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Excellent article! I hope most people--when they hear of these obvious censorship ploys--don't suddenly decide to hate Musk. They liked him for decades because of the electric car. But in "1984," the public was trained to flip their love or hate from Eurasia to Eastasia when instructed by Big Brother. I hope that doesn't happen, now.

Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, Trump, Carlson, Rand Paul, Joe Kent, and many others have either questioned or condemned these stupid regime change wars, especially this one with Russia that could get us all annihilated. Take your allies where you can get them. Meanwhile, progressive liberals like AoC are with the war machine.

Meanwhile, keep in mind that fear drops your I.Q. by at least 40 points. The constant fear mongering by PMSNBC and Fox keeps you easier to control.

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Lee Camp did an interesting video about censorship beginning in earnest with Alex Jones. I would add censorship and punishments exploded on dissenters (including renowned doctors and scientists) of the Covid narrative. Camp noted that Jones is now fined a billion dollars for his comments on Sandy Hook and warns that taking people's money is the next strategy to suppress dissidents (not justifying Jones but criticizing the enormity of the fines and contrasting his defamation/misinformation with like wmd's in Iraq which led to a million deaths.)

PayPal tried to fine it's customers $2500 for misinformation but has had to walk it back.

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Oct 22, 2022·edited Oct 22, 2022

Don’t you just love the relentless bleating about “ our democracy”. Russia-friendly? You mean data-driven and peace-oriented. Can’t have that! right? Where will all the weapons being made 24/7 go?

They’re confident they can keep this going, by silencing the voices of peace, like they did for Nam, Iraq, etc.

The Americans believe passionately in democracy as a front for evil scheming. There is no better example of their contempt for democracy than the UN where they relentlessly block the will of overwhelming international majorities with their veto. The world has never seen fraudsters like this.

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The YouTube censorship of the war in Ukraine is out of control. The channels of Regis Tremblay (an American living in Crimea) & Russel Bentley (living in Donetsk) have long been removed. Regis interviewed Scott Ritter, Ray McGovern & others about the Ukraine war. These knowledgeable individuals have argued that Vladimir Putin had little choice but to launch the special military operation to protect the people of the Donbass & keep Ukraine out of NATO. Texan Russel Bentley has lived in Donetsk for 8 years and fought against the Ukrainian Nazis in 2014-15. His knowledge & insights to the region and the conflict are a threat to the US State Department corporate media narrative.

A video clip from a Russian news program featuring a confession from Georgian snipers claiming responsibility for the Maidan protest massacre after being paid, was removed about a month into the conflict. Try to watch the video and a notice comes up that this video is no longer available for viewing in your country. The video had been on YouTube for years.

Then there is 'The Dive with Jackson Hinkle' whose YouTube videos are still there, but his channel has been completely demonetized along with his PayPal & Patreon account. He regularly reports & comments on stories from RT or Tass about the conflict. Providing the Russian side of the story is a big no no when someone has tens of thousands of viewers. This is not the America I lived most of my life in. Or maybe it is and I didn't realize that the government was just slow to act. It just took a while for government to realize that independent media in the information age is a real threat to their control over the minds of it's citizens. More people realize the mainstream corporate press is just spewing lies and propaganda and that's a big problem for those in power.

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https://youtu.be/W2aV_E9heIU

This is the link to the 1996 Len Horowitz presentation on emerging viruses & vaccines that proves they are man made in way we could use to develop teach-ins exposing corrupt pattern & practices of Gallo Fauci Gates CDC NIH NIAID National Cancer Institute

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If you trace who owns anything/everything it will all be traced back to the same evil entities.

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So the comments dont always work the way I hope. Twitter is an useless piece of garbage at best.

Twatter can go away and we'll all be better

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The will of the people seems to be getting in the way of the will of the government. The algorithms of twitter, google, youboob and facebook will help guide us on to the right path. One day the tech lord will just enter a command and the AI will automatically adjust and tune the algorithms to make it happen. ‘’make nuclear war popular’’. ‘’Make people stupid’’.

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Posting a substack article in the middle of the night on a Friday is sigma male poasting behavior. Respect.

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A good read on these issues is Sasha Levine's book "Surveillance Valley"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/06/surveillance-valley-by-yasha-levine-review

It's a few years old but the arguments are fresh. Essential reading on the military and national security surveillance and control origin of the intent.

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Perhaps silly valley was created (by government or some other nefarious group of idiots) for the very purpose of enabling the government (and others) to control, spy, snoop, collect data and otherwise pry into our every breath and beyond. It appears that just about everything coming from this tech mecca is designed to interfere with and control people's live and habits and thoughts (or the lack thereof). It is basic and simple...if you are telling the truth, have good and decent intentions and still have a heart and soul...you do not need to censor anything. You don't care about opinions, blow back or anti-this or that movements because you are on firm ground based in truth, honesty and goodness.

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I've been looking in vain for the reference, but I read that Russia was taking out 60% of Ukraine's energy infrastructure, which had already included the communication grid for Starlink. So it's not so much a ideological move as a business move.

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Of course they don’t want Elon to have Twitter. Because then Elon would find out 100% that Twitter basically is another arm of the Democrat/RINO army.

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Something about the language of this essay seems amiss. I don’t think Biden or the U.S. “see” Silicon Valley as a weapon in their propaganda arsenal, so much as class alliances and federal legislation confirm that Silicon Valley is a defacto state enterprise. Private shmivate - Corporations own the politicians, and they can bark at the slightest “criticism” from Sanders or anyone else from the government, but they know that their money ensures their status. Less than 24 hours after Musk indicated that Starlink would go dark if Ukraine refused to sit down with Russia, he dutifully retracted that threat, and he will most certainly rein in the calls for peace if he buys Twitter. Of course, if Americans wake the fuck up and start an onslaught, all bets are off.

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So free market trade and capitalism the corner stones ofAmerican business model only allowed if the sole beneficiary from any business deals is Amerika itself?

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Note that the blue check set are getting the vapors over the idea that a Musk-owned Twitter might possibly relax censorship.

That said, it is my theory that Musk wants out of the deal, and getting the USG to nix the deal gets him out of lawsuits and possibly out of breakup fees.

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