Put this in the tab labeled ‘conclusive proof of prior suspicions.’
Former Obama era intelligence officials, those who helped construct, organize and assemble the public-private partnership between intelligence data networks and supported social media companies, have written a letter to congress warning that any effort to break up Big Tech (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google, Microsoft, etc.) would be catastrophic for the national security system they have created.
Citing the information control mechanisms they assembled, vis-a-vis the ability of social media networks to control and approve what is available for the public to read and review, the intelligence officials declare that any effort to break up the private side of the intel/tech partnership will only result in less ability of the intelligence apparatus to control public opinion.
They willfully admit that open and uncensored information is adverse to the interests of the intelligence state and therefore too dangerous to permit. They specifically argue, if the modern system created by the partnership between the U.S. government and Big Tech is not retained, the national security of the United States is compromised. Let that sink in for a moment.
One of their reference citations revolves around Ukraine and the Russia narrative:
“U.S. technology platforms have given the world the chance to see the real story of the Russian military’s horrific human rights abuses in Ukraine, including the atrocities committed in Bucha, and the incredible bravery of the Ukrainian people who continue to stand their ground. Social media platforms are filled with messages of support for Ukraine and fundraising campaigns to help Ukrainian refugees.” (Paragraph 2, Letter)
Keep in mind the “Bucha” narrative is widely disputed by people who have reviewed the western government/media evidence.
There is equal evidence the Bucha narrative was a western intelligence operation, created to give a false impression and generate public support for advanced military operations in Ukraine.
Seeing this public relations effort using the Bucha story as evidence to support their goal of keeping Big Tech isolated from legislative review, only lends more credence to suspicions the Bucha events were a U.S. led intelligence operation (false flag).
Glenn Greenwald has a good take on the granular details behind their letter:
[…] This is where these former intelligence and national security officials come in. While these former CIA, Homeland Security and Pentagon operatives have little sway in the Senate Judiciary and House Antitrust Committees, they command great loyalty from Congressional national security committees. Those committees, created to exert oversight of the U.S. intelligence and military agencies, are notoriously captive to the U.S. National Security State.
The ostensible purpose of this new letter is to insist that Big Tech monopoly power is vital to U.S. national security — because it is necessary for them to censor “disinformation” from the internet, especially now with the grave Russian threat reflected by the war in Ukraine — and they thus demand that the anti-Big-Tech bills first be reviewed not only by the Judiciary and Antitrust Committees, but also the national security committees where they wield power and influence”… (read more)
Of course, the Fourth Branch of Government would want to get the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence involved. The SSCI created all of the mechanisms to facilitate the existence of the Fourth Branch of Government. However, I would take the issue deeper…. and ask readers to see what really worries the intelligence apparatus about the potential breakup of Big Tech.
These are the intelligence people who constructed the model for Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop.
This public-private partnership between the cyber division of the intelligence apparatus and Big Tech social media is where the free coffee comes from.
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and even Google itself, are financially and operationally dependent on the scale of the data processing system that is run by the U.S. government. The capacity of each of the big social media companies to exist, operate and be financially viable, is dependent on the backbone of interconnected data networking, and massive data processing.
The scale of simultaneous user data-processing is not financially viable without the U.S government subsidizing it. That’s the free coffee that cannot be duplicated in the private sector by any competing social media company. That’s the cost and scale system behind the partnership that permits Big Tech to operate. Ultimately, this is what the intelligence apparatus needs to keep hidden from the American (and global) public.
The biggest of the Big DATA processing is done through a public-private collaboration between Big Tech and Big Government/Intel.
Any private sector entity who attempts to create, or duplicate the scale of social media runs into this cost issue. It is just too expensive to operate a competing coffee shop without the free coffee. That’s why the coffee providers are lined up against Elon Musk’s attempt to buy Twitter.
The ramifications of the public discovering Facebook and Twitter social media are only possible with subsidy from government tech architecture are massive. Essentially, the U.S. government is in control of our social media networking. That’s the bigger story behind this letter.
These officials are trying to preserve the surveillance system they created.
The public-private partnership is a system for surveillance of the American people through technology.
