that criticized government policies related to COVID-19. After an outcry, Amazon reversed its decision, claiming it had been a mistake.

If Amazon hadn’t reversed itself, the company might well have faced liability under Seattle’s fair contracting law. Recall that the Seattle law defines “political ideology” as “any idea or belief… relating to the purpose, conduct, organization, function or basis of government and related institutions and activities, whether or not characteristic of any political party or group.” (emphasis added) Beliefs about public health policies relating to COVID-19 would certainly seem to qualify for protection under the Seattle law.

Given how many things Amazon sells, its potential liability under the fair contracting law could be considerable. It’s not hard to come up with other cases where the law might apply. According to published reports, Amazon banned the sale of a pro-Trump coffee brand on its platform, initially rejected a film by noted black conservative Shelby Steele (the film was later allowed), censored a film critical of “fake news” by conservative Mike Cernovich, and canceled a conservative publisher’s ad campaign for a book about transgenderism and public policy. While Amazon might be able to justify some of these decisions on non-political grounds, they at least raise the question of whether Amazon is discriminating based on political ideology.

However, Amazon isn’t the only big company that could be targeted under the Seattle law.

Other tech giants, notably Facebook and Apple, have physical offices and employees in Seattle. In fact, Apple has plans to expand its workforce to 2,000 employees in Seattle, and Facebook is currently advertising more than 450 open positions in Seattle. Any company with a physical presence and employees in Seattle is potentially subject to the provisions of Seattle’s anti-discrimination law, although suing a company whose main base of operations is in another state would pose some extra hurdles.

In recent years, the United States Supreme Court has made it more difficult for state courts to exercise what is known as “general personal jurisdiction” over companies that are headquartered elsewhere. Even so, there are ways to get around those restrictions by demonstrating what is known as “specific personal jurisdiction.”

Basically, the greater the presence an outside company has in Seattle, and the more connected the alleged discrimination is to Seattle, the more likely a case can be brought where the Seattle anti-discrimination law will apply. According to the attorney retained by Mind Matters News:

The following combined factors would make it likely that Washington State courts would have specific personal jurisdiction over a Seattle anti-discrimination claim involving an out-of-state big tech company: (1) the physical presence of offices, network resources, and employees in Washington; (2) a contract for online services such as advertisements that are in some way targeted to the Seattle area; and (3) the big tech company’s intentional act in cancelling that specific contract giving rise to the discrimination complaint.

Consider the case of Facebook. Although headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Facebook has more than 3,000employees in the Seattle area, multiple office buildings in Seattle itself, and more than 1.1 million user accounts within a 10-mile radius of Seattle, not to mention more than 5.1 million user accounts in all of Washington State. Facebook sells advertisers access to its Seattle and Washington users.

Let’s say a politically conservative group tries to reach a Seattle audience by purchasing advertising through Facebook, but is turned down. It might well have a cause of action against Facebook if the tech company continues to sell ads to politically progressive groups. Google, which also has a Seattle presence, and which also sells ads that reach a Seattle audience, would face the same situation. The attorney retained by Mind Matters News explains:

A contract between a person in Seattle (or person merely in Washington State) and Facebook or Google for online ads targeted to Seattle that is subsequently canceled on account of political ideology would seem to fit all three key facts just identified. The jurisdictional claim would be even stronger if personnel in the Seattle office were directly involved in the discriminatory action. But this isn’t strictly necessary. Rather, the discriminatory action by the out-of-state big tech company must be related to their contacts with Washington—or related to the type of business they are conducting in Washington. Nor is it strictly necessary for the plaintiff to be from Seattle or in Washington, since the jurisdictional inquiry is concerned with the state where the defendant’s action is directed. But having a Seattle or a Washington resident would appear to be helpful since that would make the transaction more specific to Washington and thereby constitute one of the defendant out-of-state big tech companies’ minimum contacts with Washington.

Apple is another big tech firm that could be subject to the Seattle law. Although headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple not only has a growing Seattle workforce (and a new Seattle office complex boasting more than 600,000 square feet of space), its Seattle offices apparently include employees working for the Apple Media Products Commerce Engineering team, which “manages purchases from all iOS products, including Apps, Music, and Subscriptions.”

This means that Apple’s operations in Seattle have a direct tie to the operation of its App Store, which has long been accused of banning apps based on political ideology. In 2010, Apple banned an app that advocated the “sanctity of human life, the dignity of marriage as a union of husband and wife, and the freedom of conscience and religion.” In 2017, it banned a pro-life app, and it has banned the apps for conservative social media platforms Gab and Parler.

Any app developer located in Seattle whose app is rejected by Apple due to political ideology may well have grounds to sue Apple under the Seattle law.

Financial service companies could also face liability under Seattle’s fair contracting practices ordinance. For example, if a financial services company operating in Seattle denies a group online credit card processing services based on the group’s political ideology, the financial services company could be opening itself up to a lawsuit. If actually headquartered in Seattle, the company could likely be sued by any of its customers regardless of their location. If the company only operates within Seattle but isn’t headquartered there, the company could still be subject to lawsuits from Seattle or Washington State residents.

Out-of-state tech companies may try to preempt lawsuits based on Seattle civil rights laws by requiring all their vendors and customers to agree to litigate any disputes in the tech companies’ home states.

But the attorney consulted by Mind Matters News says that this gambit would likely fail.

The attorney notes that the Seattle law’s “discrimination claims are authorized by the Washington Law Against Discrimination (WLAD), and WLAD claims cannot be waived by contract. According to case law, it would defeat the public policy of the State of Washington to treat a WLAD claim as waived by the choice of law clause of a contract. It would seem to follow that anti-discrimination claims that are authorized by WLAD would similarly be backed by the public policy of Washington and be non-waivable.”

It remains to be seen whether anyone will actually use Seattle’s fair contracting ordinance to take on big tech censorship.

But if they do, Seattle could soon become ground zero in the battle against big tech."

JOHN G. WEST
SENIOR FELLOW, MANAGING DIRECTOR, AND VICE PRESIDENT OF DISCOVERY INSTITUTE
Dr. John G. West is Vice President of the Seattle-based Discovery Institute and Managing Director of the Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Formerly the Chair of the Department of Political Science and Geography at Seattle Pacific University, West is an award-winning author and documentary filmmaker who has written or edited 12 books, including Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, The Magician’s Twin: C. S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society, and Walt Disney and Live Action: The Disney Studio’s Live-Action Features of the 1950s and 60s. His documentary films include Fire-Maker, Revolutionary, The War on Humans, and (most recently) Human Zoos. West holds a PhD in Government from Claremont Graduate University, and he has been interviewed by media outlets such as CNN, Fox News, Reuters, Time magazine, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post.

onawah

17th February 2021, 21:38

New York Times retracts story about officer Sicknick's death
582,160 views•Feb 15, 2021
Fox News
6.9M subscribers

"The New York Times has updated an initial report from last month claiming that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed due to blunt force truma from a fire extinguisher during the Jan. 6 riot; Mollie Hemingway reacts."
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onawah

17th February 2021, 23:42

Zuckerberg Takes ‘Anti-Vax’ Stance in Violation of His Own Platform's New Policy
190,482 views•Feb 16, 2021
27K
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876K subscribers

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Also posted here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?113263-Possible-side-effects-from-the-Covid-vaccine&p=1411614&viewfull=1#post1411614

From Forbidden Knowledge: https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-takes-anti-vax-stance-in-violation-of-his-own-platforms-new-policy/

"Project Veritas has released a video of Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg taken during a company virtual meeting last July, in which he made statements that would cause Facebook’s censorship algorithms to kick him off the platform, under their new rules.

Last week, Facebook announced that they are “expanding [their] efforts to remove false claims on Facebook and Instagram about COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccines and vaccines in general during the pandemic,” and they also said they would remove claims that vaccines change people’s DNA.

Although Facebook claims that it wants people to “discuss, debate and share their personal experiences, opinions and views,” as these pertain to the pandemic, it will now remove posts expressing concerns about the vaccine, even though these same concerns were expressed by their own CEO.

The verbatim quote made on video by Zuckerberg was, “I do just want to make sure that I share some caution on this, because we just don’t know the long term side effects of basically modifying people’s DNA and RNA to um, to directly encode in a person’s DNA and RNA – basically, the ability to um, to, to produce those antibodies and whether that causes other mutations or other risks down, downstream. So, there’s work on both paths of vaccine development.”

Again, Zuckerberg would be banned from Facebook for saying this and anyone uploading the video to the platform risks being flagged by Facebook’s censorship AI and banned.

