When the Feds tell us they’re coordinating with Big Tech social media to censor their opponents, maybe the Feds are in fact coordinating with Big Tech social media to censor their opponents. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Speaks of "reframing truth" consensus truth. The author's truth shared with others of her ideological bent. I find great insights reading researched pieces like this of those who I disagree with that informs me of how they think, how they weaponize information against those they disagree with. You must know your enemy to defeat them. Many personnel in this administration and in positions of power within the government have come in from Big Tech/Big Media and share the beliefs and values this writer shares.
They honestly believe this. And have taken license to do what she suggests, empowered, emboldened, envirtued by a calling to perform "a greater good," ends justifying the means, using their positions inside government to do this. Which is where they break the law. They break our Constitution. They've done it. The only question is will our courts allow our Constitution to be broken?
"But the difference is not only that end-users themselves influence ideas or drive trends: it is also that their existence as a reified imaginary creates new stakes in controlling the perception of trends. This is why bots and trolls—interveners in trends—are receiving such significant investment from national governments and professional influencers."
"The extraordinary rise of state-promoted bots and trolls (Jankowicz 2020 ["Moaning Myrtle Disinformation Minister Wannabe]) not only stands as proof that power lies in manipulating the iteration of content via ‘computational propaganda’ but marks this power as a fundamental affordance of the digital public environment. Manipulating apparent consensus allows a minor or evanescent intervention in terms of cost and scale to be instrumentalised to disproportionately significant political result."
"Focussing on the effects of digital technologies in isolation can miss the core problem, which is the new potentials offered by the symbiotic relationship between mainstream media and social media. A newspaper, today, is less its print content or its subscriber base than its ability to reciprocally influence and be influenced by vast like-minded networks of digital communities, in processes that are both deliberate and not, and whose effects are typically invisible to their persuasive targets and deracinated from their progenitors. A public shift of attention onto how information is repeated must include information of all kinds, across all media, revealing a complex information environment in which centuries-old methods of influence, protest and opinion-manipulation combine with unprecedented potentials of disproportionate and rapid amplification."
"In Facebook’s own research on ‘fake news’ in April 2017, three out of four of the kinds of fake news it distinguishes are to do not with content, but with how content is shared. It acknowledges the creation of individual falsehoods, or ‘false news’ (i.e. articles intentionally misstating facts to arouse emotion); but then goes on to stress the importance of ‘influence operations’ (deliberate dissemination by governments or other organisations with intent to distort political sentiment); ‘false amplifiers’ (coordinated activity by inauthentic accounts i.e. bots and trolls with the intent of manipulating political discussion); and ‘disinformation’ the intentional spreading of manipulated information."
"In Danah Boyd’s opening keynote speech at the Republica conference in Berlin in 2018, ‘How an Algorithmic World Can Be Undermined’, she said it was crucial that journalists, as 'first stage amplifiers', and social media users, as ‘second stage amplifiers’ (a casual like, share, post or retweet) become aware of the importance of 'strategic silence'. It was essential, she said, that the ‘reporting ecosystem’ stop unthinkingly reporting things simply because they have been reported by others. Eric Boehlert’s blogsite ‘Press Run’, founded in February 2020, seeks to educate news producers and news amplifiers about ‘feedback loops’, seed stories, ‘both sides’ journalism, and clickbait."
"The disruption that results from the production of doubt thus not only serves the interests of tobacco, fossil fuels and other industries eager to delay regulation: in a global digital world it clears the playing field for transnational financial interests who would like to avoid or control the irksome regulation, taxation and oversight of nation state legislatures. Electoral democracy as a political process is less, therefore, at risk of gradual degradation than an unprecedented opportunity offered by digitally mediated cultures to transnational strategic influencers, especially in two-party first-past-the-post systems like the US and the UK, where marginal election results, easily gamable by cynical or external forces, can have disproportionate impacts. Regulation and anti-trust legislation against the monopoly tech platforms, even changes to their business model, will not necessarily change this fundamental conflict of interest between transnational financial stakes and their potential regulation by national governments; nor the underlying problem, which is that many well-funded networked international interests stand to benefit from intranational societal chaos, division, and doubt about matters of fact. By definition, no billionaire can have a relationship to only one nation."
