Western Civilization Is Being Organized Around Winning United States Infowars by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-05-02 at 01:59:37 )

Western Civilization Is Being Organized Around Winning United States Infowars by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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The United States-centralized empires use of propaganda, censorship and Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation is the single most urgent issue of our time, because it is what prevents attention from being drawn to all other issues. And all signs indicate it is set to get much, much worse.

I feel the need to reiterate once again that the censorship we are seeing about Ukraine is of a whole new kind than anything we have seen before.

There is no pretense that it is done to save lives or protect democracy this time around, it is just "We need to control the thoughts that people think about this war."

Once it was accepted that disinformation and misinformation must be curtailed from above, government and tech institutions took that as license to decide what is true and false on our behalf. We know this because now they are just openly propagandizing and censoring us about a war.

When Russia does it it is lies and disinformation. When Ukraine does it it is folklore.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) May 1, 2022

You did not know that you were granting government and tech institutions authority to decide what is true and false on your behalf when you agreed that it is fine for them to work together to censor and sanctify Official Narratives about Covid, but it turns out that is what was happening.

It looks pretty obvious in retrospect now though, does it not???

You can not regulate "disinformation" and "misinformation" without first determining what it is, and you can not determine what it is without assigning someone the authority to make those distinctions.

There are no benefecent, impartial and omniscient entities who can be trusted to become objective arbiters of absolute reality on our behalf. There are only flawed human beings who act in their own interest, which is why we are now being censored and propagandized about a war.

In literally the very next instant after being given the authority to decide what is true and false on our behalf regarding Covid, those same government, media and tech institutions launched into World War II levels of propaganda and censorship over a war we are not even officially in.

It was like they all said "Oh good, we get to do that now, finally."

The consensus that it was fine to launch into a shocking information lockdown about Ukraine was already formed and prepped for roll-out the day Russia invaded. It was taken as a given that they had that authority.

Over the last two years you would get called an "anti-vaxxer" and worse if you said you did not think government-tied monopolistic megacorporations should be restricting speech about Covid measures that affect everyone, but it turns out those who issued these warnings were 100 percent correct.

It is clear now, as we see what we are becoming, that granting these powerful institutions authority to sort out fact from fiction on our behalf is far more dangerous than misinformation about a virus ever was.

Now here we are, with the empire setting up "disinformation" boards while it escalates aggressions with Russia by the day and prepares to do the same with China in the not-too distant future. Our whole civilization is being organized around winning United States propaganda wars.

PayPal is just openly conducting politically motivated financial censorship of indie media now. First MintPressNews and caleb maupin, now Consortium News. Silicon Valley is the censorship arm of the United States empire.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) May 1, 2022

Censorship is bad because free speech is how society orients itself toward truth, course-corrects when it is going astray, and holds power to account. This is true whether censorship is by the government or by tech oligarchs. Only morons act like this is some weird right wing thing.

People say, "Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of reach!"

And the answer to this is always, yes it does you idiot.

If people who support status quo power have access to all the largest voice amplification platforms while critics of status quo power do not, this kills the very purpose of free speech protections.

Free speech protections are enshrined exactly because unrestricted speech puts a check on power. If critics of status quo power structures are being banned from the platforms where people get their voices heard, this function has been nullified.

You can not say your society has free speech if critics of status quo orthodoxies are not free to speak where they will be heard, for exactly the same reason you can not say people have free speech in Saudi Arabia as long as nobody hears their criticisms of the government.

This is getting so unbelievable cringey.

I have a feeling I would be sick of this guy even if I fully bought into the empires Ukraine narratives.-Caitlin Johnstone (caitoz) April 30, 2022

Because free speech is designed to put a check on status quo power, it is exactly the voices who criticize the status quo that must be protected.

Some of these voices will be unpalatable, but the alternative is permitting a Ministry of Truth to decide what dissent is permissible, an authority that is certain to be abused.

Speech is not free if it is not free in all the areas where people congregate to speak.

If only mainstream supporters of the status quo have free access to all platforms, then free speech is not happening, and power has a lot more ability to do what it likes unchecked by the public.

Saying it is fine because people are still free to go to Gab or Truth Social to voice their criticisms of establishment Ukraine narratives or whatever is the same as saying it is fine because people can still speak their criticisms of the government into a hole in the ground.

Free speech is not happening.

Consent for this was given when we allowed these powers to assume complete narrative authority over what constitutes "misinformation".

It is never too late to revoke consent, though.

It just means the fight to pry our voices out of the hands of our rulers is going to be a tough slog.

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