patrick.net

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
·
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?”

https://slaynews.com/news/biden-admin-pressured-facebook-censor-tucker-carlson-leaked-docs-show/

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/the-steady-and-alarming-extension

The Steady and Alarming Extension of Federal Power Against US Citizens Since 2002
When did the White House get in the business of censoring US citizens?

Peter A. McCullough

... It’s not the executive himself, but the career administrators—the denizens of the “Deep State”—who call the shots. If the executive is a relatively young, vigorous, free-thinking individual, he may find himself coming into conflict with these administrators, particularly if they have held their offices and amassed influence over a long period of time. If, on the other hand, the executive is intellectually weak or perhaps old and frail, his occupation of the office may give the administrators free rein to do as they please for themselves and their friends.

This scenario came to mind this morning when I saw an Epoch Times report on how the White House has sent E-mails to social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter, directing them to censor prominent public speakers such as Tucker Carlson and Robert F, Kennedy, Jr. There was a time not so long ago when a White House censorship program against U.S. citizens would have seemed unthinkable. How did the Executive Branch obtain power to censor U.S. citizens? Did Congress pass a law in violation of the First Amendment, authorizing the executive to abridge the freedom of speech? ...

In response to my post last Friday—Is the USA No Longer a Constitutional Republic?—our colleague and legal scholar par excellence, Katharine Watt at the Bailiwick News Substack, sent me the following drum roll of laws passed by Congress and the President, expanding the power of the federal government to do whatever it pleases under the guise of protecting us. ...

In other words, if you question the state’s “emergency powers” and its actions to quell purported emergencies, it seems you will find little refuge in the United States Constitution. The broad powers amassed by the federal government since 2002 have apparently enabled the state to deem you a “misinformation spreader” or “domestic terrorist” and censor and even detain you.

https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/former-top-cia-analyst-condemns-fbi

Former Top CIA Analyst Condemns FBI For Censorship & Misinformation
"Joe McCarthy would have loved to have that kind of control," says Martin Gurri, author of the seminal 2018 book, "The Revolt of Public," about government influence over Twitter. ...

The Internet in general, and social media in particular, argues Gurri, mean that the elites can no longer control the public conversation as they once could. They struggle to “manufacture consent.” Anybody can start a Substack or Twitter account, and anybody can go viral. That technological revolution is resulting in political revolutions. ...

I come from Cuba. When did it happen that protecting democracy entails Chinese methods of handling information? What happens in China is what happens here. Somewhere a party hack comes to you and says, “That’s not the word to use,” or “The party doesn’t want that opinion.” And Twitter became an instrument of control for the state and the party in power.

I’ll try to put it in a bigger context. What you’re seeing is a reaction to the revolt of the public. This is the elites saying we want to return the information sphere to the front page of the New York Times to circa 1975. And that’s where it gets weird. You use moral shaming with BLM. You use medical panic with covid. And, last of all, you bully people. The FBI comes at you and says, “Can you take this down? And what about this and that and the other thing?”