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France’s “Pfizer Amendment” Could Turn mRNA Critics into Criminals

Sonia Elijah / February 16, 2024 / Censorship, Government / 4 minute read

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On Wednesday, February 14th a highly controversial law was pushed through the National Assembly in France, potentially turning a critic of mRNA treatment into a criminal. The draconian law, which was quietly passed with virtually no debate, could throw anyone who advises against the use of therapeutic or prophylactic treatment (including experimental mRNA gene therapy) into prison for up to 3 years and pay a hefty fine of 45,000 Euros.

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New Media Sues the State Department Over Censorship

Robert Malone / February 14, 2024 / Censorship, Government, Media / 4 minute read

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According to a new lawsuit filed in December on behalf of two media organizations, those being The Daily Wire and The Federalist, as well as the State of Texas and AG Ken Paxton versus the U.S. Department of State (the State Department) through its Global Engagement Center (GEC) and various US government officials, it is alleged that the defendants are actively intervening in the news media market to both censor and limit the circulation of disfavored press outlets.

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Government Funds AI Tools for Whole-of-Internet Surveillance and Censorship

Debbie Lerman / February 11, 2024 / Censorship, Technology / 8 minute read

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Internet-wide surveillance and censorship, enabled by the unimaginably vast computational power of artificial intelligence (AI), is here. This is not a futuristic dystopia. It’s happening now. Government agencies are working with universities and nonprofits to use AI tools to surveil and censor content on the Internet. This is not political or partisan. This is not about any particular opinion or idea.

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Today’s Censorship Is Personal

Jeffrey A. Tucker / February 1, 2024 / Censorship, History, Technology / 7 minute read

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The outcome of Missouri v. Biden – the Biden administration has fought the case at every step – could make the difference as to whether the US will maintain its former distinction as the land of the free and home of the brave. It’s hard to imagine that the Supreme Court will decide any other way than to smack down the federal censors, but we cannot know for sure these days.

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Maybe More People Objected Than We Knew

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 31, 2024 / Censorship, History / 7 minute read

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The problem of figuring out whether and to what extent people acquiesced to tyranny is an important one. It is complicated by accumulating evidence that the government worked with tech and media, and therefore with the main way people get their news, to actively suppress contrary voices, even when they came from recognized experts of great credibility.

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We Can’t Ban Our Way to a Better World

Charles Krblich / January 27, 2024 / Censorship, Law, Society / 5 minute read

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It is clear beyond any doubt that bans simply don’t work. I was a child during the “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign. Drugs were banned, and yet always available. Chicago has banned guns for years and yet has incredibly high gun violence. We banned smiles, playgrounds, and normal personal interaction for years in order to ban Covid and we still catch Covid.

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President von der Leyen’s WEF Speech is Sheer Manipulation

David Thunder / January 25, 2024 / Censorship, Government, Society / 4 minute read

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Few would question the claim that artificial intelligence, bots, and various malicious actors can leverage social media and other digital “information highways” to confuse, disorient, and manipulate citizens. However, the President of the European Commission, like any smart politician, knows how to milk a crisis to expand her own power, and her January 16th speech at Davos was a tour de force in crisis manipulation.

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The ‘Re-Education’ of New Zealand Medical Doctors

J.R. Bruning / January 23, 2024 / Censorship, Government, Media / 12 minute read

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During 2020-2023, professional regulatory associations became de-facto wardens of the more authoritarian Covid-19 nation-states, which included New Zealand. The Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ) was one such body which, like a duck to water, moved firmly and swiftly to ensure that doctors complied with Covid-19 and vaccine policies, or face disciplinary proceedings and gag orders.

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No One is Safe Until Everyone is Safe

David Bell / January 17, 2024 / Censorship, Psychology, Public Health / 5 minute read

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We cannot afford to have those who lead through empty sloganeering in control. We should treat them with all the respect they deserve. We will only be truly safe when we insist on integrity as a prerequisite for public office, and a basis for public health. That is as near or far as we choose it to be.

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The WHO’s Managerial Gambit

Bruce Pardy / January 11, 2024 / Censorship, Government / 6 minute read

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The WHO proposals will protect power from accountability. National governments will be in on the plan. The people are the problem they seek to manage. The new regime will not override sovereignty but that is small comfort. Sovereignty provides no protection from your own authoritarian state.

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The First Amendment, Brought to You By Pfizer

Brownstone Institute / January 9, 2024 / Censorship, Pharma, Vaccines / 3 minute read

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This is an attempt to close one of the few existing (possible) legal avenues to hold pharmaceutical companies accountable. No doubt that the Biden administration, and all the kept federal agencies, will agree with this. When the courts stop working to hold the powerful accountable, where are the victims to turn next? How can we claim to live in a representative democracy when its citizens’ paths for the redress of wrongs are deliberately closed for the benefit of its most powerful institutions?

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Consent of the Governed, Where Art Thou?

Robert Malone / December 29, 2023 / Censorship, Government, Pharma, Vaccines / 13 minute read

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Basically, the State is asserting that it has the right to sentence you to increased risk of death and disease by purchasing (using tax dollars), mandating (vaccines for children program), distributing, enticing, and marketing an injectable product while censoring or defaming (using modern psychological warfare technologies) any and all who disagree or even have the temerity to question the decisions and rights of the State to do so.

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