BACKGROUND – The volume of metadata captured by the NSA has always been a problem because of the filters needed to make the targeting useful. There is a lot of noise in collecting all data that makes the parts you really want to identify more difficult to capture. This admission, along with the admission of collaboration from 2021, puts a social media filtration system in the metadata that circumvents any privacy protections for individuals.
Previously, the Intelligence Branch worked around the constitutional and unlawful search issue by using resources that were not in the United States. A domestic U.S. agency, working on behalf of the U.S. government, cannot listen on your calls without a warrant. However, if the U.S. agency sub-contracts to say a Canadian group, or foreign ally, the privacy invasion is no longer legally restricted by U.S. law.
What was announced in June 2021 was an admission of a relationship with Big Tech along with open intent to define their domestic political opposition as extremists.
July 26, 2021, (Reuters) – A counterterrorism organization formed by some of the biggest U.S. tech companies including Facebook (FB.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) is significantly expanding the types of extremist content shared between firms in a key database, aiming to crack down on material from white supremacists and far-right militias, the group told Reuters.
Until now, the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism’s (GIFCT) database has focused on videos and images from terrorist groups on a United Nations list and so has largely consisted of content from Islamist extremist organizations such as Islamic State, al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Over the next few months, the group will add attacker manifestos – often shared by sympathizers after white supremacist violence – and other publications and links flagged by U.N. initiative Tech Against Terrorism. It will use lists from intelligence-sharing group Five Eyes, adding URLs and PDFs from more groups, including the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and neo-Nazis.
The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share “hashes,” unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it. (read more)
The influence of the Intelligence Branch now reaches into our lives, our personal lives through their efforts in social media.
In the decades before 9/11/01 the intelligence apparatus intersected with government, influenced government, and undoubtedly controlled many institutions with it. Back then, the legislative oversight function was weak and growing weaker, but it still existed and could have been used to keep the IC in check. However, after the events of 9/11/01, the short-sighted legislative reactions opened the door to allow the surveillance state to weaponize.
After the Patriot Act was triggered, not coincidentally only six weeks after 9/11, a slow and dangerous fuse was lit that ends with the intelligence apparatus being granted a massive amount of power. The problem with assembled power is always what happens when a Machiavellian network takes control over that power and begins the process to weaponize the tools for their own malicious benefit. That is exactly what the installation of Barack Obama was all about.
The Obama era intelligence team took pre-assembled intelligence weapons we should never have allowed to be created and turned those weapons into tools for radical, political and fundamental change. The target was the essential fabric of our nation. Ultimately, this corrupt political process gave power to create the Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch. From that perspective, the fundamental change was successful.
…It’s all Connected Folks, SEE HERE
[…] “The vision was first outlined in the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise plan championed by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and IC Chief Information Officer Al Tarasiuk almost three years ago.” … “It is difficult to underestimate the cloud contract’s importance. In a recent public appearance, CIA Chief Information Officer Douglas Wolfe called it “one of the most important technology procurements in recent history,” with ramifications far outside the realm of technology.” (READ MORE)
One job…. “take the preexisting system and retool it so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum.”
References:
Jack’s Magic Coffee Shop – HERE
Ok,lets just say that there was actually free speech allowed on Big Tech. Do you still want big brother knowing everything you post. Its too late anyway. They got the meta data on us and will use it when they are ready to drop the hammer.
I’ve never heard that as an excuse to say “let’s not have free speech”. That’s a very round about way saying you’re for censorship. Like what on earth kind of argument is that?
let big brother know everything you post? much of the time people post under their own name and it’s a public forum.
don’t be so fearful. use your freedom as if you still had it.
I think it’s time to drop the hammer of the law on those agencies who’ve been spying on Americans illegally.
I’m looking at you, CIA, NSA, FBI. National security is not a shield for illegal activities.
“just following orders and my paycheck…”
“Let that sink in for a moment.”
So, it is not a very far leap to suggest that those who want to see the breakup of big tech are presenting a danger to the national security of our country?
to at least the hegemony of the national security agencies of the country. big difference, but not one they want anyone to notice.
