I think we are now seeing the outlines of how the Fourth Branch of Government are planning to keep control over information, specifically public discussion on Big Tech platforms, even as Elon Musk moves to open the valves of information from the social media platform Twitter.
Previously the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced a new Dept of Homeland Security priority to combat disinformation {LINK} on technology platforms including social media.
Many eyebrows were raised as the announcement appeared to be an open admission that the U.S. government was going to control information by applying labels, that would align with allies in social media, who need a legal justification for censorship and content removal.
This CISA announcement was quickly followed by various government officials and agencies saying it was critical to combat Russian disinformation, as the events in Ukraine unfolded. In essence, Ukraine was the justification for search engines like Google, DuckDuckGo, and social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube to begin targeting information and content that did not align with the official U.S. government narrative.
Previously those same methods were deployed by the U.S. government, specifically the CDC and FDA, toward COVID-19 and the vaccination program. All of this background aligns with the previous visibility of a public-private partnership between the bureaucracy of government, the U.S. intelligence agencies and U.S. social media. That partnership now forms the very cornerstone of the DHS/CISA effort to control what information exists in the public space. It is highly important that people understand what is happening.
In July of 2021 the first admission of the official agenda behind the public-private partnership was made public {Reuters Article}.
What we are seeing now is an extension of the government control mechanisms, combined with a severe reaction by all stakeholders to the latest development in the Twitter takeover.
For two years the control mechanisms around information have been cemented by govt and Big Tech. Even the deployment of the linguistics around disinformation, misinformation and malinformation is all part of that collective effort. The collaboration between the government and Big Tech is not a matter for debate, it is all easily referenced by their own admissions. The current issue is how they are deploying the information controls.
We have COVID-19, the vaccination effort and now Ukraine as examples of the collaboration to control information, to control what people are permitted to question and discuss on the internet. Now things are getting much more detailed, and more alarming.
Shortly after Elon Musk made a bid to purchase a single information platform, Twitter, and then expressed his intent to open the speech valves, former Obama administration intelligence officials wrote a letter {SEE HERE} warning about efforts to break up the information control by Big Tech and Social Media.
That letter was shortly followed by a speech delivered by Obama himself where he specifically demanded that government take a larger role in the control of information {LINK}, essentially promoting an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth’ to control information in the public sphere.
The internet search engine operators have already agreed to align with the interests of the government. That’s not debatable as in the examples of Google {LINK) and DuckDuckGo {LINK} to name just two. Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube have famously also expressed their intent to align with the control of information, based on the instructions and edicts of the same U.S. government agencies. Again, this is not a conspiratorial claim, it is self admitted and we have all witnessed it.
Today, however, we are seeing the architecture of how they plan to organize the tools.
(POLITICO) – “DHS is standing up a new Disinformation Governance Board to coordinate countering misinformation related to homeland security, focused specifically on irregular migration and Russia. Nina Jankowicz will head the board as executive director. She previously was a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, advised the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry as part of the Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship and oversaw Russia and Belarus programs at the National Democratic Institute.” (link)
You can read more about Nina Jankowicz and her ideological alignment with the control mechanisms here and here. The bigger picture issue is that DHS will now work around any independence of social media, vis-a-vis Twitter as a free speech platform, by defining the parameters of allowed conversation. A bureaucratic board within DHS will now serve as the group who defines what can and cannot be discussed.
Here’s Ms. Jankowicz in September of 2020. The head of the DHS governance board, Nina Jankowicz, claiming that color revolutions are an appropriate response to rigged elections, but they will never rise in the U.S. WATCH:
It doesn’t take a deep thinker to see exactly where this is going. Various U.S. government agencies will now define their interests. The definitions will then be transmitted to the officers within big tech and social media, and any entity who dares to challenge that govt definition or govt narrative will be targeted for content removal.
Permitted speech will be defined by government agencies, and the mechanisms for controlling, targeting or removing speech that challenges that narrative will now lead to content removal. The shift here, the part that must be emphasized, is the official justification in the terms and conditions of the social media platform operators will come from U.S. government agencies, not the platform itself.