This Great Reset censorship has achieved peak insanity. James O’Keefe asks, isn’t it interesting that Zuckerberg can go “as far as to caution his own staff but as soon as he’s made up his mind or appears to have made up his mind on the topic, he disallows the almost 3 billion Facebook users to do the same?

“Rules for thee but not for me! The irony is, under their own community standards, they say they want people to quote, ‘discuss, debate and share their personal experiences, opinions and views as it pertains to the pandemic,’ but how do you quote, ‘discuss or debate’ something if you can’t even share opposing views or even facts – or even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s own statements?…

“What happened to free speech? And who is on this Facebook Oversight Board who makes all their policy decisions?…Why do they determine what we can or can’t say as it pertains to our health?

“We would know none of this but not for the fact that we have a brave Facebook insider that continues to leak and transmit videotape of Facebook executives to Project Veritas. It’s not that the insider is betraying Mark Zuckerberg, it’s that Mark Zuckerberg is betraying what Facebook ought to stand for.” "

justntime2learn

18th February 2021, 18:08

Australia is now banned from Facebook:

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Eva2

18th February 2021, 19:35

Trump on phone with Newsmax about Twitter censorship

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/066/021/329/original/64233b034e5dc97f.mp4

onawah

19th February 2021, 01:15

James O'Keefe x Tim Pool Interview Highlights 02-16-21
38,059 views•Feb 18, 2021
Project Veritas
879K subscribers

(O'Keefe speaks about internet censorship and taking legal action against it.)

Also posted here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?113363-BREAKING-NEWS-Continuously-Updated&p=1411985&viewfull=1#post1411985)

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s7e6e

19th February 2021, 01:56

I hope they ban Facebook here altogether. Would force people into reading books or better spending their cycles.

ExomatrixTV

22nd February 2021, 15:16

"Who's being the Nazis here?" Hercules actor unloads on Disney:

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ExomatrixTV

22nd February 2021, 17:14

Claire Lehmann: Facebook has made a bad miscalculation:

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Matthew

23rd February 2021, 00:37

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1364005149858029570

JUST IN - #Microsoft forms a coalition to "combat disinformation" online. Founding members are Adobe, Arm, BBC, Intel, Microsoft, and Truepic. Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has been a big supporter of modern moves to censor more on social media.

https://news.microsoft.com/2021/02/22/technology-and-media-entities-join-forces-to-create-standards-group-aimed-at-building-trust-in-online-content/

ExomatrixTV

23rd February 2021, 23:49

Left-leaning Project Censored (https://www.projectcensored.org/) sponsored Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas on Censorship and then duly shocked when the entire conference channel on YouTube was summarily deleted. ⁃ TN Editor

An academic critical media literacy conference warning of the dangers of media censorship has, ironically, been censored by YouTube. The Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas 2020 took place (https://www.projectcensored.org/critical-media-literacy-conference-of-the-americas/) without incident online over two days in October and featured a number of esteemed speakers and panels discussing issues concerning modern media studies.

Weeks later, however, the entire video record of the conference — estimated at around 24 hours of material — disappeared from YouTube. Organizer Nolan Higdon of California State University East Bay, began receiving worried messages from other academics, some of which were shared with MintPress, who had been using the material in their classrooms, noting that it had all mysteriously disappeared.

“At first I thought it was a joke,” said Mickey Huff of Diablo Valley College, California. “My initial reaction was ‘that’s absurd;’ there must have been a mistake or an accident or it must have got swept under somehow. There is no violation, there was no reasoning, there was no warning, there was not an explanation, there was no nothing.

The entire channel was just gone,” he told MintPress. Huff is also the director of Project Censored (http://projectcensored.org/), an organization that sponsored the event.

Higdon suspected that it was the content critical of big tech monopolies like Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter that was the reason why the channel was deleted. “Each video was a different panel and every panel had different people from the other ones, so it is not like there was one theme or person or copyrighted content in all of our videos; this seems to be an attack on the conference, not on a singular video,” he said.

“This wasn’t a keg party with Parler users”

The organizers were careful to avoid copyright infringement, with the large majority of their videos in lecture format, essentially a recorded Zoom call. Speakers included some of the best-known names in media studies, with the event sponsored by institutions like Stanford University and UCLA. “This wasn’t a keg party with Parler users: it was an academic conference,” Huff said.

These are pioneering figures in critical media literacy scholarship. It’s mind numbing that all of this was just disappeared from YouTube. The irony is writ large…This is part of a potentially algorithmic way of getting rid of more radical positions that criticize establishment media systems, including journalism.”

Higdon too, suspected YouTube’s action was politicized: “This is the same year we saw big tech trying to influence Prop 22 here in California, so I am not too surprised that they would be aggressive with folks like us who are critical of media corporations.”
Organizers say they attempted to contact YouTube but did not receive a reply.
MintPress spoke to representatives from Google, YouTube’s parent company, who strenuously denied that they would ever remove content from their platforms purely because it was critical of the company, noting that there is a wealth of videos on the website that challenge or attack them. After looking into the matter, Google said they could find only one video and reinstated it (although the video does not appear on the conference’s channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWo6nbsYT3a5jfHIRF3WmtQ)). As for the hours of other footage, that remains an enigma to them, with no record of its existence. Thus, it appears that there will be no closure or a definitive answer to this mystery.

Algorithms take aim

Media literacy, big tech power, and censorship are hot topics right now. In the wake of the dramatic storming (https://www.mintpressnews.com/unpacking-aftermath-trumps-coup-attempt-brian-becker/274332/) of the Capitol Building earlier this month, a host of companies, including Google, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram, took actions against Donald Trump, limiting his and his supporters’ ability to communicate online. Perhaps most notably, however, Google, Apple, and Amazon Web Services launched a coordinated assault on “free speech app” Parler, a service popular with the far-right for its lax laws on racism. Together, the three effectively took the service offline around the world.

Read full story here… (https://thefreethoughtproject.com/censorship-conference-dangers-censored-by-youtube/)

ExomatrixTV

25th February 2021, 15:42

Kevin Sorbo speaks out after Facebook removed his page:

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ExomatrixTV

26th February 2021, 13:08

The Facebook Alternative - MeWe Founder and CEO Mark Weinstein Full Interview:

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ExomatrixTV

26th February 2021, 19:41

House Dems Want to Cancel (Censor) Conservative News Channels Now?

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ExomatrixTV

26th February 2021, 23:22

CPAC 2021: James O'Keefe & SIX Veritas Whistleblowers Take Over The Main Stage in Orlando, Florida:

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onawah

27th February 2021, 22:49

RFK Jr. Opens 'CIA Can of Worms'
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
February 27, 2021
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/02/27/rfk-jr-opens-cia-can-of-worms.aspx?ui=8d3c7e22a03f5300d2e3338a0f080d2da3add85bca35e09236649153e4675f72&sd=20110604&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20210227_HL2&mid=DM816135&rid=1094437498
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"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
February 10, 2021, Instagram banned the account of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for “sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines”
The real reason Kennedy is being censored is because he understands and exposes the global technocratic agenda that is pushing us toward global totalitarianism
The corporate media are indistinguishable from the CIA when it comes to matters of domestic and foreign matters. The CIA has also played an important role in furthering the technocrats’ agenda of global domination since its inception
Big tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google and Amazon are also deeply connected to the military-industrial-intelligence complex. They serve important surveillance and data harvesting functions without which the technocratic agenda cannot not be realized
The core of the technocratic power structure includes entities such as the Trilateral Commission, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the Bilderberg Group, the Club of Rome, the Aspen Institute, the Atlantic Institute, the Brookings Institute and other think-tanks

February 10, 2021, Instagram banned the account of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an attorney, founder of Children’s Health Defense, and co-founder and president of the environmental group, River Alliance. According to Instagram, his account was removed for “sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines.”1

This comes as no surprise to anyone who has paid attention over the past year, when privately owned social media companies started censoring users in earnest, often at the request of government officials, thereby qualifying themselves as bona fide instruments of fascism.

As described in “Fascism Definition With Examples,”2 a hallmark of fascism is an economic system in which government controls private corporations and where “a central planning authority directs company leaders to work in the national interest, which actively suppresses those who oppose it.”

The welfare of the population at large is subjugated in such a system in order to achieve “imperative social goals.” This could, for example, be the goal to vaccinate the entire population against COVID-19, which will ensure the vaccine industry can profit rather than go bust. Public health be damned.

Of course, the entire premise of a mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19 is that it will protect people and prevent unnecessary deaths from the virus. But a hidden, underlying agenda is revealed by the fact that injuries and deaths from the vaccine are either suppressed or shrugged off as collateral damage in the name of the greater good.

