Censors as Identity Thieves

These censors are insidiously injection-molding your brain. They are existential identity thieves–secretly derailing you, forbidding you from organically becoming the person you were meant to be. In the aggregate, what they are doing is akin to mass murder and the corporate media and the DNC are cheerleading them on. The censorship-industrial complex denies us our unalienable rights to our own Lives, our own Liberty and the Pursuit of our Own happiness. It is all so disgustingly anti-American.

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Mike Benz:

I’m standing in front of the global capital of Internet censorship. This is the venture capital arm of the censorship industry. You see, we have a censorship industrial complex, but the heart of it is the industry, the money. That’s what makes it work. That’s how you get 10s of thousands, hundreds of thousands. Now, at this point, worldwide, full time professional sensors, whose job is to monitor social media, propose censorship solutions, implement censorship techniques, and all of it is funded by this building right here,

And I’m calling on speaker Mike Johnson, as soon as this election passes, should Republicans keep the house. I’m calling on you to set up a special subcommittee for protecting digital speech against government abuse, so that we have an institutionalized Gang of Eight who is capable of taking apart the censorship industry limb by limb, in terms of its government funding. Every single NGO. Every single university. Every single private sector, censorship mercenary firm. Every single fact checker. Every single media organization that’s getting money from the National Science Foundation, the Pentagon, the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department, USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy.

This building has allowed an octopus to grow, and I will tell you for having spoken to innumerable members of Congress who want to do the right thing. There are so many of these programs, and they go by so many different camouflage names. They’re not called censorship grants and programs. They’ll be called “digital resilience” or “media literacy,” or “information integrity” or “countering disinformation.”

But it’s not countering it by counter-speech. It’s censorship. It’s remove, reduce, inform. Ban or suspend. Apply friction techniques like shadow ban, search recommendation bans, demonetization, virality circuit breakers or permanent fact check interstitials that are designed to kill virality and feed into the algorithm for deboosting. It’s all censorship. It’s all funded by the building behind me. And this can all be stopped, but we need eight educated members of Congress to man a panel to do investigations, subpoenas, transcribed interviews and hearings, and we need a brave Speaker of the House who’s willing to set that up. Mike Johnson, I’m calling on you.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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