patrick.net

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/hows-the-war-on-truth-going/

Can anyone actually grok how “progressive” thinking works these days? This faction now in charge of so many things has decided in the starkest terms that freedom of speech has got to go. For some years, the Party of Chaos had achieved such exquisite control of all national debate by seizing the dials and toggles of social media that they made reality itself their hostage. The truth was only what they said it was, and anyone who said otherwise got banished, cancelled, and even destroyed. ...

And now a struggle ensues over the relationship between the truth and the making of a consensus. Elon Musk bought Twitter — the horror! — and methodically set about to liberate this new digital “public square” from insidious and nefarious manipulation. It’s not a trifling matter, of course, but it’s amusing to watch Elon play with our nation’s overlords; and even more entertaining to see these tyrants strain and bluster to justify their war against free speech. How did the cognitive elite, America’s thinking class, the law professors, the editors and pundits, the public intellectuals, the managers of most everything, ever find themselves so self-owned in idiocy? ...

Rumors were flying days before that the Lords of Tech would pull on Twitter the same kind of treatment they dealt to Parler two years ago, a then-rising rival app for Internet chatter that threatened to open up free debate. Apple and Google took Parler out behind the woodshed and shot it in the head — and nobody could do a damn thing about it. I have a hunch that Elon explained a few things to Tim Cook that made him think twice about another move like that.

Twitter is different than the upstart Parler was. Twitter was already established as the authorities’ official arbiter of approved thought in America. Under the old boss, Jack Dorsey, Twitter accomplished its thought management ends with a staff of thousands of mini-Stalins rooting out anything that smelled like opposition to the official narratives. (Elon fired the whole lot of them in short order.) It has been revealed since then that Twitter carried out censorship at the aggressive prompting of US deep state officialdom, the nagging, twanging, and strong-arming by bureaucrats from many federal agencies. Who knows (not yet, anyway) how many Twitter censors were actually put in-place by the government?

So now, one big truth has come nakedly out in the open: the Left is against the First Amendment to the Constitution. Free speech, they say repeatedly now, makes our democracy unsafe. It can’t be allowed. They say that because they don’t have a better argument. The safety talking-point is a shopworn cliché from their grab-bag of Woke shibboleths that the public is sick of hearing. Anyone with half a brain can see how transparently dishonest and stupid it is. It’s not going over well, even among a people so sorely gaslighted as the USA in late 2022.

Speaking of what is safe and what is not safe, one of the main deceptions the past three years has been the suppression of information about the Covid-19 vaccines that were foisted on the population — for many, made a requirement to earn a living. The old Twitter worked strenuously to bury any data and all news that suggested the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines were disabling and killing people. It has now reached a critical point, with so many suspicious “all-causes” deaths coming to the public’s attention. This is what the authorities are really afraid of: that the people will learn their government has carried out — by epic incompetence or true malice — something the looks like an attempted genocide.

Should be:

something that looks like an attempted genocide
something that looks like an attempted genocide
something that looks like an attempted genocide

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/twitter-suppressed-hunter-biden-laptop-story/

On October 14, 2020, less than a month before election day, the Post published “BIDEN’S SECRET EMAILS”: an exposé that used files obtained from Hunter Biden’s laptop and which suggested that “the big guy” — possibly Joe Biden, the man running to be president — may have been involved in his son’s business dealings.

As Taibbi relates, Twitter treated the story as if it were child pornography — even blocking transmission via direct message. They also locked down the account of the then-White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany because she tweeted the story.

Lol, no, if the former Twitter crew had treated the story as if it were child pornography they would have allowed it!

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/ggreenwald/status/1599065192520126464#m

First, click on this link. Just click it. You'll see how these liberal media employees operate as a hive mind, an in-group pack, reciting the same phrases on cue. They have no novel thoughts. They're Democratic Party activists who unite as pack animals:
Alex Griswold
@HashtagGriswold
14h
https://nitter.pussthecat.org/HashtagGriswold/status/1598894340306178048#m
Second, as usual, these people - who demand the power to censor the internet to protect you from disinformation - are the most frequent and casual liars.

