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Nov 1 8 tweets 5 min read
Because he broke a major story revealing it is the Biden Admin -- specifically the US Security State -- which directs Big Tech's censorship program to serve its own interests. Obviously, CNN or MSNBC wouldn't touch this story while people like Aaron are too dumb to understand it.
I'm glad that there are a handful of TV shows willing to critically report on the US Security State, and how it is the real director of Big Tech's banning of online dissent.

Fortunately, the only shows that cover it are the only ones with an audience:

The story Lee, along with @kenklippenstein broke, is one of the top 10 most important acts of reporting this year. I highly encourage you to read their article. See Lee's amazing thread here.

DNCAaron is actually upset and confused it's being covered.

Democratic partisans in media are really the stupidest people ever to live. Lee and Ken broke an indisputably huge story with original documents showing the US Security State's role in censoring the internet, and DNC boys like @ryanlcooper can only think to complain he's on Fox.
Just stop and think: imagine how stunted your brain must be to see a huge story like this about the US Security State controlling the internet and think it's *a bad thing* the reporter can explain it to millions of people. Please watch the segment here:

This, by the way, is how @atrupar became a beloved liberal Twitter personality: sits in front of Fox all day taking pictures of the TV and posts them to tattle on who goes on Fox. That's it. Doesn't even post videos because the substance is irrelevant:

The reason only Fox shows are willing to air stories that are critical of the US Security State -- like the gigantic one broken by Lee Fang today -- is because the rest of them (NBC, MSNBC, CNN) *employ* agents of the US Security State, and thus mindlessly mimic what they say.
This is the same reason no national Dem politicians or NBC/CNN/MSNBC hosts have trumpeted Lee and Ken's stories: only Fox hosts and GOP politicians:

CIA and FBI are revered in left-liberal politics, as is censorship, so this story doesn't bother them.

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Nov 2
This to me has almost nothing to do with Paul Pelosi. The key point is this:

Americans are being conditioned -- by "journalists" of all people -- to believe it's immoral or mentally ill not to immediately and uncritically accept whatever institutions of authorities claim. WATCH:
Just as a reminder: before anyone of prominence was talking about "bio labs in Ukraine," here's what Victoria Nuland -- the neocon official in charge of Ukraine for the Biden State Dept -- said to the Senate when questioned by a very friendly Marco Rubio:

Any "journalist" should have immediately demanded answers about what Nuland meant: what bio labs in Ukraine were so dangerous they couldn't fall into Russian hands?

Instead, most did the opposite: demonized as mentally ill anyone who didn't instantly accept Pentagon denials.
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Nov 1
Think how important this story is. France, like all EU states, *legally barred* any platform from airing RT or other Russian outlets even if those platforms with to. It's legally required to censor it.

France demanded Rumble obey, if though Rumble isn't a French company....
If Rumble obeyed France's censorship order - like Big Tech firms often do - it'd mean Americans could only access voices and views which foreign governments (EU, China, Iran, etc.) permitted to be aired. Thankfully, Rumble told France to fuck itself:

When Big Tech began censoring, liberals suddenly adopted libertarian theories to insist that private companies could do whatever they want, and it's not censorship.

But this is *pure censorship*: EU *legally banning* anyone from airing what they dislike:

reuters.com/world/europe/e…
Read 5 tweets
Nov 1
As Bolsonaro remains silent and publicly invisible for the second full day following his defeat, pro-Bolsonaro protests have erupted throughout the country, blocking key roads, airports and bridges.

The Supreme Court has ordered police to began removing the protesters.
Brazil's media outlets continue to report Bolsonaro does not intend to contest the outcome. Key allies have already recognized Lula's victory.

But anyone in WhatsApp groups of police and similar groups know there is intense anger and support for serious resistance to Lula's win.
It seems clear that Bolsonaro has little institutional support for any attempt to defy the election outcome. Most key pro-Bolsonaro political figures are already saying Lula is president.

But the potential for real strife remains, especially as long as Bolsonaro stays silent.
Read 8 tweets
Oct 31
Great work by @lhfang to expose crucial evidence on the most-overlooked point about Big Tech censorship:

This censorship is not done at the sole or even primary initiative of Big Tech. It is so often done in conjunction with the US Govt and US Security State, which demands it:
The reporting we just published on the new "consortium" building this regime of censorship - online but increasingly offline (eg exclusion from the financial system as punishment for dissent) - emphasized this crucial collaboration:

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-consorti…
I really encourage you to read this new reporting by Lee and @kenklippenstein on the vital role played by the US Govt in pressuring Big Tech to censor for them.

Some of the docs show that it was FBI that pressured FB to block the NY Post's pre-election story on the Biden family. Image
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Oct 31
This is probably the most compelling evidence yet that suggests COVID came from a lab leak, though I regard the debate as still open.

But remember, and it's genuinely shocking and infuriating: for 18 months, Big Tech *barred* any questioning of government and WHO assertions:
From the start of the pandemic until May, 2021, Facebook *immediately banned* anyone who questioned the claim that COVID was zoonotic. FB only "permitted" such debate once the Biden Admin itself said it didn't know and was investigating the question:

politico.com/news/2021/05/2…
So: during one of the most consequential and confusing events of the last century - COVID pandemic -- Big Tech ensured that nobody on the internet was permitted to express any doubts about or dissent from the decrees of institutions of authority.

The liberal/left supported this.
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Oct 30
It's very possible that the instantly formed media narrative -- Paul Pelosi's attacker was a MAGA fanatic who broke in to murder Nancy -- will be proven true.

But right now there are so many glaring doubts and holes in that story that it just takes common sense to question this.
It's genuinely alarming how conditioned so much of the US population is to equate skepticism toward the pronouncements of media corporations with mental illness:

"If you don't instantly accept what Wolf Blitzer and Andrea Mitchell claim, then you're a crazy conspiracy theorist."
It's so crucial to understand the dynamic dominating journalism. Few journalists have career security.

Imagine you're a young journalist at a big media corporation. You know if you ask these questions, Twitter will explode and it can ruin your career:

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