The team at Rumble Video have taken a strong position in defense of free speech, an open internet and protection of a diverse public square.
Apparently, the French government demanded that Rumble remove content the government does not support. [Source] Rumble said no.
Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski then followed up delivering a statement via Twitter: “The French Government has demanded that Rumble (@rumblevideo) block Russian news sources. Like @elonmusk, I won’t move our goal posts for any foreign government. Rumble will turn off France entirely (France isn’t material to us) and we will challenge the legality of this demand.”
Pavlovski and Rumble being transparent and making the demand from the French government public raises a few questions.
Rumble said ‘no’, but who said ‘yes’?
The French Government has demanded that Rumble (@rumblevideo) block Russian news sources. Like @elonmusk, I won't move our goal posts for any foreign government.
Rumble will turn off France entirely (France isn't material to us) and we will challenge the legality of this demand. https://t.co/a4Nn4S1MMf
— Chris Pavlovski (@chrispavlovski) November 1, 2022
It would be highly unlikely that Rumble is the only tech platform the French government have contacted with their demands. What did the other platform providers do?
How many other ‘western‘ governments make demands on content from Big Tech platform providers that we do not know about?
On the domestic side, the issue of what France is demanding is essentially analogous with what the U.S. government (DHS) has been doing within the censorship discussion recently highlighted by The Intercept. However, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google and Microsoft have not been open with the American people about these back-channel discussions and demands from the U.S. government.
Most of what we are now learning about government control over social media content is coming as a result of a lawsuit filed by the State of Missouri against the Biden administration.
(New York Post) – A little-noticed federal lawsuit, Missouri v. Biden, is uncovering astonishing evidence of an entrenched censorship scheme cooked up between the federal government and Big Tech that would make Communist China proud.
So far, 67 officials or agencies — including the FBI — have been accused in the lawsuit of violating the First Amendment by pressuring Facebook, Twitter and Google to censor users for alleged misinformation or disinformation.
Victims of the Biden-Big Tech “censorship enterprise” include The Post, whose Hunter Biden laptop exposé was suppressed by Facebook and then Twitter in October 2020 after the FBI went to Facebook, warning it with great specificity to watch out for a “dump” of Russian disinformation, pertaining to Joe Biden, with an uncanny resemblance to our stories.
“We allege that top-ranking Biden administration officials colluded with those social media companies to suppress speech about the Hunter Biden laptop story, the origins of COVID-19, the efficacy of masks, and election integrity,” is how the lawsuit was summarized by intrepid Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who is leading the action.
The censorship related to alleged “misinformation” about pandemic lockdowns, vaccines and COVID-19, and included material from the esteemed infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists associated with the Great Barrington Declaration, which proved over time to be correct and eventually much of which was adopted as official policy by the CDC.
Defendants include FBI special agents Elvis Chan and Laura Dehmlow, who gave Facebook that detailed “disinformation” briefing right before The Post was censored; White House press secretaries, current and former, Karine Jean-Pierre and Jen Psaki; Dr. Anthony Fauci, the president’s chief medical adviser, and former White House senior COVID-19 adviser Andrew Slavitt; counsel to President Biden Dana Remus; the DHS over the disbanded Disinformation Governance Board; the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; the FDA; the State Department; and the US Election Assistance Commission.
Last month a federal judge ordered a reluctant Fauci and Jean-Pierre to hand over their records, so the case is progressing nicely.(read more)
As various entities and Big Tech platforms prepare to launch lawfare litigation, a strategy built on threats, against any member of the Rebel Alliance who outlines the schemes and connections between government and Big Tech, they would be wise to reconsider the unstable cornerstone of their position…
Part 1: CIA’s Extraordinary Role Influencing Liberal Media Outlets Daily Kos, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)—Dick Russell:
“My investigation suggests that Pharma and Gates have a powerful clandestine partner that has made the medical-industrial complex’s media hegemony airtight through their apparent penetration of leading liberal online news sites. It is also well-documented, though often forgotten, that since its inception more than 70 years ago, the CIA has orchestrated news and editorial coverage in America’s most influential liberal national news organs — Washington Post, New York Times and TIME.