The federal government now exists solely to defend itself against the public, which it now views as a latent criminal threat in the absence of anything but unquestioning obedience.
mal-information: This is information that while truthful might cause someone t o question their government or it's designated experts.
This is what kills me. That they are so arrogant about what they're doing, they're intent, that they aren't even trying to hide that they want to censor mal-information or censor truthful statements simply because they might cause someone to question the governments authority. That is %100 grade A+ tyranny.
They're working with social media because they've got a short window left to act. They’re loosing the house and probably the Senate later this year but they have the White House until the 2024 elections. Between now and then they have to either go for broke or come 2024 be willing to step back and wait a long time before the Democrats once again have control of the Federal government and have control over key people in all the important institutions. They realize that with public support the way it is to purge the Federal institutions of corrupt actors its likely to be several decades before things can be made like they are today if a Trump or a DeSantis gets into the White House in 2024. The Democrats want to create a state where they stay in power forever or at the least for a very long time. In order to do that they will have to do something drastic before they lose the WH in 2024.
It doesn’t take a genius to recognize that you don’t hire 87K additional IRS agents just to get at money that the wealthy are not claiming on their taxes. I believe the Biden admin wanted 87K additional FBI agents but knew there was no way to get Congress to approve that so they sold it as being for the tax collecting. When you’re talking about numbers that high you’re looking at troop level deployments not simply the expansion of a work force. Naturally both parties were happy to approve more tax collectors. This raises the question of how do you use some or all of those 87K armed IRS agents for FBI related tasks? ANSWER: Joint Task Force.
I believe that in the next 6-12 months we are going to hear the announcement of a joint task force between the FBI and the IRS. The JTF will be tasked with tracking down domestic terrorists who fund their activities via unclaimed income thus the reason for involving the IRS. Even with that you still wouldn’t need 87K people unless you expand the definition of a domestic terrorist which the FBI has already done several times. It’s scary to imagine but I believe these additional agents are going to be used to round up a large number of American citizens that the Feds determine are domestic terrorists or possible domestic terrorists. There are a LOT of Americans pushing back against the Federal government over reach. Trump inspired many to stand up and push back; to resists. I believe these agents are going to do on a national level what the FBI has done to the Jan 6th protestors. They are going to arrest and detain people for long periods who haven’t actually done anything wrong. You can ruin peoples lives by doing nothing more than arresting and detaining them long enough so that they lose their job and are tarnished as having been charged with domestic terrorism even if those charges are dropped later.
Why would they do this knowing they are likely to lose the WH in 2024? I fear they are going to try and use PD51 to effectively over throw the system. Even though its %100 unconstitutional I believe the Democrats have enough power & support at the Federal level to successfully pull that off as long as they can get rid of any people that could cause serious resistance like state level leaders (ie governors) and organize groups like militias. I can easily see that same JTF targeting governors and state legislators, trying to set them up so they can arrest/detain them. With how the Biden lead Federal Government has acted already I would not be shocked in the least to see them try something like this.
Are you familiar with this line of analysis behind the propaganda and censorship? To humiliate us so badly we lose our sense of probity? Written by a former national defense intelligence officer, NSC Perception Management, Irregular Warfare and Behavioral Analysis specialist.
Reprising “Discourse Theory” in Light of the Dominant Narrative on COVID
Unconstrained Anayltics, Stephen Coughlin, November 1, 2021
"Discourse Theory is a line of effort (LOE) associated with the Semantic Marxism line of operation (LOO) used in mass line narratives that support political warfare efforts."
"To counter Marxist attack narratives, one must attack the reasons for the narrative while defending what it targets; for example, false science claims used to justify the suspension of rights to supersede the Constitutional basis of governance."
“In my studies of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality, the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all the sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is . . . in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
"And this is a system of lies. Really, they say you are free, but de facto, they force you. We are living in a society of lies. And this was communism. Communism was substantially, intrinsically, a system of lies. And so, we are witnessing here today with these COVID measures, and pandemic measures, which are elaborated and implemented . . . So, in such a manner, in such a one-sided manner, that is evident that such measures are very similar to a dictatorial society."