I thought Adm. Mike Rogers was supposed to be one of the good guys, but here he is, in league with the Usual Suspects.
After retirement Mike Rodgers was hired as the chairman of the board of advisors to a cyber security company called claroty. claroty provides cyber security for Industrial manufacturing Companies world wide . Some of their clients include, “the 10 biggest car manufacturers in the world, the 10 biggest life science companies in the world, [and] the 10 biggest food and beverage companies in the world.” Coca-Cola, General Motors and Pfizer have previously been named as clients”.
Claroty also provides cyber security for many of the largest electrical and water utility component manufacturers. Those utility components are ran by electronic controls.
Claroty has also partnered with crowd strike among other security companies. Claroty has grown substantially since Mike Rodgers became involved.
Mike Rodgers is deep into cyber security, and the Company (s) he is involved in have their security systems protecting (monitoring and potentially controlling) many of the major world industries. It is no wonder Rodgers signed the letter.
I don’t know what free-speech and cyber security have to do with each other. They are not incompatible.
Claroty is an Israeli company with ties to Israeli intelligence. Claroty was co-founded by members of Israel’s elite “Unit 8200” ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_8200#Companies_founded_by_alumni . On it’s board are former heads of the Mossad https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/52957
I think it should raise concerns for Americans that the first job Mike Rodgers got after leaving the NSA is to go and work for a foreign “cyber security” company. “Cyber security” is often just another name for spying and Israel has been known to spy on the United States.
As head of the NSA Rodgers was privy to Americas most secret intelligence tools. Now his knowledge is in the service of a foreign company started by foreign intelligence agents based in a country known to spy on America.
Yes, he was held in very high regard here at one time.
Perhaps the DS had pics of him and Fang Fang Bang Bang having friendly undercover operations, or maybe inappropriate material was ‘found’ on his personal computer and smart devices?
Oops, I see others have also commented on this subject, even speculating he’s been compromised. And now I vaguely recall rumors swirling in 2016 hinting that he was gay, even though he’s married with children. Doesn’t matter though – it may just be that these IC guys feel the government has a right to call the shots, given how, as Sundance points out, its tremendous subsidy and facilitation of social media sites.
He did ONE “Good thing”, and his actions MAY have been as much about “CYA” as anything else.
It was HIS responsibility, it was on HIS WATCH that a lower level officer brought to his attention that the NSA database was being innapropriately accessed, etc.
Doesn’t make him perfect, or a “white hat”.
Subject of your comment could have alerted Trump before the election.
Yeah, that is exactly what I thought as well. Wasn’t Admiral Rogers the one who told Trump he was being spied on? I was surprised to see his name on that letter.
nobody’s perfect.
Et tu, Adm. Rogers?
The Two Mike Rogers?
I think there are two.
One Mike Rogers was a Special Agent in Chicago for the FBI for 5 years.
Ran for Congress after that (from Michigan). Was made Chairman of a “powerful committee” – intelligence, security –
then stepped down and retired, self term-limited?
Then began a new career as a producer for CNN – for a special series on CNN about national security, which he also hosted:
“Declassified: Untold Stories of American Spies”
Then there is the other Mike Rogers who tipped off President Trump about being spied upon by the outgoing administration.
This is an excerpt from Wikipedia about the Mike Rogers, former FBI agent and member of Congress:
On November 30, 2011, Congressman Rogers introduced the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).[12] “The bill would allow the government to share all of its classified cyber-security knowledge with private companies, forming knowledge-sharing agreements that would hopefully keep China (and other countries and hackers) out of American computer networks. The catch is that the information shared is a two-lane street—companies would also be allowed to share private data with the federal government, provided there is a reasonable ‘cyber threat.'”[13] “In the current version, most personal information would be stripped from data shared with the government, and the bill no longer defines intellectual property theft as something relating to national security “We think we’re making huge progress with the privacy groups, so they understand what we’re trying to accomplish, which isn’t anything nefarious,” Rogers said”[14]
Rogers has reaffirmed his support for the NSA’s programs, stating on October 30, 2013, “You can’t have your privacy violated if you don’t know your privacy is violated.”[15][16]
Rogers introduced and supported the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015 (H.R. 4681; 113th Congress), a bill that would authorize a variety of intelligence agencies and their appropriations for fiscal years 2014 and 2015.[17][18] The total spending authorized by the bill is classified, but estimates based on intelligence leaks made by Edward Snowden indicate that the budget could be approximately $50 billion.[19][20] Rogers said that members of Congress “have somehow decided over the last year that our intelligence services are the problem… they are part of the solution.”[17]
In March 2014, Rogers announced he would not seek an 8th term in Congress.[21] He later launched “Something to Think About”, a daily radio segment.[22] Former Michigan State Senator Mike Bishop won the Republican primary and defeated Democratic challenger Eric Schertzing.[23]
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It was Admiral Mike Rogers that tipped off Trump. He is the one that signed the letter.