In other words, dying due to poor health is unacceptable and must be prevented with a vaccine, whereas dying in good health and at a young age due to vaccine injury is a perfectly acceptable price to protect the vulnerable. The end result is the same: People die. The only differences are how and why people die, and whether or not big business, which funds politicians, can profit in the process.

Don’t Trust the Medical or National Security Establishment
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In the August 2020 Ron Paul Liberty Report above,3,4 Kennedy talks about evidence suggesting his father, Robert Kennedy, was assassinated by a CIA agent hired as a security guard.

He goes on to review some of the history of the CIA — how it was initially established as an espionage organization tasked solely with intelligence gathering, only to transform into a paramilitary agency engaged with the overthrowing of democracies around the world and other nefarious and antidemocratic activities.

He also touches on the infamous CIA program called MK Ultra, in which individuals are brainwashed to carry out orders, including murders, against their own will.

CIA and Corporate Media Are One and the Same
The CIA’s role in the current flood of censorship may be more significant than most people imagine. In the Off-Guardian article,5 “Opening the CIA’s Can of Worms,” Edward Curtin highlights the close ties between the CIA and corporate mainstream media.

The CIA and the media are part of the same criminal conspiracy.
He cites Douglas Valentine’s book, “The CIA as Organized Crime,” in which Valentine states that “The CIA and the media are part of the same criminal conspiracy.” Curtin describes the media as “stenographers for the national security state’s ongoing psychological operations aimed at the American people,” adding that:

“For all practical purposes when it comes to matters that bear on important foreign and domestic matters, the CIA and the corporate mainstream media cannot be distinguished.”

While information warfare and psyops have been par for the course for a long time, it’s only in recent years that more people have started really noticing it, and it’s only become blatantly obvious in the past year or so, thanks to the rapid expansion of individuals, groups and topics being silenced.

In the past year, even licensed medical doctors and award-winning scientists have undergone the modern version of being tarred and feathered online, followed by expulsion from their web-based communities for the crime of asking commonsense questions and speaking truth to power.
Guilt by Headline
The aim and purpose of the kind of information warfare we currently find ourselves embroiled in is to “win the hearts and minds of the American people and pacify them into victims of their own complicity,” Curtin writes. Again, with regard to COVID-19, the purpose is clearly to get everyone to buy into the necessity of getting vaccinated and to reject objections, no matter how logical.

That the CIA-run media, medical establishment and national security apparatus are all working in tandem on this issue, and using classic propaganda tactics, is unmistakable. Curtin writes:6

“Just the other day The New York Times had this headline: ‘Robert Kennedy Jr. Barred From Instagram Over False Virus Claims.’ Notice the lack of the word alleged before ‘false virus claims.’ This is guilt by headline.

It is a perfect piece of propaganda posing as reporting, since it accuses Kennedy, a brilliant and honorable man, of falsity and stupidity, thus justifying Instagram’s ban, and it is an inducement to further censorship of Mr. Kennedy by Facebook, Instagram’s parent company …

This is one example of the censorship underway with much, much more to follow. What was once done under the cover of omission is now done openly and brazenly, cheered on by those who, in an act of bad faith, claim to be upholders of the First Amendment and the importance of free debate in a democracy. We are quickly slipping into an unreal totalitarian social order.”

Curtin disagrees with journalists like Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi and Chris Hedges, who argue that social media companies really don’t want to censor but are pressured into it by hubris-filled, power- and control-hungry corporate media personalities.

There’s more to it than that, Curtin says, pointing out that “These companies and their employees do what they are told, whether explicitly or implicitly, for they know it is in their financial interest to do so.”

He argues that they’re all “part of a large interconnected intelligence apparatus — a system, a complex — whose purpose is power, wealth, and domination for the very few at the expense of the many,” and that, it is this that makes the CIA and media “parts of the same criminal conspiracy.”

Who Pulls the Levers of Control?
“To argue that the Silicon Valley companies do not want to censor but are being pressured by the legacy corporate media does not make sense,” Curtin says, because:

“These companies are deeply connected to U.S. intelligence agencies, as are the NY Times, CNN, NBC, etc. They too are part of what was once called Operation Mockingbird, the CIA’s program to control, use, and infiltrate the media. Only the most naïve would think that such a program does not exist today.”

Indeed, many suspect Facebook is the public-friendly version of DARPA’s Lifelog, a database project aimed at tracking the minutiae of people’s entire existence for national security surveillance purposes.7 The Pentagon pulled the plug on Lifelog February 4, 2004, in response to backlash over privacy concerns.8 Yet that same day, Facebook was launched.9 Coincidence?

Whether by fluke or pre-inception collaboration, there can be no doubt that Facebook now fulfills the Lifelog purpose of surveilling, tracking and data mining its users both on- and offline.

Similarly, Google, Amazon, Twitter and other major tech companies are also tied to the “military-industrial-intelligence-media complex,” to quote Curtin’s term. All provide invaluable surveillance and censorship functions, and without them, the totalitarian control system we now find ourselves caught in wouldn’t be possible.

“The truth is the Internet was a military and intelligence tool from the very beginning and it is not the traditional corporate media that gives [tech companies] its marching orders,” Curtin writes.10

“That being so, it is not the owners of the corporate media or their employees who are the ultimate controllers behind the current vast crackdown on dissent, but the intelligence agencies who control the mainstream media and the Silicon Valley monopolies …

All these media companies are but the outer layer of the onion, the means by which messages are sent and people controlled. But for whom do these intelligence agencies work? Not for themselves.

They work for their overlords, the super wealthy people, the banks, financial institutions, and corporations that own the United States and always have.

In a simple twist of fate, such super wealthy naturally own the media corporations that are essential to their control of the majority of the world’s wealth through the stories they tell. It is a symbiotic relationship.”

Operation Mockingbird: The Great Reset
What Curtin is talking about is the same elite 0.001% of the global population I’ve written about before in articles such as “Oneness Versus the 1%,” “What You Need to Know About the Great Reset,” “The Global Takeover Is Underway,” “The Plan for a Global System of Slavery,” “The Pressing Dangers of Technocracy,” “Technocracy and the Great Reset” and many others.

While the specific identities of the individual string-pullers are difficult to discern, what’s clear is that there is an international “deep state” whose plans are implemented in a coordinated fashion around the world, seemingly at a moment’s notice, as we saw when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.

Within days, all the world’s leaders sang the same tune. The same message was stated in dozens of languages, often verbatim, as if they were reading the same cue card. Looking at global nongovernmental agencies makes it easier to ascertain who these cue card writers might be, as they form a vast, intertwined web that keep circling back to each other.

We can discern, then, that the core of this technocratic power structure includes entities such as the Trilateral Commission, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the Bilderberg Group, the Club of Rome, the Aspen Institute, the Atlantic Institute, the Brookings Institute and other think-tanks, just to name some of the most obvious.

Members of these exclusive “clubs,” many of which are by invitation only, include leaders from major industries, corporate media, political offices and the military-industrial complex.

As noted by Curtin, “They are the international overlords who are pushing hard to move the world toward a global dictatorship.” The CIA, as you might suspect by now, has also been part of this “deep state cabal” from the very beginning.

And, if the CIA and corporate media are two sides of the same coin, we can deduce that the global psyop currently underway has the purpose of ensuring the successful implementation of the Great Reset and the Fourth Industrial Revolution — two terms that describe different aspects of the same agenda of enslavement.

While it may seem unrelated to some, the vaccine agenda does play an important part in this scheme, especially long term, which is why anti-vaccine voices are now being slapped down at a furious pace. It’s not the sole reason for their silencing, however.

The Real Threat Kennedy Poses
As Curtin points out in his article, Kennedy is not censored simply because he’s raising questions about vaccines, Bill Gates or the drug industry in general. No, it’s because he’s a direct threat to the highest echelon of this hidden global power structure that seeks to take control:11

“His critiques suggest something far more dangerous is afoot: the demise of democracy and the rise of a totalitarian order that involves total surveillance, control, eugenics, etc. by the wealthy led by their intelligence propagandists.

To call him a super spreader of hoaxes and a conspiracy theorist is aimed at not only silencing him on specific medical issues, but to silence his powerful and articulate voice on all issues.

To give thoughtful consideration to his deeply informed scientific thinking concerning vaccines, the World Health Organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, etc., is to open a can of worms that the powerful want shut tight.

This is because RFK, Jr. is also a severe critic of the enormous power of the CIA and its propaganda that goes back so many decades and was used to cover up the national security state’s assassination of both his father and his uncle.

