The Zuckerberg admission provides a first official and confirmed peek into the greatest scandal of our times and the global silencing of critics, resulting in manipulating election outcomes, the marginalization of dissent, and the overriding of all free speech protections.
Each layer of our digital currency system peels back the seductive mask of freedom, revealing progressively darker shades of control. As we delve deeper, what seems like autonomy is only an illusion where more pervasive forms of dominance lay hidden.
Parties that once dedicated themselves to free expression are now the leading proponents of “content moderation.” The Washington Post reported that “authorities detained Durov as part of a preliminary investigation that focused on the lack of content moderation on Telegram.”
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In a 6 to 3 ruling on the Murthy v. Missouri case, the Supreme Court ruled against me and my fellow co-plaintiffs, in effect rendering the US First Amendment a dead letter in the social media age.
In a totalitarian system, no one is safe. The only anchor will be precisely what our rationalist Enlightenment society pushed to the background: loyalty to ethical principles even if it means losing whatever you possess in the world of appearances.
What happened to me was censorship action. It was done for two reasons. The first was to destroy my reputation. The other was to send a message to doctors that if they stray from consensus, they will be punished.
There are more and more free speech platforms and alternative media sources. Yet, the censorship industrial complex still exists, and so we must keep pushing forward. We are in an information war. The mainstream media is no longer reliable.
For those who don’t want to be ruled by a whole of society party-state, the political question is how to dismantle this machinery. Whatever the remedy, it must involve a reestablishment of the distinction between government and civil society.
A massive attack on civil liberties is underway in the wake of a week of rioting in the UK. For politicians, the media, NGOs, and academics our old friend “misinformation” is the excuse that keeps on giving.
Project 2025, a conservative road map to remake the administrative state, has been taking hits for several weeks. Given the hype, we thought we’d better take a look at Project 2025’s digital civil liberties and free speech aspects.
Leading corporations employing the surveillance capitalism business model include Google, Amazon, and Facebook. Surveillance capitalism has now fused with the science of psychology, marketing, and algorithmic manipulation of online information that go far beyond the predictions of Huxley and Orwell.
VDARE is not everyone’s cup of tea, and its content is certainly outside the mainstream. But are we willing to sit by as weaponized censors impose an information flow for a population of people treated as children by political elites?