This is an interesting article from AI & Society published
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-021-01306-w
Speaks of "reframing truth" consensus truth. The author's truth shared with others of her ideological bent. I find great insights reading researched pieces like this of those who I disagree with that informs me of how they think, how they weaponize information against those they disagree with. You must know your enemy to defeat them. Many personnel in this administration and in positions of power within the government have come in from Big Tech/Big Media and share the beliefs and values this writer shares.
They honestly believe this. And have taken license to do what she suggests, empowered, emboldened, envirtued by a calling to perform "a greater good," ends justifying the means, using their positions inside government to do this. Which is where they break the law. They break our Constitution. They've done it. The only question is will our courts allow our Constitution to be broken?
"But the difference is not only that end-users themselves influence ideas or drive trends: it is also that their existence as a reified imaginary creates new stakes in controlling the perception of trends. This is why bots and trolls—interveners in trends—are receiving such significant investment from national governments and professional influencers."
"The extraordinary rise of state-promoted bots and trolls (Jankowicz 2020 ["Moaning Myrtle Disinformation Minister Wannabe]) not only stands as proof that power lies in manipulating the iteration of content via ‘computational propaganda’ but marks this power as a fundamental affordance of the digital public environment. Manipulating apparent consensus allows a minor or evanescent intervention in terms of cost and scale to be instrumentalised to disproportionately significant political result."
"Focussing on the effects of digital technologies in isolation can miss the core problem, which is the new potentials offered by the symbiotic relationship between mainstream media and social media. A newspaper, today, is less its print content or its subscriber base than its ability to reciprocally influence and be influenced by vast like-minded networks of digital communities, in processes that are both deliberate and not, and whose effects are typically invisible to their persuasive targets and deracinated from their progenitors. A public shift of attention onto how information is repeated must include information of all kinds, across all media, revealing a complex information environment in which centuries-old methods of influence, protest and opinion-manipulation combine with unprecedented potentials of disproportionate and rapid amplification."
"In Facebook’s own research on ‘fake news’ in April 2017, three out of four of the kinds of fake news it distinguishes are to do not with content, but with how content is shared. It acknowledges the creation of individual falsehoods, or ‘false news’ (i.e. articles intentionally misstating facts to arouse emotion); but then goes on to stress the importance of ‘influence operations’ (deliberate dissemination by governments or other organisations with intent to distort political sentiment); ‘false amplifiers’ (coordinated activity by inauthentic accounts i.e. bots and trolls with the intent of manipulating political discussion); and ‘disinformation’ the intentional spreading of manipulated information."
"In Danah Boyd’s opening keynote speech at the Republica conference in Berlin in 2018, ‘How an Algorithmic World Can Be Undermined’, she said it was crucial that journalists, as 'first stage amplifiers', and social media users, as ‘second stage amplifiers’ (a casual like, share, post or retweet) become aware of the importance of 'strategic silence'. It was essential, she said, that the ‘reporting ecosystem’ stop unthinkingly reporting things simply because they have been reported by others. Eric Boehlert’s blogsite ‘Press Run’, founded in February 2020, seeks to educate news producers and news amplifiers about ‘feedback loops’, seed stories, ‘both sides’ journalism, and clickbait."
"The disruption that results from the production of doubt thus not only serves the interests of tobacco, fossil fuels and other industries eager to delay regulation: in a global digital world it clears the playing field for transnational financial interests who would like to avoid or control the irksome regulation, taxation and oversight of nation state legislatures. Electoral democracy as a political process is less, therefore, at risk of gradual degradation than an unprecedented opportunity offered by digitally mediated cultures to transnational strategic influencers, especially in two-party first-past-the-post systems like the US and the UK, where marginal election results, easily gamable by cynical or external forces, can have disproportionate impacts. Regulation and anti-trust legislation against the monopoly tech platforms, even changes to their business model, will not necessarily change this fundamental conflict of interest between transnational financial stakes and their potential regulation by national governments; nor the underlying problem, which is that many well-funded networked international interests stand to benefit from intranational societal chaos, division, and doubt about matters of fact. By definition, no billionaire can have a relationship to only one nation."
We're worse than "subjects," we're suspects.
The federal government now exists solely to defend itself against the public, which it now views as a latent criminal threat in the absence of anything but unquestioning obedience.
