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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

A Look at Mike Benz, THEN Tucker Ep. 75

John R. Houk, Blog Editor

© March 6, 2024

 

On February 16, 2024 Tucker Carlson interviewed Mike Benz which showed up on X/Twitter broadcast of Tucker Carlson Uncensored (https://tinyurl.com/mryeznjt). The X/Twitter summary of the 1:04:45-Hour video interview:

 

‘Ep. 75 The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. "What I’m describing is military rule," says Mike Benz. "It’s the inversion of democracy."’

 

Who is Mike Benz?

 

As of this writing Benz is the Executive Director of Foundation For Freedom Online (FFO). Here is the FFO About Page which two brief paragraphs on the FFO Mission and another on Benz:

 

“Our Mission

 

Through educational reports, legal assistance, and public policy analysis concerning developing threats to digital liberties, we seek to provide nonpartisan insights and assistance to all peoples taking a stand for freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and the free exchange of ideas online.

 

If that sounds like you, spread the word and come join us too.

 

Meet Our Founder

 

Our Executive Director, Mike Benz, is a former State Department official with responsibilities in formulating and negotiating US foreign policy on international communications and information technology matters. Mr. Benz founded FFO as a civil society institution building on his experience in the role of championing digital freedom around the world in the public sector.”

 

I found a website that seems to delve into – shall I say – the skinny on Mike Benz from hnbgu.net. HNBGU stands for “Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Government Updates”. Apparently – as in speculating – is somehow connected to a university in northern India (HEMVATI NANDAN BAHUGUNA GARHWAL UNIVERSITY). Yet the university uses a “.ac.in” url while the HNBGU website uses a “.net” url. The HNBGU About Page briefly makes this claim:

 

“Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Government Updates is a Government Updates providing website, established in 2022, by Jashveer Singh rana. The name of this website was read as HNBGU because hnbgu university has an important role in educating the Garhwal region.

 

Hnbgu.net is an education portal where we provide you all the information related to the education sector and through this website, we provide you information about the changes in the education sector and every single activity in the education sector. …”

 

AND YET the website (or at least the English speaking version) appears to be an information portal on famous people.

 

The HNBGU listing on Mike Benz is informative (if accurate). The listing examines the Benz crusade against censorship through his FFO association but also informs he was a British actor. So is the author (Sayyed Ayan) reporting on one person or confusing two separate individuals with the same name? I’ll let someone else figure that out. NEVERTHELESS, I like what Ayan writes about Benz in the last paragraph of his entry:

 

“Free speech on the internet is crucial for fostering open dialogue, facilitating the exchange of ideas, and promoting democratic principles. Mike Benz highlights the importance of safeguarding online speech while addressing emerging challenges in the digital landscape.”

 

Yves Smith at NakedCaptialism.com writes this about the Carlson/Benz interview prior to embedding the X/Twitter video on the post:

 

“Tucker spoke to former State Department officer Mike Benz,1 who is arguably the top US expert on the workings of the censorship state to go public about the scope and workings of the censorship regime. He also helpfully describes the trajectory that led the US blob to go from seeing the Internet as its friend, particularly for helping facilitate regime changes, to its enemy by allowing non-mainstream views like support of Brexit to drive events. He also describes some major initiatives, like trying to thwart criticism of mail-in ballots.”

 

Notice that Smith added a footnote on Benz which I share because it delves into MSM efforts to discredit Benz:

 

“Formally Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Communications and Information PolicyBureau of Economic and Business Affairs in the Trump Administration. He has also been the subject of a 2023 hit piece by NBC. Benz claimed that his covert seeming white-supremacist project was to fight anti-semitism by converting white supremacists.”

 

AND in case you want the highlights of the Carlson/Benz interview, Real Clear Politics does a great job of transcribing the text of the interview under the title, “Mike Benz To Tucker Carlson: From NATO's Perspective, The Entire Post-War World Order Would Collapse Unless They Censored The Internet” posted on 2/16/24 by Tim Hains.

 

AND NOW the video interview which Banned.video picked up from X/Twitter which has a slightly different length than the Twitter feed at 1:06:32-Hour.

 

Banned.Video: State Department Insider Reveals How The Military Started Its Censorship Campaign Against US Citizens After Trump Victory

Posted by The Best of Tucker Carlson

Posted on Feb 17, 2024

 

… Most of the DESCRIPTION is largely Alex Jones product promotionals

 

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Friday, November 10, 2023

Sharing Exposing Govt/Medical Tyranny Via Dr. Robert Malone, Et Al

John R. Houk, Blog Editor

© November 10, 2023

 

Dr. Robert Malone has become controversial to Globalists who have come to hate him and by many who fight Medical Tyranny also display animus toward Dr. Malone. 