It is why his wonderful recent book, ‘American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family,’ that contains not one word about vaccines, was shunned by mainstream book reviewers; for the picture he paints fiercely indicts the CIA in multiple ways while also indicting the mass media that have been its mouthpieces.”

According to Kennedy, the CIA murdered his father. The reason they did was because he was a powerful and popular politician who, like Curtin says, “could have … tamed the power of the CIA to control the narrative that has allowed for the plundering of the world and the country for the wealthy overlords.”

In other words, he knew the CIA was the figurative center pole holding up the pole tent, and if you yank that out, the roof caves in. They couldn’t let that happen.

Connecting the Dots
Kennedy discusses many of the same topics covered in the Ron Paul Report in his much longer interview with Patrick Bet-David, above. In both interviews, he reviews his family’s tragic yet heroic history, but he also gets into the topic of vaccine safety and the folly of ignoring published science showing there are significant problems — and the fact that the medical establishment refutes and denies these problems without ever presenting any actual counter-evidence.

Kennedy also discusses data suggesting the COVID-19 lockdowns may have caused more deaths than the virus itself, as well as the civil rights issues involved. Like many other experts, he believes the lockdowns are scientifically indefensible and will kill far more people than COVID-19.

Based on a recent cost-benefit analysis12 of global lockdowns, Kennedy is correct. Data suggest the cost for lockdowns in Canada — in terms of Quality Adjusted Life Years and Wellbeing Years — is at least 10 times greater than the benefit.

In Australia, the minimum cost is 6.6 times higher, and in the U.S., the cost is estimated to be at least 5.2 times higher than the benefit of lockdowns. So, yes, pandemic measures are robbing the public of more life and fruitful years than this virus ever could.

In his interview with Bet-David, Kennedy also delves into known side effects of vaccines that in turn drive a highly profitable chronic illness industry, the lack of safety studies for vaccines, the irresponsible practice of testing vaccines against false placebos such as another vaccine, and the vaccine industry’ indemnity agreement with Congress that further prevents safe vaccines from ever being developed.

He also talks about the aggressive advertising of drugs and vaccines which, as a side effect, allows drug companies to influence media coverage of their products; the questionable integrity of Dr. Anthony Fauci; how mortality data are conflated to falsely inflate influenza deaths as a marketing ploy to sell flu vaccines; the dangers of 5G, modern-day electronic surveillance and social media’s data harvesting; and the detrimental influence of Bill Gates’ so-called philanthropy.

As Curtin notes, Kennedy’s observations, which help people connect the dots, ultimately point people to the core problem of our day, which is a hidden control structure that is seeking to destroy the American Constitution and rob us of our rights and freedoms, if we let them.

At the end of the day, that’s what all of this censorship is about. That hidden power structure does not want us to realize what’s being done to us, because then we might rebel. And, if that happens, the jig is up, since there are far more of us than there are of them.

A Well-Informed Humanity United Is the Answer
This is precisely why we must never stop seeking out and sharing this type of information. Those who buy into the propaganda are quite literally helping their soon-to-be jailers erect the prison bars around them. It’s self-destructive, which is why we need to help those we care about to understand the bigger picture and not get locked into details of differing opinions that don’t matter.

As noted in Kennedy’s October 24, 2020, online speech,13 “International Message of Hope for Humanity” — which kicked off a day of protest against the coup d’état by the technocratic elite — we must shed our imaginary fears, reject media fearmongering, insist on freedom of speech and engage in the democratic process.

“The only way we can win it is with democracy,” he said. “We need to fight to get our democracy back, to reclaim our democracy from these villains who are stealing it from us. Notice the people who are getting richest from this quarantine are the same people who are censoring criticism of the quarantine.”

Kennedy also stressed another crucial point, namely the need to unify. We must put aside our quibbles over nonessential things like race, religion and political affiliations, and stay laser-focused on the real enemy.

“What the Big Tech villains … want us to do is fight with each other. They want Blacks fighting against whites. They want republicans fighting against democrats. They want everybody polarized. They want everybody fragmented because they know that if we all get together, we’re going to start asking questions and those are questions they can’t answer …

If you’re a republican or democrat, stop talking about that. Stop identifying yourself. The enemy is Big Tech, Big Data, Big Oil, Big Pharma, the medical cartel, the government totalitarian elements that are trying to oppress us, that are trying to rob us of our liberties, of our democracy, of our freedom of thought, of our freedom of expression, of our freedom of assembly and all of the freedoms that give dignity to humanity …

The free-flow of information, the cauldron of debate, is the only thing that allows governments to develop rational policies in which self-governance will actually work and triumph.

You are on the front lines of the most important battle in history — the battle to save democracy, freedom, human liberty and human dignity from this totalitarian cartel that is trying to rob us, simultaneously, in every nation in the world, of the rights that every human being is born with …

And I pledge to you: I will go down dying with my boots on, fighting side-by-side with all of you to make sure that we return these rights and preserve them for our children.”

And, that, right there, is why Kennedy, like his father and uncle before him, is a target for elimination by the technocratic-CIA-media-drug-industrial-political-military complex. The good news is that the more people know and understand who the real enemy is, the lower the risk is for those in the know.

After all, the CIA cannot assassinate an entire country, or the entire world. At a certain point, silencing people becomes moot because too many people know the truth already. I believe this is the case with Kennedy at this point, which is why the worst they can do is try to limit his reach on social media. And with your help, even those efforts will ultimately fail."

- Sources and References
1 CNN February 11, 2021
2 The Balance September 27, 2020
3 YouTube August 14, 2020
4 Ron Paul Institute August 14, 2020
5, 6, 10, 11 Off-Guardian February 14, 2021
7 Military.com February 4, 2004
8 Rapture Ready FAQ: Lifelog project
9 History Facebook Launches February 4, 2004
12 Preprints.org 2020: 2020100330 DOI: 10.20944/preprints202010.0330.v2
13 Children’s Health Defense October 26, 2020

ExomatrixTV

3rd March 2021, 18:21

Microsoft Forms "Ministry of Truth (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?110573-Look-Who-s-Coming-to-the-Rescue--Bill-Gates...&p=1414177&viewfull=1#post1414177)"

⚠️ Dutch 🇳🇱 click here (https://www.ninefornews.nl/microsoft-vormt-orwelliaans-ministerie-van-waarheid/)
Microsoft press release (https://news.microsoft.com/2021/02/22/technology-and-media-entities-join-forces-to-create-standards-group-aimed-at-building-trust-in-online-content/)
Reclaim the net (https://reclaimthenet.org/microsoft-forms-coalition-to-censor-disinformation-online/)

onawah

7th March 2021, 07:35

The Web of Elite Extremists Behind Censorship of Mercola
by Dr. Joseph Mercola
March 05, 2021

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/03/05/web-elite-extremists-behind-censorship-of-mercola.aspx?ui=8d3c7e22a03f5300d2e3338a0f080d2da3add85bca35e09236649153e4675f72&sd=20110604&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20210305&mid=DM821551&rid=1099358239

(2 videos in this article which I will ask the Mods to embed)

Admin note from Tintin: I've been able to isolate the David Martin video which is a Bitchute one - TQ 03/07/2021

"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) is funded by Bill Gates, Google, George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and Wellcome, all of which are easily identified as parts of the technocratic globalist network
In November 2019, TBIJ was given a $1,068,169 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for an advocacy program related to “Global health and development public awareness and analysis”
George Soros’ Open Society Foundation funds TBIJ projects involving “shadow wars and decision machines”
TBIJ is writing a hit piece on me, claiming the articles I post on my website and social media channels “often include misinformation about the pandemic, the coronavirus or vaccines, as well as misinformation on other topics”
mRNA gene therapy “vaccines” are fast-tracked products released under emergency use authorization — animal trials were skipped and human trials aren’t even completed yet — and based on historical and preliminary evidence, significant short and long term side effects are inevitable

As detailed in "The Web of Players Trying to Silence Truth," the Publicis Groupe, a global PR firm, appears to be at the center of a large network involving Big Tech, Big Pharma, the U.S. government and global nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that work in tandem to further the globalist Great Reset agenda.

As you might expect, when you're trying to implement a global regime change, you need to exercise very serious control over both the media and the public discourse. If you don't, you might have a rebellion on your hands when people realize that what you're doing is not in their best interest.

And, for that, you need some sort of central propaganda organization. Of course, you don't want the manipulation to be glaringly obvious, so you set up a variety of NGOs, foundations, "public interest" organizations and "grassroots" groups to give the appearance of consensus between independents.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) is but one of many, many examples of groups that appear to serve as front groups for a particular agenda.1 You can be solidly assured that when an organization takes over a million dollars from Bill Gates their ability to produce high-quality investigative journalism is impaired and financially influenced..

