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Nothing Was As It Appeared – by Michael Shellenberger

By Thomas A. Smith

But it s also clear that many governing and media elites worldwide view expanding censorship of online platforms as a must-have, not a nice-to-have feature of global governance. The head of NATO, NATO-backed think tanks, the European Commission, President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, the UN, the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum, influential think tanks at Harvard and Stanford, elements of the DOD, the CIA, the FBI, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Homeland Security, and many other have all called for government censorship of so-called misinformation in recent years.

In his most recent Netflix documentary, Gates called for using AI to impose mass censorship. The U.S. is a tough one because we have the notion of the First Amendment, he said. But he then added, If you’re causing people not to take vaccines, even the US should have rules. And then if you have rules, you know, what is it? Is there some AI that encodes those rules? Because you have billions of activity and, you know, if you catch it a day later, the harm is, is done. And Gates called for the end to online anonymity. I don’t think in the future you’ll want to get mail that comes from an anonymous source because whatever you see there might be designed just to mislead you. You’re going to want to be in an environment where the people are truly identified.”

And it s not just censorship that is the problem. The problem is that deep state agencies within the US federal government have for two decades sought to gain control over the production of news and other information around the world, as part of ongoing covert and overt influence operations, and that after 2016, multiple actors in several deep state US government agencies turned the tools of counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, and counterpopulism against the American people.

via www.public.news

Just in case you were thinking the battle was over. I’m thinking it will never be over.