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Apr 26 8 tweets 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Many people claim that @mtaibbi & I exaggerated the size and scope of the Censorship Industrial Complex.

But now, new information has come to light revealing a widespread effort to spy on and censor private & supposedly "encrypted" text messages. Image
@mtaibbi Ever since journalist Matt Taibbi and I testified before Congress on April 9, critics of the Twitter Files have claimed that we were making a big deal about nothing.

We were being paranoid, they said, to imagine that the U.S. government was involved in spying on ordinary… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
This stuff is even showing up in pop culture

From Netflix's "The Night Agent" Image
We can't do this work without whistleblowers

If you work in social media, government (US or elsewhere), or in a "think tank" doing censorship ("disinfo") research, we need to hear from you

We will protect your anonymity

michaelshellenberger@proton.me or DM me for signal
If you are a whistleblower, you should think twice about whether you can trust the mainstream regime media given their participation in the Censorship Industrial Complex:

This is essential reading by Andrew Lowenthal @NAffects

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More from @shellenberger

Apr 25
The United Nations is training people worldwide to demand censorship by social media platforms of their fellow citizens for "potentially harmful content." At least one U.S.-government funded group, Atlantic Council, involved in U.S.-based censorship, is involved.
The UN effort emphasizes spying ("monitoring"), but the main goal is to pressure the social media platforms to censor disfavored voices.

The UN is US taxpayer funded, which means Americans are funding the spread of the Censorship Industrial Complex

unesco.org/en/articles/un…
The UN is seeking to create “appeals councils” to pressure social media companies to censor disfavored views and people.

The Censorship Industrial Complex is rapidly going global.

articles.unesco.org/en/articles/so…
Read 11 tweets
Apr 23
The reason governments are demanding ever-more censorship is the same reason they turn everything — “disinfo,” “climate change,” “Covid” — into a “crisis”: the public doesn’t trust them. And rightly so. The elites look down upon and hate ordinary people. Image
“Today, we are witnessing the emergence of a new so-called emergency: the ‘disinformation pandemic’…. It’s an emergency concocted expressly to justify its proposed remedy: the erection and expansion of the Censorship Industrial Complex.” @lwoodhouse
“As the Twitter Files demonstrated, for years, government agents forged close relationships with top managers of the tech platforms. At Twitter, former FBI lawyers and other intelligence personnel colonized the top ranks of the company, further binding the platform to the state.”
Read 4 tweets
Apr 21
Victory!

Gov. @GavinNewsom finally calls out the National Guard to shut down the open-air drug dealing in San Francisco!

LFG!

sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…
Our movement of parents, recovering addicts, and residents has been calling for the governor to call out the National Guard for weeks.

This is a huge victory for the California Peace Coalition, founded in 2021, and which successfully persuaded Gov. @GavinNewsom to oppose supervised drug consumption sites last year

californiapeacecoalition.org
Read 13 tweets
Apr 20
Sure is getting fashy around here

leefang.substack.com/p/house-democr… Image
March: “Ha ha, nobody’s ‘weaponizing’ the government”

April: “Prison for journalists!”
Read 5 tweets
Apr 20
Censorship. Propaganda. IRS weaponization. We are staring down the barrel of creeping totalitarianism.
In such moments, ordinary people must resist. How? By learning from courageous people like @galexybrane who fought back against covid censorship & won.

public.substack.com/p/alex-gutenta…
In 2021, Alex Gutentag tweeted, “Today FDA voted to approve Pfizer’s 3-dose vaccine for children 6 months to 5 years. Pfizer’s claim of 80% efficacy is based on just 10 covid cases after the 3rd dose in the trial. 10 cases — that’s it. How is this not a scandal?”
Not long after, Twitter called Gutentag’s tweet “misinformation” and suspended her from Twitter.

“They had a five strikes policy, and this was my last strike,” Gutentag explains in a fascinating podcast you can listen to above. “It was one strike for something ‘misleading’ and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Read 5 tweets
Apr 20
“Elite media reacted to the Twitter Files by pretending nothing had happened… It was as if Woodward and Bernstein had told Deep Throat, ‘You’re just peddling a debunked conspiracy theory.’”

discoursemagazine.com/culture-and-so…
“Shellenberger and Woodhouse broke the news that a 14-year-old orphan girl continued to be “sex trafficked” by the MS-13 gang in San Francisco despite a warrant for her rescue issued by Child Protective Services. Their old-style investigative report, though at first ignored,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
“With the decline of traditional journalism and the rise of post-journalism, the news media has become a crude enforcer of elite dogmas and opinions. From The New York Times to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, journalists are now the flying monkeys of politicians and bureaucrats: The… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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