{"id":2588,"date":"2023-06-01T17:58:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T17:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2025-01-27T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:09:00","slug":"censorship-industrial-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/?p=2588","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Censorship-industrial complex\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/\">Index:<\/a> please click on the link for the index please?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/o3aIQwMVL-\/\">How does it work, click link for video about what was once the Military Industrial complex.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1001\" height=\"654\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Controlling-and-dictating.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Controlling-and-dictating.jpg 1001w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Controlling-and-dictating-300x196.jpg 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Controlling-and-dictating-768x502.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1001px) 100vw, 1001px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"412\" height=\"394\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/this-is-scary.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3899\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/this-is-scary.jpg 412w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/this-is-scary-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"expanderHead\">STORY AT-A-GLANCE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The United States has been unique in its dedication to free speech, but that Constitutional right has been slowly eroded in the name of national security and protecting public health<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 1950, Sen. Joseph McCarthy claimed to have proof of a communist spy ring within the U.S. State Department. The lesson from that time was the destructive power of accusation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 2017, an organization called Hamilton 68 claimed to have proof showing hundreds of Russian-affiliated Twitter accounts manipulated the U.S. election to get Trump into the White House. It turned out to be a complete hoax, but media never updated the public with that truth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 1948, the same year the CIA launched Project Mockingbird, the U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act (aka the Smith-Mundt Act) became law, which forbade the U.S. government from pushing propaganda onto the U.S. population. President Barrack Obama repealed this law in 2013, thereby legalizing the propagandizing of Americans<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>For propaganda to be truly successful, especially in the long term, you also need censorship, and in the U.S., this requires the undermining of free speech rights. The undermining of free speech took off at the end of 2016, when Obama signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which opened the door to an offensive information war against the public<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In a March 28, 2023, article titled &#8220;A Guide to Understanding the Hoax of the Century,&#8221;<sup>1,<\/sup><sup>2<\/sup>&nbsp;Jacob Siegel, senior editor of Tablet magazine\u2019s afternoon news digest, News and The Scroll, discusses the emergence of the &#8220;disinformation industrial complex,&#8221; which is the topic of his forthcoming book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"621\" height=\"716\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-33.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4643\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-33.png 621w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-33-260x300.png 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States has been unique in its dedication to free speech, but that Constitutional right is rapidly eroding in the name of national security and protecting public health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siegel traces the early days of the information war to Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who in 1950 claimed to have proof of a communist spy ring within the U.S. State Department. Initially, he claimed to have the names of 205 communist spies. A day later, he revised it to 57. However, the inconsistency is not the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The point was the power of the accusation,&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;Siegel says.&nbsp;<em>&#8220;For more than half a century, McCarthyism stood as a defining chapter in the worldview of American liberals: a warning about the dangerous allure of blacklists, witch hunts, and demagogues.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Blacklists and Witch Hunts Return<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"908\" height=\"633\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/People-will-be-blindsited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4722\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/People-will-be-blindsited.jpg 908w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/People-will-be-blindsited-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/People-will-be-blindsited-768x535.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 908px) 100vw, 908px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By 2017, American liberals had seemingly forgotten that lesson, as mainstream media pundits accused Donald Trump of being a Manchurian candidate installed by Russia. An organization called Hamilton 68 claimed to have proof showing hundreds of Russian-affiliated Twitter accounts manipulated the U.S. election to get Trump into the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As it turns out, none of these accusations were true and Hamilton 68 turned out to be a &#8220;high-level hoax.&#8221; Most of the accounts were Americans engaged in organic conversations, which Hamilton 68 arbitrarily described as &#8220;Russian scheming.&#8221; Twitter\u2019s safety officer, Yoel Roth, even admitted the company had labeled &#8220;real people&#8221; \u2014 again, mostly Americans \u2014 as &#8220;Russian stooges without evidence or recourse.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A key difference between the McCarthy and Hamilton 68 episodes was that journalists, U.S. intelligence agencies and Congressional members didn\u2019t swallow McCarthy\u2019s accusations without chewing. When the witch hunt against Trump took off, anyone who questioned the accusations was attacked as a co-conspirator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"673\" height=\"460\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Agenda-2030.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4731\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Agenda-2030.jpg 673w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Agenda-2030-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Media even refused to report on the evidence proving that Hamilton 68 was a complete scam. The level of disinterest in the truth suggested that American liberalism &#8220;had lost faith in the promise of freedom and embraced a new ideal,&#8221; Siegel writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Propaganda and Censorship \u2014 Two Sides of the Same Coin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Propaganda is as old as humanity itself, but the modern version of it can be traced back to 1948, when the CIA\u2019s Office of Special Projects launched Operation Mockingbird, a clandestine CIA media infiltration campaign that involved bribing hundreds of journalists to publish fake stories at the CIA\u2019s request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dismissal of conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists as mentally unstable crackpots was one of the tactics invented by the CIA at this time. Its intent was (and still is) to marginalize and demoralize anyone who questions the fabricated narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s quite telling that Operation Mockingbird was launched the same year the U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act (aka the Smith-Mundt Act) became law, which forbade the U.S. government from pushing propaganda onto the U.S. population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"792\" height=\"490\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-14.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4027\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-14.png 792w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-14-300x186.png 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-14-768x475.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This anti-propaganda law was repealed in 2013 by then-President Barrack Obama. So, since July 2013, the U.S. government and CIA have been legally permitted to propagandize U.S. citizens. In addition to the simplification of global coordination of news by way of news agencies, this is yet another reason why propaganda has flourished and grown exponentially in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"538\" height=\"539\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fear-Cabal-NWO.