 

The Globalists hate him because apparently he was an inner circle guy who decided to expose Medical Tyranny.

 

Many Medical Tyranny Fighters have either disagreed on minor issues brought up by Malone or distrust his past inner circle status leading to criticism. Apparently Dr. Malone has taken issue with his Anti-Medical Tyranny critics and has leveled lawsuits. Hence the Anti-Medical Tyranny animus toward Dr. Malone.

 

As for me, I am disappointed with the disunity in the ranks battling Medical Tyranny. BUT I have no medical or science degrees that qualify me to take a side. YET I have a history degree which means I can read and think. AND from what I have read, these guys have more in common with each other than not even as they all stick their academic hubris of whoever is correct or whoever is in error, while pleasing Globalists with self-destructive lawsuits. Frankly, I haven’t even paid attention to who is winning what or losing what in this silly lawfare stuff.

 

BUT I DO KNOW the information put out by Dr. Malone at the very least places dents in the agendas to control the majority with the unelected power of the (largely wealthy Leftist) Globalist minority.

 

AND SO, I share some recent information which Dr. Malone is the centerpiece (yet involves others) battling Globalist/Medical Tyranny. If you, like me, have noticed your Liberty and Freedom slipping away, YOU MIGHT WANT TO PAY ATTENTION.

 

Knowledge is power and ignorance leads to controlled slavery.

 

FIRST UP: The Brownstone Institute picked a Dr. Malone Substack publication and posted it on 11/9/23. Here’s the title: “Anatomy of Deep State Censorship”. The takes a look at a 104-page House Judiciary finding on the U.S. Government (as in Election Coup installed Biden Administration) defining what is GOOD-SPEECH and BAD-SPEECH regardless of actual facts, then SILENCING the defined BAD-SPEECH.

 

THEN LAST: Is a Bright Light News post I’ve been trying to get to for a while posted on 11/3/23 and features four panel discussion Rumble videos of a conference that took place in September 2023. The 4-video theme is “Fifth Generation Warfare”. The participants: Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Jill Glasspool Malone [Robert’s wife], Dr. Mark Trozzi and Dr. Byram Bridle. The BLN title: “[FULL VIDEOS] BLN4: Fifth Generation Warfare with Drs. Robert Malone & Jill Malone with Drs. Byram Bridle and Mark Trozzi | Sept. 20, 2023”.

 

I discovered the BLN post from the Bright Light News Telegram Channel which posted a 2:49-minute of Dr. Jill Glasspool Malone which I am posting to my Bitchute Channel:

 

Bitchute VIDEO: Jill Malone Clip reduced COVID-19 Brainwashing Clip

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First Published November 10th, 2023 16:47 UTC

 

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Anatomy of Deep State Censorship

Hidden Deep (Brownstone Institute Photo from Shutterstock)

 

By ROBERT MALONE

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Brownstone Institute

 

Fellow Americans, the government will take care of you!

 

They don’t want you to have to worry about information that they don’t approve in your social media accounts.

 

They don’t want you to worry that the US government would directly interfere with your First Amendment rights, and certainly would never meddle in an election or with your medical freedoms.

 

That said, the deep state will gladly “contract those jobs out to creepy left-wing “disinformation”-fighting firms.”

 

A bombshell new report has been published, titled: “WEAPONIZATION OF “DISINFORMATION” PSEUDO-EXPERTS AND BUREAUCRATS: HOW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PARTNERED WITH UNIVERSITIES TO CENSOR AMERICANS’ POLITICAL SPEECH,” Interim Staff Report by the Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government U.S. House of Representatives was released on November 6, 2023.

 

In that report, the committee laid out the role of the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) and other astroturf organizations contracted (that means paid for) by the Department of Homeland Security to censor Americans.

 

Representative Jim Jordan on his Twitter account also provided the receipts in how the Election Integrity Partnership was founded, by attaching a letter from the Atlantic Council advising a “sync-up” whereby they created the Election Integrity Partnership in 2020. Ergo, a partnership of four organizations working in collaboration with both the US Government and the Atlantic Council.

 

Atlantic Council Letter Shared by Jim Jordan

 

In fact, the EIP is made up of four “partners.” They are the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), The U. of Washington Center for an Informed Public (CIP), Graphika, and the Atlantic Council. Each organization has a distinct role to play, from identifying “spreaders of misinformation,” to identifying the networks of social media landscapes that those so accused interacted on, to actual recommendations to social media companies for removal of identified offending posts, and communications back and further between the government and the EIP. This was done with government monies and resources.

