This was, in my opinion, a very important moment in the hearing, which could have easily been overlooked. It clarified that even the interactions which appear voluntary and cooperative may also be constitutionally problematic.
The essence of the crises of our time is this: the materialist-rationalist view on man and the world that forms the basis of our society has its best days behind it.
TED became a gatekeeper of permissible opinion, enforcing orthodoxy behind the smokescreen of “community guidelines.” For a platform that once prided itself on promoting bold thinking, TED’s censorship of Foster’s talk is a moment of institutional retreat—and intellectual cowardice.
When Ideas Become Too Dangerous to Platform Continue Reading
I wanted to emphasize many of the changes we have been seeing over the past few years: a new strange environmentalism, the energy revolution, the food revolution, the new financial system with CBDCs, the pandemic pathogen library.
My Talk at the MAHA Institute Roundtable in Washington Continue Reading
Exponentially-growing communications bandwidth and data transparency empowered regular people and helped expose dysfunction among many existing “experts.” A tsunami of social media also generated confusion, not least among the experts themselves, leading to, in Gurri’s words, a “crisis of authority.”
EACTS is so corrupt that they will not allow me to speak about what this corruption means for the survival of patients. Money comes first, patient survival later, if at all.
A Cancelled Keynote Lecture for Cardiothoracic Surgeons Continue Reading
What seems like victory is exceedingly fragile. Let’s not make this moment a brief pause between one totalitarianism and another. Let’s dream together of a new freedom, one that applies the lessons we’ve all learned.
Today, liber-net is launching a searchable database of almost 900 U.S. federal government awards to counter mis-, dis-, and malinformation (MDM) and other content moderation initiatives, covering the period from 2010 to 2025.
How the US Government Built the Anti-Disinformation Field Continue Reading
The paper shows evidence of vaccine-related deaths—from Covid—within two weeks of an injection in people who were previously infected. The evidence is at least as good as the paper’s evidence for vaccine effectiveness against Covid death in fall 2021.
Japan has been evolving into a place where it is difficult to express ideas. In addition to government and media collusion to keep Covid medical realities from the Japanese public, the government passed a law to squelch nonconforming messaging online.
I understand the need to protect national security, but safeguarding it must never become an excuse to silence legitimate scrutiny — or intimidate journalists whose role is to hold the powerful to account — or to punish whistleblowers exposing real wrongdoing.
Trump’s War on Leaks: Is Journalism the Next Casualty? Continue Reading
Last week, my non-profit liber-net unveiled a new database of U.S. government awards to mis-dis-and-malinformation (MDM) and other content control initiatives. A previous Network Affects post broke down where that money came from. This one details where the money went.
Where the Money Went: USG Funding to Counter-Mis/Disinformation Initiatives Continue Reading