Seen it happen on these pages, too many times NOT to point it out; avoid allowing EMOTIONS to effect your decisions, views, opinions and as a part of that, quit assigning “White hats” to people.
Its our innate love of melodrama, and it clouds our thinking.
Just STOP with the “White hats”; Sessions, Huber, Durham,.. its counter-productive.
Breakups we have survived:
railroads
oil companies
Ma Bell
the big studios
Abusive person: if you complain about being abused, I am going to just have to hit you harder!
AKA
“the beatings will continue until the morale improves” . . . that is, the morale of the abuser!
Ma Bell broke up then reassembled into what is now the giant AT&T.
land Line was $25 a month with a phone that never breaks. Then Congress passed passed phones listed from utility to entertainment!
Southwestern Bell bought AT&T, then changed their name to AT&T.
More international name, I guess.
I read this several times.
Is there a way out or is it too late to understand the fundamental transflroamtion?
“After the Patriot Act was triggered, not coincidentally only six weeks after 9/11, a slow and dangerous fuse was lit that ends with the intelligence apparatus being granted a massive amount of power. The problem with assembled power is always what happens when a Machiavellian network takes control over that power and begins the process to weaponize the tools for their own malicious benefit. That is exactly what the installation of Barack Obama was all about.
The Obama era intelligence team took pre-assembled intelligence weapons we should never have allowed to be created and turned those weapons into tools for radical, political and fundamental change. The target was the essential fabric of our nation. Ultimately, this corrupt political process gave power to create the Fourth Branch of Government, the Intelligence Branch. From that perspective, the fundamental change was successful.”
bust 9-11.
https://ahtribune.com/history/1957-netanyahu-war.html
http://how911wasdone.blogspot.com
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Lp81hoFneM4z/
WOLVERINES!!
The world needs a chance to exist in peace and well being rather than always being on the defensive and looking for or starting the next fight. No more order by chaos
These criminals retained too much of the colonial/imperial economic motivation they used to justify their generations of theft and lies.
They are all de facto and unelected
another is the one state solution in israel. possibly as a one two process.
They Should have laid low not canceled conservatives.
Hmm..Did Trump know during his meetings w ZUCK and Dorsey?
I’ve often wondered the timing of Dorsey, Bezos, and Gates stepping down right after Biden was elected.
Gates obviously busy plotting NWO but Bezos and Dorsey seem like lightweights?!
Dorsey seems disgusted by what’s happened to Twitter with all the censorship, so is that why he stepped down.
Bezos took the money and is he just enjoying the good life.
“former intel officials”
No wonder President Trump is having so much trouble getting his social network off the ground.
It also explains all the craziness around Parler, Gab, etc.
There is no national danger from diffuse activity. Anything remotely resembling a danger is detectable with strictly legal means–that is, wholly Constitutional and practically without challenge from any quarter.
Return to those days, else the beast will devour its own tail.
It’s been kind of hard for me not to admire the Viet-Cong as of late…those tunnel networks were very impressive.
I wonder how they would have held up against Predator Drones armed with Hell-Fire missiles, though.
triple canopy jungle helps. and obama had those in afghanistan. who is in kabul now?
It has been said the USA is full of tunnels.
