Internet/Censorship

Internet/Censorship  (social control,  information warfare)
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Removing things from the internet has become a high priority for those who seek to contain knowledge and shape ideas. This is done under a range of covers, notably the "war on terror".

Many governments are making strenuous efforts, notably US, UK, China and Russia to try to prevent the internet being used for free exchange of ideas.

  Pervasive censorship

  Substantial censorship

  Selective censorship

  Changing situation

  Little or no censorship

  Not classified / no data

Australia

"For some time to come, the delicate balance between freedom and security may have to shift", stated Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, in September 2014, as laws were being introduced to outlaw speech that the authorities see as "advocating terrorism".

UK

In March 2014, Wired reported that James Brokenshire (UK minister for immigration and security) "has called for the government to do more to deal with 'unsavoury', rather than illegal, material online." Brokenshire is reported as stating that "Terrorist propaganda online has a direct impact on the radicalisation of individuals and we work closely with the internet industry to remove terrorist material hosted in the UK or overseas." In 2014, the head of counter-terrorism at Scotland Yard, Assistant Commissioner, Mark Rowley claimed that counter-terrorism officers were removing more than 1000 online postings every week.

Russia

In May 2014, Vladimir Putin passed a law which requires bans anonymous wifi connections and requires any site with more than 3,000 visitors/day to register, and meet certain requirements.

US

The US government has long had a policy of seizing entire top level domains (particularly .com addresses) at will. This effectively censors websites not only for the US public, but worldwide. This policy has lead to increasing interest in a de facto adjustment to the system for managing domain names. In December 2014, an outage of Drudge, WND.com and other popular sites which offered a challenge to the commercially-controlled media was interpreted as a test run of plans to censor a range of alternative news sites.

Wikipedia

Full article: WikiSpooks:Problems with Wikipedia/Censorship

Wikipedia tries hard to present itself as a democratic alternative medium "the encyclopedia that everyone can edit..." but its guidelines on notability and its definition of what constitutes a "reliable source" mean that it is firmly part of the corporate media establishment. Below are some pages which used to exist on Wikipedia but were removed:

Page	Description
2001 Anthrax attacks/Timeline	A detailed and revealing timeline about the Amerithrax attacks, deleted from Wikipedia in April 2014, recovered from an archive at Deletionpedia.
2001 Israeli Nerve Gas Attacks	For 6 weeks in early 2001, Israel is reported to have carried out a series of nerve gas attacks on Palestinian civilian populations in both Gaza and the West Bank.
9-11/Censorship	A range of tactics have been employed to try to stifle dissent about 9/11, from ad hominem attacks to assassination. As of 2016, censorship is ongoing.
9-11/E-4B	An E-4B was spotted over the White house and the Pentagon on 9/11. The official narrative for more than a decade was not to talk about it, although it was reported on CNN and video, photos and eye witnesses do exist. Later declassification did prove the basic fact that the plane was present.
9-11/Premature death	Many people have been killed in an effort to suppress the truth about 9/11. Where convenient, deaths have been made to look accidental or illness related. Sometimes people have been "suicided", making it hard to know exactly how many were murdered.
9-11/WTC7/Destruction/Censorship	A very telling omission by the corporate media, lasting for several years, that totally suppressed mention of the complete (forewarned) collapse of WTC7. Note that the 911 originally neglected to give an account of this unprecedented event.
9-11/Whistleblowers	Many people have sought to share important evidence about 9/11, using inside knowledge from a professional capacity.
Ziad Abdelnour	A neoconservative financier who was disciplined by the SEC.
Arms Dealer	A "third rail" topic for commercially-controlled media. Wikipedia has nothing to say on the topic.
Scott Bennett	Spent 2 years in jail as a result of speaking his mind and attempting to blow the whistle on fraud and corruption inside the US war machine.
CIA/Drug trafficking/Exposure	Drug trafficking by intelligence agencies — especially the CIA — is, as of 2019, pretty widely understood to be a part of their modus operandi. This follows decades of research into and publicity about this topic, most notably by Gary Webb who broke the story of CIA Drug trafficking over the early WWW.
James Corbett	James Corbett is a popular critic of the US establishment who has been active on the internet since 2007.
David Kelly/Assassination	On 17 July 2003, David Kelly allegedly committed suicide by swallowing 29 co-proxamol tablets and cutting to his ulnar artery (wrist) with a blunt pruning knife. He was writing a book exposing high level corruption at the time and had given no indication of depression. An official inquest was commenced but never completed.
Jack Davis	CIA, censored from Wikipedia
Deep event	An event which has major influence on the politics of a country or group of countries by virtue of its psychological impact on populations, principally through corporate media construction and reporting of what becomes its "official narrative". Such events predominantly involve controversial domestic politics, especially in the field of so-called "national security", foreign affairs and geo-politics.
Bill Fairclough	Bill Fairclough's biography
Mohammed Ferrat	Mohammed Samir Ferrat was reportedly killed aboard Flight TWA 800. He was a colleague of Ron Brown who had died 3 months earlier in another suspicious plane crash. Prior to the flight his business was in financial difficulties and he had taken more that one multiple life insurance policies and borrowed heavily from would be investors in Ivory Coast and Switzerland.
Anthony Hall	Academic targeted by B'nai B'rith in 2016 for "using his academic credentials to deny the Holocaust and promote 9/11 conspiracy theories."
Emad Abdalla Hassan	A person who was in the wrong place at the wrong time, sold to US for $5000 and has been subject to illegal imprisonment and torture in Guantanamo Bay for years. Cleared for release in 2010, he was transferred to Oman on June 13, 2015.
Israel/Defense Forces/T-shirt affair	Unremarked for at least 3 years before becoming common knowledge and condemned world-wide in 2009, IDF soldiers were wearing bad taste T-shirts about murder.
JFK/Assassination/Perpetrators	Mark Gorton terms this group "the cabal" and suggests that they are responsible for a large number of treasonous crimes up to the present day. The group includes two subsequent US presidents, Lyndon Johnson and George H. W. Bush.
JFK/Assassination/Premature death	Dozens of people were killed in a vain effort to suppress the truth about the JFK Assassination. Where convenient, deaths have been made to look accidental or illness related. Sometimes people were "suicided", making it hard to know exactly how many were murdered.
Pierre Jovanovic	A critic of the system of fiat currency and central banks. His page was removed from French Wikipedia.
Isaac Kappy	An actor who died aged 42 after accusing former Hollywood friends of paedophilia.
Lawrence E. King	Prosecuted for fraud but not for the Franklin child prostitution ring. Wikipedia removed his page.
Nuclear demolition	Use of nuclear explosions to demolish buildings was first mooted in the late 1960s. This article on the topic is based on a page which appeared and was soon removed from Wikipedia in March 2010. It is based on the work of Dimitri Khalezov.
Official narrative	The "Official Narrative" is the cover story of "the powers that be". On Wikispooks this generally means the story intended for citizens of the so-called 'Western Democracies'. This could be the truth, but the term is usually reserved for use in cases in which it departs significantly from the truth (which may be be unclear or completely unknown, cover by a veil of official lies).
Official opposition narrative	The Official Opposition Narrative is the alternative cover story of "the powers that be". Debate is generally encouraged between the two.
The Corbett Report	Named as an outlet of "Fake News" by PropOrNot. Censored and deranked by Youtube and Twitter.
UK Column	An independent media source based in UK.
Douglas Valentine

