American Stasi: Tulsi Gabbard Confirms "Quiet Skies" Nightmare

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American Stasi: Tulsi Gabbard Confirms "Quiet Skies" Nightmare

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American Stasi: Tulsi Gabbard Confirms "Quiet Skies" Nightmare

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Matt Taibbi: Blame Canada? Justin Trudeau Creates Blueprint for Dystopia in Horrific Speech Bill

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Matt Taibbi: Why the TikTok Ban is So Dangerous

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Why the TikTok Ban is So Dangerous

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Matt Taibbi: State Department Threatens Congress Over Censorship Programs | A year after its censorship programs were exposed, the Global Engagement Center still insists the public has no right to know how it's spending taxpayer money

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Matt Taibi: Is the Electoral Fix Already In? | The 2024 presidential race increasingly looks like it will be decided by lawyers, not voters, as Democrats unveil plans for America's first lawfare election

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Tireless Busybodies Again Target Substack

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Matt Taibbi's FOIA Exclusive: Did Pharma Companies Help Plan "Virality Project" Censorship Program? Stanford's Virality Project sought to partner with drugmakers before launching a content moderation program blurring lines between "vaccine opposed information" and "misinformation."

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Sue the Bastards: Federalist, Daily Wire Take the State Department to Court | Bookending the historic Consortium News suit, conservative news outlets take on the Global Engagement Center for funding "censorship enterprises" and blacklisting

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Not a Nothingburger: My Statement to Congress on Censorship ¦ The key question in censorship is always the same. Who's doing it? ¦ Matt Taibbi

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Not a Nothingburger: My Statement to Congress on Censorship. These programs will always feature a tiny, rarefied sliver of affluent professional-class America censoring a huge and ever-expanding pool of everyone else.

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Big Brother is Flagging You, by Matt Taibbi. Nominally run by Stanford University, the EIP is really government censorship in a ski mask, a creature of the Department of Homeland Security and its sub-agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).

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The people picked to man “anti-disinformation” bureaucracies have a bottomless capacity for self-pity and deception. With teary eyes, they’ll swear they’re not in the censorship business, but then they’re sending notes to platforms like, “We recommend that these posts be removed immediately.”

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Matt Taibbi: The Tragic Victimhood of "Disinformation Experts" | Hey, digital censors are people, too.

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Matt Taibbi's Dao Prize Acceptance Speech

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Matt Taibbi launches Project Amy

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Newsguard Case Highlights the Pentagon's Censorship End-Around | The Consortium News lawsuit against a private news rating system lays out how the government can suppress speech by proxy

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Dismantle The Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Westminster Declaration | At the outset of another crisis in which leaders will ask for emergency power, a collective letter calling for a 21st century free of information control

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Dissident journalist Matt Taibbi interviews Russell Brand. Amid all the depressing news about the world, one uplifting detail is that the cancelers of the world seem with each passing week to become more and more crap at their jobs. Transcript for anyone who doesn't like video.

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Timeline: DARPA and the DNC Hack | Upon whose analysis did the government rely when it blamed Russia for hacks of Democratic Party emails?

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Matt Taibbi -- Note to Readers, on a Town Hall Proposal: "What Happened to American Liberalism?" | If you live in a progressive east coast town, I'd like to come to hold a free discussion.

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On Missouri v. Biden and "The New Abnormal": Interview With Dr. Aaron Kheriaty ¦ One of the plaintiffs in the landmark censorship case offers thoughts on last week's ruling, plus a general warning

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Biden's Praetorian Media Guard. In an impressive new low, the White House sends impeachment coverage guidelines up a flagpole, and the press salutes

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A Day that Never Ended ¦ America thought it left the War on Terror behind, but the emergency never stopped expanding

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GoFundMe, Go To Hell. GoFundMe is now the poster child for politicization of economic services. They prevented a parents group from renting a billboard to publicize Abigail Shrier’s book Irreversible Damage, froze nearly $8 million in donations to the “Freedom Convoy” Canadian Trucker movement.

