Tag: censorship
Victoria Nuland: “We also work with the tech companies to try to take down false stories and we are working very assiduously on all of that now”
The best critical documentary on the Maidan coup censored hours after that coup’s architect, Victoria Nuland, said, "We also work with the tech companies to try to take down false stories and we are working very assiduously on all of that now."
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EU sanctions against Russia Today and Sputnik require: * search engines to delist all their content, and * social media firms to delete posts by individuals which reproduce any of their content
Remarkable news for tech law nerds. EU sanctions against Russia Today and Sputnik require:
* search engines to delist all their content, and
* social media firms to delete posts by individuals which reproduce any of their content.
Commission’s explanatory text in images. 1/
The Great Russian Restoration
…With Russia squarely facing down NATO, the country will be forced into adopting a war economy, and that necessarily means a greater integration of the state and big business, with disloyal elements in the business class almost certainly put on a purge shortlist.
But there is certainly more in the works that will become readily apparent in the days and weeks that follow.
In just one week, Russian civil society has been shaken to its core:
Lines are being drawn between traitors and loyalists within workplaces, universities, and at the bazaar.
The Duma may not survive in its current state for long.
Martial law is being openly discussed.
Talk of QR codes and implementing the 2030 agenda in place like Moscow and St. Petersburg has all but been abandoned.
Liberals are boarding planes and heading for Georgia, Armenia, Turkey and Riga (another poor choice, perhaps).
Central Asian migrants are being deported in droves and many are fleeing on their own volition.
If the 90s saw a new, Liberal Democratic Oligarchy emerge from the chaos of the last days of the Soviet Union, then the 2020s are shaping up to be the death knell of that old political order. Russia is going through yet another political metamorphosis right before our very eyes.
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Excellent insights into what is happening in Russia. ABN
Exclusive: The federal government paid hundreds of media companies to advertise the COVID-19 vaccines while those same outlets provided positive coverage of the vaccines
In response to a FOIA request filed by TheBlaze, HHS revealed that it purchased advertising from major news networks including ABC, CBS, and NBC, as well as cable TV news stations Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC, legacy media publications including the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, digital media companies like BuzzFeed News and Newsmax, and hundreds of local newspapers and TV stations. These outlets were collectively responsible for publishing countless articles and video segments regarding the vaccine that were nearly uniformly positive about the vaccine in terms of both its efficacy and safety.
Hundreds of news organizations were paid by the federal government to advertise for the vaccines as part of a “comprehensive media campaign,” according to documents TheBlaze obtained from the Department of Health and Human Services. The Biden administration purchased ads on TV, radio, in print, and on social media to build vaccine confidence, timing this effort with the increasing availability of the vaccines. The government also relied on earned media featuring “influencers” from “communities hit hard by COVID-19” and “experts” like White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and other academics to be interviewed and promote vaccination in the news.
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It Wasn’t Just Gateway Pundit! T-Mobile Blocked Text Messages of Dr. Malone Saying the Moderna Vaccine Nearly Killed Him
As we reported earlier — In early January, The Gateway Pundit learned the tech giants are using a frightening new method to censor and control what you can see, read and discuss online. T-Mobile blocked our website links. You could not send any articles from TGP using T-mobile. The text would not show on the receiver’s end. Your friends or family would not even know that you sent them a TGParticle.
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Doctor Who Discovered Omicron Was Pressured Not To Reveal It’s Mild
The doctor who discovered the Omicron Covid-19 strain, Angelique Coetzee, says that she was pressured by European governments not to reveal that it had mild presentation, according to an interview in Germany’s Welt.
When asked if it’s true, Coetzee replied: “I was told not to state publicly that it was a mild illness. I have been asked to refrain from making such statements and to say that it is a serious illness. I declined.” (translated).
“What does that mean?” replied Welt.
“I am a clinician and based on the clinical picture there are no indications that we are dealing with a very serious disease. The course is mostly mild. I’m not saying you won’t get sick if you’re mild.
“The definition of mild Covid-19 disease is clear, and it is a WHO definition: patients can be treated at home and oxygen or hospitalization is not required,” she said, adding: “A serious illness is one in which we see acute pulmonary respiratory infections: people need oxygen, maybe even artificial respiration. We saw that with Delta – but not with Omikron. So I said to people, “I can’t say it like that because it’s not what we’re seeing.”“
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CEO Devin Nunes on Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) prospects
Investing in DWAC (TMTG) is a political statement as much as a sound investment. Funds help the company grow and provide a forum for authentic American voices. TMTG will be attacked digitally and verbally but if they can pull this off it will mark an end to the stifling information totalitarianism of Big Tech and legacy media. ABN
World War Rogan: In the Trenches of the Frontlines of the Rogan War
…I hate to say it again, but none of this would be happening if people would have rallied around me in 2017. I know they were saying “neo-Nazi,” but firstly, anyone who read the site for ten minutes could see that was bullshit and this is a right-wing meme site, and secondly – what difference does it make? Free speech either exists or it doesn’t.
Anyone at the time could have said “I find his content repulsive, but we cannot allow a standard to be set where private companies are allowed to organize together to silence protected speech.” Back in 2017, you could still say things like that without being called a “sympathizer” or whatever.
As I said from the beginning: if people are so stupid that they can just be totally confused and misled by having free access to information, then how can they be allowed to vote? It doesn’t make any sense.
But hey – whatever.
It’s just whatever.
We the people have allowed the government and these corporations it’s aligned with to become a totally out of control monster of incomprehensible power that obviously can’t be stopped. The only thing any of us can do is get out of the way and wait for this lumbering beast to collapse under the weight of its own lies.
