I’m going to skip noting that Elon Musk Twitter is essentially unchanged, regarding the relationship between Twitter, the Dept of Homeland Security and the disinformation police, as many keep saying Musk Twitter has not had time to reformat.
That said, five days after our post-election review of the difference between ballots and votes, and within minutes of the controversial Arizona governor contest being announced by DHS media outlets, suddenly any discussion about “Ballots -vs- Votes” is considered a risk to democracy. [LINK}
The need for control is a reaction to fear.
Twitter specifically, and Big Tech writ large, has now placed a warning on the CTH article where we draw attention to the general difference between ballots and votes. The timing of the intervention, as related to the content discussed, is transparent. Sunlight is a great disinfectant and must be controlled at all costs.
In one sense this effort to block discussion is irrelevant, the discussion is now taking place; attentions are being paid; the horse is out of the barn; millions are now expanding the discussion and applying Occam’s Razor to the simple reality. This is why information providers and independent researchers must work with urgency and diligence to control their own platforms.
CTH is never going to stop discussing the uncomfortable stuff because Truth Has No Agenda, regardless of our personal feelings or opinions on the matter.
Yes, in this discussion there is a clear difference between two electioneering priorities, one focused on ballot assembly and the other focused on winning votes. However, in the broader sense this censorship effort to control discussion of these distinctions shows just how far and fast we are collapsing into a totalitarian and Orwellian nightmare.
You can read or re-read the article HERE.
Find me something malicious, violent or even ::gasp:: untrue about the subject of Ballots vs Votes as written.
If truth is viewed by Twitter/DHS control mechanisms as an issue that could lead to “real world harm,” well, what does that tell us about how they are defining the “threat to our democracy” as applied from the mindset of the decisionmakers.
Beyond the annoyances, downstream at a granular level these types of information controls have consequences most information consumers do not consider.
These labels created by Big Tech are used against content providers like CTH to block people from reading. Paths on the internet are controlled by a host of technology systems that use these “malicious” tags as a justification to divert viewers and control the scale of information distribution. We call this “Techfiltration“.
Techfiltration is the threat to free speech and truthful -even controversial- discussion. Therefore ‘techfiltration’ is really the threat to democracy, not the speech itself. GO DEEP to understand the prior discussion of how your internet provider, cell phone carrier and browser control your internet travel.
…”If you cannot reach a website, see an image, view a page, or navigate a system, it’s likely not anything you are doing wrong; most often it’s the result of a tech control system designed to keep you away from the data. Additionally, valid information like emails or text messages are increasingly identified as malicious, spam or blocked completely by the email or cell phone service you have subscribed to.” (more)
CTH has one long standing position about discussion and research, The Truth Has No Agenda.
While the Twitter/DHS targeting operation may be intended to shut down discussion and research, we at CTH will not flinch.
It may seem like a small thing to many, but what these censorship examples represent are dangerous when left unchallenged. Once again, CTH will challenge these self-appointed arbiters and we will not stop providing information that challenges the orthodoxy of ‘approved’ collective thought.
Their need for control is a reaction to fear.
Our small yet formidable beacon will remain lit, and people will find it. We will continue asking the uncomfortable questions and presenting the logical conclusions, even if the DHS information control officers despise us in the reading of it.
Steadfast as always, determined as ever, and even more resolute with each annoyance.
~ Sundance
Dennis Prager has a new article that tackles the issue of how you can know what is truth and what is not. He says that anytime someone wants to censor a view, that view is the truth. He says that if you have truth on your side, you have no need to censor. Totally agree.
ONLY.
TRUMP.
“Spammy links that mislead people and disrupt their experience.………..”
Good grief. Who even talks like that?…..(except people who don’t want you to know what they’re saying…..)
Sounds like someone stuck in a 7th grader’s mind.
The truth that Sundance has written about many times is that there is no such thing as “Big Tech”.
The truth is that it is in reality we have “government Tech”, under the control of ODNI and operating as the NGO all by design to escape any senate oversight or regulations.
This article needs to be Posted by someone that knows how on Lucianne page. I’ve tried but I just can’t get links correct so they move. I also encounter glue and paste of initial post article lines problems. I need the help of a Teen guru.