More than I can count made this false claim: @mtaibbi admitted there was no government involvement, contradicting @ElonMusk

Go look and you'll see the whole mindless liberal pack making this point: "LOL, Elon claimed there was government involvement when Taibbi admitted in tweet 22 there's none."

Now, look at Taibbi's tweet: he's saying there's no evidence of foreign government involvement, not US:

You have to be either extremely stupid or extremely dishonest to think Taibbi was saying he found no evidence of US political officials involved.

The whole point of the story is that Biden officials and Dem politicians pressured Twitter to censor. Taibbi said it over and over.
In fact, the tweet they're pointing to - to claim @ElonMusk lied by saying Dem officials were involved - says the opposite.

That's the whole point! Twitter lied when saying they censored this story because the docs were hacked by Russia. They know there was no evidence of this!

Do you see how casually these liberal media people lie? They're monkeys; they see others in their clique saying it, so they start mouthing it.

They don't understand the key point Taibbi's story: Twitter's "foreign govt hacking" pretext for censoring was a lie, and they knew it.

Third, we have the personal attacks on Taibbi - from all the people who could not match his journalistic accomplishments if they had 100 lives to try.

Again, the more big stories you break, the more these frauds - who just repeat what CIA and Google tell them to say - hate you.

It's always the same thing with these people who know they break no stories and live in a mindless liberal herd: oh, "they used to be so good, the downfall is so sad, etc."😢

Their lives are only about serving the Dem Party. That's the only metric they know for "good journalism"
The reason these people insist Taibbi's story is trivial is they will not and cannot recognize any scandalous or improper behavior by leading Dem politicians. Ask them to name any. Any critique of leading Dems is automatically, to them, a fraud, a "nothingburger." They're Dems.
The most pitiful part of their attack is the utter lack of self-awareness. They claim Taibbi serves power.

The hegemonic force in DC, Hollywood, academia, the US Security State, and corporate media is DNC liberalism: them. Their lives are about nothing but servitude to power.

When they unite for their melodramatic routine about how "sad" it is to see our "downfall" (😢) what they mean is they know we harbor contempt for their hegemonic liberal institutions. We have always regarded CIA, Wall St, corporate media with scorn and still do: that's them.
Dec 3, 2022 · 3:37 PM UTC · Twitter Web App

Do any of these fucking posers on the liberal-left ever wonder why CIA worked with their favorite corporate media employees (@NatashaBertrand) to sabotage Trump, not Biden? Do they ever ask why corporations and Big Tech follow commands from Media Matters, not right-wing groups?
It's because - as devastating as it is to their self-image as brave dissidents and radicals - nobody in any power center regards them as threatening. They're their servants, useful tools for these institutions of power. No Dem politician or group would be censored by Big Tech.

Watching little obedient dweebs at NBC, CNN and the Daily Beast claim Matt Taibbi is a servant to power is the most brazen case of projection I've ever seen.

Taibbi spent his career and still does exposing Wall St and CIA's lies (Russiagate). They are their loyal mouthpieces.
Finally, don't let the mindless chirping of disinformation agents in the largest corporate media outlets distract from what these docs reveal.

That's what they're trying to do: turn themselves into a sideshow of clichéd insults to train their followers to believe this is trivial
These docs show what we already knew, but offer new, specific proof:

1) Dems explicitly demand more censorship from Big Tech.

2) Dems have an open line to do it.

3) Twitter knew it was lying when censorsing the Biden story days before the 2020 election
Matt Taibbi
@mtaibbi
17h
Replying to @mtaibbi
36.Twitter files continued:
"THE FIRST AMENDMENT ISN’T ABSOLUTE”
Szabo’s letter contains chilling passages relaying Democratic lawmakers’ attitudes. They want “more” moderation, and as for the Bill of Rights, it's "not absolute"
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This is the biggest media scandal in a decade. Most major media outlets united to disseminate an absolute lie concocted by the CIA: the Biden archive was "Russian disinformation."