 

Examples

Page name	Description
Algorithm manipulation	Where algorithms on Social media are used in order to promote the Official narrative.
Facebook/Censorship	Facebook has censored its users' free speech for years. After being quasi-covert, this became explicit in 2020 as part of the COVID-19/Censorship.
Google/Censorship
Internet/Censorship/Soft
Online Safety Bill	Proposed piece of landmark legislation which will enable internet censorship in Great Britain
Reddit/Censorship
Wikipedia/Censorship	Wikipedia claims not to be censored. However, wikipedia's policies don't back this up. Their notions of 'reliability' and 'notability' are particularly suspect.
X/Censorship	Twitter, like other corporate tech. giants, does censor content.
YouTube/Censorship	YouTube Censorship gained pace during the late 2010s, especially around 2016 and in 2020 during the COVID-19/Panic. Videos which had millions of views were removed, pushing a lot of people to alternative platforms such as AltCensored or Bitchute.

 

Internet/Censorship victims on Wikispooks

Title	Description
Shana Chappell	Mother of a marine killed in the 2021 Kabul Airport attacks had her Instagram account deleted temporarily after she blamed Joe Biden for her sons death.
Nick Fuentes	American conservative activist, his supporters are known as Groypers
Jackson Hinkle	An American YouTuber.
Craig Kelly	Australian dissident MP; COVID-19/Resistance.
PewDiePie	One of the most famous YouTubers. He has been a target of the Anti-Defamation League.
Dave Rubin	An American political commentator. A critic of Big Tech.
Martin Sellner	Right wing activist from Austria
Lauren Southern	Lauren Southern is a Canadian activist. Probably the most famous personality in the Culture war of the late 2010s.
Styxhexenhammer666	An American libertarian YouTuber.
Brittany Venti	An American internet celebrity, who has been deeply affected by censorship on social media.
Jacob Wohl
Naomi Wolf	American feminist widely criticised after dissenting from a lot of official narratives, subject of hit pieces including a 416 page book by Naomi Klein.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
"Fake news website"	“long before “fake news” became a major media topic, the US government was already planning its legally-backed crackdown on anything it would eventually label “fake news".”		25 December 2016
Dan Dicks	“The internet we have today is not going to be around very much longer. They need to control the narrative... They are starting to clamp down, not on just conservative voices. It's not about those on the right, it's not about people on the left, it's about anybody who goes against the status quo.”	Dan Dicks	June 2019
Document:I've Been Banned From Facebook for Sharing an Article About False Flags	“That such a statement [about the need to censor social media] could be made in a congressional hearing, entirely without objection, is an expression of the terminal decay of American democracy. There is no faction of the ruling class that maintains any commitment to basic democratic rights. None of the Democrats in the committee raised any of the constitutional issues involved in asking massive technology companies to censor political speech on the Internet. Only one Republican raised concerns over censorship, but only to allege that Google had a liberal bias.”	Andre Damon	1 November 2017
Melissa Dykes	“The things that are going to be blocked are not going to be fake stories. The things that are going to be blocked and censored, the things they are going to keep from people is going to be stuff they just don’t want you to focus on or know about.”	Melissa Dykes
Saagar Enjeti	“@jack was the last of the tech CEOS who at least on a personal level was committed to free speech. His departure is probably going to make Twitter a lot worse for censorship (which is truly saying something)”	Saagar Enjeti	29 November 2021
Generations of warfare	“People are hitting Google like crazy with queries regarding Jordon Walker, Pfizer and Veritas. As they did when I said “mass formation psychosis” on Rogan #1757, Google manually interferes with the searches, returning wishy washy “these results are changing rapidly” screens instead of actual links. So, now we have a pretty clear smoking gun involving collusion between Pfizer and Google to suppress the story. Then everything, anything, having to do with Jordon Walker, MD gets memory holed. Wiped from the internet, including the Wayback machine. And then the chaos agents, bots and trolls descend on all social media channels. Sowing doubt that Jordon Walker is even a real person. Floating paranoid conspiracy theories that this is all a big deep-fake set up of Veritas, O’Keefe and myself. Which of course get amplified by the usual actors. Now THAT is an example of Fifth Gen Warfare power!”	Robert Malone
