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The Twitter Files: Just the Beginning

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 9, 2022 / Economics, Law, Technology / 6 minute read

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What pertains to Twitter is surely true at Google (therefore YouTube), Facebook (therefore Instagram), Microsoft (therefore LinkedIn), and even Amazon (many great books were blocked from publication and distribution). At this point, one would have to be completely blind about the reality of what we’ve dealt with for almost three years: in the name of virus control, the country, its laws and traditions, its liberties and rights, were taken over by a junta with different ideas.

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How the EU Killed Elon Musk’s Twitter “Amnesty”

Robert Kogon / December 6, 2022 / Media, Technology / 3 minute read

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Note that Breton’s tweet and the introductory post to his Mastodon thread both indeed call on Musk to “significantly reinforce content moderation,” thus making clear that the Commission not only disapproves of the prospect of banned accounts being restored, but also of the relatively more laissez-faire attitude that Musk has thus far adopted toward current users.

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Technocracy and Totalitarianism

Aaron Kheriaty / November 19, 2022 / Society, Technology / 10 minute read

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States as instruments of world-spanning corporations, which operate like fiefdoms, is an apt definition of corporatism—the melding of state and corporate power—which coincides perfectly with Mussolini’s original definition of fascism.

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The Covid/Crypto Connection: The Grim Saga of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried

Jeffrey A. Tucker / November 18, 2022 / History, Law, Public Health, Technology / 9 minute read

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The rest of us are left with the bill for this obvious scam that implausibly links crypto and Covid. But just as the money was based on nothing but puffed air, the damage they have wrought on the world is all too real: a lost generation of kids, declined lifespans, millions missing from the workforce, a calamitous fall in public health, millions of kids in poverty due to supply-chain breakages, 19 straight months of falling real incomes, historically high increases in debt, and a dramatic fall in human morale the world over.

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New Zealand’s International Travel Vaccination Certificate: A Ponzi Scheme?

J.R. Bruning / November 17, 2022 / Technology, Vaccines / 12 minute read

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The ludicrous stupidity of vaccine passports for a rapidly mutating respiratory virus is patently clear for anyone with either awareness of the history of public health and epidemiology, or who is a primary care physician and understands the limits of vaccines – particularly for patients with complex chronic health conditions. Everyone is different. Everyone responds differently to both viruses and medication.

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Facebook Works to Deliver Us From Truth

Thorsteinn Siglaugsson / November 15, 2022 / Media, Technology / 4 minute read

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Facebook’s aim is not to make their users safe. Their aim is to make them feel they are safe, to prevent them from discovering challenging information, prevent them from thinking. They are the apostles of a new god, and his followers do not ask him to deliver them from evil, they ask him to deliver them from truth.

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Bravo, Elon!

David Stockman / October 30, 2022 / Economics, Technology / 10 minute read

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Twitter’s phony “content moderation” operation was not unique, but symptomatic of a much broader perversion of corporate management throughout Silicon Valley and much of corporate America, too. In a word, the stock market was so fantastically over-valued owing to the Fed’s egregious money-printing that executives were given leave to pursue their political and ideological hobby horses on a whim, rather than keep their noses on the grindstone of profit and loss.

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Musk Takes Over Twitter: Finally Some Fun

Robert Malone / October 28, 2022 / Technology / 2 minute read

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I must say, it feels so good to see those corporate heads roll right off of Twitter. Of course, they all left with fat bonuses for all their efforts in thwarting the sale. There is no justice in life.

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A Revolution Under the Cloak of Normalcy

J.R. Bruning / October 21, 2022 / Technology / 25 minute read

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When tied to central bank digital currency, access to resources (through digital currency and/or tokens) can be time specified and for a limited purpose. Permissions can be shaped to restrict access to narrowly approved goods and services, and/or alter consumption patterns.

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How the EU is Forcing Twitter to Censor (and Musk Can’t Stop It)

Robert Kogon / October 7, 2022 / Censorship, Technology / 10 minute read

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Does anyone really imagine that the Biden administration has anything remotely like this sort of capacity to direct the actions of online platforms? Make no mistake about it. Twitter censorship is government censorship. But the government in question is not the US government, but rather the European Union, and the EU is, in effect, imposing its censorship on the entire world.

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The Corruption of Private Enterprise in the Pandemic Era

Lisa Nelson / October 6, 2022 / Technology / 7 minute read

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While the Constitution is designed to prevent the usurpation of these rights by the government, there is little that limits the power of the corporations and institutions, which are making decisions about when and how we exercise our rights.

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FDA is using Covid Vaccines as a “Platform Technology”

Robert Malone / September 29, 2022 / Pharma, Policy, Technology, Vaccines / 7 minute read

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In the future, the FDA’s CBER will have to come to terms with the fact that the pre-clinical trials were completely inadequate, and yet they now have 50+ mRNA vaccine trials currently enrolling and over 150 more on the way based on that highly flawed pre-clinical data package. A quick search at clinicaltrials.gov yields documents the problem that they have created.

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