TBIJ Produces Another Gates' Hit Piece
I've written many articles over the years about attempts by various groups and organizations to smear my credibility and label this site as a fake news hub. The latest attempt comes from TBIJ, which recently asked for my rebuttal on a number of statements they were about to publish2 about me with regard to my stance on vaccines and COVID-19.

"Misinformation about these topics can hinder public health efforts to control the coronavirus pandemic and undermine the ability of individuals to make accurately informed decisions about vaccines," TBIJ's Jasper Jackson wrote in his email.

As recently as November 2019, TBIJ was given a $1,068,169 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for an advocacy program related to 'Global health and development public awareness and analysis.'
One of the statements slated for publication that I was asked to respond to is that the articles posted on my website and social media channels "often include misinformation about the pandemic, the coronavirus or vaccines, as well as misinformation on other topics."

One such article, which was singled out, is "How COVID-19 'Vaccines' May Destroy the Lives of Millions" which, according to Jackson, "includes the false claim that vaccines being distributed in the U.S. and elsewhere are 'an experimental gene therapy that could prematurely kill large amounts of the population and disable exponentially more.'"

According to Jackson, there have also been "numerous fact checks articles" about my "publication of misinformation stretching back to the early 2000s." His article will further claim that "The primary purpose of Mercola's articles and social media activity are to drive sales from his various health businesses."

This is a classic and time-honored strategy that is frequently used to discredit any source that disagrees with their agenda. Many may not recall that for the first three years after I started this site, I did not sell anything and subsidized the half a million dollars it cost me to run the site out of my medical practice.

Every content site relies on a source of revenue, either through subscription fees or advertising. Or, in the case of TBIJ, taking dirty money from the Gates Foundation who has an agenda when it comes to his investments in the pharmaceutical and GMO/chemical agriculture industry.

Then, as now, advertisers have a way of influencing the content, and I am free to report the truth without taking advertisers' bottom lines into account. My content has expanded over the years and remains 100% free to the public. Guess Who Funds TBIJ?
TBIJ is funded by Bill Gates,3,4 a leading force within the technocratic takeover movement who doles out money to anything and anyone that will help further the globalist agenda, including media.5 As recently as November 2019, TBIJ was given a $1,068,169 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for an advocacy program related to "Global health and development public awareness and analysis."6 Other TBIJ sponsors include:7

•The Google News Initiative, which sponsors fellowships at the TBIJ.8

•George Soros' Open Society Foundation which, not at all surprisingly, funds projects involving "shadow wars and decision machines."

•The Wellcome Trust,9 the largest charity in the U.K. that funds "innovative biomedical research." It was formed in 1936 after the death of Sir Henry Wellcome, a pharmaceutical pioneer and progressive industrialist. Their board consists of present or former bankers, insurance executives and investment board members.

Wellcome also funds the Science Media Centre (SMC), a PR firm that specializes in reshaping public reality, manufacturing consent and manipulating beliefs and behaviors. Wellcome and SMC also have the shared goal of educating and training other media.

All of these — Gates, Google, Soros and Wellcome — are easily identified as parts of the technocratic globalist network. So, it's not surprising to find TBIJ attempting to discredit and censor those critical of the globalist agenda which, of course, includes protecting and promoting the COVID-19 vaccine program.

After all, the COVID-19 vaccination program is bound to be the most profitable vaccine program in the history of medicine, seeing how the plan is to vaccinate 7+ billion people, and not just once or twice, but probably every year going forward.

And, as reported by Columbia Journalism Review,10 while fact checkers have slapped a "false" label on the claim that the Gates Foundation has financial investments in companies making COVID-19 vaccines and therapies, "the foundation's website and most recent tax forms clearly show investments in such companies, including Gilead and CureVac."

In his email, Jackson also asked me to comment on planned statements regarding warning letters sent to my business from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the FDA's confirmation that a recall of my Organic Cocoa Cassava bars had occurred in 2016.

Why would TBIJ focus on the essentially irrelevant voluntary recall of organic coconut bars as a concern when the real issue they need to be exposing is their acceptance of over $1 million from Gates? Why? Because Gates has been fined well over $1 billion for serious regulatory breaches — $800,000 in 2004;11 $32 million in 2005; and $1.3 billion in 2008.12

Vaccines or Gene Therapy?

Source:https://seed122.bitchute.com/5W8Qpgv76n77/AuvhMTMoby41.mp4

The Moderna and Pfizer Covid jabs are not legally "vaccines"

https://seed122.bitchute.com/5W8Qpgv76n77/AuvhMTMoby41.mp4

As for my description of mRNA "vaccines" as gene therapy, any serious rational and objective assessment would never qualify this as a false claim.

Think of it in the most simple terms. mRNA are snippets of genetic code that carries instructions for cells to produce proteins. The definition of genetic is 'relating to genes' and genes contain instructional code that tell the body what proteins to make.

Therapy is the medical treatment of disease, so mRNA vaccines are very clearly gene therapy.

As noted by David Martin, Ph.D., (see video above), Moderna's SEC filings specify and stress that its technology is a "gene therapy technology," originally intended for cancer treatment. It's mechanism of action also confirms it to be gene therapy. So, it's gene therapy.

Furthermore, these products don't meet the medical definition of what a vaccine actually is and does, so where's the counterargument? According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,13 a vaccine is "a product that stimulates a person's immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease, protecting the person from that disease."

Immunity, in turn, is defined as "Protection from an infectious disease," meaning that "If you are immune to a disease, you can be exposed to it without becoming infected." Neither Moderna nor Pfizer claim this to be the case for their COVID-19 "vaccines."

In fact, in their clinical trials, they specify that they will not even test for immunity. The sole purpose of these products is to lessen clinical symptoms associated with the S-1 spike protein, not the actual virus.

I challenge TBIJ to present evidence that these mRNA injections function in the same manner as conventional vaccines such that they meet the medical definition, and that they are not, in fact, gene therapies. Don't just argue that I'm wrong. Prove me wrong.

Fact: mRNA Technology Has Unproven Safety Record
The mRNA gene therapies currently being misleadingly marketed as "vaccines" admittedly turn your cells into bioreactors that churn out viral proteins to incite an immune response, and there's no off-switch.14

They are fast-tracked products released under emergency use authorization — animal trials were skipped and human trials aren't even completed yet — and based on historical and preliminary evidence, significant short- and long-term side effects are, quite frankly, inevitable. This novel, never before used therapy has a long list of potential problems, including the following:

The messenger RNA (mRNA) used in many COVID-19 vaccines are synthetic. Your body sees these synthetic particles as non-self, which can cause autoantibodies to attack your own tissues. Judy Mikovits, Ph.D., explained this in her interview, featured in "How COVID-19 'Vaccines' May Destroy the Lives of Millions."

Your body also views free mRNA as a warning signal to your immune system, as they drive inflammatory diseases. This is why making synthetic mRNA thermostable, meaning it doesn't break down as easily as it normally would by encasing the mRNA in lipid nanoparticles is likely to be problematic.

COVID-19 vaccines use PEGylated lipid nanoparticles, and PEG is known to cause allergic reactions and anaphylaxis.15,16

Previous attempts to develop an mRNA-based drug using lipid nanoparticles failed because when the dose was too low, the drug had no effect, and when dosed too high, the drug became too toxic.17 What has changed that now makes this technology safe enough for mass use across all ages and preexisting health conditions?

The synthetic RNA influences, in part, the gene syncytin. According to Mikovits, when syncytin is aberrantly expressed in the brain, you can develop multiple sclerosis. Expression of the syncytin gene also inflames and dysregulates communication between the brain microglia, which are critical for clearing toxins and pathogens in the brain. It also dysregulates your immune system and your endocannabinoid system, which calms inflammation.

The recommendation to vaccinate individuals who have previously been infected with SARS-CoV-2, or who have an active SARS-CoV-2 infection, could be very dangerous, according to Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, who sent a public letter18 to the FDA Commissioner detailing these risks.

Reports in the medical literature have also highlighted the risk of pathogenic priming and antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). For example, in "Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire? Due Diligence Warranted for ADE in COVID-19," the authors explain:19

"ADE is an immunological phenomenon whereby a previous immune response to a virus can render an individual more susceptible to a subsequent analogous infection.