Congratulations Sundance. 🙂 You have infuriated the Dem Nazis. 🙂
I have asked this question time and again without a satisfactory answer. If the 2020 election, and now the 2022 midterms, were free and fair elections, wouldn’t those in charge want to do everything to prove it – or at the very least dis-prove the irregularities that have been raised. That is the only way voters will regain their confidence in the election process.
The Dems and Reps are in 100% agreement on the current voting system.
Next stop will be online voting counted by Big Tech
Next step I’m afraid to say is no voting. We’re being discouraged from voting. Why vote when you can appoint.
Sure, why fight a battle when you can drop your weapon and walk away? And leave all of the other soldiers fighting? If enough of you go AWOL we’ll for sure lose the war …
those with nothing to hide do not do everything they can to hide the evidence of an event
They don’t care if we think the election was rigged so long as they get yo count the votes/ballots
Somebody somewhere cares about voters’ confidence in the election process? Somebody with “standing” , maybe, whatever the heck “standing” is. So far, nobody seems to have it, as regards voting irregularities.
One of the best sources for political articles anywhere and Sundance is accused of being “spammy”.
If it weren’t for malinformation they would have no information at all.
Sundance, like the old folks used to yell in church
“BRING IT MY BROTHER”
Not ‘malinformation’, plain old lies. Dennis Prager had some great comments on his show this afternoon. (I seldom listen to him, but evidently was meant to hear today’s show.) He said that only liars censor. Truth tellers have no need to censor. The side that is censoring isn’t telling the truth.
Long time lurker. Just signed up to comment. Thanks Sundance, you are doing phenomenal work.
Welcome to the treehouse.
“Our small yet formidable beacon will remain lit, and people will find it.”
May God bless the Conservative Treehouse and may truth prevail.
Is that pictured beacon on the island of Sanibel? Looks familiar.
Yes, post hurricane.
It is.
It is a fixture in Sundance’s world from his youth, fitting it should survive such an onslaught.
it was a reminder for me to donate in appreciation
A handful of candles become a lighthouse
I got an “awaiting for approval” notice on my post for the first time ever. Have I offended someone to have prompted this?
It happens to everyone when they first begin posting. You get Moderated a few times before their computers recognize that you are a Real person with ideas and not just some Bot.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
It was so important that is was the FIRST amendment to the still proposed but not ratified US Constitution. Without the amendments, the United States Constitution would NOT have been ratified. The colonies had to have written guarantees that the RIGHT to freely speak and discuss items of public interest would NOT be curtailed.
The only person with a monopoly on Truth is God. The president is not the person who defines what is true. Neither is Congress. Truth, as it deals with citizen interaction, is only decided by courts where finding of fact is done with citizen juries making the determination for legal purposes.
Business do not define what is true or not.
It is a travesty that the government agents who worked with Twitter/Facebook/etc… to censor speech are not in jail. Direct violation of the 1st Amendment.
this was the argument of the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists…….the latter thinking there were enough protections for individual rights in the US Constitution but the Federalists felt that without black and white civil rights guaranteeing protection against government intrusion the central government would have had all in the past become overbearing…….The Federalists Papers is a good read consisting of a series of articles written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay in the leading newspapers of the day to convince the public to support ratification of the Constitution with these 10 Amendments added
Unbelievable; guess you accidentally said something true.
Saying something is true is NEVER an accident where Sundance is concerned.
I’m telling you folks, it’s going to take guns on the street to stop this now. Just saying …
Can you imagine how bd it is going to get in just the next year. I truly believe we may not have an election in 2024. Right now, there should be millions protesting in Arizona, but nothing will happen, and the steal will continue to go on.
We didn’t have an election in 2022. What we had was a selection, just like 2020. We will never have another “election.” IMO
Of course we will have an election. Everybody has elections. But don’t be expecting the outcome to change.
Before we jump to open violence how about we start with mean words to our own family and friends who still deny the election fraud?
Anyone who can’t say mean words and risk being unwelcome at the cool kids table at Thanksgiving isn’t going to show up for the real struggle.
