In less than a decade, the internet went from free and open to one of the most heavily moderated spaces in public life.
Beginning in 2015, every major platform created strict, but extremely vague and opaque, ideological content rules backed up by a colossal moderation and censorship apparatus. NGOs, the US government, and foreign actors (notably, the EU) helped. Hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on speech policing, which often went by the Orwellian term “trust and safety.”
The scale of censorship has no precedent. Tens of millions of accounts were suppressed or banned. Billions of posts were removed.
A professional historian could spend their entire career chronicling it. McCarthyism is taught in schools, and online censorship of the 2010s is orders of magnitude larger than McCarthyism ever was.
Here, a full history chronicling exactly how major platforms (YouTube, Twitter, Amazon, Reddit, Facebook) silenced dissident speech, from @arctotherium42 👇
ATTENTION COLORADO PARENTS
Over 70 schools are reportedly planning to participate in anti-ICE walkouts this week on September 4th.
They’re brainwashing your children into prioritizing foreign t*rrorist invaders
Full list of schools in the comments 👇
#Developing: Security incident for @denversmayor last Thursday. Man carrying a knife approached Mayor Mike Johnston as the Mayor was filming social media videos at Union Station. Member of the Mayor's security team drew his gun at the 'low- ready' position and ...
Teenagers in Aurora Colorado took over king soopers store. Not much workers can do when 100+ show up all at once to take it over. They are not there to shop and is stopping others from shopping
📹: vpaxks
#news#Colorado
X has now confirmed a Chinese bot farm of 200K fake accounts intentionally trying to manipulate public opinion against data centers.
People might want to consider how common this has become and how it is manipulating multiple policy discussions on social media.
Progressives thought they were on the right side of history. When they wake up to the reality that their policies resulted in the sterilization of children, the killing of mentally ill addicts, the decimation of education, and more, they will be horrified.
Iran Update:
Mass doxxing operations are happening against basijis and IRGC elements who participated in the January massacre. Numbers, addresses, entire ID cards are being spread.
This has freaked the regime out beyond compare.
Why?
Because they know another uprising will happen. And they know the Iranian people want revenge. Even if the internet goes down, this info has been circulating and downloaded to such an extent that it will make no difference.
This is one of many reasons why levels of oppression and executions are at an all time high.
The government tried to censor me and the other people on this list. They wanted our social media accounts shut down. Charlie Kirk and I filed an amicus brief in a related case that the Supreme Court had in front of them. We never received justice for it. They got away with it. A crazy note: A member of Congress later gave me the "tickets" filed against me. All of them were for 100% factual posts. Not even slightly disputable posts. They just upset the preferred narrative of the government.
America has no shortage of copper, what America has is federal and state governments who’ve thrown up so many regulatory and permitting barriers to exploiting our proven domestic resources that, according to the Pacific Legal Foundation, the time between beginning the process of opening a new mine and actually opening the mine is as much as 29 years or more… the longest permitting process of any nation on earth other than Zambia
California has officially signed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” (AB 2624) into law. This bill was created only after I exposed widespread fraud in immigrant communities across America, specifically in California’s Medicaid, nonprofits and other welfare programs funded by our tax dollars.
These politicians need the fraud to continue and they sadly use immigrants to do so often. They fund nonprofits and NGOs with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year for immigration services, including free healthcare and have now made “immigration support service providers” essentially a protected class in California.
For example, if I film a hospice or a “learing center” with no patients receiving millions through Medicaid and the owner gives me a paper saying I cannot publish the video, I cannot publish it. If I publish it to expose them and they claim it caused them “fear” or a third party threatens them, I face a minimum $4,000 civil fine plus the legal fees of the individual or group suing me.
This bill was created by the Attorney General’s wife and co-sponsored by CHIRLA, a nonprofit that has received over $80,000,000 in taxpayer dollars for “immigrant support services.” Do you understand how this works yet? When the fraud is exposed, they create new laws to protect the fraudsters and penalize those who expose it.
By signing this bill, the Governor and California politicians expose themselves as the corrupt politicians they are. This is not the end, the fight has just begun. More to come soon, this is far from over.