ANALYSIS โ The Elon Musk โTwitter Files' exposรฉ, much-ignored and maligned by the establishment media, has shown a consistent effort by various U.S. government agencies and several prominent Democrat lawmakers to censor or cancel dissenting, mostly conservative views.
Under the guise of combating โmisinformation,' a wholly concocted concept to justify censorship, Big Tech slowly, at first, but increasingly later, got cozily into bed with Uncle Samโฆ and Adam Schiff.
Fox Newsย reportsย that journalist Matt Taibbi joined Joe Rogan's podcast to break down how the federal government, including the office ofย Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the hyper-partisan former chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, frequently contacted Twitter to have content removed from the social media platform.
It is important to note that Taibbi is not a right-wing conspiracy theorist. On the contrary, he is a left-leaning former contributing editor for Rolling Stone and the author of several books, including โInsane Clown President,' an unflattering portrayal of Donald Trump.
According to Taibbi, the relationship between our security agencies like the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and tech companies like Twitter and Facebook was a โlittle bit less formalโ than he originally thought.
Rather than playing an advisory role, the feds and Twitter created a โreally intense structureโ cultivated over several years.
This structure included regular meetings and a system where the DHS handled censorship requests from the states while the FBI fielded international requests.
Taibbi said he was โespecially shockedโ by an email from a Schiff staffer who called for the suspension of journalists on Twitter who tweeted critically about the House Intelligence Committee.
Rogan replied that it was โbizarreโ for someone in the government to openly call for censorship in unsecured, unclassified emails that could be disseminated publicly.
Taibbi said it represents a Big Government and Big Tech mentality of being โimpregnableโ without fear of oversight.
It's not surprising, he added, because, โThey're so comfortable with the idea that the government should be involved in this censorshipโฆโ
But that's not all. Fox News reports:
In aย January installment of โThe Twitter Filesโ, Taibbi indicated Schiff's staff asked Twitter โquite oftenโ to take down certain tweets. A separate batch of Twitter Files that same month revealed similar requests by Schiff's office.
An example he shared was one sent in November 2020 by Schiff's office, which contacted Twitter hoping the tech giant would take action regarding โalleged harassment from QAnon conspiracistsโ against Schiff's staff, including aide Sean Misko. The latest batch indicates Schiff's office even fought to have unflattering pictures removed.
โThis important use of taxpayer resources involved an ask about a โPeter Douche' parody photo of Joe Biden. The DNC made the same request,โ Taibbi wrote, proving visual evidence.
โTo its credit, Twitter refused to remove it, with Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth saying it had obvious โhumorous intent' and โany reasonable observer' โ apparently, not a Schiff staffer โ could see it was doctored,โ he added.
Meanwhile, as the New Yorkย Post reports, things only appear to be getting worse, with left-leaning Big Tech billionaires like Bill Gates promoting even more frightening ideas to control conservatives.
In a recent chilling interview, Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates called for the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to combat not just โdigital misinformationโ but โpolitical polarizationโ as well.
Gate's wants to fight this feared โpolitical polarizationโ by checking โconfirmation bias,โ the tendency of people to search for information in a way that confirms their own embedded beliefs.
While this can be applied to anyone, left, right or center, including COVID-19 fearmongers, climate change extremists or Trump-Russia-collusion fanatics, it is now being used exclusively by our self-appointed tech overlords to dismiss all those who oppose accepted,ย established liberal mantras.
And like all leftist agendas, fear of the end fuels their need for control.
First, it was the fear of the end of the planet due to climate change, and now, it's the fear of the end of democracy due to conservative ideas.
To these technocratic leftists, robust, free-wheeling debate in a democracy is now considered โpolitical polarization,โ and must be quashed to save us from death.
If we don't use Gates' enlightened, benevolent AI to supply the solutions, Gates suggested, we could all die: โPolitical polarization may bring it all to an end, we're going to have a hung election and a civil war.โ
And many leading left-wing Democrats, including Joe Biden, agree.
As the New York Post explains, the Orwellian leftist censorship landscape may only get worse, even as they use a book by Aldous Huxley for their metaphor:
Others have suggested a Brave New World where citizens will be carefully guided in what they read and see. Democratic leaders have called for a type of โenlightened algorithmโ to frame what citizens access on the internet. In 2021, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) objected that people were not listening to the informed views of herself and leading experts. Instead, they were reading views of skeptics by searching Amazon and finding books by โprominent spreaders of misinformation.โ
Warren blamed Amazon for failing to limit searches or choices: โThis pattern and practice of misbehavior suggests that Amazon is either unwilling or unable to modify its business practices to prevent the spread of falsehoods or the sale of inappropriate products.โ In her letter, Warren gave the company 14 days to change its algorithms to throttle and obstruct efforts to read opposing views.
Social media responded to such calls and engaged in widespread censorship of those who held opposing views of mask mandates, vaccine safety, school mandates, and the origin of COVID-19. Many of those criticisms and views are now acknowledged as plausible and legitimate, but scientists were banned and censored. There was no โpolarizationโ allowed. The public never was allowed to have that full debate on social media because such views were declared disinformation.
President Biden joined in these calls for censorship, often sounding like a censor-in-chief,ย denouncing social media companies for โkilling peopleโย by not blocking enough. Recently, he expressed doubt that the public can โknow the truthโ without such censorship by โeditorsโ in Big Tech.
Well, in this case, the fear is justified.ย
But it's not the fear that far-left Democrats and Big Tech billionaires espouse; it's the fear of losing our constitutional right to free speech and the platforms to express them.
Not to mention yourย right to order any book you wantย from Amazon.
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F Bill Gates and all the other commies
Thank you very much. But this is by no means NEWS, Mr. Crespo.You know very well that this sort of shadow-banning has been going on for years now. And people need to wake up and see what the Left has become: they will not be silenced, they will not be placated. They will never rest, they will never stop, until they have destroyed the very fabric of Western Civilizatiion. But they will have nothing to offer in its place. When their promised socialist utopia fails, they will then attack and destroy their own. Just wait and see. Satan destroys his tools, once he has finished with them…
With Adam Schiff leaving the intelligence committee the average IQ of that bunch should could go up significantly. Maybe Schiff should decide it’s time to go back to Hollywood and write screen plays of his fantasies. Commiserate with all the Hollywood elites who said they would leave the country if Trump was elected and are still here. Liars. All liars. His natural surroundings.