every day 'our' government takes more measures to own you, and you just continue on your way as though nothing is happening but if you have the inclination you can discover much more is going on than meets the eye, and it ain't good for you;
Last year, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were
instructed on the US Senate floor that it is their responsibility to
“quell information rebellions” and adopt a “mission statement”
expressing their commitment to “prevent the fomenting of discord.”
“Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they start with words,” the
representatives were told. “America’s war with itself has already begun.
We all must act now on the social media battlefield to quell
information rebellions that can quickly lead to violent confrontations
and easily transform us into the Divided States of America.”
Yes, this really happened.
Today Twitter has silenced three important anti-war voices on its platform: it has suspended Daniel McAdams, the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute, suspended Scott Horton of the Scott Horton Show, and completely removed the account of prominent Antiwar.com writer Peter Van Buren.
I’m about to talk about the censorship of Alex Jones and Infowars
now, so let me get the “blah blah I don’t like Alex Jones” thing out of
the way so that my social media notifications aren’t inundated with
people saying “Caitlin didn’t say the ‘blah blah I don’t like Alex
Jones’ thing!” I shouldn’t have to, because this isn’t actually about
Alex Jones, but here it is:
I don’t like Alex Jones. He’s made millions saying the things
disgruntled right-wingers want to hear instead of telling the truth; he
throws in disinfo with his info, which is the same as lying all the
time. He’s made countless false predictions and his sudden sycophantic
support for a US president has helped lull the populist right into
complacency when they should be holding Trump to his non-interventionist
campaign pledges, making him even more worthless than he was prior to
2016.
But this isn’t about defending Alex Jones. He just happens to be the thinnest edge of the wedge.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/08/no_author/in-a-corporatist-system-of-government-corporate-censorship-is-state-censorship/
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