Excellent article! I hope most people--when they hear of these obvious censorship ploys--don't suddenly decide to hate Musk. They liked him for decades because of the electric car. But in "1984," the public was trained to flip their love or hate from Eurasia to Eastasia when instructed by Big Brother. I hope that doesn't happen, now.
Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, Trump, Carlson, Rand Paul, Joe Kent, and many others have either questioned or condemned these stupid regime change wars, especially this one with Russia that could get us all annihilated. Take your allies where you can get them. Meanwhile, progressive liberals like AoC are with the war machine.
Meanwhile, keep in mind that fear drops your I.Q. by at least 40 points. The constant fear mongering by PMSNBC and Fox keeps you easier to control.
NC didn't get pharma corruption. I was vaccine-naive until c19 - as in, not a fully fledged anti-vaxxer. I'm now onto the fact that the risk benefit ratio is off for ALL vaccines, and the break in standard infant vaccinations have immediately resulted in less SIDS, although SADS has come about now with all these adult vaccinations. Hmmm! Well with SIDS, the Japanese barred infant vax and put a minimum age of 2 for immunization, and they've had zero SIDS since. The scientific consensus in the nations belonging to the "coalition of the willing" pharma-wise says SIDS is due to infants sleeping on their belly, so they've been getting switched to sleep on their back at all times. Somehow this has escaped evolutionary biological principles and folkloric knowledge of midwifes for millenii. But hey, the data has been pretty good on this measure. They're still looking for the "root cause" of SADS, as it were. Apparently the heat waves of the climate meltdown era and general stress levels have affected cardiac health - and women's periods, of all things! Go figure! Hail Pfizer!
Musk is trying to play both sides of the fence. He maybe wants transparency/truth but supports the fake mantra of global warming while making $billions.
I heard that Tulsi and Putin were young leaders in the wef program. Is that true? I went to the wef website and Tulsi is not on their list. And Putin seems too old.
I did some research and Tulsi was a WEF Young Global Leader and Putin has been a friend of Schwab since 1992 and involved with the organization. He was 40 at the time and Schwab called him a young global leader.
If you read Putin's speeches, especially the ones on Feb. 24, and Sept. 30, you don't get any sense that he likes globalism. He views Russia as a unique, 1000+ year old culture, and he doesn't want it to be absorbed by any international body.
That's assuming he's sincere in what he's been saying in 2022, and for what I gather is the last 20+ years.
I think any number of people probably attended the WEF and learned a lot. In the case of people like Tulsi Gabbard (if there are any other people like Tulsi Gabbard), I reiterate my key point that: people change. Also, attending a conference and getting an award or whatever from Bond villain and snappy dresser Schwab doesn't mean they're on board with his program of you eating the bugs and living in the pod while your male relatives see their testosterone levels plummet.
They are down somewhere between 50 to 90% since WWII, and we've had nothing but war. 500 wars from 1945 to 1991; after that, the endless war on terror.
I think unhealthy people do unhealthy things, and take out their mental distortions (partially caused by their physiological problems) and project their internal sickness upon the world.
Strong men and women, however, I believe, are less frustrated, and can spend more time on family and friends, and less on committing to some stupid political ideology to save them.
That's my view. Unhealth breeds more unhealth. Gabor Mate is a doctor who writes about trauma for 50 years, now; I recommend his book, "The Myth of Normal."
Putin used to do the Germany branch of the Soviet secret service. His German skills are reasonable, and there's some funny clips of him making jokes at press conferences. Putin, much like Trump, is not a natural ally to myself, but this is not the time for getting picky :D
I saw a list at the beginning of the year w/Tulsi G.’s on it. Putin was mentioned as having been a member one who quit. Apparently, if a member questions any of their objectives, they are simply not invited to future gatherings. There are folks who were initially invited to attend or speak at an event, but who do not officially become members. Klaus tends to brag about those young leaders who have achieved major political standing, but I don’t recall his mentioning Tulsi’s name, so who knows if she signed on b/c she was encouraged to by a close friend or associate or was just trying to advance her political standing, but never totally bought-in to their total ideology. Who knows? I’ve never heard her mention her association with the WEF, nor heard them mention her, but must admit that knowing she was a young leader, at one time, did & does give me pause... My concern, I guess, is that she could be a ‘secret weapon’ of sorts, should her star continue to rise...
