{"id":1864313,"date":"2023-03-01T07:04:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T12:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1864313"},"modified":"2023-03-01T07:04:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T12:04:58","slug":"6-ways-the-censorship-complex-silences-speech-it-doesnt-want-you-to-say-or-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/6-ways-the-censorship-complex-silences-speech-it-doesnt-want-you-to-say-or-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Ways The Censorship Complex Silences Speech It Doesn\u2019t Want You To Say Or Hear"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F6-ways-the-censorship-complex-silences-speech-it-doesnt-want-you-to-say-or-hear%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1864313&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Trump&#8217;s entry into politics has shown the effectiveness of speaking directly to the people and bypassing the legacy media. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/02\/24\/how-trump-derangement-gave-birth-to-the-censorship-industrial-complex\/\">cabal<\/a> Censorship complex was created by politicians, academics and nonprofits as well as government agencies. These players are connected by collaboration, funding, groupthink, and a detailed analysis of their operation reveals six ways they censor speech in America.<\/p>\n<p> 1. Big Tech Censored Speech It Doesn&#8217;t Like <\/p>\n<p>Twitter did not censor certain speech because it was coordinating with other partisan actors. It also censored speech that was normal to its operations. Twitter was a social media platform. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1598829996264390656\">Staff<\/a> It was mainly Democrats that were heard, but it was mostly conservative voices.<\/p>\n<p>As the &#8220;Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/capsule-summaries-of-all-twitter?publication_id=1042&#038;post_id=94664483&#038;isFreemail=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Files<\/a>&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bariweiss\/status\/1601007575633305600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a>, &#8220;Twitter had a huge toolbox for controlling the visibility of any user, including a \u2018Search Blacklist&#8217; (for Dan Bongino), a \u2018Trends Blacklist&#8217; for Stanford&#8217;s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and a \u2018Do Not Amplify&#8217; setting for conservative activist Charlie Kirk.&#8221; One insider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/capsule-summaries-of-all-twitter?publication_id=1042&#038;post_id=94664483&#038;isFreemail=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Detailed explanation<\/a>The visibility filtering is an option. &#8220;very powerful tool&#8221; &#8220;to suppress what people see.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bariweiss\/status\/1601007575633305600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Use<\/a> Use visibility filters to stop certain users appearing in search results. Limit the reach of tweets. Ban certain users&#8217; tweets using hashtag searches. &#8220;trending&#8221; section. Twitter aggressively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/capsule-summaries-of-all-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Annotated<\/a> These filters were used to filter Trump&#8217;s candidacy for the election. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/elon-musk-calls-former-twitter-exec-personally-placing-visibility-filters-elected-leaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Certain<\/a> to other elected officials accounts, too. Twitter is censoring American speech, but it&#8217;s not censoring theirs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lhfang\/status\/1605292454261182464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Allowable<\/a> Covert propaganda operations are run by the Department of Defense &#8220;whitelisting&#8221; Pentagon accounts to keep covert accounts out of the hands of the authorities<\/p>\n<p> 2. Twitter and Intel Agencies Coordinated <\/p>\n<p>Over the course of several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racket.news\/p\/capsule-summaries-of-all-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">15<\/a> &#8220;Twitter Files&#8221; expos\u00e9s, independent journalists also revealed the tech giant worked closely with intelligence agencies, resulting in the censorship of more speech. As Matt Taibbi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701405443874816?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Put<\/a> it: <\/p>\n<p>The files show the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government \u2014 from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Requests poured in from FBI offices all over the country, day after day, hour after hour: Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Baltimore,&#8221; Taibbi wrote with Twitter &#8220;taking requests from every conceivable government agency, from state officials in Wyoming, Georgia, Minnesota, Connecticut, California, and others to the NSA, FBI, DHS, DOD, DOJ, and many others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even though Twitter&#8217;s new owner Elon Muss could only share internal communications of the company, that material is still available. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701487601901568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shown<\/a> the CIA \u2014 referred to under the euphemism &#8220;Other Government Agencies&#8221; in the emails \u2014 &#8220;ended up sharing intelligence through the FBI and FITF [Foreign Influence Task Force] not just with Twitter, but with Yahoo!, Twitch, Cloudfare, LinkedIn, even Wikimedia.&#8221; The &#8220;Twitter Files&#8221; Also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1606701433780592641\">revealed<\/a> The multi-agency FITF met monthly and then weekly with Twitter and other industry executives. Other emails <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1610394229553115136?lang=en\">revealed<\/a> DHS and House Homeland Security Committee contacted senior moderation staff repeatedly with requests to remove information from Twitter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The constant flow of censorship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the Censorship Complex, Americans are no better off than the citizens of authoritarian countries with state-controlled media.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":1864316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[6371,12293,7118,6641,18150,4554],"class_list":["post-1864313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-censorship","tag-complex","tag-doesnt","tag-hear","tag-silences","tag-speech"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1864316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}