Against this backdrop it is not a surprise why Elon Musk’s entry into the information space is now considered a risk.
They are basically admitting what has always been behind the scenes re:Twitter.
wow!!
But at least we have a handy shortcut to the Truth on any
controversy or subject of importance. The TRUTH is whatever
Homeland Security Disinfo-Governance goons do not allow.
And whatever they do not allow, we will ACHIEVE, with the US Constitution
as our guiding star and governance board…
BTW, They said not to tlak about stooping the steal 2020, or the fact
that TRUMP WON TWICEW AND WILL AGAIN. THey forbid us to say thisa,
so we can be SURE it’s true ( the vote).
You should have no expectation of constitutional rights.
The Senate totally got away with holding an unconstitutional impeachment trial verses Trump after he left office.
There was no pushback from the right or the left or even Donald J Trump.
Remember the huge tarp bailout? They passed it and surprisingly discovered they were still alive with a massive spending package. Now we can pass trillions.
If you are not going to speak out when they violate the constitution, you get what you deserve.
What if you speak out and no one listens? Or worse, you speak out and become a J6 prisoner?
The problem is Trump supporters.
Typical Trump supporter.
I love Trump!
Trump is the only one for me!
If Sundance were to write it up, he would be pummeled and branded an anti-Trump site.
The truth has no agenda. Omitting the truth does have an agenda.
Remember the Dixie Chicks? They were the first cancel culture victims.
Maybe you should speak softly but carry a big stick?
The timing of this DHS announcement with the Musk purchase of Twitter is very revealing . . .
Is this about Tweeter and Musk or is this about Hussein and his behind the scenes rule over the land?
Didn’t Hussein express some scary desires for censorship last week? Might that have simply been the “coming out of the closet” speech for this move? One is just as likely as the next (Tweeter/Musk vs Hussein). Or is it all connected in some way?
No idea, just tossing out food for thought.
Obama was pleasured by a deluge of media verbal fellating…*we have to save democracy by destroying it*, is the updated orgasmic cry of *we are the ones we’ve been waiting for*. They always signal their next move, assuming we are all too stupid to see it…or…they have desperately abandoned even the pretense that this is anything but a boot on the neck.
I guess CISA is exempt from the First Amendment.
Absolutely. The repeal of it began long ago but, has certainly picked up a lot of steam lately. No formal repeal is necessary nowadays, just a simple silent lack of resistance. Can Musk resist? Certainly not alone and he is not alone. Perhaps he senses the wind changing? This coming election will be a big test for the deep state coming on the heels of the most transparent and honest election ever held in this country, lol. They may have just lost one of their biggest guns in the battle. Time to get more explicit and hence transparent in their methodology.
It’s like we have Lenin and Trotsky in charge of the United States now with all the Russian descents Biden appointed.
No it is not. They are simply ignoring the First and Fourth Amendments by bastardizing the definitions of “terrorism” to include any citizen spreading information (regardless of how accurate and true that information may be) that conflicts with the preferred official narratives of the Globalist Deep State that has seized control of the federal government via fraudulent elections and corruption of both elected and appointed officials via bribery and coercion.
Note: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Act of 2018 legislation, sponsored by GOP TX Rep. Michael McCaul, was passed by both houses of the 115th Congress and signed by President Trump in November of 2018 that authorizes CISA.
We were backstabbed by our own political party yet again.
We deserve what we allow. A Solzhenitsyn paraphrase.
And the corollary is this. You teach people how to treat you.
” Fourth Branch of Government “
Are you sure you don’t mean the Fourth Reich? The whole of our present Government?
The man behind the green curtain…
The problem I see is that they would be a form of law enforcement. Which laws would they be enforcing exactly?
dIsINfOrMaTiON! It’s a law probably.
In New America, the Law is whatever the Government says it is.