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3521\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fear-Cabal-NWO.jpg 538w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fear-Cabal-NWO-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fear-Cabal-NWO-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The undermining of free speech took off at the end of 2016, when Obama signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which opened the door to an offensive information war against the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But for propaganda to be truly successful, especially in the long term, you also need censorship \u2014 a concept wildly opposed in the U.S. until recently \u2014 and censorship, at least in America, requires the undermining of free speech rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As noted by Siegel, the effort to undercut free speech really took off at the end of 2016, when Obama signed into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, which opened the door to &#8220;an open-ended, offensive information war&#8221; against the general public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seemingly overnight, &#8220;misinformation&#8221; and &#8220;disinformation&#8221; were said to pose an urgent existential threat to national security, freedom, democracy and, later, to public health. We\u2019re now told we must eliminate misinformation to preserve free speech, which is so twisted that no Constitutionally-literate person can make sense of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.mercola.com\/assets\/images\/mercola\/pdf\/pdf-download-desktop.png\" width=\"222\" height=\"118\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Download this Article Before it Disappears<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/media.mercola.com\/ImageServer\/Public\/2023\/September\/PDF\/control-is-the-goal-pdf.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Acceleration of Free Speech Elimination<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By repealing the Smith-Mundt Act, and signing into law the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act, Obama laid the legal groundwork for government control of speech in the U.S. Since then, a sprawling disinformation industrial complex has emerged, which seeks to control the internet and all information in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"574\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-18.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3017\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-18.png 1024w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-18-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/image-18-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As described by Siegel, the U.S. national security infrastructure has now fused with social media platforms, which is where the information war is being fought. The national mobilization against disinformation has also been expanded from a whole-of-government approach to a whole-of-society approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a 2018 document, the State Department\u2019s Global Engagement Center (GEC) calls for &#8220;leveraging expertise from across government, tech and marketing sectors, academia, and NGO\u2019s.&#8221; &#8220;This is how the government-created \u2018war against disinformation\u2019 became the great moral crusade of its time,&#8221; Siegel writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, media have also played a significant role in the &#8220;whole-of-society response&#8221; to disinformation, but they are &#8220;by far the weakest player in the counter-disinformation complex,&#8221; Seigel notes, adding:<sup>3<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"747\" height=\"396\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2479\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-2.png 747w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-2-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The American press, once the guardian of democracy, was hollowed out to the point that it could be worn like a hand puppet by the U.S. security agencies and party operatives.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>It would be nice to call what has taken place a tragedy, but an audience is meant to learn something from a tragedy. As a nation, America not only has learned nothing, it has been deliberately prevented from learning anything while being made to chase after shadows.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>This is not because Americans are stupid; it\u2019s because what has taken place is not a tragedy but something closer to a crime. Disinformation is both the name of the crime and the means of covering it up; a weapon that doubles as a disguise.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"661\" height=\"521\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4705\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-4.png 661w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-4-300x236.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>The crime is the information war itself, which was launched under false pretenses and by its nature destroys the essential boundaries between the public and private and between the foreign and domestic, on which peace and democracy depend.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>By conflating the anti-establishment politics of domestic populists with acts of war by foreign enemies, it justified turning weapons of war against American citizens. It turned the public arenas where social and political life take place into surveillance traps and targets for mass psychological operations.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>The crime is the routine violation of Americans\u2019 rights by unelected officials who secretly control what individuals can think and say. What we are seeing now, in the revelations exposing the inner workings of the state-corporate censorship regime, is only the end of the beginning.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>The United States is still in the earliest stages of a mass mobilization that aims to harness every sector of society under a singular technocratic rule.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>The mobilization, which began as a response to the supposedly urgent menace of Russian [election] interference, now evolves into a regime of total information control that has arrogated to itself the mission of eradicating abstract dangers such as error, injustice, and harm \u2014 a goal worthy only of leaders who believe themselves to be infallible, or comic-book supervillains.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Phase 2 of the Information War \u2014 Total Control<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"623\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/protecting-the-panedemic-623x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2395\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/protecting-the-panedemic-623x1024.jpg 623w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/protecting-the-panedemic-182x300.jpg 182w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/protecting-the-panedemic-768x1263.jpg 768w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/protecting-the-panedemic.jpg 843w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The COVID pandemic was a significant part of Phase 1 in the information war, although the war on public perception began years earlier. As noted by Siegel, the COVID phase was &#8220;marked by distinctively human displays of incompetence and brute-force intimidation.&#8221; Phase 2 will undoubtedly be carried out by artificial intelligence, now thoroughly trained to identify the greatest triggers of fear and panic, both on an individual and societal basis.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"251\" height=\"204\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/y-vaccine-check-point.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2445\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>We can also expect censorship by algorithm. It will no longer be a game of whack-a-mole with humans tagging posts and requesting their removal. Instead, messages containing certain words simply won\u2019t go anywhere and won\u2019t be seen. Spoken and written key words will be automatically flagged and deleted or barred from posting by AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AI-based bots and &#8220;sock puppets&#8221; (fake accounts) can also be launched across platforms and be algorithmically amplified to alter the perceptions of billions in real time. We saw this trend emerging during the first round of COVID, where multiple accounts were posting the same &#8220;original&#8221; message, verbatim, at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As noted by Siegel, the end goal of all this information wrangling is control. Not partial control, but total. Over everything and everyone. This is also why we will never see a government authority admit they spread disinformation themselves, even though, technically, they\u2019ve been guilty of such on numerous occasions over the last three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"710\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/anti-christ-system-and-the-elite.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4534\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/anti-christ-system-and-the-elite.jpg 683w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/anti-christ-system-and-the-elite-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation, even though U.S. intelligence had proof that it, and its contents, were real. They claimed the lab leak theory was a racist conspiracy, even though, privately, the scientific consensus was that the virus came from a lab. They told us the COVID jabs would stop transmission, even though that was never tested in the first place. The list goes on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Disinformation, now and for all time, is whatever they say it is,&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;Siegel writes.