by Andrea Widburg
What’s happening in America—which is the end of the First Amendment—is tied to national security developments during Obama’s presidency and the Russia Hoax.
Perhaps you’ve seen texts or heard people talking about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Mike Benz regarding the national security state’s vast censorship regime operating within America. You might have thought to yourself, “Well, I already know that.” No, you really don’t. Until you take the hour to listen to the interview, you have absolutely no true understanding of what’s been happening in America since the second Obama administration and with increased power, fury, and vindictiveness since the Americans dared to elect Trump.
If you don’t have time to watch the whole thing (and I’ve embedded the video at the end of this post, along with Scott Adams’s commentary), here’s the gist:
Mike Benz used to hold the cyber portfolio at the State Department and is now the executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online. He’s seen the system from the inside and studied it from the outside. This is the broad outline of what he told Tucker:
Since the very beginning, the internet has been a federal program with its roots in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (“DARPA”). DARPA, as you may know, is the research and development arm of the Department of Defense. Google started with a grant from DARPA to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who also got funding from CIA and NSA programs.
The government’s original purpose in creating the internet was free speech oriented. National security agencies wanted to use free access to information to create soft coups against governments the U.S. disliked, which, in those days, were totalitarian governments.
Image: Tucker Carlson and Mike Benz. X screen grab.
By providing dissenters with a way to come together, the U.S. didn’t need military coups such as those attempted against Cuba and carried out successfully in Iran. Instead, throughout the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations, the government could control their opponents’ information systems and, fairly reliably, their elections. According to Benz, the system worked wonderfully all the way through the Arab Spring, when the internet facilitated Obama’s dream of overthrowing Sunni governments to help facilitate Iran’s rise within the Muslim sphere of influence.
When ISIS rose up from the ashes of the Arab Spring, the U.S. government got the mandate to create a new technology that would track ISIS on social media. This new artificial intelligence can understand and map everything said on social media and, with a few lines of code, delete tens of millions of posts.
The NATO alliance, however, got frightened of the internet’s ability to overthrow governments when dissidents used it in Crimea to ally, not with the West’s preferred Ukrainian leaders, but with Putin and Russia. Suddenly, Europe decided that the internet needed to be censored. The push to control the internet in Europe accelerated with the Brexit movement.
Obama, of course, was on board with the push to censor the internet. After all, he was (and is) a globalist, as were (and, mostly, are) Europe’s leaders. They’d staked out a post-WWII and post-Cold War global power structure that worked perfectly well for them. The rise of a new nationalism, not one grounded in Nazi-style world domination but in smaller governments working to benefit the people within their own borders, was anathema to the globalists.
For Obama, the Deep State, and the Vichy Republicans, the crisis in America came with Trump’s election. Until then, the media universe, which rose up during WWII, was stable and was controlled by various departments within the United States government, which could dictate how to cover stories. (Fox, included.) These institutions were caught off guard when social media, only a decade old, broke free of the government stranglehold and placed Trump in office.
The Russia Hoax was the Deep State’s reaction, and it was a very clever one. Up until 2016, the internet censorship and control system could be directed only out of America. After all, in America, we have the First Amendment. However, by identifying Trump as a Russian asset, which meant all his supporters were also Russian assets, the foreign threat became a domestic one. National security and the defense of “democracy” required turning global censorship and content manipulation tools for use on the home front. As Tucker summed it,
We’ve just identified our new enemy as democracy within our own countries. I think that's what you're saying. They feared that the people, the citizens of their own countries would get their way, and they went to war against that.
There was a temporary problem when it turned out that the Russian collusion story was, in fact, completely faked, but that didn’t stop the government and its allies (many of whom are former government operatives in the private sector, such as the seven CIA heads all affiliated with the Atlantic Council). All they needed was a trigger to use the censorship software developed during ISIS’s heyday to silence Americans.
COVID and mail-in voting provided what they needed. Opposing the COVID regime and shutdowns, masks, mandatory vaccinations, and mail-in ballots were now national security threats to “democracy.” The mail-in ballots mattered most because the national security infrastructure knew that those ballots would send Biden to the White House. Then, working with social media organizations that the national security infrastructure bullied and cajoled (and often had a friendly alliance with), the Deep State systematically deleted, hid, or made it impossible to share on social media most content opposing the COVID regime. Biden’s “win” was locked in.
Currently, Europe is escalating the problem. Working with American covert censorship organizations such as Newsguard (run by CIA, NSA, and other national security people), it’s enacted a new law banning “disinformation” on social media—with European governments, of course, defining “disinformation”—and imposing enormous financial penalties for running afoul of the law. Musk’s X, with its commitment to free speech, is a special target.
I’ve given you about 20% of what Benz has to say. It’s amazing and horrifying. Scott Adams was correct when he tweeted out that it should be a game-changer (although, probably, the fix is in so hard and deep that nothing can change):
This is the most extraordinary thing I have ever seen.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) February 17, 2024
I’m not exaggerating. This is like a mushroom trip without the mushrooms.
Clear your schedule tonight and listen together.
In a week, everyone who has not listened to this will look like an idiot to everyone who has.… https://t.co/P4AcWsRIyK
UPDATE: Facebook has 40,000 people working on "election integrity." That seems like appropriate information in light of Benz's facts.
Andrea Widburg
Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/02/tucker_carlson_bombshell_americans_are_controlled_by_a_vast_invisible_censorship_regime.html
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