That’s why DOJ Lawyers can get caught leaking Grand Jury information, and FBI Agents can falsify 302’s when investigating the sexual assault of USA Gymnasts to cover up their misdeeds, and everyone gets to retire with full benefits and nobody gets prosecuted.
The Law is now simply the enforcement or non-enforcement of the policy preferences of the Official Government Party.
Exactly 💯 💯
Nice brief and accurate summary 👌 👍
Lots of answers like yours to the question. In view of Biden’s losses in court when his inventions of power (not even “over-reach” but actual INVENTIONS of power) are challenged, this will be no different.
There are still some inventions of power which need to be challenged in court and I’m surprised they aren’t. But the failure to uphold immigration law should be brought to the SCOTUS. Every state has standing.
“Enforcing laws” which contravene the US Constitution?
Whatever they say it is.
Soon :
To improve information hygiene , the Ministry will now require Biometric Login authentication before comments can be made.
” Next thing you know , they’ll take my thoughts away ” – Dave Mustain
Biometric Login authentication – “authenticating every human” twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517215736606957573
bingo
This societal construct no longer excites me. I think the Skunk Apes still believe in Free Speech. I am going to find them and ask.
In this time of unelected tyrannical proto- totalitarianism, KNOWING
Truth is a revolutionary act
As if I couldn’t hate them anymore than I do, they find a way. They always find a way.
Well, where are the (sorry Mom!) sphincter orifice Republicans jumping up and down about free speech?
Hear them?
Neither do I.
✅️RepubliCons helping to maintain the uniparty Con
Exactly 💯 💯
“Hear them?”
yep
Even though they play along, it no longer works.
Their silence betrays them.
Exactly.
At the most tenuous time in defending liberty and our founding principles the GOP is dead quiet.
I must admit, the past 20 years have been hugely illuminating.
MAGA candidates and values only. The UniParty and Deep State can pound sand.
yep
The Gateway Pundit has an interview with fmr congressman Steve King that explains exactly why they’re not
ty
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/wow-mccarthy-defends-leaked-jan-10-2021-audio-gop-lawmakers-cheer-talked-removing-trump-office-urging-tech-giants-silence-conservatives/
It identifies a good way to determine the most corrupt members of Congress. People selected by McCarthy to positions of authority in Congress should be targeted for removal.
But none of this happens without the moral corruption and corresponding inattention of the American population. They tolerate this, therfore it happens. What is required for them to stop tolerating it?
Sorry, I didn’t scroll far enough to see you’d addressed this. My Bad!!!
Good interview and insights from King. Worth the read just to be aware.
And how about the TGP read containing the nuggets below. That’s the answer to H&HC’s question of “where are the (sorry Mom!) sphincter orifice Republicans jumping up and down about free speech?” – they are cheering for their leader who wants to silence the conservatives among them.
McCarthy also indicated that he believed Twitter and Facebook should delete the accounts of lawmakers who were supporting Trump’s claim of a rigged election. “We can’t put up with that,” he said. “Can’t they take their Twitter accounts away, too?”
This was shocking audio. As Tucker Carlson said, “Those are the tape-recorded words of congressman Kevin McCarthy, a man who in private, it turns out, sounds like an MSNBC contributor.”
On Wednesday Kevin McCarthy spoke to GOP members at their conference and defended his call with GOP leaders following the Jan. 6 protests. The GOP caucus gave him a standing ovation!
Yeah, the GOP is going to save everyone. Keep voting for them.
We have always been at war with Eurasia.
Quote from the Ministry of Truth. 1984
This should work just fine on the conformist, collectivist drones indoctrinated in public schools and woke private schools.
You may Reeee now.
5×5
irregular migration – newspeak for invasion
j x: Yeah, “irregular migration” is a real whopper.
Thats a pretty big voting block
The goal is to bring the resources of (DHS) together to address this threat,” Mayorkas said, adding that the department is focused on the spread of disinformation in minority communities
Translation: The poll that showed only 26 percent of Hispanics approve of Biden and the shift in election results in South Texas have us shaking in terror that our entire theory of ethnic division and population replacement strategy for the last two decades was a complete failure, says the Jewish guy with the vaguely Hispanic sounding name.