The lie was obvious. Here's what I said a week after the NY Post's story:
19 Oct 2020
Is there a single journalist willing to say with a straight face they believe the emails relating to the Bidens are either fabricated or otherwise fraudulently altered, but the Bidens just aren't saying so? There has to be some limits to your willingness to go to bat for them.
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I've been covering this story for almost two years. Remember: I quit the media outlet I co-founded when they censored my story based on the CIA's lie - which @theintercept had ratified and laundered the week before - because anyone who wanted to could see what was going on then.

Not one media outlet that spread this CIA lie - that everyone knows is a lie - has admitted that they did this or explained what happened. That's because they lied on purpose.

And that's why these media employees are so enraged at Taibbi: they hate being reminded of their fraud.
Last night after Taibbi reported these, I went live on Rumble - from our new studio for our soon-to-debut live Rumble program - to analyze and reconstruct the full events. The story deserves way more attention than it will get from media propagandists.

rumble.com/v1yjc4a-secret-tw…
Secret Twitter Files on Censorship of Hunter Biden Story

rumble.com
Never forget the person they chose to start this lie: the single worst and most dishonest US Security State propagandist in corporate media, @NatashaBertrand, who got promoted and promoted and promoted again the more she lied. Lying is how one advances in liberal corporate media.

To claim it's dubious or even debatable that the Democratic Party uses its political power over Big Tech to force them to censor as Dems demand is wretched propaganda. Dems do exactly this -- explicitly and out in the open: censor or we will punish you.

Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor More, Threatening the First Amendment
In their zeal for control over online speech, House Democrats are getting closer and closer to the constitutional line, if they have not already crossed it.

Last point: reducing NY Post's reporting to Hunter Biden's sex life and drug use is pitiful.

I've always said that's irrelevant. The stories were about Joe Biden's sleazy business dealings in Ukraine and China.

If the archive was trivial, why did they all lie to censor it?

But at this point, the real story long ago ceased being about the contents of the Biden archive itself.

The real story is how the CIA, corporate media and Big Tech all united to spread a CIA lie and manipulate the 2020 election by using it to censor reporting about Joe Biden.

1h
Listen to Mark Zuckerberg himself explain who influenced Facebook's decision in Oct. 2020 to announce -- through lifelong Dem Party operative @AndyMStone -- that FB would algorithmically suppress the NY Post's reporting on the Biden family's businesses

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/12/censorship_works_only_if_youre_dumb.html

https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-vow-to-find-new-social-platform-that-will-censor-news-about-what-they-did-on-twitter

The old Twitter.

https://slaynews.com/news/norwegian-woman-facing-criminal-charges-prison-saying-men-cannot-be-lesbians/

https://notthebee.com/article/christian-teacher-who-was-imprisoned-following-his-refusal-to-use-the-wrong-pronouns-to-spend-christmas-behind-bars

https://twitter.com/NameRedacted247/status/1604641866342756352?ref_src=patrick.net

Name Redacted
@NameRedacted247
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Dec 18
1. After learning that Twitter employs at least 15 former FBI agents, I searched Facebook. What I found is alarming

Facebook currently employs at least 115 people, in high-ranking positions, that formerly worked at FBI/CIA/NSA/DHS:

17 CIA
37 FBI
23 NSA
38 DHS

Mary Margaret Olohan
@MaryMargOlohan
More on the arrest of Isabel-Vaughan-Spruce, who has been charged with breaking a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) for praying silently nearby an abortion facility in Kings Norton, Birmingham, on four occasions.

https://slaynews.com/news/wefs-agenda-davos-2023-will-focus-push-more-censorship/

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/reflecting-new-us-control-of-tiktoks

Reflecting New U.S. Control of TikTok's Censorship, Our Report Criticizing Zelensky Was Deleted
For years, U.S. officials and their media allies accused Russia, China and Iran of tyranny for demanding censorship as a condition for Big Tech access. Now, the U.S. is doing the same to TikTok.

https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/elon-musk-slams-cisa-censorship-network

Again, by censoring, the Constitution-destroying criminals at the FBI are telling us exactly whom to follow.



