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Social-media censorship---here are the basics
By Jon Rappoport---
Several of the biggest "conservative/libertarian" figures on
the Net---Alex Jones, Dennis Prager, Stefan Molyneux, among
others---have recently been banned/censored by Google, Facebook,
Twitter, and other social media companies.
When you ask why this is happening, one obvious answer pops up right away:
These social media corporations are fulfilling desperate
pleas from major news outlets, who have been losing audience, in massive
chunks, to the likes of Jones, Prager, and Molyneaux.
The newspapers and TV news networks came to end of their
rope. They had no solutions to their problem---so they went to Google,
Facebook, and others, and said, HELP US. Meaning: Censor our
competition.
On one level, understanding censorship is that simple.
But then you have to ask yourself this question: Why would
Google, Facebook, and other social media giants bend to the needs of
mainstream news outlets?
These social media operations are richer and bigger than
mainstream news. They could easily have said: "No, we like open forums
and a wide variety of opinion, and we think people should be able to
deal with ideas they don't like. We stand for an open society, and we
vigorously defend the 1st Amendment."
But they didn't say that. Instead, they're enacting bans and censorship. Why?
The obvious answer staring us in the face is: Google and
Facebook and You Tube, for example, the largest social media
corporations, are not "free companies."
They've been in bed with the intelligence community for a
long time, and they favor wall to wall surveillance of the population.
They favor the "liberal" version of a policed State, where correct
opinions are let in the door and incorrect opinions are shut down.
Let's quickly review a bit of Facebook history:
The big infusion of cash that sent Mark Zuckerberg and his
fledgling college enterprise on their way came from Accel Partners, in
2004.
Jim Breyer, head of Accel, attached a $13 million rocket to Facebook, and nothing has ever been the same.
Earlier that same year, a man named Gilman Louie joined the
board of the National Venture Capital Association of America (NVCA). The
chairman of NVCA? Jim Breyer. Gilman Louie happened to be the first CEO
of the important CIA start-up, In-Q-Tel.
In-Q-Tel was founded in 1999, with the express purpose of
funding companies that could develop technology the CIA would use to
"gather data."
That's not the only connection between Jim Breyer and the
CIA's man, Gilman Louie. In 2004, Louie went to work for BBN
Technologies, headed up by Breyer. Dr. Anita Jones also joined BBN at
that time. Jones had worked for In-Q-Tel and was an adviser to DARPA,
the Pentagon's technology department that helped develop the Internet.
With these CIA/Darpa connections, it's no surprise that Jim
Breyer's jackpot investment in Facebook is not part of the popular
mythology of Mark Zuckerberg. Better to omit it. Who could fail to
realize that Facebook, with its endless stream of personal data, and its
tracking capability, is an ideal CIA asset?
What about Google?
Read Nafeez Ahmed's excellent multi-part series at medium.com, "How the CIA made Google":
"INSURGE INTELLIGENCE can now reveal the vast extent to which
the US intelligence community is implicated in nurturing the web
platforms we know today...The lynchpin of this story is the corporation
that in many ways defines the 21st century with its unobtrusive
omnipresence: Google."
"Google styles itself as a friendly, funky, user-friendly
tech firm that rose to prominence through a combination of skill, luck,
and genuine innovation. This is true. But it is a mere fragment of the
story. In reality, Google is a smokescreen behind which lurks the US
military-industrial complex."
"The inside story of Google's rise, revealed here for the
first time, opens a can of worms that goes far beyond Google,
unexpectedly shining a light on the existence of a parasitical network
driving the evolution of the US national security apparatus, and
profiting obscenely from its operation..."
In other words, social media aren't banning and censoring
"conservatives/libertarians" merely as a favor to their kissing cousins
who run major news outlets---no, this goes much deeper.
This is the intelligence and Pentagon communities, with their
attendant neo-cons and military contractors, defending their version of
the "new world."
Anyone with a large online audience, who has strong opinions
which resist and run counter to this new world vision, is considered an
obstacle, and a target for censorship.
The intelligence/Pentagon vision? Endless wars; endless waves
of migration engendering chaos; multinational corporations free to roam
the planet, set up shop in hellholes, produce their goods for relative
pennies, sell those goods anywhere with no tariffs, thus undermining
local economies and centralizing economic power in fewer hands; the vast
expansion of surveillance and censorship (which go hand in hand);
widening poverty, which makes more and more people dependent on
government...
Social media censorship isn't merely a bunch of knee-jerk
liberals trying to stop ideas they don't like. It is that, but it's
much, much, much more.
Google and Facebook are nurtured creatures of the national security state.
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Jon Rappoport
The
author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM
THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US
Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a
consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the
expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he
has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles
on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin
Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and
Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics,
health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.
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