 

Below is a link for each partner, together with a description of their technologies or recent activities.

 

·       The Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO): Stanford has removed the SIO page from their website, although the Wayback Machine has a somewhat functional archival copy. Within those pages, is information about their operation “Platform Takedown”, which was developed to get information removed from the major social media platforms. The SIO Platform takedown only lists case reports up to June 2020, but the Wayback Machine has some detailed reports up through 2022.

 

·       The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP): Their mission “is to resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.”
As of this month (Nov 2023), the CIP has now turned its identification of targets for censorship to identifying the flow of what they view as the “new elites” of X (ergo influencers with large followings) regarding how they share information regarding the Hamas/Israel conflict. The implication being that “X” will be targeted in the future for more harassment by the Election Integrity Partnership.

 

Rapid Research Report - Target 'new elites' of X

 

·       Graphika: This is a company that specializes in “cutting-edge technology that creates large-scale explorable maps of social media landscapes.” Their in-depth analysis reveals insights to help “clients and partners understand complex online networks and take decisive action.” Graphika lists Harvard, Oxford, and DARPA (DARPA = CIA) as its partners. [Blog Editor Bold Text Emphasis]

 

Near-Real-Time Technology

 

·       The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab):

The Atlantic Council’s DFRL is staffed by former US intelligence establishment technology staffers (ergo, ex CIA and DIA = “Deep State” personnel), and of course the Atlantic Council itself is known as a landing bed for Deep State operatives (otherwise known as a cutout organization). [Blog Editor Bold Text Emphasis]

 

The DFRL website states:

 

Centralized and decentralized platforms share a common set of threats from motivated malicious users—and require a common set of investments to ensure trustworthy, user-focused outcomes…

 

Further research and capability building are necessary to avoid the further proliferation of these threats.

 

Within industry, decades of “trust and safety” (T&S) practice has developed into a field that can illuminate the complexities of building and operating online spaces. Outside industry, civil society groups, independent researchers, and academics continue to lead the way in building collective understanding of how risks propagate via online platforms—and how products could be constructed to better promote social well-being and to mitigate harms.

 

Take away all the flowery words and it sure sounds like organized government-sponsored Deep State censorship to me!

 

Beyond the websites listed above, the House Report does an excellent job of showing how the Election Integrity Partnership worked to censor the American People.

 

Let’s go back to the Congressional report on censorship. It reads:

 

Enter the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a consortium of “disinformation” academics led by Stanford University’s Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) that worked directly with the Department of Homeland Security and the Global Engagement Center, a multi-agency entity housed within the State Department, to monitor and censor Americans’ online speech in advance of the 2020 presidential election. Created in the summer of 2020 “at the request” of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the EIP provided a way for the federal government to launder its censorship activities in hopes of bypassing both the First Amendment and public scrutiny.

 

This interim staff report details the federal government’s heavy-handed involvement in the creation and operation of the EIP, which facilitated the censorship of Americans’ political speech in the weeks and months leading up to the 2020 election. This report also publicly reveals for the first time secret “misinformation” reports from the EIP’s centralized reporting system, previously accessible only to select parties, including federal agencies, universities, and Big Tech. The Committee and Select Subcommittee obtained these nonpublic reports from Stanford University only under the threat of contempt of Congress. These reports of alleged mis- and disinformation were used to censor Americans engaged in core political speech in the lead up to the 2020 election.

 

As this new information reveals, and this report outlines, the federal government and universities pressured social media companies to censor true information, jokes, and political opinions. This pressure was largely directed in a way that benefited one side of the political aisle: true information posted by Republicans and conservatives was labeled as “misinformation” while false information posted by Democrats and liberals was largely unreported and untouched by the censors. The pseudoscience of disinformation is now—and has always been—nothing more than a political ruse most frequently targeted at communities and individuals holding views contrary to the prevailing narratives.

 

<in other words, people that were saying things that the Deep State did not want to be said were the ones being censored>

 

The EIP’s operation was straightforward: “external stakeholders,” including federal agencies and organizations funded by the federal government, submitted misinformation reports directly to the EIP. The EIP’s misinformation “analysts” next scoured the internet for additional examples for censorship. If the submitted report flagged a Facebook post, for example, the EIP analysts searched for similar content on Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, and other major social media platforms.