<sup>4<\/sup>&nbsp;<em>&#8220;That is not a sign that the concept is being misused or corrupted; it is the precise functioning of a totalitarian system.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Partners in Crime<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"592\" height=\"595\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/architect-not-victims.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3585\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/architect-not-victims.jpg 592w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/architect-not-victims-298x300.jpg 298w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/architect-not-victims-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Siegel isn\u2019t the only one calling out the information war as a crime. In another Tablet article titled &#8220;Partners in Crime,&#8221;<sup>5<\/sup>&nbsp;New Civil Liberties Alliance attorney Jenin Younes reviews evidence from the Missouri legal case<sup>6<\/sup>&nbsp;against the Biden administration showing how government and Big Tech built &#8220;a whole-of-system censorship campaign&#8221; in clear violation of the First Amendment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Internal Meta documents obtained by the House Judiciary Committee\u2019s Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government in July 2023 has also fleshed out the story of how state-sponsored censorship came to be the official policy of so many private companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evidence shows that Facebook and other social media companies did not take it upon themselves to become arbiters of truth. Rather, they were aggressively pressured to do so by Biden administration officials, and officials within various federal agencies. Sometimes they did meekly follow the direction given, but even in cases where they tried to push back, they eventually had to fall in line for fear of government retaliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"992\" height=\"604\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Nixon-set-up.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4675\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Nixon-set-up.jpg 992w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Nixon-set-up-300x183.jpg 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Nixon-set-up-768x468.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;While other lawsuits alleging First Amendment violations based on government involvement in social media censorship have been filed over the past two years,<\/em>&nbsp;Missouri&nbsp;<em>[v. Biden] has proven uniquely successful,&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;Younes writes.<sup>7<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;When the complaint was filed in May of 2022, the main proof the Missouri plaintiffs had were public statements from high-ranking members of the administration, including former White House Press Secretary Jennifer Psaki, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and President Biden himself.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>The plaintiffs cited public statements of government officials unabashedly proclaiming they were flagging posts for social media companies to censor; openly criticizing the companies for inadequate removal of content (especially anything that cast doubt on the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines); accusing tech executives of \u2018killing people\u2019 for not adequately censoring so-called misinformation; and threatening to hold them accountable should they refuse to comply.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Judge Terrence Doughty ordered discovery at an early stage of litigation &#8230; For the first time, the public became aware of the Biden administration\u2019s clandestine censorship operation, which began a mere three days after President Biden\u2019s inauguration &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"651\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-11-1024x651.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4495\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-11-1024x651.png 1024w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-11-300x191.png 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-11-768x488.png 768w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-11.png 1205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>By February of 2021, then-White House Director of Digital Media Robert Flaherty had intensified the administration\u2019s tactics &#8230; He began bullying companies \u2014 using expletives, wielding accusations, and making demands \u2014 in his efforts to get them to remove content that he claimed might cause people to decline vaccines &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>On numerous occasions, Brian Rice and other Meta employees sent the White House detailed lists of agreed-upon policy changes after initial attempts to assuage Mr. Flaherty\u2019s wrath proved unsuccessful.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>On July 4 of this year, Judge Doughty granted the plaintiffs\u2019 request for a preliminary injunction in Missouri, observing that \u2018the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States\u2019 history,\u2019 and describing the administration\u2019s censorship regime as akin to an \u2018Orwellian Ministry of Truth.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Crucial to the outcome was the court\u2019s finding<sup>8<\/sup>&nbsp;that the Biden administration and various federal executive agencies coerced, pressured, and encouraged social media companies to suppress First Amendment protected speech, converting otherwise private action into that of the state.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"530\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/kennedy-and-secrecy-1024x530.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/kennedy-and-secrecy-1024x530.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/kennedy-and-secrecy-300x155.jpg 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/kennedy-and-secrecy-768x397.jpg 768w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/kennedy-and-secrecy.jpg 1164w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>The core principle at issue, which forbids the government to co-opt private industry to circumvent constitutional prohibitions, is known as \u2018state action doctrine.\u2019 Without it, the Bill of Rights would be worthless.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Police could, for instance, hire a private company to search your home despite lacking probable cause, in order to get around the Fourth Amendment\u2019s prohibition against warrantless searches and seizures. Or the government could evade the guarantees of Equal Protection in the 14th Amendment by funding racially segregated private schools.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>The judge agreed with the plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden that &#8230; since the First Amendment prohibits government from abridging freedom of speech, the Constitution cannot be read to permit government to commandeer private companies to accomplish its viewpoint-based censorship aims.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Direct Evidence of Coercion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4389\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-4.png 1024w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-4-300x232.png 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/image-4-768x593.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While the initial evidence suggested the Biden administration was the driving force behind the media censorship, it was still circumstantial. That changed in late July 2023, when internal Meta documents were obtained by the Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Younes, &#8220;These documents tie the knot: They unequivocally establish that but for the Biden administration\u2019s strong-arm tactics, certain viewpoints would not have been suppressed.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, in a July 2021 email, Meta\u2019s head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, asked Brian Rice, who was in charge of Facebook\u2019s content policy, why they had removed, rather than flagged or demoted, claims that SARS-CoV-2 was manmade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rice replied, &#8220;Because we were under pressure from the [Biden] administration and others to do more and it was part of the \u2018more\u2019 package.&#8221; He ended the email saying, &#8220;We shouldn\u2019t have done it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Not only did Rice explicitly state that pressure from the White House caused Meta to remove content endorsing the lab leak theory of COVID\u2019s origins, he also expressed remorse for this decision.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>These new documents also prove that the removal of \u2018vaccine discouraging content\u2019 occurred because of government pressure,&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;Younes writes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Clegg, for example, told Andy Slavitt, former White House senior adviser for the COVID response, that removing humorous memes disparaging the COVID jab \u2014 as demanded by Slavitt \u2014 &#8220;would represent a significant incursion into traditional boundaries of free expression in the U.S.