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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCX–Keep Calm and Carry On… Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 3
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CCX–Keep Calm and Carry On… Human Ingenuity and Technology Will Save Us! Part 3 In Parts 1 (Website Medium Substack) and 2 (Website Medium Substack) of this multipart Contemplation I present the case that humanity’s psychological defense mechanisms (especially denial, bargaining, and techno-optimism) are preventing most from becoming aware of and/or better understanding the predicaments […]
Brazil’s Supreme Court Is Hiring Contractors To Monitor Social Media and Track Dissenters
Brazil’s Supreme Court Is Hiring Contractors To Monitor Social Media and Track Dissenters Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court (STF) has turned to contractors to keep an eye on social media and smoke out main critics – including by identifying them, and their location. Other judicial institutions that are said to have contracts of a similar nature […]
Exposing The CIA’s Secret Effort To Seize Control Of Social Media
Exposing The CIA’s Secret Effort To Seize Control Of Social Media While the CIA is strictly prohibited from spying on or running clandestine operations against American citizens on US soil, a bombshell new “Twitter Files” report reveals that a member of the Board of Trustees of InQtel – the CIA’s mission-driving venture capital firm, along with “former” intelligence […]
Twitter Files Fuel Massie’s Fight Against Government-Funded Censorship
Twitter Files Fuel Massie’s Fight Against Government-Funded Censorship Congressman Thomas Massie has announced HR 8519, legislation aimed at ending the practice of spending taxpayer money to fund various censorship and “disinformation” research programs. A press release said that Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, and the subsequent publishing of the Twitter Files – a batch of internal documents […]
EU Commission VP: “We Believe Our Fact-Checking Is Already Influencing User Behavior”
EU Commission VP: “We Believe Our Fact-Checking Is Already Influencing User Behavior” If you’re tired of censorship and surveillance, join Reclaim The Net. The European Parliament (EP) elections are taking place next month and, considering that the president of the European Commission (effectively, “the EU government”) and all its commissioners are confirmed by the EP, no […]
Creeping Fascism, Part 1: Just The Beginning
Creeping Fascism, Part 1: Just The Beginning “Way crueler than any dictatorship” I keep a “creeping fascism” file with the intention of tracking governments’ erosion of their citizens’ rights and freedoms. But the file is filling up so fast that the first few articles in this series will have to be “data-dump” cut-and-past jobs rather […]
CISA, FBI resuming talks with social media firms over disinformation removal, Senate Intel chair says
CISA, FBI resuming talks with social media firms over disinformation removal, Senate Intel chair says Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. (L) speaks with NightDragon Founder and CEO Dave DeWalt (R) at the 2024 RSA conference in San Francisco, California. DAVID DIMOLFETTA/STAFF The Senate Intelligence Committee will hold an election security hearing in two weeks, according to Sen. […]
Exclusive: Every right-wing party in Europe needs to prepare for mass censorship, warns Flemish MEP Gerolf Annemans
Exclusive: Every right-wing party in Europe needs to prepare for mass censorship, warns Flemish MEP Gerolf Annemans In an exclusive interview with Remix News, Gerolf Annemans, the Vlaams Belang MEP and president of the European Identity and Democracy group, warns that even greater censorship of conservatives is just around the corner, and tells right-wing groups […]
Big Tech Sponsors Event With Canadian Pro-Censorship Justice Minister Advocating Online Censorship
Big Tech Sponsors Event With Canadian Pro-Censorship Justice Minister Advocating Online Censorship Canada’s justice minister, Arif Virani, proposes speech-restrictive legislation at an event backed by corporate sponsorship from Meta and AWS. Canada’s government, represented by “captain of censorship” Arif Virani – the country’s justice minister and attorney general, will use an upcoming event as the […]
Leading German politician calls for the state to issue “revocable social media licenses” for the privilege of commenting online
Leading German politician calls for the state to issue “revocable social media licenses” for the privilege of commenting online If only speech were not a right but a privilege granted selectively by the state, our democratic freedoms would be that much more secure. You may remember this man. His name is Mario Voigt, and he is […]
Social Media Fact Checkers Claim Their Work Isn’t Censorship. Here’s Why It Is.
Social Media Fact Checkers Claim Their Work Isn’t Censorship. Here’s Why It Is. “Fact-checking” isn’t just labeling. It tanks the visibility of posts. There’s good news, and bad: first, the fact that “fact-checkers” masquerading as unbiased and accurate moderators of content – while actually unreliable and bias-prone tools of censorship – are now recognized widely […]
Head of Controversial Global Engagement Center Admits Europe’s Regulatory Power Over Social Media Censorship Enforcement
Head of Controversial Global Engagement Center Admits Europe’s Regulatory Power Over Social Media Censorship Enforcement James Rubin also laments that Big Tech doesn’t enforce its terms of service more aggressively. The head of the US State Department’s highly controversial Global Engagement Center (GEC), James Rubin, appears to be on a “press tour” to promote more stringent […]
US Special Operations Command Will Deploy Argus AI Program to Scour Social Media for Disinformation, Misinformation and Malinformation, National Security Authority to Protect U.S. Internet from “Pain Points”
US Special Operations Command Will Deploy Argus AI Program to Scour Social Media for Disinformation, Misinformation and Malinformation, National Security Authority to Protect U.S. Internet from “Pain Points” Annnd… Here we go. If you have not read the background {Go Deep}, you will not have the appropriate context to absorb the latest revelation about how […]
UK Government Denies Targeting COVID-19 Policy Critics on Social Media
UK Government Denies Targeting COVID-19 Policy Critics on Social Media The logos of mobile apps Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Messenger displayed on a tablet on Oct. 1, 2019. (AFP via Getty Images/Denis Charlet) The UK government is facing renewed pressure to shut its Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) after the unit was accused of […]