Darn those Christian Hispanics with their devotion to family, conservative values, and love of the US.
Foiled again!
How long do we have before TREEHOUSE is taken down?
They can’t take our treehouse down.
The Conservative Treehouse is owned lock stock and barrel by Sundance and His Merry Band of Researchers and Admins. It is not hosted on someone else’s platform.
Actually, THEY can take us down by shutting off our electric. THEY can kick in our door and haul us off to reeducation camp. THEY can mess with our kids.
My 12 guage says I will not go and may even be able to take one of them with me.
Just for clarification, you are going to use your bang-stick to fight your way to a proper Zombie-repellant platform, like an AR-15 patterned rifle or something similar, correct?!
😁
unsure what you mean Rob. what I mean is when Pamela asked Churchill what she could do if the germans came Churchill said Pamela could get a kitchen knife and see if she can take one with her. I’m 80 and no-way I’m getting in any cattle car. whatever it takes
and my bang stick sounds more like boom and if I understand you are making fun of me I make a raspberry at you
Oh no merrie, I am not ‘making fun’ of you whatsover!
I am a very strongly support the 2A and the tenents upon which it was founded.
In discussions with like-minded people we sometimes talk about what is ‘the best’ gun for this or that situation, and we ‘joke’ that pistols are for fighting to get to your shotgun and the. using your shot gun to fight your way to get a hold of your AR-15.
I am also NOT getting on any steenking train, I can tell you that!!
Peace my friend!
okay, no raspberries.
Unfortunately not true. The USG can block any domain at any time.
I did not want to read that.
I guess we will all be moving to the Black Web.
Bite your fingers!
INFOWARS was banned from social media platforms 4 years ago
but the website is still going, alive and kicking today.
Gets more traffic than all the MSM online.
Alex Jones and Owen Shroyer are under attack by the dems’ J6 lawfare.
CTH needs a bigger firewall. BIGGER.
The Treehouse should be secure. The old hosts tried to close down the site a few years ago prompting a major effort (read: expensive) by the admin. to secure this site long term. You may have read about thsee experiences as Sundance explains the behind the scenes goings-on at Twitter. If gov. censors are able to close this site I would consider that the modern version of the “shot heard ’round the world” in our battle to maintain freedom of speech.
Kudos to SD and all behind the scenes for that effort. It was a memorable Herculean feat.
However, should the Regime determine that certain sites are purveyors of misinformation in violation of their Ministry of Truth, we may all lose this gem. Yes, it would be a shot heard.
Shouldn’t be too difficult. to find information falling outside the approved list.
They already own Joe’s Free Coffee shop.
This is bad.
How to say more with less. Well done!
Seriously, don’t use them.
People who love freedom won’t even register the birth of their children in the future. I believe it will get that bad.
That’s why a couple of decades ago they started giving out social security numbers when a child is born instead of when the child got a job (15 or 16 yrs old).
Did the form ask for the sex of the newborn?
Preemptively silence ourselves?
That’ll show ’em!
This just provides cover for big tech to continue to censor if they want. If Twitter or gab tell them to piss off what are they going to do about it?
The criminals are being forced out of the shadows now.
👉 “criminals” now becoming obvious “enemies foreign and domestic” 👈
Sunshine is the best disinfectant. The great positive in all of this is that people previously numb to what’s going on in the world are going to see the truth, front and center, without an ability to deny reality, which has been so easy to do in the past.
If Twitter or Gab tell the government to piss of, what is the government going to do about it?
Oh, nothing at all. They are all very reasonable, fair minded, law abiding, conscientious people in the government.
The criminals operate in broad daylight and are available to see firsthand every day on TV by anyone who wants to tune in. They could care less that you or I know they are criminal.
“It doesn’t take a deep thinker to see exactly where this is going. “
Even a child of five should be able to see that America now has a fascist government.