Integrity Initiative/Leak/3	“Find ways to remove e.g. RT/Ruptly video and infographic content from corporate media e.g. newspaper websites, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Such content is quite professionally done, entertaining and cheap (or even free) for cash-strapped corporate media outlets. But for these reasons, this kind of content gets numerous ‘clicks’ and is therefore picked up by reputable outlets that help spread Russian disinformation.”	Victor Madeira	16 March 2018
Lawrence Lessig	“I had dinner once with Richard Clarke at the table and I said 'is there an equivalent to the Patriot Act — an iPatriot Act — just sitting waiting for some substantial event just waiting for them to come have the excuse for radically changing the way the Internet works?' And he said, 'Of course there is' — and I swear this is what he said, and quote — 'and Vint Cerf is not going to like it very much.'"”	Lawrence Lessig	2008
Holger Münch	“The still high incidence of punishable hate posting shows a need for police action. Our free society must not allow a climate of fear, threat, criminal violence and violence either on the street or on the internet.”	Holger Münch	21 June 2017
PewDiePie ADL controversy	“Reinstalled Twitter to talk about PewDiePie's betrayal by donating 50k to the ADL. The company working with places like Twitter to get rid of anything "Offensive" @pewdiepie You just supported a group that even ruined even YOUR deal to Disney. Wtf? PewDiePie literally paid $50,000 to not be called racist anymore. And in turn- he just got so many people in the future censored off of places like Twitter and YouTube. Anytime someone gets banned for now on, I'll be sure to say "Thanks Pewdiepie"”	Brittany Venti	11 September 2019
Search engine	“When trying to triangulate truth these days, it is often useful to employ multiple different search engines.”	Robert Malone	28 January 2023
Joanna Shields	“Where there is more propaganda directing people to kill, we must act to remove it quickly. Where there are new networks promoting radicalisation, we must disrupt them. We need to work with industry to improve solutions that automate the identification and removal of dangerous extremist content at scale and tools that better tackle automated bots and other techniques that support these propaganda machines. This must be done as quickly as possible before people, particularly sympathisers and the vulnerable, get the chance to see it. And we must work with civil society to offer a brighter and more compelling path to young people who feel they have no hope of changing their circumstances. There is no panacea, no single piece of technology, intervention or public policy that will solve this. But we can make it harder for terrorist and extremists to use the Internet to recruit, inspire and incite.”	Joanna Shields	1 August 2016

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:I get abuse and threats online - why can't it be stopped?	Article	18 October 2021	Marianna Spring	The Disinformation Specialist at the BBC gets criticism online for her "fact checking". Internet censorship is the answer.
Document:People Need to Reclaim the Internet	blog post	19 October 2020	Craig Murray	The development of social media gatekeeping of internet traffic is one of the key socio-political issues of our time. We need the original founders of the Internet to get together with figures like Richard Stallman and – vitally – Julian Assange – to find a way we break free from this.
Document:Someone said they wanted to see me trapped in a burning car and watch flames melt my flesh	Article	22 October 2021	Nadine Dorries	After the murder of MP David Amess, a crackdown on "internet trolls" is being demanded by most politicians. The UK's new Culture Minister Nadine Dorries is pursuing new overreaching legislation regulating Big Tech. The "Online Safety Bill" will abolish online anonymity and empower internet censorship. There are fears that it will be the end for freedom of expression in the UK.
Document:Women's March petitions Jack Dorsey to ban Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from Twitter	Article	14 August 2021	Libby Emmons	The leading American feminist organisation is pressuring Twitter to remove Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from their platform. She stands accused of promoting "conspiracy theories" about COVID over her scepticism of Fauci. She has been censored before. How much longer is there before she is permanently banned?

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