They Are Worried About The Spread Of Information, Not Disinformation by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-05-24 at 00:05:37 )

They Are Worried About The Spread Of Information, Not Disinformation by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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We are in the final countdown to British Home Secretary Priti Patels decision on the fate of Julian Assange, with the WikiLeaks founders extradition to the United States due to be approved or rejected by the end of the month. Joe Lauria has a new article out with Consortium News on the various pressures that Patel is being faced with from both sides of this history-making issue at this crucial time.

And I can not stop thinking, as this situation comes to a boil, about how absurd it is that the United States empire is working to set a precedent which essentially outlaws information-sharing that the United States does not like at the same time western news media are full of hand-wringing headlines about the dangerous threat of "disinformation".

"Disinformation" Label Serves to Marginalize Crucial Ukraine Facts.-FAIR (FAIRmediawatch) May 18, 2022

Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) has an article out titled "Disinformation" Label Serves to Marginalize Crucial Ukraine Facts" about the way the mass media have been spinning that label to mean not merely the knowing distribution of false information but also of information that is true but inconvenient to imperial narrative-weaving.

"In defense of the United States narrative, corporate media have increasingly taken to branding realities inconvenient to United States information goals as "disinformation" spread by Russia or its proxies," writes FAIRs Luca Goldmansour.

Online platforms have been ramping up their censorship protocols under the banner of fighting disinformation and misinformation, and those escalations always align with narrative control agendas of the United States-centralized empire. Just the other day we learned that Twitter has a new policy which expands its censorship practices to fight "misinformation" about wars and other crises, and the Ukraine war (surprise surprise) will be the first such situation about which it will be enforcing these new censorship policies.

Then there is the recent controversy over the Department of Homeland Securitys "Disinformation Governance Board," a mysterious institution ostensibly designed to protect the American people from wrongthink coming from Russia and elsewhere. The boards operations (whatever they were) have been "paused" pending a review which will be led by Michael Chertoff, a virulent swamp monster and torture advocate. Its operations will likely be resumed in one form or another, probably under the leadership of someone with a low profile who does not sing show tunes about disinformation.

And this all comes out after United States officials straight up told the press that the Biden administration has been deliberately sowing disinformation to the public using the mainstream press in order to win an infowar against the Kremlin. They have literally just been circulating completely baseless stories about Russia and Ukraine, but nobody seems to be calling for the social media accounts of Biden administration officials to be banned.

Pressure Mounts on Patel Over Assange Decision.-Consortium News (Consortiumnews) May 23, 2022

You see so many discrepancies between what the oligarchic empire says and what it actually does regarding the issue of disinformation because the empire has no problem with disinformation. The empire that is built on propaganda and lies has no problem with propaganda and lies.

It has a problem with the truth.

They are not worried about disinformation, they are worried about information.

They are worried about journalists using the unprecedented information-sharing power of the internet to reveal inconvenient facts about the largest and most murderous power structure on earth.

They are worried about people finding out that they have been lied to their entire lives about their world, their nation and their government.

They are worried about people using their newly connected minds to decide together that they do not much like the status quo as it has been laid out for them, and deciding to build a new one.

All the safeguards they are setting up now to manipulate the flow of information online are not there to eliminate lies, they are there to eliminate truth.

These people have a vested interest in keeping things dark and confused, and we the ordinary people of the world have a vested interest in shining a big inconvenient spotlight on everything. The elite agenda to keep things endarkened is at direct odds with the peoples agenda to get things enlightened.

We are not being protected by a compassionate alliance of corporations and governments who only want us to know the truth, we are being manipulated and oppressed by an oligarchic empire that wants us to believe lies.

That is why they are locking up Mr. Julian Assange, that is why they are censoring the internet, that is why they are filling our minds with propaganda, and that is why we can not let them win.

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