If you haven’t been living in a cave for the last year-and-a-half, you realize that there is a war that is being conducted – against the American people and their liberties. That war is being waged by the Mainstream Media and the social networking giants to the benefit of the Deep State and their globalist overlords. For quite some time now we’ve seen the de-monetizing on Youtube of videos put out by conservatives and Trump supporters. Social media sites have shadow banned the same demographic. [The Urban Dictionary defines the term as “Banning a user from a web forum in such a way that the banned user is unaware of the ban.” The poster can see his posts – but others can’t. But this last week the media giants kicked it up a couple of notches. The leftist site Buzzfeed framed it this way. “Some of the world’s largest social media and tech companies kicked Alex Jones and his conspiracy-theory driven show, InfoWars, off their platforms on Monday.” They described him as a “personality who claimed he was delivering news but didn’t deal in facts.”[i] Conservative commentator Paul Joseph Watson gives it context. “Apple, Spotify, Facebook and YouTube all banned Infowars within 12 hours of each other, illustrating how last night’s purge was a coordinated effort and has nothing to do with these platforms enforcing ‘hate speech’ rules.” The fact of the matter is Alex Jone’s Youtube channel is completely gone.[ii] This is not about whether you like or approve of Alex Jones. This is an attack on American’s right to communicate…an attack on the freedom of the press. Like it or not, the alternative media IS the press – as much as the mainstream outlets are.
But Infowars is not the only victim here. Censorship is the order of the day. And the reason given is so often the ill-defined term – ‘Hate Speech.’ Which is pretty much defined as anything the Left / Deep State doesn’t like. Another site recently hit is The American Dream, and its author Michael Snyder. He discovered that when he went to a local library and couldn’t bring it up. It was deemed “radical opinion” by both the library system and Homeland Security. Here’s Snyder. “YouTube has shut down hundreds of alternative voices, Facebook has been taking down hundreds of pages, and Twitter has been so aggressive with shadowbanning that members of Congress are up in arms.”[iii] And there are others. Mike Adams of Natural News is under attack. And then there is the curious case of Candace Owens and Sarah Jeong. Jeong is the newest member of the New York Times editorial board – and well, she has a twitter history of racist comments that might shame most Americans. But not her – or the times. Here are just a couple of comments that will give the picture. “Dumbaxx fxxxing white people marking up the internet with their opinions like dogs pissing on fire hydrants.” “Oh man it’s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men.” [I can see why The Times wants her voice on their editorial board…..No, I actually can!] So enter Candace Owens, an African-American conservative and Communications Director for Turning Point America. Well, she decided to test the twitter waters. Owens took the text of a few of Jeong’s tweets and replaced the word “White” with “Black” and “Jewish.” Here’s a sample of one. “Black people are only fit to live underground like groveling goblins. They have stopped breeding and will all go extinct soon. I enjoy being cruel to old black women. The above statements are from @nytimes editor @sarahjeong. I simply swapped out the word ‘white’ for ‘black.’” So what do you think happened? Well, she was immediately suspended for “violating community standards.”[iv] [v] [vi]
The censorship is not limited to the social media giants. Here’s a headline from Reason. “Senate Democrats Are Circulating Plans for Government Takeover of the Internet.” In order to save our “free press, democracy and markets,” we need to institute “unprecedented and undemocratic government intervention into online press and markets.”[vii] [The whole thing is absurd on its face.] And then there is the very real and dangerous ‘censorship by omission.’ This is where the traditional MSM news outlets ignores a story so that in the minds of everyday Americans, it never happened – because they haven’t heard of it. The quote below is from USA Watchdog’s Greg Hunter. [If you are a regular reader of this newsletter – or – listener to the radio program, you know that we’ve document in some detail much of what is referenced here. “The mainstream media (MSM) refuses to acknowledge the fact the FBI and DOJ used phony research paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC to get warrants to spy on Donald Trump and his Administration. It refuses to report there is not one single piece of evidence linking Trump to the Russians, let alone that the entire Mueller investigation was started on totally false pretenses. It ignores former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, who came out recently on CNN and essentially blamed the failed coup to stop Trump and remove him from office on his former boss President Obama. The MSM has turned into fake news….MSM is destroying itself with lies, lies by omission and false narratives.”[viii] In addition, CNN and other mainstream outlets routinely use intimidation tactics to silence their opponents. Susan Duclos of ANP writes: “They allow their panelists, their guests, and their paid commentators to consistently label Trump supporters as racist, Nazis, rapists, etc.. hoping to intimidate those supporters into silence for fear of being labeled.”[ix] This is indeed, a real war being waged against all of us.
[i] Apple Kicked Alex Jones Off Its Platform, Buzzfeed, August 6, 2018
[ii] First They Came For Infowars, ANP, August 6, 2018
[iii] Michael Snyder, The Censorship is Real, The American Dream, August 6, 2018
[iv] First They Came For Infowars, ANP, August 6, 2018
[v] Andrew Sullivan, When Racism Is Fit to Print, New York Magazine, August 2018
[vi] twitter.com/RealCandaceO, August 4, 2018
[vii] Senate Democrats Are Circulating Plans for Government Takeover of the Internet, Reason, July 31, 2018
[viii] Greg Hunter, Trump Coup MSM Ignores, USA Watchdog, August 3, 2018
[ix] Susan Duclos, CNN Intimidation Tactics Are A Media Pattern To Silence Americans, ANP, August 6, 2018
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