The first amendment is first for a reason. It is the foundation of a free society. The U.S. government is irretrievably broken.
Every enforcement agency of the U.S. government was colluding with social media platforms to silence and censor Americans.
“The principle of free speech is not concerned with the content of a man speech and does not protect only the expression of good ideas, but all ideas. If it were otherwise who would determine which ideas are good and which have been? The government?”
The left cannot permit the free exchange of ideas because their failed ideas cannot stand up to scrutiny and challenge. Freedom of speech is the foundation of a free society. Without it, a tyrant can wreak havoc unopposed, while his opponents are silenced. Putting up with speech that offends is essential in a pluralistic society in which people differ on basic truths. If a group will not bear being offended without resorting to violence, that group will rule unopposed while everyone else lives in fear, while other groups curtail their activities to appease the violent group. This results in the violent group being able to tyrannize the others.
Without freedom of speech, peaceful men must resort to violence.
That is the big takeaway from the this stealth civil war against we the people. It does bear noting that there was never any evidence of any Russia collusion or widespread Russian involvement in the 2016 election. It was pure propaganda, a big lie in order to deny Trump’s election and spend the next four years obstructing his presidency. And as big as that is – it is dwarfed by the bigger picture. America has been crushed.
One of the journalists who helped release Elon Musk’s tranche of “Twitter files” said the emails and other documentation he reviewed brought him to conclude the federal government was “in the censorship business.”
Taibbi, who a decade ago became well-known through his reportage on the Occupy Wall Street movement, was one of a handful of journalists who tweeted out previously unreported internal records from pre-Elon Musk Twitter.
“I think we can say pretty conclusively, after looking at tens of thousands of emails over the course of these weeks, that the government was in the censorship business in a huge way — that’s, I think, provable now,” Taibbi told “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
“And not just one agency. Really every conceivable wing of the enforcement agencies of the U.S. government were in some way or another sending moderation requests to Twitter, and in many cases those requests were being fulfilled.”
The requests were coming from “everywhere” within the enforcement bureaucracy, he said, naming the NSA, Department of Health and Human Services, FBI and Department of Homeland Security.
“We have reports from all over, from states, from police departments — everywhere,” he added.
Host Tucker Carlson remarked such behavior would be “prima facie illegal” because government cannot censor political speech. (more here)
Here is the latest thread on how the we lost our freedom:
1.THREAD: The Twitter Files
How Twitter Let the Intelligence Community In— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
https://t.co/mz7AFonNSn August 2017, when Facebook decided to suspend 300 accounts with “suspected Russian origin,” Twitter wasn’t worried. Its leaders were sure they didn’t have a Russia problem.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
3.“We did not see a big correlation.”
“No larger patterns.”
“FB may take action on hundreds of accounts, and we may take action on ~25.” pic.twitter.com/KA1nuXEtQS— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
4.“KEEP THE FOCUS ON FB”: Twitter was so sure they had no Russia problem, execs agreed the best PR strategy was to say nothing on record, and quietly hurl reporters at Facebook: pic.twitter.com/O3JtmId6MJ
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
5.“Twitter is not the focus of inquiry into Russian election meddling right now – the spotlight is on FB,” wrote Public Policy VP Colin Crowell: pic.twitter.com/2nzk8pLoCZ
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
https://t.co/UDnxeU9IGx September, 2017, after a cursory review, Twitter informed the Senate it suspended 22 possible Russian accounts, and 179 others with “possible links” to those accounts, amid a larger set of roughly 2700 suspects manually examined.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
7.Receiving these meager results, a furious Senator Mark Warner of Virginia – ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee – held an immediate press conference to denounce Twitter’s report as “frankly inadequate on every level.” pic.twitter.com/DAkX13igEE
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
8.“#Irony,” mused Crowell the day after Warner’s presser, after receiving an e-circular from Warner’s re-election campaign, asking for “$5 or whatever you can spare.”
