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  • By the Government’s Own Definition, It’s Censoring

  • Government Officials Treated Internet Monopolies Like Their Subordinates

  • Judges Likened Government Behavior to Mobsters

  • Censorship Is Election Interference

  • Democrats Want Free Speech for Themselves While Banning It for Their Enemies

  • Today’s Internet Is Still Massively Rigged

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YouTube to Censor Content Contradicting WHO Guidelines https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/youtube-to-censor-content-contradicting-who-guidelines-5472977 YouTube will censor health content that contradicts WHO guidelines from its earlier policy that just targeted COVID-19 "misinformation."...

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During the summer of 2020, at the same time thousands of BLM protestors were taking to the streets of Washington, D.C. and covering public spaces with paint and chalk, two pro-life activists were arrested for chalking the words “Black Pre-Born Lives Matter”on a public sidewalk.

The Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America, who organized the pro-life protest and filed the lawsuit over the arrests, “plausibly alleged” that the statute’s enforcement was viewpoint discrimination, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found.

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He faces absurd charges of spying, when he never spied. His crime was to embarrass the US government by selectively releasing information that Washington had tried and failed to keep secret.

I do not think this is a crime, here or there. Claims are made against him, by supporters of the extradition, which I do not think are true.

He took considerable care not to release material which would endanger or compromise individuals, and if he were an American citizen he would certainly be protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution, which safeguards journalists – as Mr Assange is – from the anger of the state.

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Soros-funded Fani Willis’s indictment includes Trump asking his supporters to watch One America News.

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Maybe I’ll put the book in Chinese and ask the Chinese regime to post it, in which case Zuckerberg would dare not block it.

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Subjected to 13 hours of police interrogation, authorities dug into her past, charging her with three counts of “agitation against a minority group” for the tweet, in addition to a 2004 church pamphlet and 2019 radio appearance.

Without free speech, there can be no freedom, and the enormous implications of this case for fundamental freedoms have triggered international outrage. Finland, regularly ranked as the “happiest” country on Earth, is known as a stable bastion of European democracy. If this can happen there, then we must all beware.

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There are three main components of the machinery of loneliness:

  • identity politics,
  • political correctness, and
  • mob agitation.

Identity politics strips us of our individuality, and divides us into camps sorted by various identities of “oppressor” or “victim.”

Political correctness controls our speech by inducing us to self-censor under threat of ostracism.

Mobs take different forms, but they serve to enforce all of the above while cultivating conformity, compliance, and social distrust.

The machinery is further fueled in other ways to threaten people with isolation if they don’t conform. These include propaganda, censorship, the criminalization of comedy, and snitch culture. New technologies play a role too.

If we can’t speak openly to one another, we cannot organically develop bonds of trust. And if we can’t develop trusting relationships—whether as family, as children of God, or as friends and cheerful neighbors—then we’ve gone a long way towards a Stockholm Syndrome-like dependence upon our government captors.

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The Biden Administration is deeply upset that they are losing one of the key tools they have to impose a false consensus. They already functionally control most of the MSM and social media is one of the few places that alternative viewpoints can be propagated. With the 2024 election right around the corner, the government is concerned that not everybody will be forced to hail Joe Biden as a loving father and savior of American democracy.

One of the keys to the strength of the case against the government is that there is a treasure trove of actual communications in a paper trail, making clear that there weren’t abstract discussions about what is true or false, what should be amplified or not, or anything high level like that.

Rather the government demanded specific claims, specific accounts, and even specific true statements be de-amplified or outright banned in order to further their narrative. Democratic governance runs on debate, and that was exactly what the government did not want.

The lack of ambiguity is powerful, proving that the government’s claim that they had a public interest in ensuring that citizens were given only the best information during a crisis was false. While even that government interest seems weak sauce compared to the First Amendment, it is also demonstrably not what the government was interested in.

They simply wanted a particular narrative put forward as a consensus position, and lashed out at any dissent. Threatening a company if they didn’t shut somebody up is hardly the act of a purely public-spirited civil servant.

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“Freedom of religion or belief – and the freedom to express that belief – is a fundamental human right,”

“Nobody should fear criminal charges for expressing a peaceful opinion on social media.”