Except those mean words aren’t going to affect woke minds and it won’t wouldn’t matter you changes their minds or not. The outcome will be the same either way because democRATS won in Arizona BY CHEATING. And NOTHING I see is going to stop that because they already own all the institutions that are meant to be oversight bodies. We’re wasting our times here. MASS PROTESTS with guns in crowds of people who mean business is the only thing that will deter them from cheating. The only thing that will turn this around at this point.
That is just what the Democrats want.
A lot of Glowies want that.
That is what a lot of places around the world want.
I have started reading social platforms……
A lot of talk seems to be that if we have an uprising or civil war….
Then we will keep our noses out of the business of other countries…..it will financially ruin us more,etc.etc.
Me, not playing their game.
Seriously? You really think they want protests by MILLIONS of people who are armed and in the right? If so, you don’t understand their mentality. They are NOT going to actually risk their comfortable good lives. They depend on US for those good lives. And what’s your alternative? More hopium?
Far more likely to get patriots to enact economic warfare than form up fire teams. That’s where I’d start, and have.
However, it is often a glowworm that posts up direct action invectives. Most patriots have no interest in violence except in self-defense or as a last resort. We’re nowhere near last resorts yet.
Sorry, but they don’t care about what you purchase. Furthermore, almost anywhere you go to buy the things you need you find companies that are already woke. And we can’t wage economic warfare against the government or Democratic Party. They aren’t selling us anything. I can’t believe that after all these years, conservatives haven’t learned that boycotts or whatever you want to call them don’t work.
And now we seem unable to understand that ballet harvesting is not going to work. If what happened in Arizona didn’t tell you it’s “last resort” time, I don’t think you understand what happened there … and elsewhere.
Thank you Sundance for being ever vigilant to the truth the world is a better place for your presence in it and the work you do we all benefit from both be well and may Lord bless you and keep you safe
R.D.
I subscribe to several substacks and enjoy other newsletters. The Conservative Treehouse is the only one I have sent directly to my email. Comcast tried to put it on my spam folder but I wrote an “exception” in my email preferences and force them to deliver CTH emails. Most days I wish a sun flare would wipe out everything electronic in the world. But then I wouldn’t get great info like CTH produces.
we would have to go back to manual counting of the votes, social media would be dead, MSM would be off the air, and Sundance would make a newsletter. There are several positives as a result of a sun flare
If I had the power of God, my second directive would be to send every satellite in orbit directly into the sun, and to interdict new insertions for the next 500 years. My third would be to eradicate every mode of communication post the radio. Together, these would address one of the more obvious answers to the Fermi Paradox.
Revelation foretells of EVERYONE in the world seeing the Antichrist receiving a fatal head wound and surviving….how do you think that happens?
If there is no difference between ballots or votes, then they should not object to only counting votes. It is because they object that we know.
The proof that the elections are being corrupted and stolen is the enormous army of censors trying to prevent the truth from coming out. These are the real enemies of the people!
If the evidence was false they would not be trying to prevent it from coming out.
A lot of respect for you Sundance, you have got to be at the top of a lot of folks **** list, and by doing so you have put real skin in the game, something some of the rest of us need to do.
Communicate with people in real life, one on one and in small groups. In diners, restaurants, coffee shops. Don’t advocate violence, but stand up for the truth. Let others hear your voice. Be strong. Be prepared. Know that the government probably is listening
We have 500 million Ballots vs 168 million plus ‘registered’ voter!
They defiantly do not want people to think about that!
And around 100 million have showed up this election, so far. They are still counting ballots.
There are around 220 million people over the age of 18 in America. And still we have enough ballots to cover them. So do not worry and do not talk about it?
significant numbers. Can you point me to more info?
Ironically, Musk tweeted “By the people. For the people.” 10 hours ago. Pfft.
The truth is a threat to their democracy and their democracy is the final step to tyranny.
My deepest respect to you Sundance.
I agree with the sentiment, but we are at tyranny, if they can kill and imprison folks, never charge them,just lock them up and throw away the keys for protesting their goverment, we are at tyranny, its just taking a little while for the truth to sink in.
Spammy links, whatever.
But, the truth will surely disrupt their experience in the safe little environment they have built for themselves.
Listening to jimmy falah as I was driving around today, replacement for Rush’s time slot here, and he had people calling in saying whether they would vote for Trump again or RDS. The majority were saying that Trump should just move on, but the conversation was all about likeability over substance. Go figure.
