The Consortium Imposing the Growing Censorship Regime

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1772712350157869503
This week, Kate Starbird appeared on 60 Minutes, lamenting that đť•Ź only responded to 30% of the "misinformation" she flagged.

In 2018, Starbird begged her Facebook followers to vote Democrat to hold Trump responsible for "corruption and collusion" and his "racist, anti-LGBT agenda."

During the 2020 election, Starbird utilized AI to censor millions of social media posts, mapping out entire networks of Trump supporters and flagging entire narratives she deemed as "misinformation."

She worked with the Election Integrity Partnership, a CISA-backed censorship consortium, to systematically monitor, track, and censor entire belief systems at scale in the months before, during, and after the election.

What did they censor?

They silenced the discussions that the First Amendment was created to protect, including the debate on the integrity of mass mail-in voting, early voting, ballot dropboxes, and voting machines.

Since 2013, U.S. taxpayers have funded Starbird's work on censoring American citizens.

She held positions as the director of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, a board member of CISA’s “disinformation” subcommittee, and a founding partner of the EIP.

In her 2018 Facebook post, Starbird claimed Trump's “nationalism” and "patriotism" actually stood for “white supremacy," as she encouraged her followers to vote Democrat.

During the 2020 election, Starbird and the EIP claimed every "repeat spreader of election misinformation" happened to be a Trump supporter.

This undoubtedly influenced America's public consciousness as millions of social media posts were flagged by a highly partisan CISA-backed censorship operation intended to remove Trump from power.

When 60 Minutes featured Starbird this week, they portrayed her as an objective, non-partisan "leader of a misinformation research group."

They must have missed her Facebook post where she urged her followers to vote Democrat to stop the "rise of fascism and white nationalism."

"If we can't stop it here, it won't be stopped," she emphasized. "Your children's lives depend upon it."

"We are facing a wholly different kind of threat."
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Exposing the Duchess of Disinformation, w/ Lee Fang
https://rumble.com/v4m3v8u-exposing-the-duchess-of-disinformation-w-lee-fang.html
{Glenn Greenwald | 27 March 2024}


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Ex post facto and pre-crime. Trudeau's going for broke.

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THREAD: Censorship and Official Lies: The End of Truth in America? (Mises Circle feat. Ron Paul)

Occam's Banana said:
Censorship and Official Lies: The End of Truth in America?
https://mises.org/events/censorship-and-official-lies-end-truth-america
{Mises Institute | 13 April 2024}

“Truth is treason in an empire of lies.” —George Orwell

The State is tightening its stranglehold on its own narrative as its web of lies unravels. The government’s lapdogs in the news media continue to bark and howl on TV even though a majority of American households have cut the cord. And of course, nothing resembling the truth can be heard in the softball press conferences at the White House and the Federal Reserve.

Newspapers are flailing about with clickbait headlines, and any substance beneath the headline usually just trots out a sanitized narrative for a declining readership. Social media platforms, with rare exceptions, have been more than willing to quash stories and ban users for political purposes.

And don’t get us started on the septic tank known as “higher education” in America.

Where is the truth in all this mess? Who is trustworthy? What truths are feared by the state so much that they must resort to censorship? Will the public believe or reject the official narrative?

Wars and conflicts around the world show that U.S. foreign policy is failing. Historic inflation and an economy teetering on yet another recession shows that U.S. fiscal and monetary policy are failing. Every day, new revelations emerge about covid and the totalitarian covid regime, showing the failure of lying “experts” like Fauci. Political tensions have been exacerbated as candidates and government agencies wage lawfare against opponents.

Suppression and censorship are the tools of a regime that is fearful and hostile to the truth. Perhaps the easiest way to discern the truth in all this chaos is to doubt everything the government says.

Join Ron Paul, Tom DiLorenzo, Daniel McAdams, and Ryan McMaken for an event co-hosted by the Mises Institute and the Ron Paul Institute. You will not want to miss these truth tellers exposing the state’s lies and ripping the official narrative to shreds.

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THREAD: Russia has officially blocked Rumble

Brian4Liberty said:
Rumble reveals censorship demands from surprising list of countries as CEO to testify on free speech threats
France, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil are all battling Rumble to censor certain content, CEO says

Rumble, a popular video-sharing and cloud service platform, has revealed a number of censorship demands it's received from the governments of countries that may surprise many.

The major tech company shared the details of those demands with Fox News Digital, as well as CEO Chris Pavlovski's prepared remarks for his testimony on Capitol Hill this week, which will take place at a House hearing centered on rising censorship and free speech concerns in Brazil.

"Freedom of speech and freedom of expression are the cornerstones of a democratic society," Pavlovski is expected to tell members of the House Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations on Tuesday.

