“In a corporatist system of government, wherein there is no meaningful separation between corporate power and state power, corporate censorship is state censorship.”
Those were the prophetic words of Caitlin Johnstone in 2018 warning of the slippery slope that Big Tech and its liberal minions were embarking on as the corporate-sponsored cancel-culture began.
In 2018, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed on the US Senate floor that it is their responsibility to “quell information rebellions” and adopt a “mission statement” expressing their commitment to “prevent the fomenting of discord.”
“Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they start with words,” the representatives were told.
“America’s war with itself has already begun. We all must act now on the social media battlefield to quell information rebellions that can quickly lead to violent confrontations and easily transform us into the Divided States of America.”
And now, 3 years later, all the ‘behind the scenes’ nods and winks are gone and conspiracy theories proved fact as Reuters reports The White House has been reaching out to social media companies including Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet Inc’s Google about clamping down on COVID misinformation and getting their help to stop it from going viral, a senior administration official said.
“Disinformation that causes vaccine hesitancy is going to be a huge obstacle to getting everyone vaccinated and there are no larger players in that than the social media platforms,” a source with direct knowledge about the cooperation told Reuters.
The White House previously acknowledged working with tech giants like Facebook and Google on the issue, but direct engagement was not confirmed, Reuters said.
“We are talking to them … so they understand the importance of misinformation and disinformation and how they can get rid of it quickly.”
The source told Reuters that the companies “were receptive” as they engaged with the White House. “But it is too soon to say whether or not it translates into lessening the spread of misinformation.”
Every time the dangers of a few Silicon Valley plutocrats controlling all new media political discourse with an iron fist are pointed out, Democratic Party loyalists all turn into a bunch of hardline free market Ayn Rands.
“It’s not censorship!” they exclaim. “It’s a private company and can do whatever it wants with its property!”
Except now, that ‘private’ entity is working directly for the government as the Biden administration is not even trying to hide the relationship.
So, it turns out Johnstone was right: “In a corporatist system of government, wherein there is no meaningful separation between corporate power and state power, corporate censorship is state censorship.”
Be careful what you ‘think’ America… be wary of ‘questioning’ anything, and definitely be careful what you ‘share’.
As John Whitehead warned this week: This is the slippery slope that leads to the end of free speech as we once knew it.
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” – George Orwell
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This is why the lockdowns are so important to them. Can’t have the peasants out and about talking amongst themselves, can we? It’s also why they will continue to isolate those who refuse to take the jab.
Remember, it’s a flu with a 99.97% survival rate. Less than 6% of “COVID-1984 deaths are actually due to SARS-COV2. These stats from the CDC.
There’s your “misinformation” for the day.
This article posted by Grace CP deserves max distribution. That’s why I’m re-posting it. I’m forwarding this to everyone I know. Maybe you too?
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/02/09/coronavirus-mrna-vaccine.aspx
I’ll read it now and if it looks “postworthy” I’ll post it just to get Stucky to come back and tell everyone he thinks Mercola is a quack!
Stucky left again?
I don’t think so.
Then again, what the hell do I know?
I meant “back” to argue that anything Mercola says is quackery! Remember the Mercola post battle?
Hey… the video is actually quite thought provoking and I submitted it with a hat tip to Steve. Because I’ve been watching a lot of videos about Communism and learned a lot about how the Soviets tested all sorts of stuff on people and didn’t tell them.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Romania. (1989)
I just finished the video and agree with you. I’ll submit it as a post from Ghost!
This led me down a rabbit hole that led to a contract management firm called ATI, which is a subsidiary of ANSER and has a lot of military and government contracts it manages in the nonprofit sector of public policy management.
They do it out of the goodness of their hearts. Seriously, ATI and ANSER have a lot of connections to CIA, as well. So, you KNOW they are on the up and up.
This goes right against the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Are you talking about those old pieces of parchment composed by a bunch of White Supremacists?
Last night I watched “Promised Land” with Matt Damon. It is about an energy company’s attemp to purchase the town’s farmland because of all the natural gas trapped in the ground. After Matt and another employee bought about 60% of the land the town decided to have a vote. It looked like Matt had it in the bag but a HS teach stood up and warned the town’s people about the dangers of fracking. It looked as if the town was souring about all the $$ they were about to make from their land. So, unbeknownst to Matt, the energy company hired a fake environmentalist to come to the town and start a campaign against Matt and the energy company (the company was doing this against themselves). Why the hell would they do this to themselves? Because the fake environmentalist used a provable lie as a campaign strategy. Once the town “found out” the environmentalist lied, they felt tricked and sided with the energy company. Matt found out when he confronted the “environmentalist” to rub it in that he had lost. The “environmentalist” let Matt know that he had been sent in to save the deal because Matt had fucked up and the energy company (Matt’s employer) was going to fire him.
The energy company played both sides of the issue in order to manipulate the town into doing what the company wanted.
Manipulation is the Devil’s stock and trade.
RICO the cocksuckers.
If this War is what the Tech Giants want then they Must be Viewed as NAZIs & their employees as “Good Germans” so when All of their HQs are Blown Up & there are Mass Casualties the “Good Germans” will be Collateral Damage. Too Bad Fascists that’s how the Swastika turns. Can’t wait.