Not once while I listened did this clown bring up the obvious election fixes, or even states where election tally’s shouldnt take a week to complete. None of the callers brought that up either. If they think that RDS isnt going to go through the same hate fest that Trump went through, theyre dreaming. If RDS even hints at fixing the problems within the Presidents admin, the knives will come out with a fury.
I dont vote for people who are likeable. I vote for people who will protect my personal freedoms, and God given civil rights. Likeability puts people in ovens or gulags. People need to wake da F up!
The censorship simply confirms the lack of objective, universally verifiable election results.
I am proposing that we initiate a constitutional amendment that requires to vote in any Federal Election it must be done in person and with proper ID. Ballads must be marked by hand with hand tabulation. No exceptions.
so you are prepared for a 7-10 year delay and think you can get 38 states to agree to fix elections that have been selecting leaders that are destroying the nation NOW……likely we don’t have 2 years left let alone that time frame
Late 18th, 19th & early 20th century those who despised these power monger games and the people who play them packed up and headed west. Not now. Those frontiers are closed. Ain’t nowhere to run. This is it.
Nothing more dangerous than a cornered animal.
If we do nothing …. nothing will change!
It all starts with bloated voter rolls. That is why they will fight a hand count and signature check, if they even have a signature requirement.
If they let Hobbs take office AZ will be lost for at least a decade.
the easy explanation is the voter rolls are inflated with GOTV and Motor-Voter and the ERIC system keeps them informed of the vote status… with the excess votes they can manipulate the result to get whatever outcome they wish
Did you notice the URL in the warning is incorrect? The title of the article within the URL states “… big-picture-2020-midterm-elections-highlights …” Obviously, SD’s article said “2022 Midterms.” Gee, maybe Big Tech’s hypersensitivity over the 2020 election triggered one of their AI algorithms or filters to put a block on the article. …Or not. Just had to throw it out there.
That’s . . . interesting. Did they do that because they’re stoopid or because they didn’t want people to actually click the link and go to the correct place. Maybe both?
Probably both. Never cease to be amazed at either their stoopidity or their malignancy!
Ballots and votes is a nice way to put it still
I call it a difference between sedition/treason and fraud and legitimate elections as the Constitution intended.
I am going to study this. Something seems very off to me, when candidates for public office can skip debates, not make public appearances, and even skip talking to voters but still win.
They do not win. They are appointed.
Seems off? Stevie Wonder can see the election fraud from space, to borrow from another blogger’s writing.
“by Twitter or our partners”
…and the umbregeous partners who are inclined towards three-lettered acronyms and suburban DC addresses make another unscheduled appearance.
Many years ago it was go the precinct book, see who had not voted, sign them in and create a vote. This is the high tech, high production method of doing the same thing. The things that fixed that will fix this. Election day, ID verified with opposition partisan judges at the precinct. It is the reason they fight all three.
but now, they don’t even bother to “go to the precinct book, see who had not voted”
they’ll take Republican identities on the voter roll, print a ballot, and vote them Democrat
Republican shows up on election day is told “I’m sorry, sir, but it appears you ALREADY voted”
What do you have to lose? Donald Trump asked the blacks in 2016. They voted overwhelmingly for his opponent who represented the party that had been harvesting their votes for 1/2 a century.
We couldn’t understand how the blacks could keep voting Democrat. Now we can because we are doing the same thing…sticking with the GOP that has screwed us over since Reagan left office and probably before. A new party just guarantees we lose is the argument. When have we won?
Once I caught onto that message ( quite a long time ago) trying to divert me, I clicked to ignore it and proceed. I cannot be the only one.
Sundance, Thank You for being a man of integrity and continuing to speak the truth.
Amen and Amen! How the heck would we survive this mess without Sundance explaining things that have been so well disguised? Please Donate today!
It is sad when the real threat to our Constitutional Republic, The Bill of Rights and our freedom is our own Government.
Marcus Tullius Cicero’s Speech to the Roman Senate on the traitors within 58BC is as relevant today as it was then.
Stealing freedom is what government does. That reality underlies the Bill of Rights, Constitution and the American Republic
Looks like CTH has been given the Big Tech Over-The-Target Seal Of Approval.