Why are we worried about Russia interfering in elections? Our own friggin’ government is influencing our elections thru big tech. This private/government partnership cannot be allowed to stand. If allowed to stand our freedoms are toast, along with our Constitution. It’s just one big as government propaganda system with the ability to enforce their globalist whims. There is no We The People anymore. It’s fascism.
our own government has been influencing elections since pre WWII and certainly since the formation of the CIA in 1947 which has this as a primary purpose
I have 2 questions.
1) Are these the same former intelligence officials that claimed Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation?
2) If the government is subsidizing these platforms and the platforms are censoring speech, then isn’t this government censorship, which is prohibited by the 1st amendment?
Some of them. From the linked Greenwald article:
several of these officials are themselves leading disinformation agents: many were the same former intelligence officials who signed the now-infamous-and-debunked pre-election letter fraudulently claiming that the authentic Hunter Biden emails had the “hallmarks” of Russia disinformation (former Obama Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former Obama CIA Director Michael Morrell, former Obama CIA/Pentagon chief Leon Panetta)
Exactly what I thought when I read it.
For me, and perhaps many others, their credibility is Zero.
How many times do the same people have to lie…and actually be caught lying…before people catch on? They lie.
Common sense is not very common.
Morell was also evasive during his questioning during the Benghazi hearings.
To this day, we still don’t know where or what Hillary was doing do those fateful hours. She could have just told the public within days of the fiasco but said basically “Lets have a long and drawn out investigation that ensures that by the time that exact question comes up , I will have “no recollection”….”
just awaits appropriate litigation.
it’s not a defense to say i didn’t kill her judge, i hired mickey to kill her.
same deal.
From my perspective:
Look at how much corruption, fraud, Marxism, fascism, hate, vitriol for the middle class world-wide is being exposed on a daily basis?
Who knew how deprived and evil the NWO leaders really were/are? Everyday more information comes out from independent journalists and citizen journalist warriors.
I think this is terrific! We should be cheering Sundance and others who bring the truth, (with documentation) to us daily and we are smarter and wiser today than we were yesterday.
Don’t let this information depress you or make you feel anxious. Rather, be happy, you are now enlightened and move forward in the right direction as you look at your surroundings and events with more critical thinking.
Remember you are now wiser today than you were yesterday.
99% of the country doesn’t read CTH and knows nothing about any of this. If you try to explain it to them they think you’re a conspiracy nut who belongs in the nut hatch.
How well I know that!
I was called and referred to as a ‘conspiracy nut’ for the last 20 years and I’ve have been right on all counts.
Actually, some have contacted me to tell me ‘You were right”……but that is not important.
The important part is that : I can sleep well. I can think well. I can navigate well. I can make the right decisions for me and my family.
Living my best life daily.
I tried to explain Blackrock to a relative today, and yes, I am crazy.
Cassandra was always right. Now Trojans are just prophylactic’s.
I’ve been reading here for 10 years.
There are more and more names I do not recognize commenting on CTH. Would make one think where to find the truth is spreading.
and pull for marine le pen.
I’m gobsmacked by this action on the part of only one of the signatories:
Admiral Michael S. Rogers
Former Commander, U.S. Cyber Command
Former Director, National Security Agency
Was I under the delusion that he was a genuine patriot? Else, why would he do this? Hidden agenda?
Oh yeah …these guys. Good guys, love America enough to put fascists in charge
FJB.
Cleareyed: They love their consulting gigs and stock portfolios.
I had previously thought that Admiral Michael S. Rogers Former Commander, U.S. Cyber Command Former Director, National Security Agency was a white hat.
Guess not.
Roger’s name on that list is a sobering reminder of just how deep the state really is.
Fascists on the left… fascists on the right… fascists in the middle of the road. There seems to be no way forward. Time to go back.
charge of the Light Brigade …as into the valley of death rode america
Glenn Greenwald’s full take:
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/former-intelligence-officials-citing
While one of their central claims is that Big Tech monopoly power is necessary to combat (i.e., censor) “foreign disinformation,” several of these officials are themselves leading disinformation agents: many were the same former intelligence officials who signed the now-infamous-and-debunked pre-election letter fraudulently claiming that the authentic Hunter Biden emails had the “hallmarks” of Russia disinformation.