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Matt Taibbi: Tracking Orwellian Change: New Meanings of "Deep State" and "Working Class"

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Tracking Orwellian Change: New Meanings of "Deep State" and "Working Class". The real provenance of deep state has in ten short years been fully excised from mainstream conversation. It’s an awesome achievement. The instant Donald Trump appeared on the scene, “Deep State” became myth.

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Matt Taibbi on CJ Hopkins' Prosecution Madness: American Satirist C.J. Hopkins Sentenced in German Speech Case | As previously detailed in Racket, the American playwright has been sent a "punishment order" and a choice: 60 days or 3,600 Euros for two tweets and a book cover

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Madness: American Satirist C.J. Hopkins Sentenced in German Speech Case. His crime? Essentially, insulting the German health minister in a tweet. "My case is my case, but really the story here is this is happening all over. This is just this naked crushing of dissent and opposition."

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Tracking Orwellian Change: The Aristocratic Takeover of "Transparency" ¦ Klaus Schwab, the Aspen Institute and others flip the meaning of a word that once meant the empowerment of populations against political elites

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Tracking Orwellian Change: The Aristocratic Takeover of "Transparency"

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Campaign 2024, Officially Chaos ¦ America enters an unprecedented political unknown, and our leaders appear helpless to find a way out | Matt Taibbi

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Matt Taibbi: The Most Embarrassing "Facebook Files" Revelation? The Press, Exposed as Censors | The "Facebook Files" show the press is part of the censorship establishment, but that's not the worst part.

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"So Friggin' Likely": New Covid Documents Reveal Unparalleled Media Deception

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I believe Americans are not just being censored. I believe there’s an equivalent effort on the front end of Internet culture to rob people of their will to be free. I believe this is is the hardest part of the Internet censorship story to understand, but also the most crucial and most dangerous.

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Matt Taibbi: Is the FBI Helping Ukraine's Secret Service Censor Americans? The Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government releases a damning new report, revealing even more speech-smashing misbehavior by the federal government

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Where Have All The Liberals Gone? | Opening comments to the general public to ask a question, in sincerity: what changed the minds of society's former First Amendment advocates?

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Why Julian Assange Must Be Freed

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Why Julian Assange Must Be Freed

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Matt Taibbi: The Elite War on Free Thought

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The Elite War on Free Thought. It’s clear that the idea behind the sweeping system of digital surveillance combined with thousands or even millions of subtle rewards and punishments built into the online experience, is to condition people to censor themselves.

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First Roger Waters, Now This: Germany Places American C.J. Hopkins Under Investigation

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Twitter Files Extra: The Covid Censorship Requests of Australia's Department of Home Affairs. Jokes and information that later turned out to be true were frequently included in the censorship requests, which came from something called the “Social Cohesion Division”.

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Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know

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News Blackout in Effect: The Michael Morell story is disposed of by press janitors - Matt Taibbi

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The Press is Now Also the Police. This isn’t tracking down a serial killer or exposing Enron’s fraud. The alleged “crime” here is releasing true information, information that belongs to the American public and is secret only by official designation.

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The style of the new anti-speech Democrat is clear: define all government critics as lacking standing to criticize, impugn their prior opinions and associations, imply that all their beliefs are conspiracy theory, define their lack of faith in the FBI’s judgment as treasonous.

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People Can Win - by Matt Taibbi

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The Democrats' Disastrous Miscalculation on Civil Liberties

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The Democrats' Disastrous Miscalculation on Civil Liberties. Americans have been told a dangerous and uncertain world requires less freedom. Civil liberties have officially gone out of style, a phenomenon on full display at the Weaponization of Government Hearing at which I just testified.

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"Any group that claims the “confidence” to decide fact and fiction, especially in the name of protecting democracy, is always, itself, the real threat to democracy." - Matt Taibbi to Congress. In testimony about the Twitter Files, why state-funded "anti-disinformation" and free speech can't coexist.

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Twitter Files: GEC, New Knowledge, and State-Sponsored Blacklists. Americans have been paying taxes to disenfranchise themselves, as government agencies and subcontractors undertake a massive digital blacklisting project.

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