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As bad as this is, there's two things that make it worse:

1) It's still going, if not GROWING.

2) The censorship complex started with capturing the media, so they won't touch the story.

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Matt, whenever I read stuff like this, I wonder, "Could Matt possibly still naively believe this isn't what it obviously is?"

IOW, the "conspiracy theorists" have been right about... well, basically, everything - so at what point do we start to understand that the immigration policies to military shitcanning of those who wouldn't take the jab policies to the abandonment of prosecuting crimes in the cities policies to the taking your guns policies to the trans men are women policies are NOT just "coincidental" to the digital suppression policies.

Know what I mean?

Thomas Jefferson would have long since appreciated that the Tree of Liberty's roots are getting very, very thirsty.

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Nowhere in the Constitution does it carve out a spot for secretive bureaucracies that never have to answer to the public. https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/deep-state-tyranny-endures

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1 in 800 is the most accurate frequency of adverse events according to multiple studies across the entire time we’ve used the vaccines—their estimate of 1 in 10,000 was wildly off-base AND YET that number should’ve been plenty to give pause; to ask what commonalities exist for those injured; and to provide guidance to doctors/pharmacists to keep their pts safe.

THANK YOU for the continued work to get the truth. It matters.

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Thank you for this quite incredible investigative piece. I am only on paragraph 1 and saw this: “facilitate collaboration now between the expanding community dedicated to understanding and protecting trust and safety.” Oh yes - more meaningful word salad phrases which could translate to anything they wish to protect since they changed our language. Who isn’t sick of this? Now to the rest of the article. Thank you, kind sir.

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How exhausting. To think that none of this would be necessary if government and the corporate press simply stopped lying about everything to begin with.

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Matt, you are doing amazing work while having to deal with all of the defamation the power centers are directing against you. You are, unfortunately, a lonely voice crying out against the tidal wave of censorship engulfing the world. Thank you. I hope you can keep going.

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“ …the expanding community dedicated to understanding and protecting trust and safety.”

Interesting way to describe totalitarian repression…

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I remember realizing things weren't as they seemed a couple of years ago after falling for Literally. All. Of. It. It took a couple of creepy interactions as a reporter and a lucky search result based on a gut feeling to break through the wall of positive press about all this stuff.

What's crazy is that doing basic background research on these orgs is very difficult - a lot of the important details you wrote about aren't so easy to come across in a standard Google search. It's frustrating, and I'm so, so glad you guys are doing this work. 🙏🏼

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Seriously well done.

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"Mr. Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group, a private military company notorious for its record during the Iraq invasion and occupation"

Schwarzman is CEO of The Blackstone Group, which is a private equity investment firm that split off from the public BlackRock.

You're confusing Blackstone Group with Blackwater, a mercenary group involved in many conflicts including Iraq. The two are not related.

Hope Matt Taibbi catches this backhanded attempt to justify "a trustworthy internet".

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Jun 6, 2023·edited Jun 6, 2023

Well somebody has to tell us all what to do, to think, to eat and drink, and how we're doing.

It's FOR YOUR OWN GOOD dear subjects.

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They claim disinformation while canceling real information.

The claim book banning while banning text in books.

They claim protection from dangerous ideologies while pushing dangerous ideologies.

Some people will argue that "they" are not all the same people. However, I would beg to differ. They might have slightly different agendas, but they are all partners in these things... part of the Great Reset globalist project.

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That look on Marco Rubio's face says a lot. Remember when Rubio was the young firebrand, all knees and elbows, eager to please and ready to save the world? Now his eyes look dead, he always seems weary and talks in a monotone. It's like the Washington world stuck a spigot on his spinal cord and drained all the life out of him. He's become what Scott Adams calls an NPC (non-performing character). He still gets the high-level invites, but he's just another demoralized political zombie now.

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Jun 6, 2023·edited Jun 6, 2023

You do realize, don't you Andrew, that from the point of view of these establishment aristocrats you're just no-name riff-raff kicking mud on the wheels of their golden carriage as it rolls by?

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One conclusion is that the Atlantic Council-types have way too much time on their hands. Another is that "disinformation" is their business, and they want to maintain a monopoly over it which random discourse over the Net somehow threatens. Elite Paranoia, like these people don't have Meds for that!

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