These outlets continue to hew faithfully to CIA theology on globalism, biosecurity, coerced vaccinations, Russiagate, a militarized foreign policy, censorship, lockdowns, vaccine passports, digitized currencies and other issues. My investigation for The Defender indicates that Kennedy’s most vitriolic critics among the liberal online journals may themselves have also fallen under the sway of the intelligence apparatus.
In “The Real Anthony Fauci,” Kennedy exposes Pharma’s alarming entanglements with the CIA, bioweapons developers, medical technocrats and the Silicon Valley robber barons. My own research has revealed that military and intelligence agencies enjoy disturbing links to the leading editors of Daily Kos, The Daily Beast and Rolling Stone that may explain why these journals have lately devolved into ideological commissars for the pharmaceutical cartel’s official orthodoxies, champions of the biosecurity paradigm and censors against critics of the biosecurity state. …….
Operation Mockingbird
In 1948, the year after its founding, the CIA created a top-secret program — Operation Mockingbird — to wield influence over the American media. From its inception, this clandestine project was yet another of the CIA’s outlaw enterprises.
The 1948 Smith-Mundt Act had illegalized the use of CIA funding to broadcast propaganda to Americans. When a congressional investigation in the mid-1970s first revealed Operation Mockingbird’s existence, shocked Americans learned that the agency’s key CIA collaborators included Washington Post owner Philip Graham; CBS owner William Paley; Time-Life publisher Henry Luce; top editors at the New York Times, and Joseph Alsop, whose influential column appeared in more than 300 newspapers.
CIA Director Allen Dulles oversaw Mockingbird’s illegal network until RFK Jr.’s uncle, President John Kennedy, fired him at the end of 1961. By then, Mockingbird was employing “some 3,000 salaried and contract CIA employees… engaged in propaganda efforts.”
The agency commissioned its journalists to write articles promoting the expansion of the military-industrial complex and the national security state, and rewarded them with classified information to spice up their “scoops.”
The CIA also established formal journalism training for its spies, embedding them in key journals and nurturing their careers. The agency promoted propaganda narratives, including portraying murdered Salvadoran farmers as Communists under Soviet control, and discouraged newspapers from delving into CIA atrocities such as the agency’s mass murders of tens of thousands of Vietnamese peasants, Buddhist leaders and intellectuals (Operation Phoenix); its orchestration of the butchering of a million Indonesian civilians; its political assassination, torture training and regime-change projects across Latin America (Operation Condor), Africa, and Asia; its crack dealing and drug smuggling operations; and its role in the overthrow of the Democratic governments in Chile, Guatemala, Iran, Iraq and elsewhere.
CIA-affiliated journalists were instrumental in suppressing questions about the CIA’s role in the Kennedy assassination — even as the agency’s former chief, Allen Dulles (who remarked with satisfaction of JFK’s murder: “That little Kennedy … He thought he was a god”), crafted and defended the official “lone shooter” narrative from his chair running the Warren Commission. …
Ulfkotte quotes a CIA agent who told the Washington Post, “You can get a journalist for less than a good whore, for a few hundred dollars.”
While on assignment in the Middle East, Ulfkotte regularly reported to the local CIA and BND outposts. While working abroad as a foreign correspondent, he discovered that “every foreign reporter for the American and British press was also active for their intelligence services.”
He describes how the CIA houses its captured journalists in sinecures at U.S. and German think tanks that have close ties to the CIA and NATO, where they manufacture pro-U.S. opinion and push for war with Russia. The State Department, Ulfkotte says, provides grant money to think tanks that house journalists/spies and that promote CIA propaganda.
Like Kennedy’s new book, Ulfkotte’s “Presstitutes” was a bestseller in Germany (for a full 18 months) when it was first published in 2013, despite a wall-to-wall boycott by mainstream media.