 

Once all of the offending links were compiled, the EIP sent the most significant ones directly to Big Tech with specific recommendations on how the social media platforms should censor the posts, such as reducing the posts’ “discoverability,” “suspending [an account’s] ability to continue tweeting for 12 hours,” “monitoring if any of the tagged influencer accounts retweet” a particular user, and, of course, removing thousands of Americans’ posts.

 

The House committee (through Rep. Jim Jordan) also released a google doc (Jira Tickets) that lists some of those censored in chronological order and what their alleged “crimes” were.

 

In the Jira Tickets list, it is worth noting that on 11 June 2021, the list abruptly changed its focus from “election misinformation” to “vaccine misinformation” and renamed these efforts as the virality project. Almost like there was some sort of directive from the top <sarcasm>.

 

On the last page of Jira Tickets list, they have included the censorship of my original interview with Tucker Carlson for Fox News. Almost directly after that, the list ends. So, how many times I was recommended for censorship is an unknown. Except that based on the obvious shadow-banning over the past two years, most likely it was in the hundreds of times.

 

Some screenshots from the Jira Tickets report generated on me regarding the Tucker interview (page nine):

 

My sin, as shown in the screenshot below, was that I claimed on the Fox interview that the risks outweigh the benefits in teenagers and young adults (per June 30, 2021).

Jira Ticket - Robert Malone

 

In the image below, the Election Integrity Partnership (now the Virality partnership) notes I am both “General anti-vaccination and also “right wing” in my affiliations.

 

So this is really creepy. That fact that my political leanings are mentioned implies that being “right-wing” was/is criteria enough for censorship. That this criteria was enough for censorship shows direct election interference.

 

As this list also labels me as being generally against vaccination. As if being against the mRNA gene therapy for specific vulnerable groups makes one against vaccination. This was enough apparently to be censored.

 

Jira Ticket - Right Wing General Anti-Vaxx

 

I believe that is a listing of where that had been shared prior to the censorship:

Jira Tickets on Websites

 

The Election Integrity Partnership also notes that I am a “repeat offender.”

Jira Tickets on Malone Repeat Offender

 

Frankly, the whole document and the House Committee report makes me feel violated.

 

The House report then goes to document how even Congresspeople were censored and that under Biden, the censorship efforts were ramped up domestically.

 

This did not end with the 2020 election.

 

After President Biden was inaugurated in January 2021, the government’s censorship regime ramped up. At CISA, the CFITF team dropped any pretense of a “foreign”-focus and relabeled itself as the “MDM team” that would focus on foreign and domestic speech that the government considered mis-, dis-, or malinformation. Throughout 2021, the Biden White House engaged in a pressure campaign against Facebook and other social media companies to censor anti-vaccine content, even if it was true. By 2022, CISA invited Dr. Starbird, then Twitter Executive Vijaya Gadde, and others to form an advisory MDM Subcommittee to consult with CISA about how the agency could and should combat Americans’ speech that the government considered to be mis-, dis-, or malinformation.

 

But by 2023, as Republicans retook the majority in the House of Representatives and initiated oversight of the Censorship-Industrial Complex, CISA scrubbed its website of references to domestic censorship. The Committee and Select Subcommittee obtained and revealed how Facebook changed its policies because of pressure from the Biden Administration. Internal Facebook documents showed that the Biden White House in particular wanted true information and satire censored at a rate even Big Tech found objectionable.

 

Based on the Committee’s and Select Subcommittee’s work, even the mainstream media could no longer ignore these constitutional violations. The plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden have obtained significant victories before a federal district court and the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and now will have their case heard by the Supreme Court. Public reporting shows that universities are reconsidering whether to permit their professors to receive funding and engage in censorship work. But the work is not done yet. The Committee and Select Subcommittee’s investigation remains ongoing.

 

Clearly, the hit pieces on me by the Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Washington Post (twice), Business Insider, the Scientist and Rolling Stone and other mainstream media outlets within a very short timeframe were a coordinated effort to bring me down by the Deep State. I believe that this effort was led by the intelligence agencies and DHS through the Deep State.

 

Kash Patel nicely discusses how this these types of hits are conducted in his book, Government Gangsters. Whereby the government feeds information into operatives working in mainstream media (ergo, as in CIA Operation Mockingbird). Now I am told that those same hit pieces were used against me in other government circles.

 

The Supreme Court case, Sullivan v New York Times, resulted in a situation whereby people in the public eye can almost never win a lawsuit for malicious defamation. The Deep State uses this fact to attack, malign, defame, harass and engage in direct character assassination. This is evil. [Blog Editor Bold Text Emphasis]

 

For me, I will never get my reputation back as it once was. However, I will not give up fighting for our freedoms, whether it be to bring back integrity to the FDA, CDC, NIH, DoD and HHS or whether it be reining in the intelligence agency. We all must continue to bring our government to heal.