The problem is that 30% of the country not only embraces it because it’s what they want, they spend most of their waking hours accusing the other 70% of being the fascists…
The two areas identified for censorship: Illegal immigration and War on Russia.
Flood our country with millions of illiterate socialists – no dissent allowed;
Stuff billions into the military industrial complex and bribery – no dissent allowed.
F’n assh*les.
No, we are the F’n assh* les for sitting back and watching it happen
I wonder if David Brock will head it?
Just Posted link on Truth Social
I just followed you on TS
Nice of you to post this!!
Me too! Will Re-Truth.
Musk said Truth Social is a terrible name – should have been Trumpet.
I really like Trumpet.
I’m probably the only one that loves the name Truth- with the big T. So similar to Trump.
“Trump will be a trumpet.”
Does Elon Musk watch old Kim Clement prophecies?
All federal government employees, and this includes the US Military, now work for, and are paid by, a Fascist Government.
US “Climate Envoy” (whatever that is) John Kerry warned Wednesday that world leaders will “blow through a critical climate-change threshold unless they dramatically accelerate the transition to clean energy.” He said, “Let me be absolutely clear; we’re heading to well over 2 degrees right now, 2.7 or something like that,” speaking at Foreign Policy magazine’s Climate Summit.
CLIMATE ARMAGEDDON is whatever we say it is today. It’s the SCIENCE.
Those scientists say what they’re paid to say.
Hal, Baby, ya gotta let it go!
HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Time to dump a magazine into the ol laptop. It’s been real Treepers!
Godspeed!
another way to get caught built in your data system to monitor it – and saying ‘Oh we can start a group to monitor and go put systems in the internet’
more laundering to get retroactive immunity.
“ A bureaucratic board within DHS will now serve as the group who defines what can and cannot be discussed.”
I don’t see how this doesn’t get shot down as unconstitutional.
lawfare – they rape you until it gets to the court years later. in the meanwhile blackfile the potential judges prior to the case gets there – get a hole bunch of insane ‘no standing’ rulings.
rinse, cycle, repeat
By whomst?
The CS’er MF’ers.
Perkins Coie law firm.
Like I said.
Who will have standing? You have to challenge the Executive Branch of the Government. Unless you can show actual harm, you will not get this in front of a Federal judge.
Just like that, the government enacts censorship on social media platforms and 80% of the population will be totally unaware that it is happening.
A real life Ministry Of Truth. Even Orwell would be gobsmacked.
The government interfering with free speech and eliminating the 1st amendment. And we’re supposed to pretend it is legal, it isn’t, and it isn’t acceptable.
The same government that has admitted they have lied to the public about aspects of the Ukraine situation.
IOW, lying by the government is okay but citizens that don’t toe the line on their prescribed talking points are a threat.
How could this possibly survive a SCOTUS First Amendment challenge? 🤔🤔. Oh wait…never mind…
Don’t you remember that two Constitutionalists President Trump nominated to the Supreme Court, ie, Justice Kavanagh and Justice ACB both lost their copies of the Constitution and haven’t found them yet?
At some point, the ultimate guarantors of the nation known as the United States of America, and of its founding principles, are its citizens.
Stop looking to SCOTUS.
Become ungovernable in your speech and in your attitude towards attempts to suppress it, alter it, censor it, or silence it.
How silly they look disinformation datinformation it’s all just information, talk about fear. Just lately how many people have been talking about disinformation everyone that been hiding behind it.
This doesn’t hold up constitutionally. DHS does not get to define what is permissible speech in public forums and as long as social media is not a publisher it is a public forum. The state department already admitted it uses “disinformation” to throw Putin off balance in the war in the Ukraine. Get this to the courts and kill it right now. It has no consitutionsl standing or “national security” privilege. The government does not define acceptable speech.
Who has standing to take it to the courts? Especially before the illegal actions are taken.
Who will ever be told that they were censored on the order of government? Again, no standing without proof.
