"Something monstrous is taking shape in America.... it exhibits the synergy of state and corporate power that is the hallmark of fascism..."
Behold this new & brilliant 8-part essay on the Censorship Industrial Complex by @Jacob__Siegel @tabletmag !
tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
"By conflating the anti-establishment politics of domestic populists with acts of war by foreign enemies, it justified turning weapons of war against Americans citizens. It turned the public arenas where social and political life take place into surveillance traps and targets for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"What we are seeing now, in the revelations exposing the inner workings of the state-corporate censorship regime, is only the end of the beginning. The United States is still in the earliest stages of a mass mobilization that aims to harness every sector of society under a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"A state organized on the principle that it exists to protect the sovereign rights of individuals, is being replaced by a digital leviathan that wields power through opaque algorithms and the manipulation of digital swarms. It resembles the Chinese system of social credit and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"In a technical or structural sense, the censorship regime’s aim is not to censor or to oppress, but to rule. That’s why the authorities can never be labeled as guilty of disinformation. Not when they lied about Hunter Biden’s laptops, not when they claimed that the lab leak was… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
This amazing new essay is further proof that we are entering a Golden Age of independent media.
It gives me hope that many others are waking up to the threat of the Censorship Industrial Complex.
Now, we must tear it down and investigate how it emerged.
LFG!🔥🔥🔥
Holy smokes, @tabletmag even created a "Disinformation Dictionary
Genius
tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
"The false yet foundational claim that Russia hacked the 2016 election provided a justification—just like the claims about weapons of mass destruction that triggered the Iraq War—to plunge America into a wartime state of exception. With the normal rules of constitutional… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"The fight against ISIS morphed into the fight against Trump and “Russian collusion,” which morphed into the fight against disinformation. But those were just branding changes; the underlying technological infrastructure and ruling-class philosophy, which claimed the right to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
There are so many excellent insights in this piece I can't help but to keep quoting it. This connects some dots:
"The secret FISA warrant that allowed U.S. security agencies to begin spying on the Trump campaign was based on the Steele dossier, a partisan hatchet job paid for by… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"Twitter had the chance to stop the Hamilton 68 hoax before it got out of hand, yet chose not to. Why? The answer can be seen in the emails sent by a Twitter executive named Emily Horne, who advised against calling out the scam. Twitter had a smoking gun showing that the Alliance… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
YES EMPHATICALLY YES
"The war on terror was a dismal failure that ended with the Taliban returning to power in Afghanistan. It also became deeply unpopular with the public. Why, then, would Americans choose to empower the leaders and sages of that war to be the stewards of an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Well, outstanding essay and outstanding ending. Please read the whole thing. My excerpts above can't do it justice
tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
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