 

I will not concede to the Deep State character assassination. I will not let them ruin my life and reputation. And I will not allow them to victimize me.

 

Republished from the author’s Substack

 

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For reprints, please set the canonical link back to the original Brownstone Institute Article and Author.

 

Robert W. Malone is a physician and biochemist. His work focuses on mRNA technology, pharmaceuticals, and drug repurposing research. You can find him at Substack and Gettr

 

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[FULL VIDEOS] BLN4: Fifth Generation Warfare with Drs. Robert Malone & Jill Malone with Drs. Byram Bridle and Mark Trozzi | Sept. 20, 2023

 

By Gord Parks

November 3, 2023

Bright Light News

 

(Sept. 20, 2023) Bright Light News Live Panel 4: Fifth Generation Warfare with Dr. Robert Malone was another stellar evening shining a light on Covid-19 harms, the greater agenda and its machinations. The Covid mass propaganda campaign spurred a humanitarian catastrophe, a restructuring of social norms and helped to normalize authoritarian rule, invisible to most. At stake are individual human rights, the rule of law and democracy…in short, life as we used to know it in favour of a planetary social credit system.

Join us for this special evening, as Dr. Robert Malone, joined by Dr. Jill Glasspool Malone, Dr. Mark Trozzi and Dr. Byram Bridle, share vital information on how we can participate in dismantling the wrecking ball that is the “new normal.”

 

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Rumble VIDEO: BLN4: Fifth Gen Warfare -Dr Robert Malone + Drs Jill Malone, Byram Bridle & Mark Trozzi -Part 1

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Published October 29, 2023

 

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Rumble VIDEO: BLN4: Fifth Gen Warfare -Dr Robert Malone + Drs Jill Malone, Byram Bridle & Mark Trozzi -Part 2

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Rumble VIDEO: BLN4: Fifth Gen Warfare -Dr Robert Malone + Drs Jill Malone, Byram Bridle & Mark Trozzi -Part 3

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Rumble VIDEO: BLN4: Fifth Gen Warfare with Drs. Robert Malone, Jill Malone, Byram Bridle & Mark Trozzi -Part 4

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Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Sharing Judicial Watch: ‘CENSORED AND CONTROLLED’

John R. Houk, Blog Editor

October 25, 2023

 

Judicial Watch has put together a Documentary on Government Censorship. As I type this, I am listening/watching the 43:55-minute Documentary entitled, “CENSORED AND CONTROLLED: Unmasking the Deep State’s War on Free Speech in America”. I subscribe to Judicial Watch, so I knew the Documentary was coming. The Documentary looks a little at Election Integrity censorship AND a lot at CCP-Virus/Medical Tyranny censorship.

 

Apparently, the Youtube video has placed all four parts into one Documentary. This JW post on 10/16/23 indicated JW was going to release the parts individually, the JW Youtube Channel (as of today) does not show individual parts.

 

I downloaded the Youtube version in case Youtube (Google-owned ergo Big Tech controlled) embarks into censorship. In which case, I’ll replace the Youtube version with a Bitchute version.

 

BELOW is the Youtube JW Documentary.

 

JRH 10/25/23

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Youtube VIDEO: CENSORED AND CONTROLLED: Unmasking the Deep State’s War on Free Speech in America


Posted by Judicial Watch

Posted on October 24, 2023

 

“Censored and Controlled" is a documentary that details the coordinated effort by the government and Big Tech to censor and suppress information on topics such as Hunter Biden’s laptop, COVID-19, and election debates.

 

The documentary features interviews with people who have taken leading roles in exposing the collusion between government and social media to control what Americans see and hear. Included in the lineup of experts is:

 

Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) who as attorney general of Missouri filed a lawsuit in 2020 against President Biden and other administration officials, alleging they were working with social media platforms to censor information related to COVID-19 and other topics.

 

Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), who is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Jordan’s committee is leading the House investigation into government-led censorship on social media.

 

Journalist Matt Taibbi, one of the journalists who covered the release of the “Twitter Files,” which exposed government involvement in Twitter and other Big Tech censorship of Americans. Taibbi testified before Congress about what the “Twitter Files” revealed about the partnership between government and social media to censor information and opinions.

 

Chris Nelson, senior investigator at Judicial Watch, formerly a career counterintelligence officer with the U.S. Government.

 

And, Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, which has filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits and other litigation concerning government and Big Tech censorship.