Well, if “they” have to follow a link on twatter to CTH they will probably sell their ballot for a plat of cold chicken tenders or a 6 pack of energy drinks. Offer them a bag of weed and they’ll harvest every ballot in their apartment complex.
No one on “that side” is looking for factual information. We just watched a demonstration of that in the Western hemisphere.
While I agree with Sundance that it is too early too judge Elon’s twitter, this specific case of ballots vs votes may not be a remnant of before Elon code. Technically, this kind of filtration is typically accomplished through word recognition because that is the easiest to code. The other option by context, which is more difficult to code and has greater chance of error.
If this is done by word recognition, misspelling the word ballot throughout the document should allow it to pass the censors. A little test would be telling. If this is indeed the way it is filtered, it could have been set up before Elon took over. However, I doubt it. I doubt it because the main way we have been getting information past censorship has been because they are lazy and not proactive. They build the lock and we figure out a way around the lock, over and over and over. They take over a platform and we move to another.
There is a third possibility of a former employee making a change by getting around all the mechanisms Elon put in place to prevent this. I doubt this because his mechanisms were quite thorough and he implemented them before most of the former employees realized their jobs were gone. A fourth possibility is the action of a traitor in the ranks. I think this is unlikely because it is too traceable.
I personally think this is the face of the new twitter. We won’t censor but we will slap on guard rails. This is in alignment with what Elon has said about twitter not becoming a totally free speech environment because he must appease both woke and unwoke advertisers. With Elon at the helm, you are still the product that twitter is selling to advertisers.
Changing the list of words filtered is simply adding a line to a text document not an actual change of code. Anyone with access could do it in minutes.
Twitter Musk = ” Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss”.
So the link stays up and you can see what the article is about and then there is a continue button so people can still get to the article? Do most people just not pursue when they see this? Because it would make me more curious…actually I just went there and clicked continue just to make sure it went to the article and it did. (I don’t do twitter so I don’t know much about how it works.)
Most in the herd see the scary message and run back to mommy.
What link?
I’ve been following politics since, ohhhh mid 50s…. I’ve seen a lot, but never expected to see what I see happening now… never thought what I see could be possible…
As long as the MSM remains beholden to satan, the biggest liar of them all, nothing will change.
Here’s another example with utterly predictable timiting.
Google …
Richard Baris twitter
If the people of AZ are unwilling to rip the guts out of this stolen election, that’s it.
After the blatant 2020 election fraud when nothing was done and exactly zero of the criminals were punished, why did anyone seriously think they would not steal it again in 2022? Which of course they did, Kari Lake’s loss being just the most obvious example.
Folks, there is no voting our way out of this mess. There will never be another truly free election ever again until every state makes the changes which Florida and a few other states have made to limit the ability of the DemoRats to commit fraud. Until such time as that actually happens, all of this is just words typed on a page, destined to be forgotten as the DemoRats commit fraud gleefully until forever.
RIP the former United States of America. It no longer exists.
George Bush, the man who took the country to war over weapons of mass destruction is going to talk to us about misinformation. His BFF, Barack Hussein Obama, the man who fought alongside Al Qaeda to topple the wealthiest country in Africa will echo his friend’s comments. Billy Boy Clinton, the man who bombed Yugoslavia because he didn’t like the outcome of an election, is expected to talk about election deniers. This promises to be good.
In fairness, Bill only came because he thought misinformation was a beauty queen.
ATTENTION TREEPERS…
I’m noticing a giant uptick in the number of our regular (not moderated or banned) Treepers getting held up in pending.
THIS is not normal! We used to have things like this happening when we were run by WordPress…and it was malicious.
PLEASE be patient while we work our way through the logjam. 🙁
Thank you for all you’re doing. This has to be so annoying for you. I hope nothing “malicious” is going on.
The eye of the 4th Branch has turned its gaze upon us apparently. Something SD said. Which is why I always thought the topic of election fraud, understandably was not spoken too loudly or often .
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Curious.
Our host must have struck a nerve somewhere, with the truth.
Thank you for the notice, I sadly thought I had offended someone.
Never! You are a gem! 😀
sorry for the extra work load…some of us must be hitting the mark