&#8221; Slavitt insisted and brushed off Clegg\u2019s concerns as immaterial, and in the end, Clegg acquiesced to avoid potential retaliation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quid Pro Quo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Younes continues:<sup>9<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The White House\u2019s coercive tactics had the desired effect. Both Clegg and [Meta COO Sheryl] Sandberg urged acquiescence to avoid adverse consequences. In Clegg\u2019s words, \u2018Sheryl is keen that we continue to explore some moves that we can make to show that we are trying to be responsive to the WH.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>He explained that the company\u2019s \u2018current course \u2026 is a recipe for protracted and increased acrimony with the WH as the vaccine roll out continues to stutter through the Fall and Winter. Given the bigger fish we have to fry with the Administration \u2014 data flows etc \u2014 that doesn\u2019t seem a great place for us to be.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Thus, \u2018given what is at stake here, it would also be a good idea if we could regroup to take stock of where we are in our relations with the WH, and our internal methods too.\u2019 The \u2018data flow\u2019 referenced a dispute Meta was having with the European Union at the time over transfer of users\u2019 data. If resolved in favor of the EU, Meta could face significant fines.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>As Twitter files journalist Michael Shellenberger and his co-authors recently explained in analyzing this exchange, \u2018the series of events suggests a quid pro quo. Facebook would bow to White House requests for censorship in exchange for its help with the European Union.\u2019&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">First Amendment Seeks to Prevent Suppression of Dissent<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As noted by Younes, President Biden had promised to make mass vaccination against COVID central to his agenda. The problem was, a great many Americans didn\u2019t feel comfortable being injected with an experimental gene therapy that had no long-term safety data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was an impediment to Biden\u2019s political agenda, and rather than acknowledging that the mass vaccination campaign was ill received, the White House simply scapegoated social media instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was their fault that Americans weren\u2019t rolling up their sleeves in sufficient numbers. Internal Meta emails attest to the fact that employees felt they were being used as scapegoats whenever the vaccination campaign wasn\u2019t going as hoped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;A government using its power to suppress dissent is precisely what the First Amendment sought to prevent,&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;Younes notes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>&#8220;\u2018Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved,\u2019 Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers, famously wrote.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>The first president of the United States, George Washington, once said, \u2018If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Let us hope that when the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and probably the Supreme Court, consider these cases in the upcoming months, they interpret the First Amendment as the Constitution\u2019s Framers understood it. Otherwise, the future of free speech, and liberty itself, is in grave danger.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In closing, while Younes recognizes the terrible threat state-sponsored censorship poses, he doesn\u2019t follow the bread crumbs as far as Siegel does. Younes seems to believe the government censorship network came about to protect Biden\u2019s political goals, but it\u2019s way bigger than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like Siegel states, the end goal is global control. To get there, those seeking that control must create a total stranglehold on all information, because that\u2019s how you best control a population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s more, this stranglehold is global. It\u2019s not an American phenomenon that sprung up because Biden wanted to get a jab in every arm. COVID censorship is happening in every country, and every country needs to investigate what role, if any, their governments played in the suppression of truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/mercola\/special-content\/dynamic-ending-ad-super-foods.aspx?cid_medium=email\">https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/mercola\/special-content\/dynamic-ending-ad-super-foods.aspx?cid_medium=email<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/archives\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OPINION<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi warns of the emerging \u2018censorship-industrial complex\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"596\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/a-man-of-great-influence.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2929\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/a-man-of-great-influence.jpg 650w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/a-man-of-great-influence-300x275.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8216;The &#8216;Censorship-Industrial Complex&#8217; is just the Military-Industrial Complex reborn for the &#8216;hybrid warfare&#8217; age.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Matt-Taibbi-on-the-Joe-Rogan-Experience-podcast-810x500.png\" alt=\"Featured Image\">Matt Taibbi on the Joe Rogan Experience podcastJoe Rogan Experience \/ YouTube<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/author\/frank-wright\/\">Frank Wright<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignleft is-light\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"603\" height=\"532\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-2978\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Douglas-Macgregor-sabotage.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Douglas-Macgregor-sabotage.jpg 603w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Douglas-Macgregor-sabotage-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">Please click on link!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"javascript:;\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"javascript:;\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"javascript:;\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"javascript:;\"><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"javascript:;\"><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"mailto:?subject=Please%20read:%20Twitter%20Files%20journalist%20Matt%20Taibbi%20warns%20of%20the%20emerging%20%E2%80%98censorship-industrial%20complex%E2%80%99&amp;body=Important%20article%20at%20LifeSiteNews.com%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fopinion%2Ftwitter-files-journalist-matt-taibbi-warns-of-the-emerging-censorship-industrial-complex%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"javascript:;\"><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"javascript:;\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thu May 11, 2023 &#8211; 1:29 pm EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0:00 \/ 5:021X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beyondwords.io\/?utm_source=player&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BeyondWords<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/canada\/\">LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2014 With a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/censorship-industrial-complex-top-50-organizations-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">post on Zerohedge yesterday<\/a>, journalist&nbsp;Matt Taibbi builds on the revelations of the Twitter Files with an introduction to the Western censorship industry.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Detailing the top 50 companies engaged in narrative control, the report is credited to&nbsp;Susan Schmidt, Andrew Lowenthal, Tom Wyatt, Techno Fog, and 3 others via Racket News.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"486\" height=\"605\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lying.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2364\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lying.jpg 486w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lying-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ads.lifesitenews.com\/www\/delivery\/lg.php?bannerid=0&amp;campaignid=0&amp;zoneid=1&amp;loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fopinion%2Ftwitter-files-journalist-matt-taibbi-warns-of-the-emerging-censorship-industrial-complex%2F%3Futm_source%3Ddaily-world-2023-05-12%26utm_medium%3Demail&amp;cb=3a3a707be0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A comprehensive guide to the forces arrayed against free speech, the report begins with the dire warning of Dwight D Eisenhower against the power of a growing \u201cmilitary-industrial complex,\u201d which would one day destroy democracy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Eisenhower would be proud of Taibbi\u2019s work, who with the Twitter Files has done much to expose just how far these forces have corrupted not only American democracy, but have captured the media of the formerly free world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Taibbi says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The \u2018Censorship-Industrial Complex\u2019 is just the Military-Industrial Complex reborn for the \u2018hybrid warfare\u2019 age.