 


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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Every Facet of Government Is in the Censorship Business

 Dr. Joseph Mercola examines the massive – REPEAT – MASSIVE – government infringement on 1st Amendment of U.S. citizens via censorship labelling truth as misinformation. Dr. Mercola was/is one of a large amount of qualified people censored to prevent facts from the American people.

 

Tucker Carlson – Matt Taibbi on Government Censorship Screen Capture

 

IF YOU want to save the Constitutional Republic YOU must join and/or begin to make noise and resist government lawlessness EVEN if YOU are branded unjustly as lawless.

 

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Every Facet of Government Is in the Censorship Business

 

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola

January 17, 2023

Mercola.com

 

Youtube VIDEO: Twitter files publisher: 'Every conceivable wing' of federal enforcement sent censorship requests


 

[Posted by Fox News

Posted on Jan 5, 2023

 

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STORY AT-A-GLANCE

 

Ø Between the documentation obtained through a recent lawsuit against the White House and the Twitter files released by Elon Musk, it’s become quite clear that every facet of the U.S. government, including its intelligence agencies, are involved in illegal and unconstitutional censorship

 

Ø We now have proof that the FBI has been acting as the key instigator and implementer of the government’s illegal censorship of Americans. The FBI has also actively interfered in multiple elections — all while inventing the narrative that foreign nations were interfering

 

Ø Twitter has worked hand in hand with the U.S. Department of Defense to aid U.S. intelligence agencies in their efforts to influence foreign governments using fake news, computerized deepfake videos and bots

 

Ø The Twitter files also reveal members of Congress have a direct line to Twitter and have had accounts suspended on their behalf and content removed at their whim

 

Ø Discovery documents from a lawsuit against the White House filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana show at least 67 federal employees across more than a dozen agencies are also engaged in illegal censorship activities. This includes aides to President Biden, who pressured social media companies to change their policies to fit White House demands for censorship

 

Between the documentation obtained through a recent lawsuit against the White House and the Twitter files released by Elon Musk, it's become quite clear that every facet of the U.S. government, including its intelligence agencies, are involved in illegal and unconstitutional censorship.

 

In the video above, Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviews independent journalist Matt Taibbi, who has spent weeks sifting through the released Twitter files and reported on the contents.

 

FBI Has Gone Off the Rails

 

Importantly, we now have proof that the FBI has been acting as the key instigator and implementer of the government's illegal censorship of Americans' political and medical views. The agency has also, on a regular basis and for unknown purposes, asked Twitter to reveal the location of specific Twitter users, such as actor Billy Baldwin.

 

What's more, internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memos, emails and documents show the DHS has worked on expanding its influence over tech platforms for years, so, government censorship is not something that came about in response to the COVID crisis. Nor is the censorship limited to COVID or public health information in general.

 

Evidence shows the FBI has actively interfered in multiple elections — all while inventing the narrative that foreign nations were doing the interfering.1 As noted by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., these kinds of activities are "the biggest threat to our constitutional democracy today."2

 

As just one example, we now know the FBI plotted to quench the Hunter Biden laptop story well before the first report about it was published. In collaboration with Twitter, Facebook and the Aspen Institute, the FBI held a tabletop exercise to practice the shaping of the media's coverage of a potential "hack and dump" operation involving Hunter Biden material.3,4 As reported by the New York Post:5

 

"[The] drill was put into practical use weeks later, when The Post broke the news about Hunter Biden's infamous laptop — which was either ignored or downplayed by most mainstream news outlets and suppressed by both Twitter and Facebook."

 

There's also evidence showing the FBI has been shielding Hunter Biden and working with social media to censor bad press about him as far back as 2018.6 That job was probably made easier by the fact that reportedly former FBI agents work at both Twitter and Facebook.

 

For example, Jim Baker spent three decades with the FBI before becoming Twitter's head lawyer,7 and Facebook employs no less than 115 "former" employees of the FBI, CIA, NSA and other intelligence agencies, most of whom now work in Facebook's content moderation department.8

 

Twitter Paid to Censor Americans and Promote US Propaganda

 

Disturbingly, we now also have evidence showing that while Twitter insisted it was cracking down on covert government propaganda accounts, they only tracked down and banned foreign government-affiliated propaganda while working hand in hand with the U.S. Department of Defense to aid U.S. intelligence agencies in their efforts to influence foreign governments using fake news, computerized deepfake videos and bots.9 As reported by The Intercept:10

 

"Behind the scenes, Twitter gave approval and special protection to the U.S. military's online psychological ops. Despite knowledge that Pentagon propaganda accounts used overt identities, Twitter did not suspend many for around two years or more. Some remain active …

 

In 2017 a U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) official sent Twitter a list of 52 Arab language accounts 'we use to amplify certain messages.' The official asked for priority service for six accounts, verification for one and 'whitelist' abilities for the others."