Lee Camp did an interesting video about censorship beginning in earnest with Alex Jones. I would add censorship and punishments exploded on dissenters (including renowned doctors and scientists) of the Covid narrative. Camp noted that Jones is now fined a billion dollars for his comments on Sandy Hook and warns that taking people's money is the next strategy to suppress dissidents (not justifying Jones but criticizing the enormity of the fines and contrasting his defamation/misinformation with like wmd's in Iraq which led to a million deaths.)
PayPal tried to fine it's customers $2500 for misinformation but has had to walk it back.
You probably have not seen the video where the Pfizer exec admits they did not test for preventing transmission. The whole pandemic of the unvaxxed narrative was based on a lie.
And furthermore the data on so-called effectiveness is dodgy. Depends on the outcome. And better than the old-style Chinese vaccine? Not at all clear. No head to head study has been done that I know of. And Pfizer would try to block it being done because they could only lose.
Vaccines should be government controlled from start to finish.
Mostly true? Jesse Ventura tells the story about being called to the basement for a meeting with many men in black who interrogated him on how he got elected Governor so they could make sure it never happened again.
As far as the scientific process, bias is introduced at the beginning with the decision about what is going to be investigated and then, how it will be funded.
That 2500 is a walk in the park for PayPal. Look at the millions they stold from WikiLeaks when they froze their donations after that criminal Pompeo went after Julian.
<I>taking people's money is the next strategy to suppress dissidents</I>
They've been doing that for years in various ways, mostly environmentalists and people defending the poor. The more common are SLAPP suits, where corporations sue people or a group to death, often over the period of decades, with one nonsensical suite after another, all eventually dismissed after having made the victim spend all their time and money on the process and often time in jail.
First they came for Cyprus. Remember the bail in there? Anything over $100,000 was removed from all private bank accounts and deposited in the government’s coffers. So messed up.
There were plenty of reasons to sue that scumbag out of existence, I don't think there's anything necessarily nefarious about it. Scumbags get sued all the time. SLAPP suits bother me a lot more.
Both time and security. I would want to know exactly what it is about and who posted it before I waste time, and since I do not know the other commenters there could be security issues.
Don’t you just love the relentless bleating about “ our democracy”. Russia-friendly? You mean data-driven and peace-oriented. Can’t have that! right? Where will all the weapons being made 24/7 go?
They’re confident they can keep this going, by silencing the voices of peace, like they did for Nam, Iraq, etc.
The Americans believe passionately in democracy as a front for evil scheming. There is no better example of their contempt for democracy than the UN where they relentlessly block the will of overwhelming international majorities with their veto. The world has never seen fraudsters like this.
The YouTube censorship of the war in Ukraine is out of control. The channels of Regis Tremblay (an American living in Crimea) & Russel Bentley (living in Donetsk) have long been removed. Regis interviewed Scott Ritter, Ray McGovern & others about the Ukraine war. These knowledgeable individuals have argued that Vladimir Putin had little choice but to launch the special military operation to protect the people of the Donbass & keep Ukraine out of NATO. Texan Russel Bentley has lived in Donetsk for 8 years and fought against the Ukrainian Nazis in 2014-15. His knowledge & insights to the region and the conflict are a threat to the US State Department corporate media narrative.
A video clip from a Russian news program featuring a confession from Georgian snipers claiming responsibility for the Maidan protest massacre after being paid, was removed about a month into the conflict. Try to watch the video and a notice comes up that this video is no longer available for viewing in your country. The video had been on YouTube for years.
Then there is 'The Dive with Jackson Hinkle' whose YouTube videos are still there, but his channel has been completely demonetized along with his PayPal & Patreon account. He regularly reports & comments on stories from RT or Tass about the conflict. Providing the Russian side of the story is a big no no when someone has tens of thousands of viewers. This is not the America I lived most of my life in. Or maybe it is and I didn't realize that the government was just slow to act. It just took a while for government to realize that independent media in the information age is a real threat to their control over the minds of it's citizens. More people realize the mainstream corporate press is just spewing lies and propaganda and that's a big problem for those in power.
I think it took this long for them to figure out how to co-opt the formerly ferociously independent geeks who ran the social media startups. It was the 'wild west' for many years, but now that the online world has gone corporate and anything even a little promising is gobbled up by the mega-corps. Corporate executives want power, and the government will give it to them if they cooperate.