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the reason he has joined this effort to document and expose the institutions who work to keep you safe from the dangers of free speech.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2014 Article continues below Petition \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Urge Elon Musk to label the CBC as &#8216;Government-funded Media&#8217; on Twitter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; Show Petition Text<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3921&nbsp;have signed the petition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s get to&nbsp;4000!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add your signature:Country&#8230;USACanadaAaland IslandsAfghanistanAlbaniaAlgeriaAmerican SamoaAndorraAngolaAnguillaAntarcticaAntigua and BarbudaArgentinaArmeniaArubaAustraliaAustriaAzerbaijanBahamasBahrainBangladeshBarbadosBelarusBelgiumBelizeBeninBermudaBhutanBoliviaBosnia and HerzegovinaBotswanaBouvet IslandBrazilBritish Indian Ocean TerritoryBrunei DarussalamBulgariaBurkina FasoBurundiCambodiaCameroonCape VerdeCayman IslandsCentral African RepublicChadChileChinaChristmas IslandCocos (Keeling) IslandsColombiaComorosCongoCook IslandsCosta RicaCote D&#8217;IvoireCroatiaCubaCuracaoCyprusCzech RepublicDemocratic Republic of the CongoDenmarkDjiboutiDominicaDominican RepublicEcuadorEgyptEl SalvadorEquatorial GuineaEritreaEstoniaEthiopiaFalkland IslandsFaroe IslandsFijiFinlandFranceFrench GuianaFrench PolynesiaFrench Southern TerritoriesGabonGambiaGeorgiaGermanyGhanaGibraltarGreeceGreenlandGrenadaGuadeloupeGuamGuatemalaGuernseyGuineaGuinea-BissauGuyanaHaitiHeard and McDonald IslandsHondurasHong KongHungaryIcelandIndiaIndonesiaIranIraqIrelandIsle of ManIsraelItalyJamaicaJapanJerseyJordanKazakhstanKenyaKiribatiKuwaitKyrgyzstanLao People&#8217;s Democratic RepublicLatviaLebanonLesothoLiberiaLibyaLiechtensteinLithuaniaLuxembourgMacauMacedoniaMadagascarMalawiMalaysiaMaldivesMaliMaltaMarshall IslandsMartiniqueMauritaniaMauritiusMayotteMexicoMicronesiaMoldovaMonacoMongoliaMontenegroMontserratMoroccoMozambiqueMyanmarNamibiaNauruNepalNetherlandsNetherlands AntillesNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNicaraguaNigerNigeriaNiueNorfolk IslandNorth KoreaNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwayOmanPakistanPalauPalestinePanamaPapua New GuineaParaguayPeruPhilippinesPitcairnPolandPortugalPuerto RicoQatarRepublic of KosovoReunionRomaniaRussiaRwandaSaint BarthelemySaint HelenaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint MartinSaint Pierre and MiquelonSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSamoaSan MarinoSao Tome and PrincipeSaudi ArabiaSenegalSerbiaSeychellesSierra LeoneSingaporeSint MaartenSlovakiaSloveniaSolomon IslandsSomaliaSouth AfricaSouth Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsSouth KoreaSouth SudanSpainSri LankaSudanSurinameSvalbard and Jan Mayen IslandsSwazilandSwedenSwitzerlandSyriaTaiwanTajikistanTanzaniaThailandTimor-LesteTogoTokelauTongaTrinidad and TobagoTunisiaTurkeyTurkmenistanTurks and Caicos IslandsTuvaluUgandaUkraineUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited States Minor Outlying IslandsUruguayUzbekistanVanuatuVatican CityVenezuelaVietnamVirgin Islands (British)Virgin Islands (U.S.)Wallis and Futuna IslandsWestern SaharaYemenZambiaZimbabweNot Collected<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep me updated via email on this petition and related issues.&nbsp;Sign this Petition<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A handy guide to the enemies of freedom<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"658\" height=\"366\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/public-private-partnership.-G3P.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2979\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/public-private-partnership.-G3P.jpg 658w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/public-private-partnership.-G3P-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The team hopes that this list will help readers, writers and journalists make better informed decisions about the provenance of their information. Taibbi continued:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u2018The Top 50 List\u2019 is intended as a resource for reporters and researchers beginning their journey toward learning the scale and ambition of the \u2018Censorship-Industrial Complex.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The list is in a handy magazine format, noting factors such as funding, the type of organization throttling speech, where they come from and how they do it. Taibbi\u2019s remarks also reveal something of the dark arts \u2013 how these and other agents isolate and neutralize people who, in their view, have had too much to think.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"141\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/a_secret_society4-150x141-bush-fam-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2509\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ads.lifesitenews.com\/www\/delivery\/lg.php?bannerid=0&amp;campaignid=0&amp;zoneid=2&amp;loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fopinion%2Ftwitter-files-journalist-matt-taibbi-warns-of-the-emerging-censorship-industrial-complex%2F%3Futm_source%3Ddaily-world-2023-05-12%26utm_medium%3Demail&amp;cb=ebc399d601\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, these organizations are often presented as providing a service to the public good, keeping them safe from the contamination of unsterilized ideas. They call themselves \u201canti-disinformation\u201d groups, fighting what the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/opinion\/truth-in-decay-the-rand-corporations-blueprint-to-end-free-speech\/\">RAND Corporation recently called<\/a>&nbsp;\u201ctruth decay.\u201d How nice of them! Taibbi explains how they go about their selfless and principled work \u2013 to keep anyone anywhere from developing a think problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taibbi writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Many anti-disinformation groups adhere to the same formulaic approach to research, often using the same \u2018hate-mapping,\u2019 guilt-by-association-type analysis to identify wrong-thinkers and suppressive persons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is even a tendency to use what one Twitter Files source described as the same \u2018hairball\u2019 graphs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_871585\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/An-example-of-a-hairball-graph-from-the-Omidyar-Group-no-27-in-the-report.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-871585\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An example of a \u2018hairball graph\u2019 from the Omidyar Group (no 27 in the report)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea of protecting people from free speech is as ridiculous as it is sinister. As&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/opinion\/tucker-carlsons-move-to-twitter-shows-what-a-principled-commitment-to-free-speech-means\/\">Tucker Carlson noted in his recent move to Twitter<\/a>, without the freedom of speech you have no others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is for this reason it is obvious that free speech is a danger to democracy. Democracy, that is, as it is understood by the people who are destroying it \u2013 in order to defend it. This is no paranoid flight of fancy.&nbsp;Taibbi continues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"615\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Christine-Lagarde-ECB-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Christine-Lagarde-ECB-1.jpg 728w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Christine-Lagarde-ECB-1-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Together, these groups are fast achieving what Eisenhower feared: the elimination of \u2018balance\u2019 between the democratic need for liberalizing laws and institutions, and the vigilance&nbsp;required&nbsp;for military preparation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"747\" height=\"396\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2479\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-2.png 747w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-2-300x159.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Before handing the floor to the fifty foremost agents of information warfare, Taibbi notes an important dimension of the rising power of the censorship industry. In seeking to stigmatize and marginalize any narrative in disagreement with that of the regime and its ideology, it hopes to train the general public to consider free speech a threat.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a form of aversion therapy, where the specters of hate, extremism, foreign interference and misinformation are invoked to warn people off anything that the elites do not want you to see.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Democratic society requires the nourishment of free debate, disagreement, and intellectual tension, but the groups below seek instead that \u2018shared vocabulary\u2019 to deploy on the hybrid battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They propose to serve as the guardians of that \u2018vocabulary,\u2019 which sounds very like the scenario Ike outlined in 1961, in which \u2018public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific and technological elite.