It is literally made of lies to the point where Joe Rogan just getting stoned and talking to people threatens to totally collapse it.
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KARI LAKE – SUPER PROFESSIONAL TAKEDOWN: “I did an interview with @ABC… will they include this portion of it in their piece? Why won’t they just do their job and report the truth?”
WATCH: The Media just won’t learn their lesson. They continue to try and stump me, but I know their game better than they do.
I did an interview with @ABC… will they include this portion of it in their piece? Why won’t they just do their job and report the truth?
Will @MarthaRaddatz put some of the substantive portions of the interview in her story? We filmed the whole thing just in case!
Originally tweeted by Kari Lake for AZ Governor (@KariLake) on February 3, 2022.
“It needed a sort of athleticism of mind, an ability at one moment to make the most delicate use of logic and at the next to be unconscious of the crudest logical errors”
He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it. He realized, nevertheless, that it ought never to have occurred to him. The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.
He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He presented himself with propositions — ‘the Party says the earth is flat’, ‘the party says that ice is heavier than water’ — and trained himself in not seeing or not understanding the arguments that contradicted them. It was not easy. It needed great powers of reasoning and improvisation. The arithmetical problems raised, for instance, by such a statement as ‘two and two make five’ were beyond his intellectual grasp. It needed also a sort of athleticism of mind, an ability at one moment to make the most delicate use of logic and at the next to be unconscious of the crudest logical errors. Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.
-George Orwell, 1984
“Though the vax has never been tested over the long-term, we know it will be safe and effective.”
“Yes, it is true the vax does not stop transmission, but today a vaccine is defined as: A preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases.“
“Yes, it does not do that either but your chances of dying from the disease are less if you have been vaxxed.”
“No, we cannot reveal the data showing that your chances of dying are less because it cannot be untangled from vax deaths data.”
“Yes, it is true that hospitals received extra payment for covid deaths, but we know they would never fudge death certificates for that reason. Nor would they fudge them to hide vax deaths.”
The origin of covid misinformation
Joe Rogan: Maybe sorta half-OK reply to censorship advocates, maybe not
This is only maybe sorta OK because who even needs to defend this position by showing what was banned last year is accepted today? With that, you are already taking irrational advocates of censorship much too seriously. In this longer version of the clip above Rogan openly caves to an always dangerous “consensus of experts.” Propagandists and censors will always try to make you back up if they can’t outright shut you up and force a groveling apology. I do understand public life in USA is as full of corruption as it is of shit. Rogan has been compromised by this as so many are. He’s already teetering on a slippery slope while holding the weight of his huge paycheck and glorious public podium. Maybe he can work it out. His audience, including me, will give him many chances. Odds are, though, not good. The crowd he is trying to appease will only grow wilder and clamor for more blood. ABN
UPDATE: A great outcome would be for Joe to move to TRUTH Social if the woke heat becomes too intense. Be a smart move for him to begin negotiations now so he has real bargaining power. ABN
The Pressure Campaign on Spotify to Remove Joe Rogan Reveals the Religion of Liberals: Censorship
…Democrats are not only the dominant political faction in Washington, controlling the White House and both houses of Congress, but liberals in particular are clearly the hegemonic culture force in key institutions: media, academia and Hollywood. That is why it is a mistake to assume that we are near the end of their orgy of censorship and de-platforming victories. It is far more likely that we are much closer to the beginning than the end. The power to silence others is intoxicating. Once one gets a taste of its power, they rarely stop on their own.
…In modern-day American liberalism… censorship is a virtual religion. They simply cannot abide the idea that anyone who thinks differently or sees the world differently than they should be heard. That is why there is much more at stake in this campaign to have Rogan removed from Spotify than whether this extremely popular podcast host will continue to be heard there or on another platform. If liberals succeed in pressuring Spotify to abandon their most valuable commodity, it will mean nobody is safe from their petty-tyrant tactics. But if they fail, it can embolden other platforms to similarly defy these bullying tactics, keeping our discourse a bit more free for just awhile longer.
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This is a long, detailed piece on “liberal” censorship by Glenn Greenwald. Above I have quoted just two paragraphs to indicate the content. The entire article is well-worth reading, most of all by liberals who will surely ignore it. Might be good material to send to people you know who have fallen into the censorship trap. ABN
Trump ‘TRUTH Social’ to use content moderation to ensure ‘family-friendly’
…”This is not political,” he said. “These are not things that are left or right or have any political baggage,” Guo said. “When you think about these bigger companies, what they have put in place around things like misinformation, what they deem that to be, for instance, that’s their prerogative.”
He added: “Our moderation is based on these core concepts that, we think, are universal.”
Guo said TRUTH Social’s moderation approach is centered around Hive’s core concepts, and said they want to “make sure” they can “identify this type of content and proactively prevent it from reaching their users.”
“They are not doing things like trying to censor any political talk—we don’t have models for that or models for misinformation,” he said. “We focus on a problem that is more objective.”
Nunes doubled down on that point, reminding that TRUTH Social will be “open for all ideas, all political debate from the left to the right.”
“We’re not going to censor anybody because they have a different opinion about, for example, a COVID vaccine,” Nunes said. “That is what the open internet is all about—it should be for the free flow of debate and ideas all over the globe, so that people can learn from one another and debate with one another.”
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This is the hard part for Truth Social: 1) you absolutely do have to moderate user input or you will be inundated with garbage; 2) the devil’s in the details. I wish them the best. We need social media with a much broader social and political content policy. Let’s see what happens. ABN
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