This is the link to the 1996 Len Horowitz presentation on emerging viruses & vaccines that proves they are man made in way we could use to develop teach-ins exposing corrupt pattern & practices of Gallo Fauci Gates CDC NIH NIAID National Cancer Institute
The will of the people seems to be getting in the way of the will of the government. The algorithms of twitter, google, youboob and facebook will help guide us on to the right path. One day the tech lord will just enter a command and the AI will automatically adjust and tune the algorithms to make it happen. ‘’make nuclear war popular’’. ‘’Make people stupid’’.
Twitter has been a US 3-letter agency tool, they wouldn't to lose it I guess. Seems Musk has switched allegiance? He is US tech funded. Or this is a staged game between a club playing red shirts/blue shirts.
It's a few years old but the arguments are fresh. Essential reading on the military and national security surveillance and control origin of the intent.
Perhaps silly valley was created (by government or some other nefarious group of idiots) for the very purpose of enabling the government (and others) to control, spy, snoop, collect data and otherwise pry into our every breath and beyond. It appears that just about everything coming from this tech mecca is designed to interfere with and control people's live and habits and thoughts (or the lack thereof). It is basic and simple...if you are telling the truth, have good and decent intentions and still have a heart and soul...you do not need to censor anything. You don't care about opinions, blow back or anti-this or that movements because you are on firm ground based in truth, honesty and goodness.
The entire internet is a DARPA creation with roots in military surveillance and political control through propaganda, disruption, and monitoring. See above comment about Sasha Levine's book "Surveillance Valley" on the history of the internet.
Actually DARPA just took credit for other people's work, like it frequently does. My former boss was there at the beginning, her boss got tired of having five different terminals and modems on his desk. A lot of other sys admins felt the same way and figured out how to tell (for example) the VAX at University of Colorado talk to the IBM at Stanford, which would communicate with the Sperry at UC San Diego. Some executives saw was they were doing and said, "We can make money with this" and got DARPA to finance standards and documentation.
I've been looking in vain for the reference, but I read that Russia was taking out 60% of Ukraine's energy infrastructure, which had already included the communication grid for Starlink. So it's not so much a ideological move as a business move.
Something about the language of this essay seems amiss. I don’t think Biden or the U.S. “see” Silicon Valley as a weapon in their propaganda arsenal, so much as class alliances and federal legislation confirm that Silicon Valley is a defacto state enterprise. Private shmivate - Corporations own the politicians, and they can bark at the slightest “criticism” from Sanders or anyone else from the government, but they know that their money ensures their status. Less than 24 hours after Musk indicated that Starlink would go dark if Ukraine refused to sit down with Russia, he dutifully retracted that threat, and he will most certainly rein in the calls for peace if he buys Twitter. Of course, if Americans wake the fuck up and start an onslaught, all bets are off.
So free market trade and capitalism the corner stones ofAmerican business model only allowed if the sole beneficiary from any business deals is Amerika itself?
Note that the blue check set are getting the vapors over the idea that a Musk-owned Twitter might possibly relax censorship.
That said, it is my theory that Musk wants out of the deal, and getting the USG to nix the deal gets him out of lawsuits and possibly out of breakup fees.
Excellent article! I hope most people--when they hear of these obvious censorship ploys--don't suddenly decide to hate Musk. They liked him for decades because of the electric car. But in "1984," the public was trained to flip their love or hate from Eurasia to Eastasia when instructed by Big Brother. I hope that doesn't happen, now.
Musk, Tulsi Gabbard, Trump, Carlson, Rand Paul, Joe Kent, and many others have either questioned or condemned these stupid regime change wars, especially this one with Russia that could get us all annihilated. Take your allies where you can get them. Meanwhile, progressive liberals like AoC are with the war machine.
Meanwhile, keep in mind that fear drops your I.Q. by at least 40 points. The constant fear mongering by PMSNBC and Fox keeps you easier to control.
Brand, Dore, Camp, Iversen, Taibbi, Blumenthal, Mate and Halpern also question the war narrative.
Thank you! That's an awesome list. I try to pay attention to people like that.
Joe Rogan certainly has expressed a lot of misgivings about this war. He had Tulsi on his podcast; the episode was outstanding.
And, of course, Chris Hedges. And Natalie and Clayton Morris.
And Noam Chomsky.
