Guest Post by CJ Hopkins
So, I had a little disagreement with Jillian C. York, Director for International Freedom of Expression of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Berlin and several of her many hacker-type Twitter followers yesterday, and today … well, it appears NortonLifeLock has blocked the Consent Factory blog and slapped a big, red “dangerous webpage” warning label on it. (You may not see it wherever you live, and you certainly won’t if you’re not using Norton, but quite a lot of people do use Norton, so that’s kind of a problem for an author like me.)
Now, I’m sure this is (a) just a total coincidence, because I know that no one at EFF, nor any of the hacker types that piled in on my Twitter feed after Jillian singled me out for a Twitter mobbing, would stoop so low as to engage in this type of scumbag behavior (i.e., getting the Consent Factory blog flagged as “dangerous” website), and (b) probably just an innocent mistake on the part of the NortonLifeLock Corporation, which of course would never knowingly engage in any type of malicious, defamatory action that would damage an author’s reputation and livelihood (like, for example, as set forth in 28 U.S.C. § 4101).
In any event, while I’m waiting for NortonLifeLock to get this “mistake” cleared up, let me give you an update on the atmosphere here in New Normal Berlin, where “the Unvaccinated” (and other political dissidents who refuse to conform to the new official ideology) are effectively banned from human society (i.e., restaurants, cafes, cultural events, stores, etc., even public transport), so we are pretty much under house arrest. OK, we’re still allowed to shop for groceries, as long as we wear our medical-looking masks, and we’re allowed to go out and walk around in the cold and the rain for as long as we can stand it, so we’re technically not prisoners or anything. But it’s not exactly … you know, festive.
You’re wondering what the German on that shop window says, aren’t you? It says, “UNVACCINATED UNWELCOME!” It’s a familiar message here in Germany. Some of you might remember it from the 1930s, although it referred to a different group of people back then …
Of course, it is totally inappropriate, and wrong, and very, very bad (and, technically, a crime here in New Normal Germany) to compare New Normal Germany to Nazi Germany. I’m not doing that. I would never dream of doing that. Such comparisons, apart from being illegal, are empirically (i.e., according to “Science”) inaccurate.
Just because New Normal Germany projects a giant “VACCINATION = FREEDOM” message on an enormous TV tower or two …
… and hate-drunk New Normal German fascists are going around spray-painting “GAS THE UNVACCINATED” in big red letters on the walls of courtyards …
… and New Normal goon squads are raiding restaurants, bars, and even barber shops, “checking papers” and otherwise hunting “the Unvaccinated” …
🇩🇪 3G controle bij een kapper in Hamburg🤦🤦 pic.twitter.com/ydEErU0tyS
— Kees71 (@Kees71234) November 28, 2021
… that doesn’t mean that “conspiracy theorists” like me are allowed to compare one form of totalitarianism to another form of totalitarianism or point out the similarities and differences between two forms of totalitarianism, or anything inappropriate like that.
I am, however, allowed to post tweets like this …
My name is CJ Hopkins. I live in Berlin, Germany. I am banned from restaurants, bars, stores, cultural events, travel, public transport, etc. I'm not allowed to protest and my writing is censored. All because I won't comply with the new official ideology. How are you doing? pic.twitter.com/EbX5kT3MQy
— CJ Hopkins (@CJHopkins_Z23) November 25, 2021
OK, but just because I’m allowed to post such tweets, that doesn’t mean it’s a good idea, given the fascistic atmosphere here, currently. In fact, it prompted a lot of New Normals to spew mockery and insults at me in the replies, including, notably, Jillian C. York, Director for International Freedom of Expression of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Berlin, who, tweeting on behalf of the entire city, informed me that I am unwelcome in Berlin, and then proceeded to stalk me all day on Twitter.
Also, being the Director for International Freedom of Expression of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in Berlin, and having 68,000 or so followers on Twitter, Jillian caused a number of tech-community types and … well, hackers, to pile in and spew their hate-drunk ridicule and insults at me, and just generally regard me as an evil, life-threatening, disinformation-spreading, “unvaccinated” person with a blog.
And so, here I am today, sending this out on Substack, because the Consent Factory blog is allegedly a “dangerous webpage,” at least as far as NortonLifeLock users are concerned.
But, again, I’m sure I’m just being paranoid, and this is just a coincidence … like all those heart attacks, and strokes, and the arrival of the dreaded OMICRON variant, and the Facebook censorship that I and many, many others have experienced, and the “warning” that Twitter applies to every article published by OffGuardian …
… and all the other coincidences that seem to be happening these days.
Anyway, sorry to bother you will all my personal drama, which probably has nothing to do with you, or the “news” and “verified,” “reliable” information you are allowed to read by unaccountable global corporations, which, after all, are not “censoring” anyone, technically, and which certainly have no reason to try to shape and police your worldview, or anything nefarious like that.
Happy holiday shopping … and all best from sunny New Normal Berlin,
CJ
ADDENDUM: So, in the wee hours of December 1, a NortonLifeLock robot wrote to advise me that they had removed the fake “dangerous webpage” warning and deemed the Consent Factory blog “safe” again … naturally, with no response to my request for an explanation of why and how the blog had been suddenly deemed “dangerous.”
In the meantime, one of my colleagues — an actual journalist, not a political satirist — wrote to educate me a bit about who I was messing with, or, rather, who might be messing with me.