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/not-dumb-obedient-slave-in-a-army-of-destruction.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2618\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/not-dumb-obedient-slave-in-a-army-of-destruction.jpg 675w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/not-dumb-obedient-slave-in-a-army-of-destruction-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ads.lifesitenews.com\/www\/delivery\/lg.php?bannerid=0&amp;campaignid=0&amp;zoneid=3&amp;loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fopinion%2Ftwitter-files-journalist-matt-taibbi-warns-of-the-emerging-censorship-industrial-complex%2F%3Futm_source%3Ddaily-world-2023-05-12%26utm_medium%3Demail&amp;cb=1998bbece2\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This report is a welcome addition to the arsenal of freedom, with dystopian censorship bills and legal penalties attached to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/opinion\/uks-dystopian-online-safety-bill-has-no-intention-of-protecting-children-from-transgender-harm\/\">anything the regime defines as \u201chate speech.\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;The march of this capture has not been halted by this report, but its comprehensive nature means it is very likely to remain a stone in the shoe of information suppression for a long time.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/themes\/chd-theme\/images\/defender-logo-final.svg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"499\" height=\"618\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hacked-your-computer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2727\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hacked-your-computer.jpg 499w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hacked-your-computer-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The \u2018Censorship-Industrial Complex\u2019: Report Names Top 50 Groups Working to Censor Americans<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Journalist Matt Taibbi\u2019s Racket News on Wednesday published a comprehensive report on the top 50 organizations engaged in censorship of so-called \u201cmisinformation\u201d and \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/authors\/w-aaron-vandiver\/\">W. Aaron Vandiver<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link copied<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/censorship-industrial-complex-americans-feature-800x417.jpg\" alt=\"censorship industrial complex americans feature\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Miss a day, miss a lot.<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/about-us\/sign-up\/?utm_source=top_of_article&amp;utm_medium=the_defender&amp;utm_campaign=sign_ups\">Subscribe to The Defender&#8217;s Top News of the Day<\/a>.&nbsp;<strong>It&#8217;s free.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Journalist Matt Taibbi\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/\">Racket News<\/a>&nbsp;on Wednesday published a comprehensive report on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/report-on-the-censorship-industrial-74b\">top 50 organizations<\/a>&nbsp;engaged in censorship of so-called \u201cmisinformation\u201d and \u201cdisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written by Taibbi and eight other contributors \u2014 and dubbed \u201cthe citizen\u2019s starter kit to understanding the new global information cartel\u201d \u2014 the lengthy report provides a summary profile of each major organization involved in the \u201cCensorship-Industrial Complex.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taibbi coined that term during his and fellow journalists\u2019 work on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1598822959866683394\">Twitter Files<\/a>,\u201d which revealed the widespread cooperation between&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/twitter-files-censorship-industrial-complex\/\">government agencies<\/a>&nbsp;and social media companies to censor information in violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. (<a href=\"https:\/\/ago.mo.gov\/home\/news\/2023\/01\/09\/missouri-attorney-general-releases-more-documents-exposing-white-house's-social-media-censorship-scheme\">Legal challenges<\/a>&nbsp;and investigations into&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/biden-agencies-subpoenaed-judiciary-gop-social-media-censorship\">social media censorship<\/a>&nbsp;are ongoing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cCensorship-Industrial Complex\u201d is a play on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/milestone-documents\/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address\">military-industrial complex<\/a>,\u201d a term President Dwight D. Eisenhower used during his famous farewell address of 1961 to warn Americans about the threat posed by the growing merger of military power and private industry that emerged in the wake of World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPublic policy,\u201d Eisenhower warned, \u201ccould itself become the captive of a scientific and technological elite.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 60 years later, \u201cThe Censorship-Industrial Complex is just the Military-Industrial Complex reborn for the \u2018hybrid warfare\u2019 age\u2019 of digital information,\u201d Taibbi wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_244771\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/censorship-industrial-complex-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-244771\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Credit: Racket News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/report-on-the-censorship-industrial-74b\">The Top 50 List<\/a>,\u201d according to the report, \u201cis intended as a resource for reporters and researchers beginning their journey toward learning the scale and ambition of the \u2018Censorship-Industrial Complex.\u2019 \u2026 it tries to answer a few basic questions about funding, organization type, history, and especially methodology.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the 50 organizations profiled in the report use vague language \u2014 what the report describes as \u201cgibberish verbiage\u201d \u2014 to justify their anti-free-speech activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organizations vaguely refer to combating \u201chate speech,\u201d for example, and use unusual terminology such as \u201ctoxicity monitoring,\u201d \u201cconstructive alternative messages,\u201d \u201cpre-bunking\u201d and \u201cmalinformation\u201d (i.e. information that is true but intended \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/firstdraftnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/infoDisorder_glossary.pdf\">to cause harm<\/a>\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, their mission is to enforce strict conformity with official narratives on major political, economic and social issues \u2014 from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender_category\/covid\/\">COVID-19<\/a>&nbsp;to war to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The censorship capabilities being established by this network of organizations have the potential to be used in myriad ways in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, a number of the top 50 groups refer to \u201cclimate misinformation\u201d as part of their mission \u2014 but the full range of what that term entails is unclear. If local citizens and conservation groups oppose a corporation\u2019s \u201cclean\u201d energy project, for example, can their social media posts be labeled \u201cclimate misinformation\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is already collaborating with one of the top 50 organizations \u2014 the Poynter Institute, which runs the \u201cfact-checking\u201d group Politifact \u2014 to censor posts by citizens and activists that claim a connection between&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/whales-dolphins-deaths-wind-turbines\/\">offshore wind development<\/a>&nbsp;and the death and endangerment of marine wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"874\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/follow-the-money.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/follow-the-money.jpg 692w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/follow-the-money-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the top 50 are nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), which according to the report, are funded by corporations such as Google, Facebook and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/corporate-vaccine-mandates-passports-blackrock-vanguard\/\">BlackRock<\/a>, and by private tax-exempt \u201cphilanthropies\u201d set up by powerful billionaires, such as the Ford Foundation,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/rockefeller-foundation-nonprofits-behavioral-psychology-covid-vaccines\/\">Rockefeller Foundation<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/chelsea-clinton-gates-foundation-who-global-vaccine-initiative\/\">Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/foundations-investments-influence-covid-research\/\">Wellcome Trust<\/a>, Open Society Foundations, Omidyar Network and Craig Newmark Philanthropies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some on the list are initiatives and programs at elite U.S. universities, including Brown, Harvard,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/twitter-files-virality-project-covid-misinformation\/\">Stanford<\/a>&nbsp;and Duke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1020\" height=\"762\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/jf-kennedy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2565\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/jf-kennedy1.jpg 1020w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/jf-kennedy1-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/jf-kennedy1-768x574.