This smells a lot like the definition of #fascism - Big Gov dictating what private businesses do in order to crush dissension.
mal-information: This is information that while truthful might cause someone t o question their government or it's designated experts.
This is what kills me. That they are so arrogant about what they're doing, they're intent, that they aren't even trying to hide that they want to censor mal-information or censor truthful statements simply because they might cause someone to question the governments authority. That is %100 grade A+ tyranny.
They're working with social media because they've got a short window left to act. They’re loosing the house and probably the Senate later this year but they have the White House until the 2024 elections. Between now and then they have to either go for broke or come 2024 be willing to step back and wait a long time before the Democrats once again have control of the Federal government and have control over key people in all the important institutions. They realize that with public support the way it is to purge the Federal institutions of corrupt actors its likely to be several decades before things can be made like they are today if a Trump or a DeSantis gets into the White House in 2024. The Democrats want to create a state where they stay in power forever or at the least for a very long time. In order to do that they will have to do something drastic before they lose the WH in 2024.
It doesn’t take a genius to recognize that you don’t hire 87K additional IRS agents just to get at money that the wealthy are not claiming on their taxes. I believe the Biden admin wanted 87K additional FBI agents but knew there was no way to get Congress to approve that so they sold it as being for the tax collecting. When you’re talking about numbers that high you’re looking at troop level deployments not simply the expansion of a work force. Naturally both parties were happy to approve more tax collectors. This raises the question of how do you use some or all of those 87K armed IRS agents for FBI related tasks? ANSWER: Joint Task Force.
I believe that in the next 6-12 months we are going to hear the announcement of a joint task force between the FBI and the IRS. The JTF will be tasked with tracking down domestic terrorists who fund their activities via unclaimed income thus the reason for involving the IRS. Even with that you still wouldn’t need 87K people unless you expand the definition of a domestic terrorist which the FBI has already done several times. It’s scary to imagine but I believe these additional agents are going to be used to round up a large number of American citizens that the Feds determine are domestic terrorists or possible domestic terrorists. There are a LOT of Americans pushing back against the Federal government over reach. Trump inspired many to stand up and push back; to resists. I believe these agents are going to do on a national level what the FBI has done to the Jan 6th protestors. They are going to arrest and detain people for long periods who haven’t actually done anything wrong. You can ruin peoples lives by doing nothing more than arresting and detaining them long enough so that they lose their job and are tarnished as having been charged with domestic terrorism even if those charges are dropped later.
Why would they do this knowing they are likely to lose the WH in 2024? I fear they are going to try and use PD51 to effectively over throw the system. Even though its %100 unconstitutional I believe the Democrats have enough power & support at the Federal level to successfully pull that off as long as they can get rid of any people that could cause serious resistance like state level leaders (ie governors) and organize groups like militias. I can easily see that same JTF targeting governors and state legislators, trying to set them up so they can arrest/detain them. With how the Biden lead Federal Government has acted already I would not be shocked in the least to see them try something like this.
Are you familiar with this line of analysis behind the propaganda and censorship? To humiliate us so badly we lose our sense of probity? Written by a former national defense intelligence officer, NSC Perception Management, Irregular Warfare and Behavioral Analysis specialist.
Reprising “Discourse Theory” in Light of the Dominant Narrative on COVID
Unconstrained Anayltics, Stephen Coughlin, November 1, 2021
https://unconstrainedanalytics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/UA-1NOV21-Discourse-Theory-Hate-Speech-C19.pdf
"Discourse Theory is a line of effort (LOE) associated with the Semantic Marxism line of operation (LOO) used in mass line narratives that support political warfare efforts."
"To counter Marxist attack narratives, one must attack the reasons for the narrative while defending what it targets; for example, false science claims used to justify the suspension of rights to supersede the Constitutional basis of governance."
“In my studies of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality, the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all the sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is . . . in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
"And this is a system of lies. Really, they say you are free, but de facto, they force you. We are living in a society of lies. And this was communism. Communism was substantially, intrinsically, a system of lies. And so, we are witnessing here today with these COVID measures, and pandemic measures, which are elaborated and implemented . . . So, in such a manner, in such a one-sided manner, that is evident that such measures are very similar to a dictatorial society."
Author: https://unconstrainedanalytics.org/stephen-coughlin/