As it turns out, Jillian C. York, in addition to “directing freedom of expression” and her other duties at EFF, and Twitter-mobbing dissident writers, is also an advisor to an outfit called the Open Technology Fund, which those of you interested in regime-change and CIA cutouts might be familiar with. I am not as familiar with the creepy NGO/CIA Cutout/Regime-Change Community as I probably should be, but, if you’re interested in that kind of thing, this Baffler piece by Yasha Levine (who wrote a book about all that stuff) might be worth a read. Also, I was informed that Jillian is a close friend of Katherine Maher, former CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, among other impressive and/or disturbing positions and activities reported in this Grayzone piece, and … well, this is where digging into the details of the US Government/Intelligence Agency/Global-Corporate “community” gets a little too creepy for me.
But that doesn’t mean Jillian, or any of her friends, associates, or her 68,000 Twitter followers, had anything to do with my blog getting flagged, or the tons of phishing emails that started coming in right after she featured me as persona non grata on her Twitter feed. It was probably … you know, just a coincidence.
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Gulag wouldn’t let me copy and paste some articles this morning. I’m done.
I’m beginning the switch to Protonmail and leaving the GULAG.
Being I’m essentially computer illiterate, it’s a bitch but has to be done.
Some day, not today, I’ll get there. What a PIA…
Protonmail, really?
I mean no one less than C.J. Hopkins recently, for good reason, called MoA a “garden-variety fascist” – but this article by MoA is still true:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/05/like-an-amoral-infant-how-protonmail-contributes-to-false-media-claims-about-belarus.html
I like protonmail, and don’t give a flying fuck about anything in Belafuckingrus.
Because you assume they would never ever treat a Western entity like that?
You just got CABALED, CJ. May the blessings of GOD be with you and your family, always.
Uh, I always thought the “VACCINATION = FREEDOM” (in German) message on a TV tower was a hoax…
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The text confirms the “VACCINATION = FREEDOM” had also been beamed.
At retirement 20 years ago I toyed with the idea of moving to my grandparents home, Germany. All I needed to do was surrender my US passport at that time and it would be a done deal. I also had an idea of moving to Australia as we traveled then and met many nice people from there. Not doing either turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Two excellent countries turned into facist hellholes. I have made many life choices since then and it prevents me from moving elsewhere. After checking many things I do not see any benefit to leaving America to anywhere. I can’t find any country that would allow my firearms to go with me. My future, such as it is will be in America. Stand strong, patriots!
I would not leave this country in search of a better life elsewhere. This is where I’ll die.
Only an idiot would move to Australia…
My family has been here for over 300 years. This is our land.
America is the last stand in the world. Texas, I believe, is the last stand in America.
Keeps getting smaller and smaller, don’t it…
I had to go to the Capital area in Austin today on business. Was in the Law Library across from the Texas Supreme court, walking down the hallway and all along either side were flags from the Texas War of Independence, handmade flags with “Come and Take It’ written on it and a hand drawn cannon, along with the original Texas navy flag. Them Texans were not the kind to be trifled with…
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Prayers there’s some of that stuff left in Texans today. I got here as quick as I could.
I got to visit Australia a few times. Happy I did as it is a no go, probably forever. The Barrier reef, and the drive through the Dantree rainforest are things I will never forget. A random dream I had in 2014, I read a month ago from a dream journal. Australia will have a communistic puppet government. What a surprise and 100% accurate. So, it took six years for the dreams to manifest. I thought about this, and who else has a puppet government. My conclusion. Most of the world. The Global Cabal runs this planet and has for a long time.
I always wanted to visit. I respected the Australians I met in real life and there have been some really great saddle bronc riders from Australia and along with all their fauna I just always wanted to visit. Not now.
I am in Alaska, and many Australians are like Alaskans. We go to every nook and cranny on the planet. I was in a tiny gold mining village, Chicken population 100, and a guy drives up in his very dusty old pickup, and where was he from. Some tiny town in the outback. They are a fun loving, life loving, adventurous people. Too bad the strong arm of the Cabal has taken over. Deep in my heart, I wish they would be free again.
A Boat might work.
never used Norton, not for ~ the past 30 years. tried it when it first came out and thought it was a POS back then, there are far better programs that accomplish what Norton tries to do
30+ years ago the Norton Utilities were indispensable for PC users…
It strikes me that this is déjà vu all over again, except this time the Bolsheviks are supporting the medically excused tyranny instead of communists. Same Tribes and everything. Only this time the Germans can not count on unifying as a Nation to cast them out. This time they are fucked, because they let the lie live.
We’ll call it a death camp instead, excuse me a holiday camp. The camp with the difference. Never mind the weather. When your at Tommies, the holidays forever.
Eff this Shit!
God help us weak pathetic people.
Not going quietly into the night….
What I find interesting in my redneck midwest USA way of thinking, is that none of these morons could outrun fast moving lead. It’s coming to that. Mark it down.
Class war is no fun, isn’t it?
Big Corps provide most of the services we consume. Big Corps are all controlled by the same small group of people. Big Corps have decided that if they can turn 90+% of their customer base into obedient slaves, then dropping the remaining 10% could be acceptable collateral damage. So far their plan appears to be working.
I am not sure what the solution is other than having to ultimately go Amish.
Germans must resort to dealing with individuals who are working to implement this new normal. One at a time, soon the rest won’t show up.
The world is fucked up in case you hadn’t noticed. There are more insane, hysterical morons than there has ever been in the history of the planet.