It should go without saying that these life-long security state operatives do not care in the slightest about the dangers of “disinformation.” Indeed — as evidenced by the fact that most of them generated one Russiagate fraud after the next
It they want data give them lots of it all false, let them sift through that
The IC still has the power but their credibility is really shot. Just think of all the hoaxes they swore as fact only to find out months or years later that little of it was true, from Russia, Russia to the election and everything in between. M. My biggest hope I. is Elan M is a couple of steps ahead and plans on using his satellites. Am sure he has thought this all through and understands the evil and roadblocks he faces. Remember also as the largest EV manufacturer in the world he WAS NOT invited to participate in any of the discussions at the WH with all the other car manufactures when discussing the importance of EV .He likes fighting as an underdog.
He and PDJT have that in common!
“…….a letter to congress warning that any effort to break up Big Tech (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google, Microsoft, etc.) would be catastrophic for the national security system they have created.”
Remember back when national security went hand in hand with economic security, and gas was under $2 a gallon?
Good times….good times….
Kind of reminds me of fear porn centered around Y2K!
Only evil men like Comey, Clapper and Brennan could conceive of this travesty. Traitors to our Constitution and our country. Shoot at dawn!
Are there ANY patriots left in the U.S. Congress to put a stop to this unholy alliance of intelligence agencies and Big Tech? Or are they all just corrupt and greedy little sell-outs? The survival of the founders’ free Republic is at stake.
Paging Elon Musk. Clean up aisle 7.
Don’t expect Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy to save the USA. They’re part of this and paid well to enable it.
The letter is a complete lie on its face and should be immediately rejected based solely on the historically proven immorality and dishonesty of the vast majority of signatories.
This reminds me of an urban legend about some talking RV that threatens the public then explodes next to some mysterious building in a major US city and the whole story is hushed up within a day or so.
The one that supposedly blew up a major network node for AT&T?
🤐
I wrote my Senator, but since he is a RINO, allied with Mitch McConnell, I’m not sure he will do a thing. But at least, I let him know my opinion – how dangerous such “oversight” would be. It literally gives the law-making power of Congress to unelected government agencies.
Amazon can’t exist without intelligence systems. It is how it was created and excelled ever since.
90% of amazon’s products are junk…
They sure do love to project their authoritarianism onto others don’t they?
6 abject morons who without being criminals couldn’t buy coffee.
Et tu Rodgers?
Is it not ironic that after so many films produced and acted in by liberals since the 1970s that portrayed the CIA as rogue scumbag anti-American immoral agency that now it is held up the paragon of civic virtue and patriotism by the left??
Remember, a lot of mid-level CIA staff were ga-ga Castroites who helped fund Castro’s failing mountain guerilla campaign (along with the NY Times journalist Herbert Matthews (2/4/1957) who gushed about him when he visited him in his mountain hideout; he was tricked into thinking Castro was multitasking the battlespace by having the same messenger carry to his tent a new “message” from the front every 15 minutes) rather than noticing Castro’s SovietLust.
It’s time for likeminded folks to get employed by the CIA to “diversify” the ranks. Of course, a lot of recent GOWT veterans cannot join as China hacked the GAO that had all the data on vets trying to join including photos and fingerprints.
this letter is brought to you by Satan the King of Lies….
“we have to report lies” anytime all the time …
NO… how about we reinstate the Truth Law… WH and all bureaucracies and institution must report the truth. The whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth. It worked before and will work again…
I think lie detector tests are underused. Think of all the possibilities if they could be used in Congress and on our IC
Doubt they would be effective as they rely on measuring a normal physiological reaction to lying. Notably limited effectiveness when testing sociopaths.
These bastards are all knee deep in the hoopla. Same faces, same sickening plans, they’re all connected via the vile swampy network. It’s big, it’s very big and the layers are being peeled off showing the rot.
If true….it’s the smoking gun proving federal government is actively removing our Bill of rights
The fact these services, and the devices they operate on, are massive violations of our 4th amendment rights is of no concern to people who are paranoid of their own shadow.
Sign the terms of service. You now have no rights.