“LOL,” replied General Counsel Sean Edgett. pic.twitter.com/pJyeeGzLtG
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
9.“KEEP PRODUCING MATERIAL” After meeting with congressional leaders, Crowell wrote: “Warner has political incentive to keep this issue at top of the news, maintain pressure on us and rest of industry to keep producing material for them.” pic.twitter.com/WiEQJzxGZv
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
10.“TAKING THEIR CUES FROM HILLARY CLINTON” Crowell added Dems were taking cues from Hillary Clinton, who that week said: “It’s time for Twitter to stop dragging its heels and live up to the fact that its platform is being used as a tool for cyber-warfare.” pic.twitter.com/hLvh9rTNeP
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
11. In growing anxiety over its PR problems, Twitter formed a “Russia Task Force” to proactively self-investigate. pic.twitter.com/A5u0uNuH0u
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
12.The “Russia Task Force” started mainly with data shared from counterparts at Facebook, centered around accounts supposedly tied to Russia’s Internet Research Agency (IRA). But the search for Russian perfidy was a dud: pic.twitter.com/UKjxyRTSnZ
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
13. OCT 13 2017: “No evidence of a coordinated approach, all of the accounts found seem to be lone-wolf type activity (different timing, spend, targeting, <$10k in ad spend).” pic.twitter.com/lmkVazTA5K
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
14.OCT 18 2017: “First round of RU investigation… 15 high risk accounts, 3 of which have connections with Russia, although 2 are RT.” pic.twitter.com/MjtuvEZkYY
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
15.OCT 20 2017: “Built new version of the model that is lower precision but higher recall which allows to catch more items. We aren’t seeing substantially more suspicious accounts. We expect to find ~20 with a small amount of spend.” pic.twitter.com/22MNQwegQH
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
16.OCT 23 2017: “Finished with investigation… 2500 full manual account reviews, we think this is exhaustive… 32 suspicious accounts and only 17 of those are connected with Russia, only 2 of those have significant spend one of which is Russia Today…remaining <$10k in spend.” pic.twitter.com/Kkdyx4HDOr
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
17.Twitter’s search finding “only 2” significant accounts, “one of which is Russia Today,” was based on the same data that later inspired panic headlines like “Russian Influence Reached 126 Million Through Facebook Alone”: pic.twitter.com/rsANvZ9GfN
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
18.The failure of the “Russia task force” to produce “material” worsened the company’s PR crisis.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
https://t.co/Oh55WOIcIr the weeks after Warner’s presser, a torrent of stories sourced to the Intel Committee poured into the news, an example being Politico’s October 13, “Twitter deleted data potentially crucial to Russia probes.” pic.twitter.com/ZQLod4BRjl
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
20.“Were Twitter a contractor for the FSB… they could not have built a more effective disinformation platform,” Johns Hopkins Professor (and Intel Committee “expert”) Thomas Rid told Politico. pic.twitter.com/J5Q3WYY3YI
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
https://t.co/4r1EI1EhCb congress threatened costly legislation, and Twitter began was subject to more bad press fueled by the committees, the company changed its tune about the smallness of its Russia problem.
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
22.“Hi guys.. Just passing along for awareness the writeup here from the WashPost today on potential legislation (or new FEC regulations) that may affect our political advertising,” wrote Crowell. pic.twitter.com/wbHK1s949y
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
22.“Hi guys.. Just passing along for awareness the writeup here from the WashPost today on potential legislation (or new FEC regulations) that may affect our political advertising,” wrote Crowell. pic.twitter.com/EyaEwf9g9c
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
23. In Washington weeks after the first briefing, Twitter leaders were told by Senate staff that “Sen Warner feels like tech industry was in denial for months.” Added an Intel staffer: “Big interest in Politico article about deleted accounts." pic.twitter.com/gMD6rHVNPQ
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
24.Twitter “pledged to work with them on their desire to legislate”: pic.twitter.com/BxMSdG3aNC
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
25.“Knowing that our ads policy and product changes are an effort to anticipate congressional oversight, I wanted to share some relevant highlights of the legislation Senators Warner, Klobuchar and McCain will be introducing,” wrote Policy Director Carlos Monje soon after. pic.twitter.com/rh9Irov8vH
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
26.“THE COMMITTEES APPEAR TO HAVE LEAKED” Even as Twitter prepared to change its ads policy and remove RT and Sputnik to placate Washington, congress turned the heat up more, apparently leaking the larger, base list of 2700 accounts. pic.twitter.com/ZydFYFSjLA
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
27.Reporters from all over started to call Twitter about Russia links. Buzzfeed, working with the University of Sheffield, claimed to find a “new network” on Twitter that had “close connections to… Russian-linked bot accounts.” pic.twitter.com/rHCWJULOBL
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
28.“IT WILL ONLY EMBOLDEN THEM.” Twitter internally did not want to endorse the Buzzfeed/Sheffield findings: pic.twitter.com/9xnr1mpHQo
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
29. “SENATE INTEL COMMITTEE IS ASKING… POSSIBLE TO WHIP SOMETHING TOGETHER?” Still, when the Buzzfeed piece came out, the Senate asked for “a write up of what happened.” Twitter was soon apologizing for the same accounts they’d initially told the Senate were not a problem. pic.twitter.com/mIUmJtRLVc
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) January 3, 2023
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1610376382709927936?s=20&t=Crmn-40yHaAAxsdzPslwTw
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While at the grocery store earlier, I checked out the cover of the latest “Scientific American” magazine. One of the articles listed on the cover: “How Misinformation Misinforms Society.”
This article, humorously, backs them up.
You will not find many ” hostages” on this site. You would have better luck with some liberal site that actually believes that the Wuflu is dangerous.
Treason and treachery at every level of government, yet mysteriously no one is indicted, tried and executed. This is treason with impunity which means America is no longer a Republic.
Not a Republic anymore….than we have no choice but to go to WAR with these people and bring the Republic back even stronger. Obviously our corrupt Government don’t think we will fight to gain control of our Country back not theirs they lost that privilege when they went corrupt!!!!!!!
Talk is cheap and nowadays talk can get you exiled or even killed or jailed so no more talkie talk lets just protect, defend and bury some of these corrupt evil,evil people.
This should have been done in the 1960’s when the commie takeover became apparent.
This is the playbook of The Democrat Communist Criminal Terrorist Organization, of America.