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7 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Aaand there it is, right in alignment with the US Senate Judiciary Committee who told social media giants in 2017 that it is their duty to "prevent the fomenting of discord.” Expect this to become the dominant narrative.
"Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they start with words. America’s war with itself has already begun. We all must act now on the social media battlefield to quell information rebellions"
~ @selectedwisdom to social media officials at the hearing.
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Rightist wingnuts are always used to justify policies that are designed to neuter the left. That's why any leftist who's cheered internet censorship for the wingnuts has been applying their own muzzle on behalf of the authoritarians. Many still don't realize this.
I could be wrong, but it seems pretty clear to me that the only reason this happened is because it was allowed to. A heavily militarized police state isn't worried about protecting Capitol Hill; it's interested in censoring the internet.

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7 Jan
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@nytimes has wasted no time publishing not one but two new articles bolstering the narrative that more internet censorship is needed to prevent repeats of today's incidents.
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Right-libertarians keep telling me that China is part of the same globalist power structure as western governments while China is nationalizing billionaire corporations and executing bankers for corruption. One of these things is not like the others, folks.
The one waging constant wars around the world, circling the planet with hundreds of military bases, initiating nuclear stand-offs and trying to destroy any nation which disobeys it is unquestionably worse.
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The Assange Extradition Ruling Is A Relief, But It Isn't Justice

"Judge Vanessa Baraitser has ruled against US extradition for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, but not for the reasons she should have."
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In the end though, Baraitser ruled against extradition. Not because allowing the extradition of journalists under the Espionage Act poses a threat to press freedoms worldwide. Not to prevent a global chilling effect on natsec journalism about the world's most powerful government.
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UPDATE: Judge ordered no extradition for Assange, and orders him released from Belmarsh Prison, both due to suicide risk concerns. The US has confirmed that it will appeal extradition ruling. He's still jailed, court is in recess and then they'll discuss possible bail or release.
It's likely they'll keep him jailed until after the US appeals the ruling, as Medhurst explains. We're definitely not out of the woods yet. But getting out of Belmarsh is excellent.
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People keep predicting coups, mass arrests and unprecedented upheavals in the US government because the mass media is acting very strange, which creates the illusion that the US government itself is acting very strange. Meanwhile the empire marches on completely uninterrupted.
What people are misperceiving is that it isn't the US government that's changing, it's the international world order. The US is approaching post-primacy and is unleashing tons of propaganda to roll out international agendas to prevent this, hence the bizarre behavior.
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The frenetic mass media propaganda campaign against Julian Assange was easily the creepiest and most Orwellian thing I've ever witnessed. And now it is silent. It did its job and then disappeared, before the public could really notice what was happening. It's absolutely stunning.
You wouldn't know it now, but between late 2016 and Assange's arrest this site was full of blue-checkmarked narrative managers falling all over each other to be the first to come up with the day's hottest smear painting a heroic journalist as a villain. Day after day after day.
Smearing Assange was one of the easiest ways for an aspiring journalist to show current and prospective employers that you're on the side of the empire. It was a soft target you could kick to signal that you'll say whatever the Pentagon wants so you can climb the media ladder.
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