Rather than viral recognition and clearance, the prior development of virus-specific antibodies at a non-neutralizing level can facilitate viral uptake, enhancing replication; a possible immune evasion strategy avoiding intracellular innate immune sensors, or pattern recognition receptors …

ADE of SARS-CoV has also been described through a novel FcγRII-dependent and ACE2-independent cell entry mechanism. The authors state20 that this warrants concern in the safety evaluation of any candidate human vaccines against SARS-CoV … This also illustrates that ADE is not always indicative of disease pathology but raises concern for the immunocompromised."

Similarly, "Pathogenic Priming Likely Contributes to Serious and Critical Illness and Mortality in COVID-19 Via Autoimmunity," published in the Journal of Translational Autoimmunity, warns that:21

"Failure of SARS and MERS vaccines in animal trials involved pathogenesis consistent with an immunological priming that could involve autoimmunity in lung tissues due to previous exposure to the SARS and MERS spike protein. Exposure pathogenesis to SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19 likely will lead to similar outcomes."

We apparently don't even know if antibody production is truly protective or pathogenic in coronavirus infections, according to a December 11, 2020, paper22 in the journal Vaccine: X, which states:

"The first SARS-CoV-2 vaccine(s) will likely be licensed based on neutralizing antibodies in Phase 2 trials, but there are significant concerns about using antibody response in coronavirus infections as a sole metric of protective immunity.

Antibody response is often a poor marker of prior coronavirus infection, particularly in mild infections, and is shorter-lived than virus-reactive T-cells … Strong antibody response correlates with more severe clinical disease while T-cell response is correlated with less severe disease; and antibody-dependent enhancement of pathology and clinical severity has been described.

Indeed, it is unclear whether antibody production is protective or pathogenic in coronavirus infections. Early data with SARS-CoV-2 support these findings. Data from coronavirus infections in animals and humans emphasize the generation of a high-quality T cell response in protective immunity."

Sadly, just as I accurately predicted, there's no shortage of media stories reporting side effects in those receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, including sudden deaths of healthy individuals.23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41 And rest assured, the casualties will continue to mount.

One very serious side effect that has emerged is thrombocytopenia, a rare blood disorder that has been reported in at least 36 Americans shortly after COVID-19 vaccination.42,43 This is what led to the sudden death of a 56-year-old Miami Beach doctor. Symptoms emerged within three days of receiving the Pfizer vaccine. He died two weeks later.

Sure, mainstream media assure us that a link between the vaccine and this lethal condition has not been proven, but to dismiss lethal effects that occur within days in otherwise healthy individuals requires some serious suspension of disbelief.

There were no problems accepting that people who got a positive SARS-CoV-2 test and then died — having struggled with heart disease or cancer for years — actually died due to the infection. Something had to be done.

Now, healthy people are dying within hours or days after vaccination, and we're to just shrug that off as random coincidence. We're to believe they would have keeled over from the same problem even if they didn't receive the gene therapy.

In a paper44 titled, "COVID-19 RNA Based Vaccines and the Risk of Prion Disease," published in Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Dr. Bart Classen also warns there are troubling evidences suggesting the mRNA shots may cause prion diseases such as Alzheimer's.

Based on this readily available data, I believe my projections that these gene therapies "could prematurely kill large amounts of the population and disable exponentially more" is materializing before our eyes. So, again, I challenge TBIJ to rebut, with actual data, all of those reports before they claim I'm peddling misinformation.

Political Powerbrokers Call for Massive Censoring
That there is a powerful network behind the current efforts to eradicate truth tellers is impossible to miss. The coordination alone — between politicians, Big Pharma, mainstream media, Big Tech, "philanthropic" foundations, NGOs and intelligence agencies — is evidence that this is no minor side project.

Even Congress45 and the Biden administration have reportedly reached out to social media companies, urging them to clamp down on "COVID-19 misinformation" before it goes viral.46

As noted by Glenn Greenwald in a February 20, 2021, substack article,47 "In their zeal for control over online speech, House Democrats are getting closer and closer to the constitutional line, if they have not already crossed it."

I would argue they have indeed crossed the line, seeing how U.S. House Democrats from California — Anna Eshoo and Jerry McNerney — have gone so far as to demand a dozen cable, satellite and streaming TV companies to censor or remove Fox News, Newsmax and OANN, allegedly for the crime of rejecting "public health best practices."

In his article48 on this rapid escalation of government calls for censorship, Greenwald states that "Democrats' justification for silencing their adversaries online and in media — 'They are spreading fake news and inciting extremism' — is what despots everywhere say."

"Since when is it the role of the U.S. Government to arbitrate and enforce precepts of 'journalistic integrity'?" Greenwald asks.

"Unless you believe in the right of the government to regulate and control what the press says — a power which the First Amendment explicitly prohibits — how can anyone be comfortable with members of Congress arrogating unto themselves the power to dictate what media outlets are permitted to report and control how they discuss and analyze the news of the day?"

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has strongly denounced the Democrats' actions, calling it a "marked departure from First Amendment norms," adding that the demands are "a chilling transgression of the free speech rights that every media outlet in this country enjoys … No government official has any business inquiring about the 'moral principles' that guide a private entity's decision about what news to carry."49

Peer-Reviewed Published Science Is Not Misinformation
While there are probably several intertwining and overlapping incentives behind the relentless push to get these gene therapies into everyone on the planet — even if it includes shutting down any news networks that once in a blue moon has the courage to report on open questions surrounding these products and other pandemic measures — protecting profits is undoubtedly one of them.

As reported by The Defender,50 drug industry lobbyists spent nearly $306.23 million to influence federal lawmakers in 2020 alone. Drug companies also spend about $30 billion on marketing each year (per 2016 data), $6 billion of which pays to propagandize consumers with 5 million universally misleading ads.51 That's nearly 13,700 ads every day of the year, or 571 ads per hour, 24/7.

Still, despite that massive brainwashing operation, the truth has an appeal all its own. It's direct. It's logical. It doesn't require complicated cognitive gymnastics and 1984-style double-think to "get it." Most importantly, it can stand on its own against attacks devoid of substantial, data-backed counterarguments — which is why I don't lose sleep over baseless hit pieces from TBIJ and other jackals bearing similar stripes."

- Sources and References
1 Wikispooks TBIJ
2 TBIJ February 28, 2021
3, 7 TBIJ Sponsors and Supporters
4, 6 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grant to TBIJ November 2019
5, 10 Columbia Journalism Review August 21, 2020
8 Thebureauinvestigates.com Bureau Fellowship
9 Wellcome Trust
11 CNN Money May 3, 2004
12 Wikipedia Microsoft Litigation
13 CDC.gov Immunizations: The Basics, Definition of Terms
14 Technology Review February 5, 2021
15 Bioregulatory Medicine Institute December 28, 2020
16, 23 Science Magazine December 21, 2020
17 Stat News January 10, 2017
18 Medium February 15, 2021
19 Microbes Infect. October 2020; 22(9): 405-406
20 Hong Kong Medical Journal 2016; 22(Suppl 4): S25-31 (PDF)
21 Journal of Translational Autoimmunity 2020; 3: 100051
22 Vaccine: X December 11, 2020; 6: 1000076
24 The Local February 13, 2021
25 Health Impact News February 19, 2021
26 Facebook Haley Nelson December 30, 2020
27 Facebook Tara Sekikawa December 27, 2020
28 Facebook Karl Dunkin case January 5, 2021
29 Times of India November 25, 2020
30 RT December 26, 2020
31 The Defender December 21, 2020
32 CDC.gov Anaphylaxis following mRNA COVID-19 vaccine receipt (PDF)
33 The Defender January 12, 2021
34 Facebook, Shawn Skelton January 7, 2021
35 WioNews January 2, 2021
36 Mirror December 11, 2020
37 WDRB.com February 12, 2021
38 Daily Star December 30, 2020
39 RT January 4, 2021
40 The Defender January 7, 2021
41 The Vaccine Reaction January 24, 2021
42 The New York Times February 8, 2021 (Archived)
43 Newsweek February 10, 2021
44 Microbiology & Infectious Diseases 2021; 5(1): 1-3 (PDF)
45, 47 Glenn Greenwald Substack February 20, 2021
46 The Federalist Papers February 20, 2021
48, 49 Glenn Greenwald Substack February 23, 2021
50 The Defender January 29, 2021
51 AP News January 8, 2019

ExomatrixTV

10th March 2021, 19:32

Steven Crowder (over 5,35 Million Subscribers) BANNED & Smeared In Coordinated Attack & Everyone's Getting Sued! Louder With Crowder:

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2,109,395+ views
•Mar 19, 2015

RunningDeer

12th March 2021, 15:34

Tintin

12th March 2021, 15:50

Strike two for James Corbett of corbettreport.com (https://www.corbettreport.com).