NC didn't get pharma corruption. I was vaccine-naive until c19 - as in, not a fully fledged anti-vaxxer. I'm now onto the fact that the risk benefit ratio is off for ALL vaccines, and the break in standard infant vaccinations have immediately resulted in less SIDS, although SADS has come about now with all these adult vaccinations. Hmmm! Well with SIDS, the Japanese barred infant vax and put a minimum age of 2 for immunization, and they've had zero SIDS since. The scientific consensus in the nations belonging to the "coalition of the willing" pharma-wise says SIDS is due to infants sleeping on their belly, so they've been getting switched to sleep on their back at all times. Somehow this has escaped evolutionary biological principles and folkloric knowledge of midwifes for millenii. But hey, the data has been pretty good on this measure. They're still looking for the "root cause" of SADS, as it were. Apparently the heat waves of the climate meltdown era and general stress levels have affected cardiac health - and women's periods, of all things! Go figure! Hail Pfizer!
Musk is trying to play both sides of the fence. He maybe wants transparency/truth but supports the fake mantra of global warming while making $billions.
You took the words right out of my mouth! 1984 anyone!?
I heard that Tulsi and Putin were young leaders in the wef program. Is that true? I went to the wef website and Tulsi is not on their list. And Putin seems too old.
I've heard that, too.
My standard for public figures is: where do you stand now? Because people change their minds.
Check out this article, it contains a 2015 tweet from Tulsi about her being selected as a Young Global Leader.
https://thegoodcitizen.substack.com/p/lucy-in-the-field-with-charlie
I did some research and Tulsi was a WEF Young Global Leader and Putin has been a friend of Schwab since 1992 and involved with the organization. He was 40 at the time and Schwab called him a young global leader.
If you read Putin's speeches, especially the ones on Feb. 24, and Sept. 30, you don't get any sense that he likes globalism. He views Russia as a unique, 1000+ year old culture, and he doesn't want it to be absorbed by any international body.
That's assuming he's sincere in what he's been saying in 2022, and for what I gather is the last 20+ years.
I think any number of people probably attended the WEF and learned a lot. In the case of people like Tulsi Gabbard (if there are any other people like Tulsi Gabbard), I reiterate my key point that: people change. Also, attending a conference and getting an award or whatever from Bond villain and snappy dresser Schwab doesn't mean they're on board with his program of you eating the bugs and living in the pod while your male relatives see their testosterone levels plummet.
If their testosterone levels go down maybe there will be less war.
They are down somewhere between 50 to 90% since WWII, and we've had nothing but war. 500 wars from 1945 to 1991; after that, the endless war on terror.
I think unhealthy people do unhealthy things, and take out their mental distortions (partially caused by their physiological problems) and project their internal sickness upon the world.
Strong men and women, however, I believe, are less frustrated, and can spend more time on family and friends, and less on committing to some stupid political ideology to save them.
That's my view. Unhealth breeds more unhealth. Gabor Mate is a doctor who writes about trauma for 50 years, now; I recommend his book, "The Myth of Normal."
Putin used to do the Germany branch of the Soviet secret service. His German skills are reasonable, and there's some funny clips of him making jokes at press conferences. Putin, much like Trump, is not a natural ally to myself, but this is not the time for getting picky :D
I saw a list at the beginning of the year w/Tulsi G.’s on it. Putin was mentioned as having been a member one who quit. Apparently, if a member questions any of their objectives, they are simply not invited to future gatherings. There are folks who were initially invited to attend or speak at an event, but who do not officially become members. Klaus tends to brag about those young leaders who have achieved major political standing, but I don’t recall his mentioning Tulsi’s name, so who knows if she signed on b/c she was encouraged to by a close friend or associate or was just trying to advance her political standing, but never totally bought-in to their total ideology. Who knows? I’ve never heard her mention her association with the WEF, nor heard them mention her, but must admit that knowing she was a young leader, at one time, did & does give me pause... My concern, I guess, is that she could be a ‘secret weapon’ of sorts, should her star continue to rise...
Lee Camp did an interesting video about censorship beginning in earnest with Alex Jones. I would add censorship and punishments exploded on dissenters (including renowned doctors and scientists) of the Covid narrative. Camp noted that Jones is now fined a billion dollars for his comments on Sandy Hook and warns that taking people's money is the next strategy to suppress dissidents (not justifying Jones but criticizing the enormity of the fines and contrasting his defamation/misinformation with like wmd's in Iraq which led to a million deaths.)
PayPal tried to fine it's customers $2500 for misinformation but has had to walk it back.
You probably have not seen the video where the Pfizer exec admits they did not test for preventing transmission. The whole pandemic of the unvaxxed narrative was based on a lie.
Entirely based on LIES and more lies and more lies.