 

Whitelisted accounts have a "validated" status similar to that of the blue check mark, which ensures they are promoted in searches. These accounts also don't get shadow-banned or limited by other means. Adding insult to injury, the FBI has been using taxpayer dollars to pay Twitter for their censorship and propaganda services — more than $3.4 million between October 2019 and February 2021 alone.11

 

Congressional Members Involved in Censoring Americans

 

The FBI has not acted alone, however. Far from it. The Twitter files reveal members of Congress have a direct line to Twitter and have had accounts suspended on their behalf and content removed at their whim. As reported by MSN:12

 

"… Taibbi … reported that Twitter 'received an astonishing variety of requests from officials asking for individuals they didn't like to be banned.' An example he shared was one sent in November 2020 by [Rep. Adam] Schiff's office, who contacted Twitter hoping the tech giant would take action regarding 'alleged harassment from QAnon conspiracists' against Schiff's staff, including aide Sean Misko.

 

'Remove any and all content about Mr. Misko and other Committee staff from its service — to include quotes, retweets, and reactions to that content,' the request to Twitter read. 'Suspend the many accounts, including @GregRubini and @paulsperry, which have repeatedly promoted false QAnon conspiracies.'"

 

Other government leaders have been less clandestine in their censoring operations. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, for example, wrote an open letter to Amazon demanding they ban my book, "The Truth About COVID-19."

 

Similarly, two state attorneys general, Letitia James and William Tong, publicly threatened social media companies with legal ramifications if they refused to censor the "Misinformation Dozen." President Joe Biden also publicly called on social media platforms to ban my accounts. But it gets worse.

 

Government Has Been Weaponized Against the People

 

Discovery documents from a lawsuit against the White House13 filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana (Eric Schmitt and Jeff Landry) show at least 6714,15 federal employees across more than a dozen agencies are engaged in these kinds of illegal censorship activities. This includes officials from:

 

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) Election Security and Resilience team

Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office of Intelligence and Analysis

The FBI's foreign influence taskforce

The Justice Department's (DOJ) national security division

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence

White House staff (including White House lawyer Dana Remus, deputy assistant to the president Rob Flaherty and former White House senior COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt)

Health and Human Services (HHS)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

The Office of the Surgeon General

The Census Bureau

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

The State Department

The U.S. Treasury Department

The U.S. Election Assistance Commission



 

Consultants from the strategic communications and marketing firm Reingold16 were also hired to manage the government's collusion with social media in this intentional effort to violate our Constitutional right to free speech.

 

A Look Inside the White House Censorship Machine

 

In a January 8, 2023, op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, Jenin Younes and Aaron Kheriaty reviewed a series of emails between White House digital media director Rob Flaherty and a Facebook executive, illustrating how the White House pressured the company to censor and remove vaccine content even though Facebook itself characterized the material as "often-true content:"17

 

"Newly released documents show that the White House has played a major role in censoring Americans on social media. Email exchanges between Rob Flaherty … and social-media executives prove the companies put COVID censorship policies in place in response to relentless, coercive pressure from the White House — not voluntarily."

 

Flaherty also demanded Facebook limit the spread of viral content on WhatsApp, a private messaging app with broad reach among "immigrant communities and communities of color." In the end, Facebook acquiesced to all of Flaherty's demands to prevent the spread of vaccine hesitancy and control political speech. As noted by Younes and Kheriaty:18

 

"President Biden, press secretary Jen Psaki and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy … publicly vowed to hold the platforms accountable if they didn't heighten censorship. On July 16, 2021, a reporter asked Mr. Biden [about] his 'message to platforms like Facebook.'

 

He replied, 'They're killing people.' Mr. Biden later claimed he meant users, not platforms, were killing people. But the record shows Facebook itself was the target of the White House's pressure campaign."

 

White House Pressured Google and YouTube to Do Its Bidding

 

Flaherty also had Google in his crosshairs, and accused YouTube of "'funneling' people into vaccine hesitancy," adding that this concern was "shared at the highest (and I mean the highest) levels of the White House."

 

"These emails establish a clear pattern," Younes and Kheriaty write. "Mr. Flaherty, representing the White House, expresses anger at the companies' failure to censor COVID-related content to his satisfaction. The companies change their policies to address his demands. As a result, thousands of Americans were silenced for questioning government approved COVID narratives.