Today, leading liberal press organs routinely print unvetted CIA disinformation as verified news stories.
In April 2021, Glenn Greenwald revealed that the blockbuster New York Times story “Bountygate” was actually a CIA-generated propaganda fiction. The Times reported that the Russian government tried to pay Taliban-linked fighters to attack U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. The Times reporters got this tall tale from the CIA and neither verified or fact-checked it. The Times reporters did not disclose that the CIA had provided the unverified story. …
In an April 2021 article, “The CIA Used to Infiltrate the Media. Now the CIA Is the Media,” Caitlin Johnstone writes:
“They quite literally ran a CIA press release and disguised it as a news story. …This isn’t Operation Mockingbird. It’s so much worse. Operation Mockingbird was the CIA doing something to the media. What we are seeing now is the CIA openly acting as the media. Any separation between the CIA and the news media, indeed even any pretense of separation, has been dropped.”
Part 2: The Belly of The Daily Beast and Its Perceptible Ties to the CIA:
On July 8, writing in the African-American news blog Black Agenda Report, Public Radio Editor Riva Enteen asks why the “U.S. ‘Left’ Has Repositioned Itself on the ‘Right’ — Aligned with Capital, War and Repression”:
“Why is it that most of those who were concerned with the far-reaching civil liberties implications of the Patriot Act after 9-11 now trust the FBI and are thrilled that Silicon Valley is censoring all but established ‘truth?’ Why is it that the ‘educated’ class in this country is particularly all in for censorship? What about the enlightenment principles of skepticism, critical thought, inquiry, and free speech—all the qualities ‘liberals’ used to stand for? Thinking for yourself is now a dangerous form of radicalism.
“[T]he most dangerous component of ‘MSM’ fake news is arguably propaganda by omission. The public cannot make informed decisions, and take appropriate action, when the crimes of ruling elites are kept hidden by a complicit media.”
Enteen observes that the mainstream media has devolved into the modern iteration of Mockingbird, promoting the CIA’s biosecurity agenda—which conflates terrorism with vaccine hesitancy, and leverages the orchestrated fear of germs to expand state authority.
Glenn Greenwald concurs, pointing out that, under the CIA’s new post-COVID era rubric, “Domestic Violent Extremists” [DVEs] are “those who oppose capitalism and all forms of globalization… derived from anti-government or anti-authority sentiment,” and “opposition to perceived economic, racial or social hierarchies”… DVEs are “subject to a vast array of domestic surveillance and monitoring by the CIA and other intelligence agencies—in the name of fighting ‘domestic terrorism.’”
The current domestic War on Terror has already provoked billions more in military spending. “And Silicon Valley apparently is tasked with deciding who the domestic terrorists are,” adds Enteen.
The CIA’s consolidation of power over mainstream media and social media may be on the verge of accomplishing the agency’s ultimate ambition: after 70 years engineering coups d’états against the world’s democracies, the CIA, this year, may have finally achieved the ultimate triumph — the controlled demolition of American democracy and the obliteration of our Constitution.”…….
Obama repealed Smith-Mundt not just to propagandize Americans, but to run this entire Hydra-Headed Big Tech Police State.
Rest in the Vine: Cancelled: The Daily Beast Has a Real Journalist Arrested for the CIA
The Smith/Mundt Modernization Act, a rider to the 2012 appropriations act passed in late December of 2011, has done more to wrest “our democracy” from the hands of the People then any act of Congress in the past three centuries. Yet, if you have the opportunity to directly voice your concern about it to a member of Congress, they act as if they never heard of such an act, let alone do anything to repeal it!
And you can forget the “free press” from questioning this abridgment on their (our) rights. The Corporations that run the News cartel are a direct beneficiary, through direct funding! They’re in on it.
We know who hasn’t taken the ticket: Andrew Torba.
ADL and SPLC wouldn’t go after Gab so hard if he had.
Here, here!
We will not bow to the French but we will cut all services until we agree. Got it!
My first thought too… Oh the irony! Or is it hypocrisy?
