Mike Benz — The Origin of the ‘Most Modern’ Censorship Complex

Benz delivers a strong and compelling outline about how the modern censorship process was created from the 2014 Ukraine operation.

As we battle against the Great Reset with an even Greater Awakening, the value in knowing the details of our current state is large.  At the 01:14:43 point of the interview, Benz rings the truth bell hard for around 10 minutes.  Prompted, WATCH:

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Speech control

Speech control ‘protects’ only those who are allowed to speak, those who have power or are designated voices of power. Speech control is legally protected narcissism. It protects the lies of those in power and nothing more.

If you think back on how many times you have been offended or badly misled by free speech, you won’t find many if you find any at all. Just pretending there is any need to censor speech is a lie.

As for X, it is a disaster. A waste of time because the algorithms, however they work, curate not just your voice but others as well, so your feed become a small echo tunnel of algorithmic repetition. Musk should have bought Reddit and removed the censorship and algorithms on that platform instead of Twitter, where he has only somewhat curated the curators, not removed them.

Reddit is capable of fostering discussions with clear contexts and promotes links to sources outside of itself, which X does not even allow without causing your voice to be muted. Right now, Reddit can be as bad as FB or X, but in some areas it can be very good. These areas are the ones where elite liars and parasites feel no need to intrude on the people’s voices. Go to any of them and notice how vibrant and informative they can be.

How often are you offended on those subs (typically apolitical)? How often do you see a need for censorship? Never. The only problem ever is a natural hive mind can develop and there can be too much silliness.

The natural hive minds you can see with regularity on Reddit are examples of basal human conformity in action. Elite censorship of speech is entirely designed to funnel people into hive minds constructed by them. The more of us who understand this, the better. ABN

US Anti-Semitism Czar Applauds Meta for Censoring Criticism of ‘Zionists’ as ‘Hate Speech’

US Anti-Semitism Czar Deborah Lipstadt on Tuesday applauded Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta for enacting new rules to censor criticism of “Zionists” on Facebook and Instagram and appeared to take credit for the move.

Meta announced earlier in the day that claims of “Zionists” “running the world or controlling the media” would be censored as “hate speech” going forward on both platforms.

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Supreme Court Allows Government Control Over Speech on Social Media Platforms, Rejects Standing in Murthy vs Missouri

The Supreme Court rejected the standing of the State of Missouri and five individuals in the censorship and free speech case surrounding social media.  The court came down with a 6-3 decision, Justice Amy Coney-Barrett writing the majority opinion.  Justices Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas dissented in the minority.

The background of the case was very familiar to this audience, as the Biden administration was previously blocked by lower courts from telling social media platforms to remove content against their interests.  Today, the Supreme Court rejected the standing of the plaintiffs, essentially giving a green light to the USA government to begin controlling social media platforms again.

If you read the opinion [FULL PDF HERE], I would strongly urge readers to focus beginning on page #11 of the Justice Barrett opinion.  It is obvious in the three or four pages that follow, the court was looking for an exit from the free speech issue.  Denying the case on “standing” grounds became their justification for the cop-out.

Barrett goes out of her way to make the standing issue the crux of the majority opinion.  Comey-Barrett dismisses all the instances of censorship and coerced removal under the auspices that the relief sought by the plaintiffs was for future harm, not past injury.   The lower courts had ruled the government could not interfere with speech in the future, without establishing that each individual plaintiff was harmed specifically by each action of the government.

Social media platforms did some censorship and content removal on their own, without government direction.  Therefore, it becomes impossible for the court to determine which censorship decisions were made by government coercion, and which were made by the social media platform with ordinary moderation rules being applied.  {pdf page #11}

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ADL faces Wikipedia ban over reliability concerns on Israel, antisemitism

Wikipedia’s editors have voted to declare the Anti-Defamation League “generally unreliable” on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, adding it to a list of banned and partially banned sources. 

An overwhelming majority of editors involved in the debate about the ADL also voted to deem the organization unreliable on the topic of antisemitism, its core focus. A formal declaration on that count is expected next. 

The decision about Israel-related citations, made last week, means that one of the most prominent and longstanding Jewish advocacy groups in the United States — and one historically seen as the leading U.S. authority on antisemitism — is now grouped together with the National Inquirer, Newsmax, and Occupy Democrats as a source of propaganda or misinformation in the eyes of the online encyclopedia. 

Moreover, in a near consensus, dozens of Wikipedia editors involved in the discussion said they believe the ADL should not be cited for factual information on antisemitism as well because it acts primarily as a pro-Israel organization and tends to label legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitism.

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Stanford’s top disinformation research group collapses under pressure

The Stanford Internet Observatory, which published some of the most influential analysis of the spread of false information on social media during elections, has shed most of its staff and may shut down amid political and legal attacks that have cast a pall on efforts to study online misinformation.

Just three staffers remain at the Observatory, and they will either leave or find roles at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center, which is absorbing what remains of the program, according to eight people familiar with the developments, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters.

The Election Integrity Partnership, a prominent consortium run by the Observatory and a University of Washington team to identify viral falsehoods about election procedures and outcomes in real time, has updated its webpage to say its work has concluded.

Two ongoing lawsuits and two congressional inquiries into the Observatory have cost Stanford millions of dollars in legal fees, one of the people told The Washington Post. Students and scholars affiliated with the program say they have been worn down by online attacks and harassment amid the heated political climate for misinformation research, as legislators threaten to cut federal funding to universities studying propaganda.

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The demise of this covert propaganda outlet is an example of how public opinion can overrule the cabal. ABN

This is noteworthy only because it reveals a crack in mind-control media or, more likely, a change in direction. Hard to say where they are going with this. Probably admit a bit of truth but claim it was worth it. ABN

US State Department Forced Scott Ritter Off Plane to Russia, Confiscated His Passport

Ritter was slated to participate in the annual St.Petersburg International Economic Forum as a guest speaker.

“As I was boarding my flight out of New York I was pulled aside by three CBP officers, who seized my passport. When asked why, they said orders of the State Department. No further information was provided. My bags were removed from the flight, and I was escorted out of the airport,” the former US Marine intelligence officer told Sputnik.

Scott Ritter added that his passport was not given back. He said he will appeal the decision.

Ritter believes US authorities are afraid of his participation in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

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