And furthermore the data on so-called effectiveness is dodgy. Depends on the outcome. And better than the old-style Chinese vaccine? Not at all clear. No head to head study has been done that I know of. And Pfizer would try to block it being done because they could only lose.
Vaccines should be government controlled from start to finish.
Government is controlled by big money and the MIC
Regrettably mostly true. But they have a hard time controlling the process in science and there’s at least a fighting chance for fairness.
Mostly true? Jesse Ventura tells the story about being called to the basement for a meeting with many men in black who interrogated him on how he got elected Governor so they could make sure it never happened again.
As far as the scientific process, bias is introduced at the beginning with the decision about what is going to be investigated and then, how it will be funded.
Having retired after a research career of 45 years, I can say It used to be that research was investigator and curiosity driven . Less and less now.
That 2500 is a walk in the park for PayPal. Look at the millions they stold from WikiLeaks when they froze their donations after that criminal Pompeo went after Julian.
<I>taking people's money is the next strategy to suppress dissidents</I>
They've been doing that for years in various ways, mostly environmentalists and people defending the poor. The more common are SLAPP suits, where corporations sue people or a group to death, often over the period of decades, with one nonsensical suite after another, all eventually dismissed after having made the victim spend all their time and money on the process and often time in jail.
First they came for Alex Jones. This was entirely intentional, as Jones was seen as a nutter whom nobody wanted to defend.
First they came for Cyprus. Remember the bail in there? Anything over $100,000 was removed from all private bank accounts and deposited in the government’s coffers. So messed up.
The British government did something similar during WWI.
There were plenty of reasons to sue that scumbag out of existence, I don't think there's anything necessarily nefarious about it. Scumbags get sued all the time. SLAPP suits bother me a lot more.
I said nothing about a private suit. I was referring to Twitter and the other tech companies
Just wait until physical cash is gone.
That will truly be the end.
It's inevitable unfortunately. What a nightmare.
Another lie is that these "vaccines" are safe. In the data they tried to hide for 75 years are at least eight pages of reported side effects.
Link?
I never click on or post links. Russell Brand and Jimmy Dore both show the exchange at the eu.
Re links - is this some principle or are you worried about security?
Both time and security. I would want to know exactly what it is about and who posted it before I waste time, and since I do not know the other commenters there could be security issues.
Don’t you just love the relentless bleating about “ our democracy”. Russia-friendly? You mean data-driven and peace-oriented. Can’t have that! right? Where will all the weapons being made 24/7 go?
They’re confident they can keep this going, by silencing the voices of peace, like they did for Nam, Iraq, etc.
The Americans believe passionately in democracy as a front for evil scheming. There is no better example of their contempt for democracy than the UN where they relentlessly block the will of overwhelming international majorities with their veto. The world has never seen fraudsters like this.
The YouTube censorship of the war in Ukraine is out of control. The channels of Regis Tremblay (an American living in Crimea) & Russel Bentley (living in Donetsk) have long been removed. Regis interviewed Scott Ritter, Ray McGovern & others about the Ukraine war. These knowledgeable individuals have argued that Vladimir Putin had little choice but to launch the special military operation to protect the people of the Donbass & keep Ukraine out of NATO. Texan Russel Bentley has lived in Donetsk for 8 years and fought against the Ukrainian Nazis in 2014-15. His knowledge & insights to the region and the conflict are a threat to the US State Department corporate media narrative.
A video clip from a Russian news program featuring a confession from Georgian snipers claiming responsibility for the Maidan protest massacre after being paid, was removed about a month into the conflict. Try to watch the video and a notice comes up that this video is no longer available for viewing in your country. The video had been on YouTube for years.
Then there is 'The Dive with Jackson Hinkle' whose YouTube videos are still there, but his channel has been completely demonetized along with his PayPal & Patreon account. He regularly reports & comments on stories from RT or Tass about the conflict. Providing the Russian side of the story is a big no no when someone has tens of thousands of viewers. This is not the America I lived most of my life in. Or maybe it is and I didn't realize that the government was just slow to act. It just took a while for government to realize that independent media in the information age is a real threat to their control over the minds of it's citizens. More people realize the mainstream corporate press is just spewing lies and propaganda and that's a big problem for those in power.
