An author and retired Navy SEAL recently warned in his
podcast that widespread censorship and deplatforming in the
U.S. by media and private companies are pushing the country toward
totalitarianism “1984” style.
In Jocko Willink’s Jan. 7 podcast, “Do Not Take Freedom for
Granted. We Have to Preserve It. Understanding 1984,” he compares
the U.S. with the dystopian society portrayed in George Orwell’s
classic novel, “1984.”
We should all be grateful to
Twitter for censoring harmful words and opinions.This enables us to have healthy and inoffensive conversations like
this…pic.twitter.com/SfYGrJbhkZ— Titania McGrath (@TitaniaMcGrath)
May 28, 2020
Discussing current events in light of the novel, Willink notes
how controlling language is a key way to control narratives and
influence minds:
“It starts with banning words. It starts with changing
the meaning of words, and that’s what happens in the book,
‘1984.’”
Welcome to the new world order
comrades pic.twitter.com/xCEBG2jwvM— Renato Greco (@GrecoRenatog)
January 9, 2021
The novel, written 73 years ago, is about a society ruled by a
totalitarian “big brother” who controls everything, including
people’s minds.
A beautiful concise and
powerful rebuke of totalitarianism.Free speech and free expression have perhaps never been so
threatened by groupthink as they are today. https://t.co/iQ2AAvqLcY— Anders (@unders)
January 15, 2021
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The book reveals the power and authority the government has over
its people by subjecting them to accept falsehoods as truths, such
as “2 + 2 = 5.â€
Interestingly, Dick Morris has
a correct Nazi comparison, if you will: Dems are using the the
Capitol riot as an excuse, much like Hitler used the Reichstag fire
of 1934, to usher in totalitarianism. Not a bad comparison, in all
actuality.
Also –> he spoke w Pres Trump @newsmax
pic.twitter.com/48tUJuk5yW— Heather Champion â„¢ï¸ (@winningatmylife)
January 12, 2021
The government controls the characters’ thoughts and actions.
Thought police take dissidents to labor camps where fear is
instilled to break rebels and control them.
A Message To Anyone Who Feels
Like ‘Winston’ In Orwell’s 1984 https://t.co/6u6c6NN4LS— zerohedge (@zerohedge)
January 15, 2021
Willink suggests the process first starts deliberately and
slowly with banning words. Then the meaning of other words is
changed in order to manipulate people’s minds and deliberately
cause confusion. This tactic limits comprehension and
communication:
“We’re talking about removing the ability for human
beings to express themselves properly.
“We’re removing that ability, and when we remove
words from the language, we’re removing the ability for humans to
express themselves, and therefore we are removing the ability to
think, and that is a scary thing.â€
Facebook Blocking Ron Paul
Shows Tech Censorship Is Not About Trump, It’s About Suppressing
Dissent https://t.co/5GAsfgyUC6— zerohedge (@zerohedge)
January 15, 2021
In the novel, the government’s official dictionary becomes
smaller each year as more words are banned to reduce society’s
ability to communicate, think and understand reality and truth.
Tucker Carlson Discussing
@Project_Veritas‘s
New Video On Twitter CensorshipTucker: “This isn’t really about Donald Trump, it never was. It’s
definitely not about what happened last week at the Capitol. It’s
about controlling you & the country you thought was yours
forever.” pic.twitter.com/pZTidfvBNP— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle)
January 15, 2021
Willink says:
“It’s amazing how close Orwell got it [regarding]
the language control of the government [in] a dystopian
future.â€
WOKE DEMOCRAT ENDS PRAYER WITH
“AMEN” AND “AWOMAN?” https://t.co/Ze4DNiwhmS via @YouTube— Fr. Eric Fedewa (@FRFedewa)
January 9, 2021
Willink also said that people’s vocabularies should be
expanding and not getting reduced by censorship and deplatforming
advocates:
“That’s the way it should be. We should be learning
more words. Our vocabulary should be growing.â€
.@SpeakerPelosi,
apparently forgetting about her prohibitions on “gendered”
language: “I stand before you as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a
daughter. A daughter whose father proudly served in this Congress.”
pic.twitter.com/s2KzkxTNAw— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott)
January 13, 2021
He also discussed the possibility of his own podcast getting
deplatformed:
“We don’t really have control of everything here,
and one of the things we don’t have control of is the platforms
that we come out on, and obviously we rely heavily on the
platforms, and the platforms have been good to us, for the most
part, so far.
