{"id":1190890,"date":"2023-03-11T10:10:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T15:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/locked-away-in-conspiracy-theorist-camps-the-orwellian-dystopia-of-the-censorship-industrial-complex\/1190890\/"},"modified":"2023-03-11T10:10:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T15:10:29","slug":"locked-away-in-conspiracy-theorist-camps-the-orwellian-dystopia-of-the-censorship-industrial-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/locked-away-in-conspiracy-theorist-camps-the-orwellian-dystopia-of-the-censorship-industrial-complex\/1190890\/","title":{"rendered":"Locked-Away In ‘Conspiracy Theorist’ Camps: The Orwellian Dystopia Of The “Censorship-Industrial-Complex”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Locked-Away In ‘Conspiracy Theorist’ Camps: The Orwellian Dystopia Of The “Censorship-Industrial-Complex”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by CJ Hopkins via ConsentFactory.org,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

I think something is seriously wrong with my brain. Yesterday, I hallucinated that Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testified before a subcommittee of the US House of Representatives about the Censorship Industrial Complex, <\/strong>i.e., the US arm of the global official propaganda and disinformation apparatus that has been waging an all-out war on dissent for the better part of the last six years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I know this couldn\u2019t have actually happened, and was just an extended hallucination (probably the result of the copious amount of drugs I consumed in my misspent youth, or the effects of\u00a0a Commie bio-weapon with a fatality rate of less than one percent<\/a>, because I\u2019ve been writing about\u00a0The War on Dissent (2018)<\/a>, and\u00a0The Criminalization of Dissent (2021)<\/a>, and the global\u00a0Corporate COINTELPRO op (2017)<\/a>, and\u00a0The War on Reality (2021)<\/a>, and\u00a0The Manufacturing of Reality (2021)<\/a>, and\u00a0Manufacturing Truth (2018)<\/a>, and\u00a0Manufacturing Normality (2016)<\/a>, and\u00a0The Road to Totalitarianism (2022)<\/a>, and\u00a0The Gaslighting of the Masses (2022)<\/a>\u00a0\u2026 well, for quite some time. So, I\u2019m sure it was just an hallucination, because there\u2019s no way Matt and Shellenberger were actually sitting there talking about how \u2026<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe learned Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation \u2018requests\u2019 from every corner of government: the FBI, DHS, HHS, DOD, the Global Engagement Center at State, even the CIA. For every government agency scanning Twitter, there were perhaps 20 quasi-private entities doing the same, including Stanford\u2019s Election Integrity Project, Newsguard, the Global Disinformation Index, and others, many taxpayer-funded.\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

(Matt Taibbi\u2019s Statement to Congress<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2026 and documenting the coordinated censorship of sources that interfered with certain official narratives, like \u201cRussiagate\u201d and \u201cThe Apocalpytic Virus\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n

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\u2026 because that\u2019s just a crazy \u201cconspiracy theory.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am also sure I was hallucinating yesterday, because, right in the middle of my hallucination, right around the time that Stacey Plaskett started squawking like a demon pterodactyl,<\/strong> I had another hallucination, like my hallucinating self was hallucinating, which was like being in a Christopher Nolan film. In this one,\u00a0Matt asked me to talk about how I was being censored by Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, et al., and their governmental and NGO partners in 2021<\/a>, and I started babbling all this \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d stuff about the very \u201cCensorship-Industrial-Complex\u201d that Matt and Shellenberger were testifying about in the hallucination I appeared to be hallucinating the other hallucination in.<\/p>\n

And then my hallucination got weird.<\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s been quite a while since I\u2019ve indulged in any seriously mind-bending drugs, but this reminded me of a bad LSD trip, like when Satan starts talking to you through the TV. There I was, happily hallucinating these two distinguished independent journalists who had done all this historic reporting on a story of extreme importance and had been invited to Congress to talk about it, and, suddenly, it all went dark and twisted.<\/p>\n

Stacey Plaskett, the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary subcommittee started badgering, insulting, smearing, and baiting Matt and Shellenberger like Joe McCarthy in drag.<\/strong> Trembling with hatred, she accused them of being members of some sort of Substack-based death squad that \u201cposes a direct threat to people who oppose them,\u201d and of stochastically terrorizing Yoel Roth, the former Twitter Censorship Czar, and of unleashing \u201chomophobia and anti-Semitism\u201d on him. Then she launched into a spittle-flecked rant about \u201cJanuary 6\u201d and \u201cthreatening our democracy,\u201d until she was restrained by James Jordan,<\/strong> the Subcommittee Chairman. And this was just during her opening remarks.<\/p>\n