 

Two of the Missouri plaintiffs, Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, are epidemiologists whom multiple social-media platforms censored at the government's behest for expressing views that were scientifically well-founded but diverged from the government line — for instance, that children and adults with natural immunity from prior infection don't need COVID vaccines …

 

The First Amendment bars government from engaging in viewpoint-based censorship. The state-action doctrine bars government from circumventing constitutional strictures by suborning private companies to accomplish forbidden ends indirectly.

 

Defenders of the government have fallen back on the claim that cooperation by the tech companies was voluntary, from which they conclude that the First Amendment isn't implicated. The reasoning is dubious, but even if it were valid, the premise has now been proved false.

 

The Flaherty emails demonstrate that the federal government unlawfully coerced the companies in an effort to ensure that Americans would be exposed only to state-approved information about COVID-19. As a result of that unconstitutional state action, Americans were given the false impression of a scientific 'consensus' on critically important issues around COVID-19."

 

Weaponization of Government Select Committee Impaneled

 

Taken together, the revelations from the Twitter files and this lawsuit clearly demonstrate that most, if not all, aspects of the U.S. government have been secretly weaponized to undermine and circumvent the Constitutional rights of the people.

 

“It's much more serious than what I thought at the beginning. ~ Matt Taibbi”

 

As noted by Taibbi in his Fox News interview:

 

"This is not a partisan story. It's a story about the architecture of the intelligence community and law enforcement getting its hands on speech, and on the ability of people to communicate with one another through platforms like Twitter and Facebook. And they're doing this in a very profound way — it's much more serious than what I thought at the beginning …"

 

While the danger we're in as a nation is far more dire than anyone suspected, there is some good news. A new select committee, chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan, has been launched to investigate the weaponization of government, the politicization of the FBI and the DOJ's investigation into and harassment of parents who spoke out against COVID mandates, critical race theory and the sexualization of their children at school board meetings. As reported by The Post Millennial:19

 

"This investigative panel will demand emails and correspondence between the Biden administration and big tech companies, and follows the massive revelations that came to light through the recent release of the Twitter files. Newly minted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy … was asked to form the committee as part of the negotiations that brought him to power …

 

The probe into communications between tech giants and President Biden's aides will look for government pressure that could have resulted in censorship or harassment of conservatives — or squelching of debate on polarizing policies, including the CDC on COVID …"

 

While it's likely that government personnel and agencies will try to ignore the committee's requests for information, the committee does have subpoena power, and hopefully will not be too timid to use it.

Unfortunately, since the GOP does not control the Senate, it's unlikely they'll be able to pass any new laws based on the committee's findings. That said, legislation to penalize government censorship has already been introduced, and you can help push it forward by asking your representatives to support it.

 

Support Legislation to Penalize Government Censorship

 

The Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act20 (HR.8752), introduced by three Republican House Representatives on the House Oversight and Reform, Judiciary, and Commerce committees, including Jordan, is specifically aimed at preventing federal employees from using their positions to influence censorship decisions by tech platforms.

 

The bill would create restrictions to prevent federal employees from asking or encouraging private entities to censor private speech or otherwise discourage free speech, and impose penalties, including civil fines and disciplinary actions for government employees who facilitate social media censorship.

 

While the U.S. Constitution clearly forbids government censoring and restricting free speech, HR. 8752 could be a helpful enforcement tool — and we clearly need enforcement, seeing how more than a dozen agencies are flouting the Constitution and have done so for years. People might tend to think twice, though, when they know there's a personal price to pay.

 

 Sources and References

 

1 Coffee & Covid 2022 December 19, 2022

2 Rumble Glenn Greenwald December 19, 2022 Timestamp: 44:23

3 Twitter Michael Shellenberger December 19, 2022

4, 6, 7, 8 Coffee & Covid December 20, 2022

5 New York Post December 19, 2022

9 Coffee & Covid December 21, 2022

10 The Intercept December 20, 2022

11 Meryl Nass Substack December 20, 2022

12 MSN January 3, 2023

13 State of Missouri and State of Louisiana Against President Joseph Biden, Civil Action No. 22-cv-1213

14 WAFB.com October 10, 2022

15 State of Missouri and State of Louisiana Against President Joseph Biden, Civil Action No. 22-cv-1213-TAD-KDM

16 Reingold

17, 18 WSJ January 8, 2023

19 Post Millennial January 9, 2023

20 HR 8752 — Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act

 

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