Actually it’s similar to the OSHA vaccine mandate defeat. A government department cannot proclaim any speech as deemed inappropriate to be discussed in a public forum. I get it this is the next level of the “50 intel officials” that said “Russian disinfirmation” about the hunter laptop this giving twittef and Facebook cover to kill discussion but again a government department legally proclaim what can and be discussed in a public forum. This cannot survive a legal challenge even using DHS as a shield.
Typo cannot legally proclaim what can or cannot be discussed in a public forum.
Flunktionary: “Hold my white wine spritzer.”
There is arguably standing for any participant in the social media space due to a chilling effect on speech. Certainly a newspaper or blog (cough cough) that was labelled as a “purveyor of disinformation ” by a government agency would be subject to a chilling effect on speech
That would be sufficient to give standing.
When the WaPo put out its list of “purveyors of disinformation ” some years ago (thanks btw – I found Zerohedge from that), it could be sued for defamation possibly, but not more than that. A federal entity, however created, doing the same thing is a violation of the First Amendment. Both on free speech grounds and on free press grounds.
They are making a GO at it! And,, Government DOES DEFINE ‘National Security’. (whatever they wish is included).
Who didn’t see that coming????
“They” will steal any needed seats in the 2022 mid-terms, then anyone who questions or tries to investigate the steal will be labeled a domestic terrorist and be censored and prosecuted. After decades of trying to hide everything, this is the Bureaucracy telling us “no more games, we’re in charge now”.
They arent and never will be in charge of ME. They can all get F’D AD!
With them coordinating with DOJ and Courts, where do we go to express our grievances on free speech? They are suddenly painting us Patriots into a corner and the only way out is a kenitic fight. Maybe sooner than later is the right COA before they shut down all capabilites for us to communicate operations. Just saying…..
First up: The 1st Amendment. Next up: You know.
The EU is also doing this
They can justify almost anything under the 1947 National Security Act umbrella ……. ‘ and for other purposes ‘
The “Ministry of Truth” in real life. Doesn’t surprise me though.
How long until we see a Challenge in the Courts? And who shall bring it? Both Truth Social and Elon Musk have the means and the incentive to challenge on a constitutional, free speech basis.
Musk should move Twitter headquarters to ‘friendly’ appeal court jurisdiction (I say that ignorant of the legal complexities) and use his resources to the file the mother of all 1st Amendment cases.
If he wins, great. If he doesn’t, perhaps the last firewall saving the United States from dissolution and/or worse will have crumbled.
Move it out of San Fan and turn the old Twitter HQ into a homeless shelter.
Set up shop in Texas where SpaceX and Tesla have their headquarters now.
Texas or Florida have no state income tax and friendly appellate courts!
I expect Section 230 protection is gonna get a makeover if Twitter doesn’t act right.
Who knows? Maybe government will get a makeover.
Meet the Ministry’s enforcement arm to deal with wrongthink.
A guest on Greg Hunters – USAWatchdog , a few weeks back said the control matrix machine was being assembled in ” Modular ” units that would rapidly bolt together.
And here we are.
MTG for Speaker of the House.
It’s time for real change for the better!
THEY are so stupid to think we are stupid…
Satan is losing.
Satan is particularly furious.
Satan shall be defeated.
There is nothing Satan can do to keep Christ from reclaiming his waiting bride.
After all, he has conquered death itself. Everything else since that victory is prologue. Insofar in claiming the remaining souls on Earth.
Well, we put on the Armour of God and stand strong in our faith…Satan wants us, all of us.
As I wrote before, they are a day late and a dollar short. “The emperors have no clothes…”
oops, just noticed my post name was changed!
First thought when suddenly seeing a post in moderation, “Okay, what did I fat-finger this time?”
When they eliminate the 1st amendment, the only one that will matter is the 2nd. And you know that’ll be their immediate target.
It has long been said that it is the second that grant the rest.
I don’t think folks have been buying at record levels for the last few years just to say “oh, they are illegal now? Okay, here they are”.
That’s what the CDC emergency powers are really for the 2nd Amendment!
Ministry of “truth”…. in quotes, lower case….