Of those threats Pavlovski is expected to mention – most of which would be considered the norm by countries like China, Russia or North Korea – the perpetrators are actually liberal democracies where personal freedoms have typically been held in high regard.

According to Rumble, it's become a common theme for those countries to try and control what can and cannot be said online, especially if the content happens to be politically unpopular or inconvenient for their respective governments.

One such demand came from the French government, which wanted Rumble to essentially take action reminiscent of the Chinese Communist Party by removing content posted on its site by Russia Today – an outlet funded by the Russian government – despite none of its posting policies being violated.

Rumble is in the midst of a legal battle with the French government over the demand despite trying to engage with it over the content, and has temporarily suspended its service in the country.
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More: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ru...ing-countries-ceo-testify-free-speech-threats
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Rumble Live: Defending Your Human Right to Freedom of Expression
https://rumble.com/v4ubgxu-rumble-live-defending-your-human-right-to-freedom-of-expression.html
{Glenn Greenwald | 10 May 2024}

Glenn Greenwald joins Rumble Live in Toronto to discuss the importance of defending the human right to freedom of expression.

 
Blame Canada? Justin Trudeau Creates Blueprint for Dystopia in Horrific Speech Bill
Life sentences for speech? Pre-crime detention? Ex post facto law? Anonymous accusers? It's all in Justin Trudeau's "Online Harms Bill," a true "threat to democracy"
MATT TAIBBI - MAY 10, 2024

On February 21st, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a press conference in Edmonton, announcing his government’s decision to introduce the Online Harms Act, or Bill C-63. It was described in Canadian media as a “bill to protect kids” that would stop the “exploitation of children,” and Trudeau’s curt speech focused solely on minors. The scarf-clad PM angrily dismissed criticisms the bill might have a broader focus.

“I look forward to putting forward that Online Harms bill, which people will see is very, very specifically focused on protecting kids, and not on censoring the Internet,” he said sharply. “I think everyone, wherever they are in the political spectrum, can agree that protecting kids is something governments should be focused on doing.”

Soon after, on February 26th, Trudeau’s government introduced the bill. Canada’s stable of retreating, credulous on-air personalities announced its rollout like the arrival of penicillin. “Tonight, Web of Harm,” gushed CTV’s Omar Sachedina. “Tackling online dangers and safeguarding children… The long-awaited framework for protecting the vulnerable…”

There was little initial uproar. What could be wrong with increasing child safety, or “protecting the vulnerable”?

Then people read the bill.
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Trudeau was lying when he said C-63 was “very, very specifically focused on correcting kids.” The purview of the Online Harms Act extends far beyond speech, reimagining society as a mandated social engineering project, creating transformational new procedures that would:

  • enlist Canada’s citizens in an ambitious social monitoring system, with rewards of up to $20,000 for anonymous “informants” of hateful behavior, with the guilty paying penalties up to $50,000, creating a self-funded national spying system;
  • introduce extraordinary criminal penalties, including life in prison not just for existing crimes like “advocating genocide,” but for any “offence motivated by hatred,” in theory any non-criminal offense, as tiny as littering, committed with hateful intent;
  • punish Minority Report pre-crime, where if an informant convinces a judge you “will commit” a hate offense, you can be jailed up to a year, put under house arrest, have firearms seized, or be forced into drug/alcohol testing, all for things you haven’t done;
  • penalize past statements. The law gets around prohibitions against “retroactive” punishment by calling the offense “continuous communication” of hate, i.e. the crime is your failure to take down bad speech;
  • force corporate Internet platforms to remove “harmful content” virtually on demand (within 24 hours in some cases), the hammer being fines of “up to 6% of… gross global revenue.”

Things you’re saying, things you’ve already said, things an administrative judge thinks you might say, all barred, with neighbors deputized as enforcers? Good times. Leave it to Trudeau, a frequent trailblazer in new forms of illiberalism in the digital age, to come up with this quantum leap downward on the rights front. C-63 is a Frankenstein’s Monster combining the worst censorship ideas already deployed by supposed ally government-in-laws like Europe’s Digital Services Act, Australia’s updated Australian Communications and Media Authority Act (ACMA), and Scotland’s Hate Crime and Public Order Act, which saw 7,152 complaints in its first week when the law took effect last month.

Trudeau’s creation is a turbo-charged social surveillance law aimed first at forcing big platforms like Facebook and Twitter to “self-police,” but secondarily targeting individuals and doling out civil and criminal penalties for speech and thought on a scale not seen anywhere. What constitutes hateful conduct? While the bill newly defines hate speech as “likely to foment detestation or vilification” of Canada’s growing list of protected groups and individuals, Canadian lawyers interviewed were generally unsure of what the standard might look like in practice.
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