"I'm one strike away from having my main YouTube channel deleted and Patreon has permanently "suspended" my account, so if you're only following my work through these controlled platforms then all I have to say is: It was nice knowing you! For everyone else, here's how you can continue watching The Corbett Report even after YouTube pulls the plug…"
Show Notes (https://www.corbettreport.com/hello-i-must-be-going/)

corbettreport.com (https://www.corbettreport.com)
Bitchute (https://www.bitchute.com/channel/GwPziiQZrVT3/)
lbry.tv (https://lbry.tv/@corbettreport:0)
minds.com (https://www.minds.com/CorbettReport)
archive.org (https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22The+Corbett+Report%22)
YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/corbettreport/videos)

Hello, I Must Be Going! . . . (9:40 min)
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It's nothing short of a minor miracle in today's climate that he's managed to remain up on Youtube as long as he has :)

LBRY is an excellent resource for folks unfamiliar with it.

I do recommend downloading the App (https://lbry.com/get) - I use the Windows desktop version. Advantages, amongst many, include the ability to be able to download video content without recourse to third party software interventions.

RunningDeer

12th March 2021, 16:01

I do recommend downloading the App (https://lbry.com/get) - I use the Windows desktop version. Advantages, amongst many, include the ability to be able to download video content without recourse to third party software interventions.

Thanks, Tintin. I'm downloaded the app now.

I'm keeping my eye out for Mike Lindell's Social Media Platform. Mike said the platform will be ready in about 5-6 weeks in the video uploaded yesterday. They've been working on it for four years.

‘YouTube and Twitter Will Be Thing of the Past': Mike Lindell Launches
New Social Media Platform (2:20 min)

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Delight

15th March 2021, 04:31

ExomatrixTV

17th March 2021, 19:44

Youtube REMOVES Steven Crowder Episode After Twitter Outrage Over Jokes:

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onawah

17th March 2021, 22:43

NVIC, the Latest Victim in the War on Truth

"This organization has been around for nearly four decades, and worked with US Congress to establish the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. They make no recommendations regarding vaccines, but publish fully referenced information. Why have they been taken out?"

'Digital Anti-Hate' Group
Dr. Joseph Mercola
March 17, 2021
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/03/17/digital-anti-hate-group-puts-dr-mercola-on-hit-list.aspx?ui=8d3c7e22a03f5300d2e3338a0f080d2da3add85bca35e09236649153e4675f72&sd=20110604&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20210317_HL2&mid=DM832153&rid=1109215388

"STORY AT-A-GLANCE
One of the frontrunners in the comprehensive attack on freedom of speech online is a U.K.-based group with opaque funding called the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)
The CCDH has been one of the most vocal organizations calling for the deplatforming of anyone who might have the ability to influence public opinion about vaccines
The CCDH recently posted a hit list on Twitter, listing the “Top 10 anti-vaxxers” it wants digital platforms to eradicate, including yours truly and the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), which worked with the U.S. Congress to establish the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act in 1986
March 2, 2021, Facebook complied with CCDH’s request, removing NVIC’s account. CCDH is also calling on Facebook to eliminate NVIC from Instagram, which Facebook owns
While you wait for a decentralized, censorship-free internet, consider ditching all social media networks that erode our civil liberties, and to join those that promote freedom of speech instead

As detailed in “Spy Agencies Threaten to ‘Take Out’ Mercola,” https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/12/01/anti-vaccine-propaganda-censorship.aspx...this website has been labeled a national security threat by British and American intelligence agencies that are collaborating to eliminate “anti-vaccine propaganda” from public discussion using sophisticated cyberwarfare tools.1,2,3

One of the public frontrunners in this comprehensive attack on my freedom of speech is a U.K.-based group with opaque funding called the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), led by Imran Ahmed, a member of the Steering Committee on Countering Extremism Pilot Task Force under the British government’s Commission for Countering Extremism.

In its report, “The Anti-Vaxx Playbook,”4 the CCDH identifies me as one of the six most influential “anti-vaxxers” online that must be silenced for good. The other five are Barbara Loe Fisher, Del Bigtree, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Sherri Tenpenny and Andrew Wakefield.

The CCDH also admits tracking and spying on 425 vaccine-related Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter accounts that, together, have 59.2 million followers.5

The CCDH has been one of the most vocal organizations calling for the deplatforming of anyone who might have the ability to influence public opinion about vaccines.6 This despite the fact that public discourse and debate is a requirement not only for a well-informed public but also to protect scientific integrity and public health.

Anti-Hate Group Publishes Digital Hit List
More recently, the CCDH published an updated hit list on Twitter,7 now listing the “Top 10 anti-vaxxers” it wants digital platforms to eradicate. The list shows, by way of crossing out names, which have already been successfully deplatformed, and from which social media.

As of March 3, 2021, Kennedy Jr. has been banned from Instagram, and the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), co-founded and led by Fisher, has been removed from Facebook.

“Facebook has removed the NVIC, another page spreading vaccine misinformation run by Barbara Loe Fisher,” CCDH said in its Tweet.8 “But Facebook has allowed the NVIC to carry on spreading misinformation on Instagram, which it owns. Facebook, it’s time for action across your platforms.”

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Good News: People Are Seeing Through the Propaganda
The irony of an “anti-hate” group posting a hit list — the only purpose of which is to seed public outrage and hate against those listed — did not escape unnoticed, and that’s part of the good news. More and more people are indeed starting to see the 1984-style double-think propaganda for what it is.

As pointed out by one Twitter follower: “You've posted what appears to be a digital hit list. Do you not see anything ironic about this considering your brand is ‘countering digital hate’?” “Project much?” said another. A third replied back to the CCDH saying “You should be on this list,” and a fourth said “It appears that by the word ‘hate’ you include uncomfortable truths.” Other responders wrote:

“I have personally benefited from the free TRUE loving information that at least seven on your list have given me since 2011. I have only gratitude and love for them. No regular doctor could help me back then and thanks to the info I got I didn’t die and I have helped others too.”
“’Misinformation’ … what a joke!! These people are putting their careers and livelihoods on the line to share the TRUTH, to empower us to take our health in our own hands and realize it’s the only way!! This is more a top list of who to follow!!!”
“This is nonsense at the extreme. Censorship has gone mad and needs to be heavily questioned and stopped — this is what all dictators and extremists themselves do! How ironic! The CCDH are extremist dangerous hate criminals themselves for doing this!”
“Stop the censorship! We are seeing through this failed attempt to spread valuable information from people.”
“Congratulations to every hero on that list.”
I could keep going, but you can read the comments for yourself. I encourage you to do so if you feel downtrodden, thinking the dark side is winning the information war. They’re not, but they get an “A” for effort. We, in turn, cannot let up our own efforts to spread the truth. We must be just as persistent.
NVIC — The Latest Victim in the War on Truth
NVIC, the latest victim of the CCDH’s organized attack on the U.S. First Amendment, had maintained a Facebook page since 2008. The organization itself has been around for nearly four decades, and worked with the U.S. Congress to establish the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. Facebook deleted NVIC’s account March 2, 2021.

NVIC does not make recommendations when it comes to the use of vaccines, its sole aim being to “defend the ethical principle of informed consent to medical risk taking, including vaccine risk taking.” Part of that work includes publishing fully referenced information about vaccines so that consumers can make an informed decision either way.

If NVIC had not done such a good job educating the public about vaccination and health for four decades, our Facebook page would still be up. ~ Barbara Loe Fisher
Considering few doctors, and none of the pro-vaccine front groups, are transparent about reported side effects and science raising red flags, NVIC serves a truly crucial public health service. You simply cannot make an informed decision if you’re only ever told one side of the equation — the supposed benefit side — while potential adverse effects, which may be lifelong, are hidden or denied. As reported by independent journalist Sharyl Attkisson:9

“Far from a fringe group, as propagandists try to convince the public, Fisher has provided consumers with crucial vaccine safety information for decades and served as an appointed member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on the National Vaccine Advisory Committee as part of the Vaccine Safety Writing Group, on the agency's Vaccine Policy Analysis Collaborative, on the Blue Ribbon Panel on Vaccine Safety, and Chair of the Subcommittee on Vaccine Adverse Events.

Additionally, Fisher has served as a member of the FDA's Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. And she has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine Vaccine Safety Forum.”

NVIC Responds to Deplatforming
In an official statement, Fisher responded to the deplatforming by Facebook saying:10

“We are not surprised that Mark Zuckerberg views the truthful information that NVIC publishes about vaccine science, policy and law as a threat to perpetuating false narratives about vaccine safety created by the pharmaceutical industry and its business partners.

