Wednesday, April 13, 2022

De facto censorship. (De jure censorship is ruled out by the US Bill of Rights) UPDATE: Pepe Escobar off Twitter

(This is an excellent cartoon site. I recommend checking out/subscribing to. Feed available. tjh)
https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php

At some point, the U.S. people, and those they elect to higher office need to bring Twitter in line with the ideals and values Americans collectively espouse when it comes to free speech and online identity protection....
Consortium News
SCOTT RITTER: Twitter Wars—My Personal Experience in Twitter’s Ongoing Assault on Free Speech
Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, serving in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, on General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991-1998 as a UN weapons inspector
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/13/scott-ritter-twitter-wars-my-personal-experience-in-twitters-ongoing-assault-on-free-speech/

This is how Big Tech techno-feudalism works.
The Unz Review
Pepe Escobar
https://www.unz.com/pescobar/suspended-from-twitter/

Preventing populations from asking who benefits from a protracted proxy war, and who pays the price, is paramount. A closed propaganda system achieves that.


Glenn Greenwald
Western Dissent from US/NATO Policy on Ukraine is Small, Yet the Censorship Campaign is Extreme
Preventing populations from asking who benefits from a protracted proxy war, and who pays the price, is paramount. A closed propaganda system achieves that.
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/western-dissent-from-usnato-policy

There’s a real tragedy unfolding on the other side of the earth. I don’t want to make light of it. But another of 1984’s predictions was a future where war would become a “purely internal affair,” where even when there’s real fighting going on in a faraway land, the real target is always the domestic population, whose memories and doubts and distracting emotional attachments are the real threats and must be constantly policed. It’s all coming true, with forever war and slogans like #CloseTheSky demanding primacy in our thoughts, and we’re asked to forget as patriotic duty. It isn’t. Never give up memories, no matter how hard you’re pushed....
TK News by Matt Taibbi (13 Mar 2022)
Orwell Was Right
Matt Taibbi
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/orwell-was-right

7 comments:

Matt Franko said...

Just go over to Truth Social…

Footsoldier said...

If strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation continue, the Russian Armed Forces will strike at decision-making centers, including in Kyiv - Russian Defense Ministry.

The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine says that Russian troops are ready for an offensive in Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation confirmed that 1,026 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the 36th Marine Brigade surrendered in Mariupol.

And THIS


Russia considers U.S. and NATO vehicles carrying weapons to Ukraine as legitimate military targets", says Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ryabkov.

Footsoldier said...

Tom all the guys links you have been posting are on Telegram

https://t.me/s/intelslava

https://t.me/s/RWApodcast

https://t.me/s/realCRP

https://t.me/s/asbmil

https://t.me/s/ScottRitter

Footsoldier said...

Russia considers U.S. and NATO vehicles carrying weapons to Ukraine as legitimate military targets", says Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ryabkov.


That means all the trains that carry military equipment to the Polish border are now legitimate targets.

Like this...

https://mobile.twitter.com/theragex/status/1513969834693992459?cxt=HHwWloC92eLi2YIqAAAA


Which then means war with NATO and nukes pointed at every city.

Tom Hickey said...

all the guys links you have been posting are on Telegram

The US information space is now pretty much closed. That spells the end of freedom of expression in the US as we knew it.

Of course, one can still go to sources outside the US, but I am finding that more and more these venues are now being blocked.

Peter Pan said...

Each time I see a mask wearing maniac, or the Ukrainian colours, I'm reminded that Orwell was right.

Freedom is slavery
War is peace
Ignorance is strength

S400 said...

Orwell the Art degree was indeed right. Real life experience from war put into concretized thoughts.
If it’s too clear it isn’t there.