I'm going to follow every single one of the ones listed here, but if it's true that Twitter is still shadow banning, then I may not see notifications of their Tweets unless I specifically bookmark and go to all of them.

@Patrick

Add Carpe Donktum, the classic meme maker is back, restored to Twitter.

https://twitter.com/CarpeDonktum/status/1608231178774974464?ref_src=patrick.net

Shortened Classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8PFZloo3dI

Patrick says

I'm going to follow every single one of them

Even that asshoe Hannity?

just_passing_through says

Patrick says

I'm going to follow every single one of them

Even that asshoe Hannity?

You're right, eliminate that asshoe Hannity from the list.

I'll edit the image above.

AmericanKulak says

Add Carpe Donktum, the classic meme maker is back, restored to Twitter.

https://twitter.com/CarpeDonktum/status/1608313485938524160?ref_src=patrick.net

Carpe Donktum🔹
@CarpeDonktum
Some have been asking me to repost the video that got me banned and sued.

Okie Doke.

*Heads up Twitter, I WON the case, you can't ban me again for reposting.

Let's compare arrests for social media posts in Britain vs Russia:

https://twitter.com/DVATW/status/1607843850831253504?ref_src=patrick.net

https://slaynews.com/news/appeals-court-maga-hat-is-free-speech/

Appeals Court: MAGA Hat Is Free Speech

Patrick says

Signal is NOT a secure app. It uses a server which is entirely unnecessary. You don't need this for communication, you can do this with P2P. Anything that has a server in the middle should be assumed to be insecure. It allows a man in the middle attack.

Plenty of services claim end to end encryption - Skype does, WhatsApp does - they are LYING.

For god's sake, I wish people would realize this. There's no way to authenticate that you are actually talking to the person you think you're talking to with a non P2P system, you could be talking to a man in the middle, and the man in the middle just relays the message to the person you THINK you're talking to.

https://slaynews.com/news/famous-author-scolds-liberals-for-blaming-america-first-says-to-save-free-speech-we-are-going-to-have-to-take-on-the-lies-about-western-civilization-directly/

https://notthebee.com/article/heres-a-thread-on-one-of-the-faces-behind-the-fact-checking-regime-that-decides-whats-true-and-false

https://slaynews.com/news/elon-musk-catches-adam-schiff-trying-to-get-reporter-banned-from-twitter-hey-rep-adam-schiff-whats-this/

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1610412594375827458?ref_src=patrick.net

https://slaynews.com/news/matt-taibbi-warns-government-trying-censor-facebook-google/

Independent journalist Matt Taibbi has warned that he believes the federal government is trying to censor most Big Tech companies, including Facebook and Google.

Taibbi is one of the journalists tasked by Elon Musk to expose social media censorship by detailing his findings in several installments of the “Twitter Files.”

After taking over the company in late October, Musk has given a handful of reporters exclusive access to Twitter’s internal communications files.

The files have revealed a disturbing culture of censorship that has seen American citizens, mostly conservatives, shut down and silenced on Twitter over their political views.

In a direct violation of the First Amendment, the files show that Twitter executives had been colluding with federal government officials to suppress free speech on the platform.

However, Taibbi has warned that his findings show that the government’s censorship efforts are not just limited to Twitter.

Speaking during a new interview with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Taibbi says the “Twitter Files” reveal that the government was also trying to sway speech on other platforms like Facebook and Google.

“In relative terms, Twitter is a smaller player,” Carlson said to Taibbi.

“You have Facebook and Google that dwarf it in size.

“We’ve got to assume that those two companies are as penetrated as Twitter has been, don’t we?”