The First Amendment is the final authority on truth. That is, there is no authority on truth, as WE ALL have a right to express it as we see it.
Any governmental entity that claims to be the enforcer of truth is a menace to the Constitution.
We are a free people who elect representatives to set statutes in place that govern boundaries of behavior, all of which must be in accord with the Constitution’s mandate of respect for individual liberty.
Therefore, no government measure may seize a person’s rights without due process–individually, and not as a class–for LAWS are class acts (remember: bills of attainder).
FYI, Facebook also uses your device’s microphone to listen to you. Any time I started talking about a subject – not typing about it, mind, talking! – I’d start to get related ads on Facebook. FB also knew when I was pregnant before anyone else did.
They’re nearly impossible to escape, too. Even if you’ve never been to the website directly, if you’ve ever been to a website with a button to share to FB, they’ve got cookies in your browser. And they’re using it to collect your data.
I am sure it’s been mentioned but the interviews with Vlad. Putin conducted by Oliver Stone are enlightening, fascinating and knowing what we know now reinforce how IC and big tech are one entity.
Of course they can’t get broken up our govt. operations would become more fragmented and the various factions harder to control.
Apple literally lives in most homes and workplaces worldwide so Cook is obviously another govt. asset.
Some of these companies are profitable I assume, or are they structured to be rewarded according to how useful they are to the government.
I used to look at China companies like Alibaba the Amazon of China with such disdain thinking I would never invest in such a company but, USA 🇺🇸 sadly is no different!
Of course the SEC does nothing about Wall Street corruption they are the ones manipulating the stocks to their benefit.
If a company doesn’t play ball or just becomes outdated, replaced or of little use they crash the stock.
Speaking of psyches, where is Jack Maxey? Is he stuck in the rabbit hole?
I always feel so dirty and gross after reading these type stories. I need a shower.
Obama getting in on the effort to end free speech now too.
It’s all so scripted with them. Just waiting for HRC to tweet about it next.
He is the biggest threat to this country.
Why not all the Rats in a Zoo. They want the whole of humanity to suffer under their Big Tech/OneWorldGovernment control. For heaven’s sake, they want to kill us, maim us, enslave us – they are maniacs. A zoo of cages, each having a sign with the name of the inhabitant and its record of crimes against humanity. Then they will know exactly how it feels to lose freedom, control and dignity.
Super disappointed to see Admiral Rogers signature on that letter, was thinking he was a white hat after his actions alerting Trump during the Russia hoax
I don’t believe there’s any chance we vote our way out of this mess. Certain elements within the Federal government will never allow it. Far too many entrenched interests benefit from the current arrangement, both inside and outside of government.
The real problem is that Democrats and the corporate Left have weaponized the data collection, which is completely untenable in a functioning society.
I have no illusions about the Republican leadership in Congress – they pose absolutely no threat to the Intel and corporate status quo.
I’ve said it for years – Republicans better shatter Google into a 1000 pieces or the party will face increasingly difficult political circumstances as the Baby Boomers die off. Sooner rather than later.
If the intelligence community’s argument is well intentioned and legitimate, why do local intelligence agencies, major telecommunications companies, federal law enforcement, and the FCC ignore Anne refuse to investigate allegations of cybersecurity consistently for 5 plus years for a tax paying legal citizen? What has been the ROI for Citizens? Has cybercrime been prevented? Sex Crimes? Illegal drug trafficking? Identity theft? If you look within your own circle of family and friends, how many have been a victim and what was their experience? Was there report investigated? We’re they able to financially recover their losses. In my case no.
“…any effort to break up Big Tech (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google, Microsoft, etc.) would be catastrophic for the national security system they have created.”
Let’s hope the word catastrophic turns out to be an understatement.
Of course the power is more addicting than heroin AND increasingly necessary for survival, either monetary or criminal.
After all what happens when enough people realize how many forms of mass murder are involved in the people who died of the bioweapon itself; the healthy middle aged neighbor next door who collapsed after the first shot and died, or the people in the hospital murdered by prescription and neglect even beyond remdesivir and the vent…..
Or two years false imprisonment.