{"id":65152,"date":"2023-03-11T13:42:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65152"},"modified":"2023-03-11T13:42:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:42:05","slug":"the-censorship-industrial-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65152","title":{"rendered":"The Censorship Industrial\u00a0Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I think something is seriously wrong with my brain. Yesterday, I hallucinated that Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testified before a subcommittee of the US House of Representatives about the Censorship Industrial Complex, i.e., the US arm of the global official propaganda and disinformation apparatus that has been waging an all-out war on dissent for the better part of the last six years.<\/p>\n

I know this couldn\u2019t have actually happened, and was just an extended hallucination (probably the result of the copious amount of drugs I consumed in my misspent youth, or the effects of\u00a0a Commie bio-weapon with a fatality rate of less than one percent<\/a>, because I\u2019ve been writing about\u00a0The War on Dissent (2018)<\/a>, and\u00a0The Criminalization of Dissent (2021)<\/a>, and the global\u00a0Corporate COINTELPRO op (2017)<\/a>, and\u00a0The War on Reality (2021)<\/a>, and\u00a0The Manufacturing of Reality (2021)<\/a>, and\u00a0Manufacturing Truth (2018)<\/a>, and\u00a0Manufacturing Normality (2016)<\/a>, and\u00a0The Road to Totalitarianism (2022)<\/a>, and\u00a0The Gaslighting of the Masses (2022)<\/a>\u00a0\u2026 well, for quite some time. So, I\u2019m sure it was just an hallucination, because there\u2019s no way Matt and Shellenberger were actually sitting there talking about how \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cWe learned Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation \u2018requests\u2019 from every corner of government: the FBI, DHS, HHS, DOD, the Global Engagement Center at State, even the CIA. For every government agency scanning Twitter, there were perhaps 20 quasi-private entities doing the same, including Stanford\u2019s Election Integrity Project, Newsguard, the Global Disinformation Index, and others, many taxpayer-funded.\u201d (Matt Taibbi\u2019s Statement to Congress<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2026 and documenting the coordinated censorship of sources that interfered with certain official narratives, like \u201cRussiagate\u201d and \u201cThe Apocalpytic Virus\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n

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\u2026 because that\u2019s just a crazy \u201cconspiracy theory.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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