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A U.S. government agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, also is on the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal of the top 50 organizations is \u201ca new homogenous politics,\u201d Taibbi said, \u201cwhich can be perpetually tweaked and amplified online via algorithm and machine learning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this \u201chomogenous politics\u201d enforced through digital tools, there is to be a \u201cshared vocabulary\u201d \u2014 in other words, conformity \u2014 in which no substantial disagreement on the issues that truly matter is permissible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"737\" height=\"528\" src=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1carbon-to-reduce-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2828\" srcset=\"http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1carbon-to-reduce-1.jpg 737w, http:\/\/humanityandearth.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1carbon-to-reduce-1-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 737px) 100vw, 737px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDemocratic society requires the nourishment of free debate, disagreement, and political tension,\u201d Taibbi said, \u201cbut the groups below seek instead that \u2018shared vocabulary\u2019\u201d and the cold, hard power of censorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Another article as published online.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>NEWS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Whistleblower leak reveals \u2018missing link in government, private collusion to control online information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>What started as a private group of activist censors wanted to &#8216;become part of the federal government.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/bigtech-1536x975-810x500.jpg\" alt=\"Featured Image\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/author\/calvin-freiburger\/\">Calvin<br>Freiburger<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wed Nov 29, 2023 &#8211; 6:23 pm EST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/\">LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2013 The activities of a volunteer \u201canti-disinformation\u201d initiative that has inspired tactics for official government policy provides the \u201cmissing link\u201d between public and private censorship of the internet, according to a bombshell new collection of documents about the so-called Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Writing at the Substack newsletter&nbsp;<em>Public<\/em>, journalists Michael Shellenberger, Alex Gutentag, and Matt Taibbi&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/public.substack.com\/p\/ctil-files-1-us-and-uk-military-contractors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">detail<\/a>&nbsp;an \u201cexplosive new trove of documents\u201d provided by a \u201chighly credible\u201d anonymous CTIL whistleblower that \u201cdescribe everything from the genesis of modern digital censorship programs to the role of the military and intelligence agencies, partnerships with civil society organizations and commercial media, and the use of sock puppet accounts and other offensive techniques.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ads.lifesitenews.com\/www\/delivery\/cl.php?bannerid=294&amp;zoneid=1&amp;sig=f290d9fa28f4930e935136643692403d0f3054a18868f0021f3fec46981a7f64&amp;dest=https%3A%2F%2Fstjosephpartners.com%2Flifesitenews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ads.lifesitenews.com\/www\/images\/6136a2371bf33b42df085b3d88ec899e.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ads.lifesitenews.com\/www\/delivery\/lg.php?bannerid=294&amp;campaignid=122&amp;zoneid=1&amp;OACBLOCK=300&amp;OASCCAP=1&amp;loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fnews%2Fwhistleblower-leak-reveals-missing-link-in-government-private-collusion-to-control-online-information%2F%3Futm_source%3Ddaily-world-2023-11-30%26utm_medium%3Demail&amp;cb=4dc453b7f2\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the documents, the censorship framework defining the strategies of public and private censorship efforts in 2020 and beyond \u2013 including government pressure on private companies to quash objectionable content \u2013 was developed in 2019 by a group of American and British defense contractors led by former UK defense researcher Sara-Jayne \u201cSJ\u201d Terp, and that in addition to curbing disfavored content it entailed promoting preferred narratives through a variety of tactics, including the creation of fake or \u201csock-puppet\u201d social media accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CTIL\u2019s goal \u201cwas to become part of the federal government,\u201d according to the whistleblower, who alleges to have been recruited into the project via cybersecurity meetings hosted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). \u201cIn our weekly meetings, they made it clear that they were building these organizations within the federal government, and if you built the first iteration, we could secure a job for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the very least, the group succeeded to some extent in creating what Terp called \u201cMisinfosec communities\u201d with government entities; in April 2020, for instance, then-director of the U.S. Cybersecurity &amp; Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Chris Krebs&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CISAKrebs\/status\/1252687028367626240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">touted<\/a>&nbsp;the agency\u2019s partnership with CTIL and the \u201cmore than 1,000 net defenders from around the world\u201d it represented, ostensibly to \u201cstop malicious cyber activity related to\u201d the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least a dozen and as many as 20 people involved with CTIL were also employees of CISA and\/or the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and even temporarily bore their agency seals next to their names in the slack messaging system, according to the whistleblower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among CTIL\u2019s fruits was the creation of a strategy framework called Adversarial Misinformation &amp; Influence Tactics &amp; Techniques (AMITT), adapted from a cybersecurity framework by billion-dollar define contractor MITRE.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AMITT was later used by the World Health Organization (WHO) to counter vaccine criticisms, and earlier this year was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7071432784552112128\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">formally adopted<\/a>&nbsp;by the U.S. and European Union as part of a \u201ccommon standard for exchanging structured threat information on Foreign Information Manipulation and Inteference\u201d [sic].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AMITT is not just about silencing individual pieces of content, according to the documents, but discrediting their authors more comprehensively and even pressuring for organizers of dissenting messages to be denied access to financial services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ads.lifesitenews.com\/www\/delivery\/lg.php?bannerid=0&amp;campaignid=0&amp;zoneid=2&amp;loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fnews%2Fwhistleblower-leak-reveals-missing-link-in-government-private-collusion-to-control-online-information%2F%3Futm_source%3Ddaily-world-2023-11-30%26utm_medium%3Demail&amp;cb=f0ef6e04c4\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>AMITT framework calls for discrediting individuals as a necessary prerequisite of demanding censorship against them. It calls for training influencers to spread messages. And it calls for trying to get banks to cut off financial services to individuals who organize rallies or events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"lsn-subscribe-title-10\">SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DAILY HEADLINES&nbsp;US&nbsp;Canada&nbsp;Catholic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The documents also contain further confirmation that such efforts significantly grew after 2016 as a response to Democrat Hillary Clinton\u2019s loss of the U.S. presidency to an unlikely foe, and the United Kingdom\u2019s withdrawal from the E.U., which leftists took as signs of their weakening monopoly on what the general public knows about current events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA study of the antecedents to these events lead us to the realization that there\u2019s something off kilter with our information landscape,\u201d Terp and colleagues wrote in one report. \u201cThe usual useful idiots and fifth columnists \u2014 now augmented by automated bots, cyborgs and human trolls \u2014 are busily engineering public opinion, stoking up outrage, sowing doubt and chipping away at trust in our institutions. And now it\u2019s our brains that are being hacked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor a long time, the ability to reach mass audiences belonged to the nation-state (e.g. in the USA via broadcast licensing through ABC, CBS and NBC),\u201d the report added. \u201cNow, however, control of informational instruments has been allowed to devolve to large technology companies who have been blissfully complacent and complicit in facilitating access to the public for information operators at a fraction of what it would have cost them by other means.