The U.S Congress has encouraged the creation of public-private business partnerships between vaccine manufacturers and federal agencies for the past three decades.

In order to be part of those lucrative partnerships, Silicon Valley companies like Facebook are clearly happy to engage in censorship. If NVIC had not done such a good job educating the public about vaccination and health for four decades, our Facebook page would still be up.

NVIC encourages everyone to leave social media networks eroding civil liberties, which include freedom of thought, speech and conscience, and join those that protect freedom of speech.

To stay connected with NVIC, become a registered user of the free online NVIC Advocacy Portal and defend vaccine choices in your state; become a subscriber of our free NVIC Newsletter and free weekly journal digital newspaper, The Vaccine Reaction; and interact with our followers on MeWe, Telegram, Gab and Parler.”

Decentralized Uncensorable Web Is Part of the Answer
As more and more truth-tellers, public health watchdogs, civil rights advocates and investigative journalists are censored and deplatformed, it’s easy to get discouraged. However, there is light on the horizon. Part of the answer, apart from calling on our political representatives to take a firm stand against censorship at every turn, is the creation of a decentralized web.

I am currently working with some of the brightest minds in the tech space — cybersecurity experts and billionaire philanthropists who are very well networked. These individuals are committed to preserving your personal freedoms and liberties. We aim to redo of the entire internet by implementing a strategy proposed by Tim Berners-Lee.

For those of you who don’t know, Berners-Lee invented the world wide web graphical interface of the internet 30 years ago, and he didn’t take a penny for it. Had he licensed this technology, he surely would be the richest person in the world today.

You can read more about Berners-Lee’s plan in this February 5, 2021, article in The Conversation,11 https://theconversation.com/tim-berners-lees-plan-to-save-the-internet-give-us-back-control-of-our-data-154130
... but essentially, it focuses on maintaining data sovereignty, giving you control over your data and privacy and undoing the current system of surveillance capitalism where Big Tech profits off your personal data and uses it against you at the same time. In this Web 2.0, tech monopolies also will no longer have the ability to censor.

While you wait for a decentralized, censorship-free internet, I second Fisher’s suggestion to ditch all social media networks that erode your civil liberties, and to join those that promote freedom of speech instead.

For example, free-speech alternatives to Facebook and Twitter include Gab, MeWe, Minds and Parler. Uncensored alternatives to YouTube include Bitchute, Rumble, Brighteon, Banned.video and Thinkspot.

For content creators and alternative news sources that no longer have a social media presence due to censoring, subscribe to their newsletter if available, and/or mark their website in your favorites and check back on a regular basis.

Take Control of Your Online Presence
Beyond that, consider safeguarding your own online privacy if you haven’t done so already. To encrypt your text messages and keep them from becoming data mining fodder, download the Signal or Telegram app and/or use a virtual private network (VPN) on your desktop, laptop and mobile devices.

Telegram has grown in popularity as many who have been banned on other social media platforms have migrated there. In addition to encrypting your text messages, the app also allows you to subscribe to channels. Read-only messages (although some also have the ability to comment) are sent to your phone from any channel you subscribe to.

Lastly, if you care about privacy and free speech, stop using any and all Google products, including its search engine, browser, email service, Google docs, Google Home devices, Fitbit and Android phones. There are alternatives to all of them.

For search, check out DuckDuckGo and SwissCows. For a browser, consider Brave or Opera. From a security perspective, Opera is far superior to Google Chrome and even includes a free VPN service. For encrypted email, sign up with ProtonMail, which is based in Switzerland. As for online document sharing, Digital Trends has published an article listing a number of alternatives to Google Docs.12"

- Sources and References
1 The Times November 9, 2020
2 UK Defense Journal November 10, 2020
3 The National News November 9, 2020
4 The Anti-Vaxx Playbook (PDF)
5 The Anti-Vaxx Playbook (PDF), Page 9
6 The Anti-Vaxx Playbook (PDF), Page 43
7, 8 Twitter CCDH March 3, 2021
9, 10 Sharylattkisson.com March 8, 2021
11 The Conversation February 5, 2021
12 Digital Trends April 28, 2017

Also posted here: https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?109824-Covid-19--and-flu---Treatment-and-Prevention&p=1416939&viewfull=1#post1416939

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18th March 2021, 18:07

WSJ Editorial Board: Facebook Censors Scientific Debate
By Megan Redshaw
3/9/21
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/wsj-facebook-censorship-scientific-debate/

(I missed this when it was published, but every bit of good news should be posted, however late....)

"As the social media giant continues to vet content and silence opposing views, roughly two dozen states have introduced bills that would allow for lawsuits against the platform for censoring posts.

Since 2016, social media giants have increasingly engaged in censorship under the guise of preventing the spread of misinformation –– “vetting and stigmatizing the content of reputable publishers” while “increasingly adding phony fact checks and removing articles flagged by left-leaning users without explanation,” according to The Editorial Board at the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

Now Big Tech and its self-anointed virus experts are silencing doctors with opposing views in an effort to shut down scientific debate, the WSJ said. The WSJ editorial board specifically called out Facebook for labeling an op-ed the paper ran in February as misleading.

Here’s what happened. On Feb. 19, the WSJ ran an opinion piece by Dr. Martin Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon, professor, published author and chief medical advisor to Sesame Care, a direct-to-patient healthcare company. In “We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April,” Makary wrote that based on studies and scientific evidence, Americans would have enough immunity from vaccination and natural infection by early spring to sharply reduce the spread of COVID.

Facebook added the label “Missing Context. Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead people” to Makary’s article.

The Facebook label linked to third-party fact-checking website Health Feedback, a member of the World Health Organization’s “Vaccine Safety Net,” a vaccine project dedicated to correcting “misinformation about vaccine safety” on social media platforms.

Three Health Feedback scientists analyzed the article and gave it an overall scientific credibility rating of “very low,” stating “Misleading Wall Street Journal opinion piece makes unsubstantiated claims that the U.S would have herd immunity by April 2021.”

According to Facebook, once something is rated by a fact-checking partner, Facebook “takes action to ensure fewer people see the misinformation.”

But the WSJ argued that Makary didn’t present his opinion as a factual claim. He made a projection, like any other scientist, based on studies and data regarding herd immunity. The Facebook fact-checkers didn’t like Makary’s projection because it could lead to fewer virus restrictions.

Health Feedback’s fact-checkers disagreed with Makary’s evidence and his interpretation of it. They cherry-picked and misapplied studies to support their counter-opinions and “masqueraded them as facts,” the WSJ said.

“Scientists often disagree over how to interpret evidence,” The Editorial Board wrote. “Debate is how ideas are tested and arguments are refined. But Facebook’s fact checkers are presenting their opinions as fact and seeking to silence other scientists whose views challenge their own.”

In December 2020, Facebook pledged to remove “false claims” about COVID vaccines that had been debunked by public health experts, though they didn’t specify which public health experts,” according to The Hill.

Twitter followed suit saying it would label or place a warning on Tweets that “advance unsubstantiated rumors, disputed claims, as well as incomplete or out-of-context information about vaccines.”

Lawmakers in more than a dozen states, who fear social media giants have too much control, have introduced legislation in an attempt to circumvent a federal law, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, shielding social media companies from lawsuits over censorship of posts, the Associated Press reported.

Although the statute exempts websites from being sued for removing content deemed to be “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing or otherwise objectionable” as long as the companies are acting in “good faith,” social media companies like Facebook are using this statute to shield themselves from removing content that’s anything but –– like Dr. Makary’s opinion, the WSJ said.

The WSJ has been hesitant to support proposals aimed at modifying Section 230 for platforms like Facebook, but “social media giants are dominating public discourse — acting like publishers, removing articles, adding phony fact checks and censoring other reputable publishers that would not be allowed without the protections of Section 230,” the WSJ editorial board wrote.

On Aug. 18, 2020, Children’s Health Defense (CHD) filed a lawsuit against Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg and several third-party fact-checkers for illegal censorship and fraudulently misrepresenting and defaming CHD. The complaint alleges the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), CDC Foundation and WHO collaborate with Facebook and Zuckerberg in a joint action with the government to censor content.

The complaint challenges the use of surrogate fact-checkers who are neither independent nor unbiased to suppress information and the deceptive technology Facebook uses to minimize reach and visibility of content.

On Feb. 10, CHD Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Instagram account was deplatformed without notice.

Mark Zuckerberg has publicly claimed that social media platforms shouldn’t be “the arbiters of truth” but, as alleged in the CHD lawsuit, Zuckerberg is working with the government to suppress and purge unwanted critiques of government officials and policies."