Pierre Omidyar's Financing of the Facebook "Whistleblower" Campaign Reveals a Great Deal

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The internet is the last remaining instrument for dissent to thrive outside state and oligarchical control. This campaign aims to put an end to that.

The slick and well-financed rollout of this Facebook "whistleblower" star is designed to advance multiple censorship schemes.
One of Omidyar's central goals -- as his own multi-national foundation trumpets -- is to impose *criminal penalties* on platforms that allow disinformation, hate speech or "harmful" content.

This will be defined by the same handful of multi-billionaires funding this campaign.
The media-ready roll-out of this "whistleblower" was perfectly timed as both Canada and the UK consider bills to impose *criminal liability* on platforms that allow "harmful" content -- to be defined by the very authorities from which the internet was supposed to liberate us.
Even the most well-intentioned and "benevolent" multi-billionaires -- and I recount my positive experiences working with Omidyar -- wield far too much power as it is. Few things are more dangerous than allowing them to control the internet under the banner of making it "safer."
Omidyar is a highly politicized actor. He was a Russiagate fanatic. He funds a news outlet that has ratified countless CIA conspiracy theories.

Nobody -- and certainly no billionaire -- should be trusted as neutral arbiters of permissible online speech.

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The primary deceitful elite tactic is to exploit every "crisis" to raise fear levels as high as possible, to make you believe that the only way you can stay safe is vesting them with more power.

With 1/6 & COVID, free speech will actually *kill*! We must stop "harmful" speech.

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