Věra Jourová, Vice President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, displays deadly values while also stifling transparency

Covid proved conclusively that real free speech is always better than the curated kind espoused by this VP of “Values & Transparency.” The censored and non-transparent pseudoscience of covid murdered millions of people worldwide. If free speech had not been censored per Jourová’s values, real medical science based on actual clinical findings would have won the day and saved the lives of millions of human beings. In the name of “values, openness, transparency” and similar newspeak Jourová and people like her have become killers-once-removed. Her smug ‘morality’ shows in the way she speaks, imo. ABN

TWITTER FILES: How Twitter Let the Intelligence Community In ~ Matt Taibbi

1.THREAD: The Twitter Files
How Twitter Let the Intelligence Community In

http://2.In August 2017, when Facebook decided to suspend 300 accounts with “suspected Russian origin,” Twitter wasn’t worried. Its leaders were sure they didn’t have a Russia problem.

3.“We did not see a big correlation.”
“No larger patterns.”
“FB may take action on hundreds of accounts, and we may take action on ~25.”

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A person collapses on an athletic field, and suddenly entire portions of our population are not allowed to speak

The Ethical Skeptic’s Razor (The Antiwisdom of Crowds)

Among competing alternatives, all other things being equal, prefer the one for which discussion or research is embargoed.

A person collapses on an athletic field, and suddenly entire portions of our population are not allowed to speak.

See how this works? They insist on a conclusion through coercion – not science or evidence.

Social Skepticism is fake science, fake virtue, fake humanity.

We have a problem right now. Mandated silence is poison.

It is a creeping form of social insanity, a panic-dissonance which is in itself just as dangerous as the very malady they are attempting to embargo from discussion.

Those who are ignorant of the social tyranny of the last 3 years, climate change, borders, etc. – the canceling and censorship – are destined to repeat it on the next disaster… which will be much worse.

Originally tweeted by Ethical Skeptic ☀ (@EthicalSkeptic) on January 3, 2023.

FBI Office Investigating Hunter Biden Sent Twitter Numerous Censorship Requests Right Before 2020 Election

Emails released on Saturday as part of the latest dump of the “Twitter Files” reveal that the week before the 2020 presidential election, the FBI field office investigating Hunter Biden sent multiple censorship requests to Twitter — so many in fact, a top attorney for the tech giant found it “odd.” This blockbuster detail from the weekend came mere days after the FBI issued a statement framing coverage of the “Twitter Files” as “misinformation” being peddled by “conspiracy theorists.”

The FBI has “some folks in the Baltimore field office and at HQ that are just doing keyword searches for violations,” then-Twitter legal executive Stacia Cardille stressed in a Nov. 3, 2020, email to Jim Baker, the then-deputy general counsel for Twitter. “This is probably the 10th request I have dealt with in the last 5 days,” Cardille continued, before telling Baker to let her know if he had any other questions.” 

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International Federation of Journalists Demands US Drop All Charges Against Assange

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have launched the “Free Assange Now” campaign on its website calling for the United States to drop all charges, including those involving espionage, against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

On Monday, Wikileaks tweeted out that the “The International Federation of Journalists, representing more than 600,000 journalists worldwide, calls for Julian Assange’s immediate release.”

Assange has been locked up in a London prison since 2019 and prior to that he was on the run for seven years. He had sought asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy between 2012 through 2019 when the asylum was withdrawn.

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After all we have seen from the US government over the past several years, it’s obvious not even a shred of justification remains for continuing to persecute Assange. ABN

World Economic Forum cancels Twitter, directs followers to Chinese social media apps

Prior to its upcoming conference in Davos next month, the World Economic Forum (WEF) appears to have joined the cancel campaign against Twitter, while continuing to recommend Chinese state-controlled social media apps to “follow along” with Davos Man into the future.

To stay up to speed with all that is happening within the invite-only doors of the ruling class confab, the WEF recommends following along through a handful of social media sites. They include the U.S.-based narrative-compliant Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, along with the Chinese social media apps TikTok WeChat, and Weibo. Twitter, which has freed itself from the grasp of the WEF-endorsed censorship-compliant social apps, is no longer included.

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Anyone and everyone who wants to censor free-speech is an enemy of civilization. ABN

THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE

1. THREAD:

THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE

– By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy
– By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed
– By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*

2. So far the Twitter Files have focused on evidence of Twitter’s secret blacklists; how the company functioned as a kind of subsidiary of the FBI; and how execs rewrote the platform’s rules to accommodate their own political desires.

3. What we have yet to cover is Covid. This reporting, for The Free Press, @TheFP, is one piece of that important story.

4. The United States government pressured Twitter and other social media platforms to elevate certain content and suppress other content about Covid-19.

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Former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal arrested for child porn

Parag Agrawal, the former CEO of Twitter, has been arrested for possession of child pornography after a tip off from Elon Musk.

The executive was arrested at his home in California by the FBI. His lawyer has stated to the Vancouver Times that he plans on pleading not guilty. He is expected to be released on bail.

The executive not only collected child abuse material off of Twitter and other social media platforms, he turned a blind eye to users that shared the same material on the social media platform.

Twitter was a haven for child porn until Elon Musk took over.

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Child porn is banned speech because producing it is immoral and rightly criminalized. At the same time, the topic of child porn is legal and rightly should be legal to speak about. This illustrates a valuable distinction that can and should be made in free speech laws. I tend to think there is no topic that should be banned or made illegal. And neither should any individual’s speech receive a blanket ban or be made illegal. The ‘curators’ of free speech have failed miserably during covid, bringing death to millions as a direct consequence of their banning certain topics (early treatments, etc) and people (Dr Peter McCullough, etc). ‘The Science’ of AGW has very similar flaws and similarly will bring death and misery to millions if it continues to be widely protected from being questioned, even proved wrong. Just these two examples—covid and AGW—provide an argument strong enough remove all bans on topics and people. When Musk says he largely agrees to this but wants to ban the reach of some speech and some people, we can point back again to just these two topics. Banning precisely their reach has led to immense misery and death. ABN

 Twitter Files Part 9

State Governments caught censoring “election misinformation” using Twitter Partner Portal to unconstitutionally censor 1st Amendment rights of American citizens

1/After President Trump won in 2016, the Democrat Party pushed the Russia Collusion narrative to delegitimize his administration

Many federal, state, and NGO entities ramped-up censorship efforts online in the name of stopping “foreign interference” 

2/California passed Elections Code §10.5, which created the Office of Elections Cybersecurity in 2018 to “educate voters” with “valid information” through empowering election officials (“OEC”)

This mandate quickly and predictably devolved into a political weapon for censorship 

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