LOL… how do you say “pound sand” in French?
‘livre sable’, piecing together from google translate
likely incorrect, perhaps a french speaker can sound off
Europe reminds Musk who’s in charge:
Musk Told by Sadiq Khan, EU Chief to Censor ‘Digital Hate’ on Twitter
Elon Musk has been told that Twitter must conform to a more censorious vision of the internet and continue to combat “digital hate” by London mayor Sadiq Khan and EU Commissioner Thierry Breton.
Following the Tesla billionaire’s official acquisition of social media giant Twitter this week, figures in Europe have already begun demanding that Elon Musk adheres to their anti-free speech agenda.
Mayor Sadiq Khan … demanded that Mr Musk continue the Silicon Valley social media site’s policy of combatting “digital hate”.
Khan said that … Musk should be cognisant that the “growing dangers of digitally-instigated violent extremism, racism, xenophobia, misogyny and misinformation are very real, and pose an existential threat to our democracy.”
“We cannot allow children growing up today to be exposed to the vile [and] violent ideologies of some users,” the London mayor said …
Turning to the subject of the suspended account of Donald Trump, whom he had several public spats with, Mr Khan demanded that if he is allowed back on the platform it “should hold him accountable [with] clear and robust rules that the former President must sign up to—and those rules must be enforced.”
@ThierryBreton
In Europe, the bird will fly by our rules.
It is not just France, it is here in the US, there is content that you will not find unless you really really dig, if at all. Much content has been scrubbed entirely from the internet, especially relating to Jan 6. Many of you have experienced this, being shadow banned, or banned entirely for not your speech, but the content of your speech. And I am not talking about using the J word, or dropping insults or threatening people or institutions. We are censored to no end out here, the internet is only forever if Google decides it is.
I have terabytes of saved political web pages. My wife asks why? Says I maybe a hundred or a thousand years from now someone will find it and see what really happened compared to the history books.
Thank You
Just try to find a street image of any of the results of the mostly peaceful fiery protests. Somehow guegull knew to stop posting any street images starting summer of 2019 (when did that dread disease “escape” the lab again?). There are no images for any of the burnt out cityscapes. None. Areas where there is imagery available for every month prior leading up to the riots (for example Target on Lake Street in murderapolis) there is a gap of nearly 3 years that just happens to overlap all the
plannedspontaneous riots and lockdowns.Check any city, it’s the same everywhere. The timeline of street images skips the entire time frame of the plandemic and riots.
Wow, you’re right! I used to live in Portland, OR (now TX) during those supposed peaceful protests, & I don’t remember how many people I’ve told they were actually quite destructive riots. Morals painted on city buildings were quite popular there, as I went around on the city buses not once did I see one. All sorts of other evidence such as burned cars, damaged buildings with windows boarded up, etc, but no “artful” glorification of the protests.
Lakeshore drive, Chicago, is Aug of 21. It takes a long time to redo it all. A town local to me has imagery from Aug of 22.
So they disabled access to Rumble, doing exactly what the French government wanted. Is everybody stupid?
Perhaps people who use Rumble in France will notice the lost and perhaps ask “why” and then look to VPNs or other means to see what macroon doesn’t want them to see.
re: “So they disabled access to Rumble”
VPNs get around this.
Why not just tell France to pound sand and Rumble continue as if nothing happened? Why talk tough and then act meek?
Wouldn’t the French government be able to sue them in EU courts if they did that? Whereas if they’re not providing a service in France, it’s much harder for the French to fine them for that service’s lack of “safety”.
They’re not supplying a service in France though. They are supplying a service in the US and French citizens are accessing it from France.
Yah— thanks Elon for blowing smoke and doing nothing to stop conservative censorship.
I knew it was all smoke and mirrors b.s. gimmicks and attention getting on your part.
You don’t give a damn about fair and balanced.
It was all b.s.
You are like all the rest of the globalist anti freedom crowd.
The peasants mean nothing to you. Enjoy your jokes while freedom burns to the ground.