{"id":36534,"date":"2018-08-07T10:09:19","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T15:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36534"},"modified":"2018-08-07T10:09:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T15:09:19","slug":"in-a-corporatist-system-of-government-corporate-censorship-is-state-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36534","title":{"rendered":"In A Corporatist System Of Government, Corporate Censorship Is State Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

In A Corporatist System Of Government, Corporate Censorship Is State Censorship<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Last year, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed on the US Senate floor that it is their responsibility to \u201cquell information rebellions\u201d and adopt a \u201cmission statement\u201d expressing their commitment to \u201cprevent the fomenting of discord.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCivil wars don\u2019t start with gunshots, they start with words,\u201d the representatives were told. \u201cAmerica\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Friendly reminder that last year representatives of Google\/Youtube, Facebook and Twitter were instructed on the floor of the US Senate that it is their responsibility to “quell information rebellions” so as to “prevent the fomenting of discord.\u201dhttps:\/\/www.<\/span>wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/11\/01\/goog-n01.html\u00a0<\/span>\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n

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Former FBI agent says tech companies must \u201csilence\u201d sources of \u201crebellion\u201d<\/h2>\n

Advocating stepped-up censorship of the Internet, Clint Watts, a former US Army officer and FBI agent, declared, \u201cCivil wars don\u2019t start with gunshots, they start with words.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Scott Horton, Peter Van Buren, and Dan McAdams have been suspended from Twitter.<\/p>\n

If you go to their accounts, you will see their old tweets, but they are prohibited from making new tweets. They were reported by @<\/span>KatzOnEarth<\/span><\/a> for criticizing his posts. Please complain to Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Today Twitter has silenced three important anti-war voices on its platform: it has suspended<\/a> Daniel McAdams, the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute, suspended Scott Horton of the Scott Horton Show<\/em>, and completely removed<\/a> the account of prominent Antiwar.com writer Peter Van Buren.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In A Corporatist System Of Government, Corporate Censorship Is State Censorship Last year, representatives of Facebook, Twitter, and Google were instructed on the US Senate floor that it is their responsibility to \u201cquell information rebellions\u201d and adopt a \u201cmission statement\u201d expressing their commitment to \u201cprevent the fomenting of discord.\u201d \u201cCivil wars don\u2019t start with gunshots, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6586,17039,120,21168,21170,14942,1169,21169],"class_list":["post-36534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-alex-jones","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-censorship","tag-corporate-censorship","tag-corporatist-government","tag-infowars","tag-social-media","tag-state-censorship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36535,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36534\/revisions\/36535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}