The other Democrats soon joined in the bullying, and lying, and smearing, and sneering, and generally acting like prosecutors at some hate-drunk witch trial.<\/strong> Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who, for whatever reasons, is still allowed to serve in Congress after being forced to resign as the DNC Chair for rigging the 2016 election, staged a whole dog-and-pony show with blow-up photos of Joe Rogan and so on. Sylvia Garcia, who appeared to be drunk, demanded that Matt reveal his source, and then, when he refused, repeatedly tried to weasel it out of him with all the deftness of a one-legged idiot in an ass-kicking contest. Colin Allred put on a PowerPoint show involving Kanye West\u2019s anti-Semitic tweets, random bigots on Twitter, and the Russian agents who conspired against him (i.e., Allred) personally, and then lectured Matt about the \u201cthreats to our democracy\u201d and called him a \u201cconspiracy theorist.\u201d Stephen Lynch went full-McCarthy, demanding that the witnesses affirm they \u201cbelieve that Russians interfered in the 2016 election.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so on. I told you things got twisted. Thank God it was just an hallucination and not a live, televised demonstration of precisely what I have been trying to describe the emergence of for the last six years, which is a new totalitarian form of global capitalism that no longer needs to maintain the pretense of upholding (or respecting) our \u201cdemocratic rights,\u201d because it has no external adversaries, and thus is free to morph into a quasi-Orwellian dystopia where any and all forms of dissent from official ideology can (and must) be delegitimized as \u201cdisinformation,\u201d \u201cmisinformation, and even \u201cmalinformation,\u201d <\/strong>and corporate-owned political puppets feel no compunction whatsoever about behaving like vicious little fascists on television because they know they have the fearsome power of the global-capitalist machine behind them, no matter how openly (and badly) they lie, and that their fanatical followers will parrot any propaganda they are given to parrot, no matter how patently false or absurd, and will spew their mindless hatred at whomever they are ordered to spew it at, and otherwise act like a bunch of fascists.<\/p>\n

Anyway, thank God that was just a bad flashback, or a minor cerebral infarction, or whatever, because, if it wasn\u2019t \u2026 what a total bummer!<\/p>\n

OK, seriously now, I assume that some of my regular readers might be confused by this essay. After all,\u00a0I have been rather critical of Elon Musk and his handling of the \u201cTwitter Files.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0And now, here I am, celebrating Matt and Shellenberger\u2019s testimony yesterday.<\/strong>\u00a0Did I not call the Twitter Files a limited hangout?<\/a>\u00a0Yes, I did. And I will do it again. But not today. Today I will celebrate. I will raise a glass to Matt and Michael Shellenberger, Bari Weiss, and the other Twitter Files journalists. I will even raise a glass to Elon Musk<\/strong>\u00a0(who continues to maliciously defame and censor me and others like me with fake \u201ccontent warnings\u201d and other such slimy censorship tactics)<\/a>\u00a0for making the Twitter Files available to them.<\/p>\n

If that baffles you \u2026 well, let me tell you a secret.<\/p>\n

The way this little ecosystem works is, writers like me don\u2019t get to testify on television before subcommittees. Actual journalists get to do that. Actual journalists who are \u201cnormal\u201d enough. Actual journalists like Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, Bari Weiss, Glenn Greenwald, et al. You know who I\u2019m talking about. Actual journalists who know where the lines are, who aren\u2019t going to start babbling about\u00a0\u201cPathologized Totalitarianism\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cThe New Normal Reich\u201d<\/a>\u00a0on national television.<\/strong> What writers like me\u00a0do\u00a0<\/em>get to do (and what it is our job to do) is subtly influence, gently pressure, and pester the living hell out of actual journalists who still have a shred of integrity left by saying the things they cannot say, or saying them in a way that they cannot say them, until the time comes when they can almost say them, because we have said them over and over again, and more or less everyone can see them, so it is finally safe to say them, almost.<\/p>\n

OK, sure, it doesn\u2019t pay all that much, but it\u2019s fun, and I tend to sleep fairly well.<\/p>\n

So, don\u2019t worry, I\u2019ll get back to doing that shortly. The \u201cCensorship-Industrial-Complex\u201d is a much bigger story than just the US division.<\/strong> I\u2019ll be prodding Matt and the other Twitter Files journalists to prod Elon Musk to bring in international journalists to cover the same story in countries like Germany, the UK, Australia, Canada, France, Italy, The Netherlands, and so on. Feel free to join in the fun.<\/p>\n

Who knows? In another four or five years, we might even find out how this photo simultaneously appeared in every paper of record on the planet in January of 2020… that is, if we\u2019re not all locked away in \u201cconspiracy theorist\u201d camps by then.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In the meantime, kudos to the Twitter Files Team!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 03\/11\/2023 – 13:30<\/span><\/p>\n

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