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"These emails leave no doubt that Katie Hobbs abused her position of power in government. She violated the First Amendment rights of people across Arizona in order to suppress valid criticism and prop up her 2022 gubernatorial campaign." He added, "It’s imperative that further investigations be initiated to shine a light on just how far Hobbs’s unconstitutional censorship campaign went — and whether it continues today."

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“She said ‘I think she’s a lesbian like nanna Julie,'” Snow recounts, noting that the female officer had short blonde hair. “I just felt a jolt on my back… the officer had launcher herself in my home at me and Amanda. She was grabbing her.”

“She was crying and saying sorry to the police woman. That’s when I grabbed my phone and started recording.”

In terrifying footage twice-removed by TikTok, Amanda is heard screaming and crying as multiple West Yorkshire Police officers surround the cupboard she had backed herself into for safety.

“You’re going to remove her for what? Because she said the word lesbian? Her nana is a lesbian, she’s married to a woman. She’s not homophobic!”

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Article speaks for itself. Share your thoughts.

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They’re essentially holding a gun to our head and saying, “Nice little website you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to it.”

They’re leaving us with two choices: stop writing about these important topics, or keep on writing about them and lose money.

They think squeezing us financially is how they’ll finally silence us.

The Left doesn’t have good arguments on these topics, so they’re using the immense power they hold over the digital ad industry to shut us up.

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The study is a roadmap on “how to censor people using secret methods so that they wouldn't know they're being censored, so that it wouldn't generate an outrage cycle, and so that it'd be more palatable for the tech platforms who wouldn't get blowback because people wouldn't know they're being censored,”

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It has been revealed that a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation made "false statements" in his testimony regarding the agency's involvement in the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Elvis Chan claimed during an October 2022 deposition that the FBI had not communicated with Facebook aside from a meeting that took place the day the story broke. New evidence has shown that Chan himself held a follow-up meeting the next day.

Chan, a repeat Democratic Party donor, then claimed that he was unaware of any further communications between "anyone at Facebook and anyone at the FBI related to the Hunter Biden laptop story."

As Jordan explained, this was "completely false," drawing attention to internal documents obtained by the Committee proving that Chan held a secret "follow-up" call with Facebook on October 15.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by admin@exploding-heads.com to c/censorship@exploding-heads.com

This morning several of the images and videos were blocked saying the images and videos potentially contained sensitive content. Seemed to be coming from Twitter

Here is an example of one of the videos.

https://twitter.com/sneednorwood/status/1687583114657189888?s=20

Can you tell me why that is sensitive content?

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The sole purpose of the organization is to harass internet advertisers from posting ads on conservative websites in order to silence conservative voices and put them out of business.

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Critics of the authority’s behavior here – like Brazil-based investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald – see this as a way to completely silence the online personality known as the country’s version of Joe Rogan.

And do this without any due process, as well.

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Comes with an assurance that the tool remains shielded against censorship and retains its core focus on user privacy.

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Holsey-Hyman is being investigated by the State Bureau of Investigation following a developer’s allegation that she attempted to solicit a bribe in exchange for her vote on a rezoning proposal. She has also been accused of improperly attempting to enlist city staff to work on her reelection campaign.

Freeman made news in March when her defense of Holsey-Hyman during a contentious city council meeting led to a profane shouting match that reportedly turned physical.

On Wikipedia, the allegations and shouting match are summarized without any apparent factual error and with links to news articles as references. But Rehberg wrote in the letter that Holsey-Hyman “contends that the allegations are fabricated” and thus seeks to obtain the identity of user Willthacheerleader18, who created Holsey-Hyman’s page and wrote much of its content. Holsey-Hyman also requested the identity of user Mako001, who “insisted on preserving a link to Durham City Councilwoman Jillian Johnson” on her page after another user removed it.

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Sex Matters purports to contribute meaningful dialogue in the public sphere. Its mission lies in fostering discussions around biological sex differences and challenges the prevalent gender ideology.

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“If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill. No limit. Please let us know,” Musk wrote in a post made Saturday night.

Musk further pledged that such legal battles would be carried out on a significant scale and will target not only the companies but their boards of directors as well.

“And we won’t just sue, it will be extremely loud and we will go after the boards of directors of the companies too,” Musk wrote

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