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Search: Caitlin Johnstone
Title: Destroying Western Values To Defend Western Values
Published: 2022-11-01
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5MvluLH2cA

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destroying Western values to defend Western values so it turns out the U.S intelligence cartel has been working intimately with online platforms to regulate the cognitive infrastructure of the population this is according to a new investigative report by The Intercept based on documents obtained through leaks and an ongoing lawsuit on the retooling of the Department of Homeland Security from an agency focused on counter-terrorism to one increasingly

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focused on fighting misinformation disinformation and malinformation online while the DHS is hotly controversial disinformation governance board was shut down in response to public outcry The Intercept report reveals what authors Lee Fong and Ken klippenstein describe as an expansive effort by the agency to influence Tech Platforms in order to curb speech it considers dangerous here's a quote according to A draft copy of dhs's quadrennial Homeland Security

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review dhs's Capstone report outlining the Department's strategy and priorities in the coming years the department plans to Target inaccurate information on a wide range of topics including the origins of the covid-19 pandemic and the efficacy of covid-19 vaccines racial Justice U.S withdrawal from Afghanistan and the nature of U.S support to Ukraine end quote the report reveals pervasive efforts on the part of the DHS and its

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cyber security and infrastructure Security Agency sisa along with the FBI to push massive online platforms like Facebook Instagram and Twitter to censor content in order to suppress threats as broad as fomenting distrust in the U.S government and U.S financial institutions there is also a formalized process for government officials to directly flag content on Facebook or Instagram and request that it be throttled or suppressed through a

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special Facebook portal that requires a government or law enforcement email to use the intercept reports emails between DHS officials Twitter and the center for Internet Security outline the process for takedown requests During the period leading up to November 2020 says the intercept meeting notes show that Tech platforms would be called upon to process reports and provide timely responses to include the removal of reported misinformation from

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the platform where possible while these government agencies contend that they're not technically forcing these Tech platforms to remove content The Intercept argues that its investigation shows cisa's goal is to make platforms more responsive to their suggestions while critics argue that suggestions from immensely powerful institutions will never be taken as mere suggestions when the government suggests things it's not too hard to pull off the velvet glove

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and you get the male fist Michigan State University's Adam kandob tells the intercept and I would consider such actions especially when it's bureaucratized as essentially State action and government collusion with the platforms the current sisa chief is seen justifying this aggressive government thought policing by creepily referring to the means people use to gather information and form thoughts about the world as our cognitive infrastructure here's a

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quote Jen easterly Biden's appointed director of sisa swiftly made it clear that she would continue to shift resources in the agency to combat the spread of dangerous forms of information on social media one could argue we're in the business of critical infrastructure and the most critical infrastructure is our cognitive infrastructure so building that resilience to misinformation and disinformation I think is incredibly important said easterly speaking

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at a conference in November 2021 end quote another sisa official is seen suggesting the agency launder its manipulations through third-party non-profits to avoid the appearance of government propaganda quote to accomplish these broad goals the report said cisa should invest in external research to evaluate the efficacy of interventions specifically with research looking at how alleged disinformation can be countered and how quickly messages spread Jeff Hale the

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director of the election security initiative at sisa recommended the use of third-party information sharing non-profits as a Clearinghouse for trust information to avoid the appearance of government propaganda end quote but as a former ACLU president tells the intercept If This Were happening in any government the U.S doesn't like there would be no qualms about calling it what it is quote if a foreign authoritarian government sent

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these messages noted Nadine strassen the former president of the American civil liberties Union there is no doubt we would call it censorship end quote indeed this report is just another example of the way Western powers are behaving more and more like the autocracies they claim to despise all in the name of preserving the values the West purports to uphold as The Intercept reminds us this business

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of the US government assigning itself the responsibility of regulating America's cognitive infrastructure originated with the allegation that Russian agents had ceded disinformation on Facebook that tipped the 2016 election toward Donald Trump to this day that agenda continues to expand into things like plots to censor speech about the war in Ukraine other examples of this trend coming out at the same time include Alan MacLeod's new report

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with mint press news that hundreds of former Agents from the notorious Israeli spying organization unit 8200 are now working in positions of influence at Major tech companies like Google Facebook Microsoft and Amazon just the latest in McLeod's ongoing documentation of the way intelligence insiders have been increasingly populating the ranks of Silicon Valley platforms and the Revelation that the gray Zone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron mate were

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barred from participating in a web Summit conference due to pressure from the Ukrainian government we're destroying Western values to defend Western values to win its much touted struggle of democracies versus autocracies Western Civilization is becoming more and more autocratic censoring more trolling more propagandizing more jailing journalists becoming less and less transparent manipulating information and people's understanding of Truth we are told we need to defeat Russia

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in Ukraine in order to preserve Western values of freedom and democracy and in order to facilitate that aim we're getting less and less Free Speech less and less free thought less and less Free Press less and less democracy I keep thinking of the fictional story where during World War II Winston Churchill is advised to cut funding for the Arts to boost military funding and he responds

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then what are we fighting for if we need to sacrifice everything we claim to value in order to fight for those values what are we fighting for dissent is becoming less and less tolerated public discourse is becoming more and more aggressively disrupted by the powerful we are being shaped into the exact sort of homogeneous power serving tyranized propagandized population that our leaders criticize other nations for

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having if the powerful are becoming more tyrannical in order to fight tyranny what's probably actually happening is that they are just tyrants making up excuses to do the thing they've always wanted to do as westerners in Liberal democracies we are told that our society holds Free Speech free thought and accountability for the powerful as sacrosanct our leaders are showing us that this is a lie the

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problem with Western values is that the West doesn't value them in reality those who best exemplify Western values as advertised are the ones who are being most aggressively silenced and marginalized by Western powers the real journalists the dissidents the Skeptics the free thinkers the peace activists those who refuse to bow down to their rulers our ongoing descent into tyranny in the name of opposing tyrants calls

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forth a very simple question if defeating autocracy requires becoming an autocracy what's the point of defeating autocracy

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