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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: Silicon Valley Corporations Are Taking Control OfHistory
Published: 2022-06-05
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsGfu-XiHIo
Title: Silicon Valley Corporations Are Taking Control OfHistory
Published: 2022-06-05
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsGfu-XiHIo
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silicon valley corporations are taking control of history twitter has imposed a week-long suspension of the account of writer and political activist danny haifang for a thread he made on the platform disputing the mainstream tiananmen square massacre narrative the notification haifang received informed him that twitter had locked his account for violating our rules against abuse and harassment presumably in reference to a rule the platform put in2/12
place a year ago which prohibits quote content that denies that mass murder or other mass casualty events took place where we can verify that the event occurred and when the content is shared with abusive intent this may include references to such an event as a hoax or claims that victims or survivors are fake or actors it includes but is not limited to events like the holocaust3/12
school shootings terrorist attacks and natural disasters end quote that we are now seeing this rule applied to protect narratives which support the geostrategic interests of the u.s centralized empire is not in the least surprising haifang is far from the first to dispute the mainstream western narrative about exactly what happened around tiananmen square in june of 1989 as the soviet union was crumbling in washington's temporary cold4/12
war alignment with beijing was losing its strategic usefulness but we can expect more acts of online censorship like this as silicon valley continues to expand into its role as guardian of imperial historic records the idea that government tied silicon valley institutions should act as arbiters of history on behalf of the public consumer is gaining steadily increasing acceptance in the artificially manufactured echo chamber of mainstream public5/12
opinion we saw another example of this recently in joe lauria's excellent refutation of accusations against consortium news of historic inaccuracy by the imperial narrative management firm newsguard as journalists like whitney webb and manar adley noted years ago newsguard markets itself as a news rating agency designed to help people sort out good from bad sources of information online but in reality functions as an empire-backed weapon against6/12
media who question imperial narratives about what's happening in the world the gray zone's max blumenthal outlined the company's many partnerships with imperial swamp monsters like former nato secretary general anders foge rasmussen and chief propagandist richard stengel as well as imperialist cutouts like the german marshall fund when its operatives contacted his outlets outlet for comments on their accusations lauria compiles a mountain of evidence in refutation of7/12
news guard's claim that consortium news published false content about the 2014 us-backed coup in ukraine copiously citing outlets which newsguard itself has labeled accurate sources of information with its green check designation system it becomes clear as you read the article that newsguard's real function is as john kiriakou put it guarding the country from the news then you've got wikipedia which blacklists the same sites as newsguard8/12
and whose operatives run relentless smear campaigns on anti-imperialist voices thereby guaranteeing a view of history that is wildly tilted in the favor of empire authorized narratives jimmy wales the co-founder of wikipedia also happens to serve on news guards advisory board this idea that anyone can ever be an impartial arbiter of objective reality is logically fallacious and is invalidated by facts and evidence it is clear that9/12
imposing regulations on people's efforts to understand world events on the platforms where people have come to congregate to share ideas and information will necessarily lead to an information ecosystem that is skewed to the benefit of whatever power structure is imposing those regulations when that power structure is an alliance of oligarchs and government proxies whose interests are served by the ongoing dominance of the u.s centralized empire10/12
the information ecosystem will be biased in favor of that empire the most impressive feat of engineering in the 21st century has been of the social variety the social engineering necessary to continually keep people confused and blinkered about what's going on in the world despite a sudden influx of information availability as one of the most astonishing achievements in the history of civilization despite its depraved and destructive11/12
nature the empire has had mixed feelings about the internet since its creation on one hand it allows for unprecedented surveillance and information gathering and the rapid distribution of propaganda which it likes but on the other it allows for the unprecedented democratization of information which it doesn't like its answer to this quandary has been to come up with fact-checking services and silicon valley censorship protocols for restricting