I think it took this long for them to figure out how to co-opt the formerly ferociously independent geeks who ran the social media startups. It was the 'wild west' for many years, but now that the online world has gone corporate and anything even a little promising is gobbled up by the mega-corps. Corporate executives want power, and the government will give it to them if they cooperate.
https://youtu.be/W2aV_E9heIU
This is the link to the 1996 Len Horowitz presentation on emerging viruses & vaccines that proves they are man made in way we could use to develop teach-ins exposing corrupt pattern & practices of Gallo Fauci Gates CDC NIH NIAID National Cancer Institute
If you trace who owns anything/everything it will all be traced back to the same evil entities.
So the comments dont always work the way I hope. Twitter is an useless piece of garbage at best.
Twatter can go away and we'll all be better
The greatest service Musk could do for humanity is buy Twitter and shut it down.
The will of the people seems to be getting in the way of the will of the government. The algorithms of twitter, google, youboob and facebook will help guide us on to the right path. One day the tech lord will just enter a command and the AI will automatically adjust and tune the algorithms to make it happen. ‘’make nuclear war popular’’. ‘’Make people stupid’’.
“Make Earth Humanless Again!”
Posting a substack article in the middle of the night on a Friday is sigma male poasting behavior. Respect.
Oh, I hadn't realized there was gender involved in late night posting. ;-)
Caitlin's writing is potent any time.
Matt Taibbi touched on this Twitter threat to US psy ops topic briefly too, https://taibbi.substack.com/p/america-this-week-october-16-22-2022?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Twitter has been a US 3-letter agency tool, they wouldn't to lose it I guess. Seems Musk has switched allegiance? He is US tech funded. Or this is a staged game between a club playing red shirts/blue shirts.
I doubt she cares to observe the US schedule.
She's a good half a 24 hour day ahead of the US time scale.
My late Friday post - https://denutrients.substack.com/p/ewgs-dirty-dozen-produce-with-the
You know the world is round, right?
A good read on these issues is Sasha Levine's book "Surveillance Valley"
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/06/surveillance-valley-by-yasha-levine-review
It's a few years old but the arguments are fresh. Essential reading on the military and national security surveillance and control origin of the intent.
Perhaps silly valley was created (by government or some other nefarious group of idiots) for the very purpose of enabling the government (and others) to control, spy, snoop, collect data and otherwise pry into our every breath and beyond. It appears that just about everything coming from this tech mecca is designed to interfere with and control people's live and habits and thoughts (or the lack thereof). It is basic and simple...if you are telling the truth, have good and decent intentions and still have a heart and soul...you do not need to censor anything. You don't care about opinions, blow back or anti-this or that movements because you are on firm ground based in truth, honesty and goodness.
The entire internet is a DARPA creation with roots in military surveillance and political control through propaganda, disruption, and monitoring. See above comment about Sasha Levine's book "Surveillance Valley" on the history of the internet.
Actually DARPA just took credit for other people's work, like it frequently does. My former boss was there at the beginning, her boss got tired of having five different terminals and modems on his desk. A lot of other sys admins felt the same way and figured out how to tell (for example) the VAX at University of Colorado talk to the IBM at Stanford, which would communicate with the Sperry at UC San Diego. Some executives saw was they were doing and said, "We can make money with this" and got DARPA to finance standards and documentation.
You miss my point and the historical evidence and argument in the book.
DARPA contractors designed to DARPA objectives. Get it?
I've been looking in vain for the reference, but I read that Russia was taking out 60% of Ukraine's energy infrastructure, which had already included the communication grid for Starlink. So it's not so much a ideological move as a business move.
Of course they don’t want Elon to have Twitter. Because then Elon would find out 100% that Twitter basically is another arm of the Democrat/RINO army.
Something about the language of this essay seems amiss. I don’t think Biden or the U.S. “see” Silicon Valley as a weapon in their propaganda arsenal, so much as class alliances and federal legislation confirm that Silicon Valley is a defacto state enterprise. Private shmivate - Corporations own the politicians, and they can bark at the slightest “criticism” from Sanders or anyone else from the government, but they know that their money ensures their status. Less than 24 hours after Musk indicated that Starlink would go dark if Ukraine refused to sit down with Russia, he dutifully retracted that threat, and he will most certainly rein in the calls for peace if he buys Twitter. Of course, if Americans wake the fuck up and start an onslaught, all bets are off.
So free market trade and capitalism the corner stones ofAmerican business model only allowed if the sole beneficiary from any business deals is Amerika itself?
Note that the blue check set are getting the vapors over the idea that a Musk-owned Twitter might possibly relax censorship.
That said, it is my theory that Musk wants out of the deal, and getting the USG to nix the deal gets him out of lawsuits and possibly out of breakup fees.