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most agencies implicated in the leak predictably declined to comment, but one individual involved in CTIL simply insisted to&nbsp;<em>Public<\/em>&nbsp;that the group was \u201cunaffiliated with any govt orgs\u201d and \u201chad nothing to do with the govt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOver the next several days and weeks, we intend to present these documents to Congressional investigators, and will make public all of the documents we can while also protecting the identity of the whistleblower and other individuals who are not senior leaders or public figures,\u201d Shellenberger, Gutentag, and Taibbi say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, House Republicans&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/house-report-reveals-govt-colluded-to-censor-thousands-of-conservative-posts-before-2020-election\/\">released a report<\/a>&nbsp;detailing how under Trump CISA and the U.S. State Department\u2019s Global Engagement Center (GEC) worked with Stanford University and other entities to establish the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), through which requests to censor \u201cthousands\u201d of conservative posts were laundered so as to keep the government\u2019s fingerprints off censorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ads.lifesitenews.com\/www\/delivery\/lg.php?bannerid=0&amp;campaignid=0&amp;zoneid=3&amp;loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lifesitenews.com%2Fnews%2Fwhistleblower-leak-reveals-missing-link-in-government-private-collusion-to-control-online-information%2F%3Futm_source%3Ddaily-world-2023-11-30%26utm_medium%3Demail&amp;cb=ddce730c3b\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then, the Biden administration has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/new-emails-confirm-biden-admin-pressured-facebook-into-censoring-covid-posts\/\">at times openly admitted<\/a>&nbsp;that it encourages platforms like Facebook to take down certain content. Next year, the U.S. Supreme Court is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/supreme-court-biden-big-tech-censor\/\">slated<\/a>&nbsp;to hear&nbsp;<em>Murthy v. Missouri<\/em>, which concerns whether the White House\u2019s encouragement of private censorship constitutes a violation of the First Amendment and will have wide-ranging implications for activities like those exposed by these reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TOPICS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/topics\/freedom\/\">Freedom<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/topics\/politics\/\">Politics &#8211; U.S.<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/topics\/politics-world\/\">Politics &#8211; World<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>TAGGED AS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/adversarial-misinformation-and-influence-tactics-and-techniques\/\">Adversarial Misinformation and Influence Tactics and Techniques<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/alex-gutentag\/\">Alex Gutentag<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/big-tech\/\">Big Tech<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/censorship\/\">Censorship<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/chris-krebs\/\">Chris Krebs<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/cyber-threat-intelligence-league\/\">Cyber Threat Intelligence League<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/cybersecurity-and-infrastructure-security-agency\/\">Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/department-of-homeland-security\/\">Department of Homeland Security<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/fbi\/\">Fbi<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/free-speech\/\">Free Speech<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/internet\/\">Internet<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/matt-taibbi\/\">Matt Taibbi<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/michael-shellenberger\/\">Michael Shellenberger<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/sara-jayne-terp\/\">Sara-Jayne Terp<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/sj-terp\/\">SJ Terp<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/tags\/tag\/u-s-department-of-homeland-security\/\">U.S. Department of Homeland Security<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Matilda-macelroy.com links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/12\/27\/aliens-and-planet-earth\/\">Aliens and planet Earth<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/12\/28\/ashtar-sharon-gfl-w-asar-sharon-new-earth\/\">Ashtar Sharon gfl W Asar Sharon &amp; New Earth.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/12\/22\/aether-free-energy\/\">AETHER (FREE) ENERGY.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/12\/17\/carbon-dioxide-and-health\/\">Carbon dioxide and Healt<\/a>h<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/12\/21\/chang-of-definitions-associated-in-a-name-used-as-a-tool-weapon-to-mislead\/\">If our selected leaders would be more careful in choosing their words, life would more be like heaven.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/12\/16\/religions-the-state-media-and-humanity\/\">Religions, The State\/Media and humanity.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/12\/14\/remote-viewing-and-alien-interventions-on-planet-earth\/\">Remote viewing and Alien interventions on planet earth<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/11\/04\/ancient-origin\/\">Ancient origin.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/11\/01\/baba-vanga-and-the-predictions-for-europe-west\/\">Baba Vanga and the predictions for Europe\/West.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/10\/23\/reels\/\">Reel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/07\/26\/human-farm-and-children\/\">Human farm and children<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/07\/24\/deep-fake-a-bit-threat-was-is-real\/\">Deep fake a big threat, wat is real?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/06\/27\/the-chemtrail-mystery\/\">The Chemtrail mystery?<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/07\/05\/e-u-parliament\/\">E.U. Parliament in Action.<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/07\/13\/child-traffickings\/\">Child trafficking.<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/07\/20\/the-silent-monetary-revolution\/\">The silent monetary Revolution.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two video&#8217;s, please click on link!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/100093323782288\/videos\/142834028832950\">Bill Cooper illuminati<\/a>  people not able to see their enemy. Adam and Eve where prisoners<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If they think overpopulation is a problem,why INSIST that everyone get vaccinated to save lives? Why not just let us die naturally? They are contradicting themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something is wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sihle.lushozi\/videos\/958838495322048\">Ukraine sold<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Same as usual. Biden is more corrupt than Zelensky. How can just 1 man destroy the US\/ World?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/06\/23\/8944\/\">Bio-terror as a method of government.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/06\/14\/nasa-would-you-trust-them-again-after-mars\/\">NASA, would you trust them again after Mars?<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/06\/14\/the-great-awakening\/\">The great Awakening &amp; Alien blood users?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/06\/09\/we-are-the-borg-resistance-is-futile-your-race-will-be-assimilated-and-service-to-us\/\">\u201cWe are the Borg. Resistance is futile. Your race will be assimilated and service to us.\u201d<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/06\/07\/nwo-and-wef-plus-free-energy\/\">NWO and WEF plus free energy.<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/06\/04\/a-covenant-with-death-by-bill-cooper\/\">\u201cA Covenant With Death\u201d, by Bill Cooper.<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/matilda-macelroy.com\/wp\/2023\/06\/05\/who-attempted-power-grab\/\">WHO attempted power Grab!<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rumble.com\/v2s0gp8-plandemic-3-the-great-awakening-full-unedited-movie.html\">The great Awakening, Plandemic 3 Video, please click on link: <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Great Awakening (Full, Unedited Movie) (rumble.com)<br>rumble.com\/v2s0gp8-plandemic-3-the-great-awakening-full-unedited-movie.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Index: please click on the link for the index please? How does it work, click link for video about what was once the Military Industrial complex. 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