The brutal savage dictatorship
appears the FACE that is one of the Big Brothers of the
totalitarianism of the 21st century.Facebook bans ‘stop the steal’ contenthttps://t.co/wK4qj6ER7m
— 西æ‘å¹¸ç¥ (@kohyu1952)
January 13, 2021
“All the platforms — wherever you’re listening to
this right now — we’ve been treated well. It’s been
good.
“But at the same time, any of those platforms that we
publish this podcast on could, they could actually shut us down if
they wanted to.
“They could pull the plug. They could hold us hostage,
and I don’t like that, and we don’t like that.â€
The 3 journalistic units most
devoted to demanding online censorship are CNN’s media reporters,
NBC’s “disinformation team,” and NYT’s tech reporters.Here’s the latter laying the groundwork for making encrypted apps
Signal & Telegram the next targets:https://t.co/aUnmWTTjf9 pic.twitter.com/32i2Zp1HRV— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald)
January 15, 2021
Willink said he has contingency plans if he gets shut down
through censorship:
“Hopefully, you don’t need to use a contingency
plan. That’s the hope, is that you don’t need to use a
contingency plan, but if we have to, we figured we’d better do
some contingency planning just in case.
Parler has been deplatformed
by Big Tech. The times I warned you of four years ago are here.
pic.twitter.com/mUFt5okuZM— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck)
January 11, 2021
“So, we’re putting together our own platform as a
contingency, setting up our own network or I guess, reinforcing it,
being prepared if we have to.
Rep. Nunes calls for
racketeering investigation into Big Tech following Parler ban
https://t.co/phmIgZ6PWV
@DevinNunes
@FoxNews
@SundayFutures— Maria Bartiromo (@MariaBartiromo)
January 10, 2021
“I hope it doesn’t go that way, but we’ll be ready
to. We’ll have a little sovereign land of our
own.â€
Never in a million years did I
think this would be the song of MY people, but given recent events
I think it’s so appropriate. I’m sure Pink Floyd never thought
their hit would be the anthem of the conservatives.https://t.co/LoIhn2joaB— Stanley Burgess ن (@Stan_the_man817)
January 14, 2021
Back in October, we reported on the bias and censorship used to
suppress reports about Hunter Biden. Here is that
report.
It’s with little surprise that the reports stemming from the
New York Post relating to Hunter Biden has caused various entities
to go into damage control mode.
But what is all the more interesting is that Wikipedia seems to
be referring to the Hunter Biden allegations as something
linked to conspiracy theories.
In a Wikipedia article titled “Biden–Ukraine conspiracy
theoryâ€, Wikipedia users can have an opportunity to look into the
online encyclopedias details on the New York Post allegations –
while also never linking any of the New York Post articles because
Wikipedia claims it to be an
“unreliable†source.
Per Wikipedia’s summary of the New York Post pertaining to it
being unreliable to source or cite information from, Wikipedia
states the following:
“There is consensus that the New York Post is
generally unreliable. A tabloid newspaper, editors criticise its
lack of concern for fact-checking or corrections, including a
number of examples of outright fabrication.â€
Wikipedia Editors Censor
Hunter Biden Bombshell, Call New York Post ‘Unreliable‘ Source
https://t.co/ahdM0v576C via
@BreitbartNews— Allum Bokhari (@LibertarianBlue)
October 15, 2020
Which, based upon that characterization from Wikipedia, makes
sense as to why they’d then only make mention of the Post’s
allegations in an article dubbed as a “conspiracy theoryâ€.
According to the article that mentions the New York Post’s
reporting on Biden, it opens that section with the following:
“On October 14, 2020, the New York Post published
articles containing purported emails of unknown authorship which
suggested that Hunter Biden provided an “opportunity†to Vadym
Pozharskyi, an advisor to the board of the Ukrainian natural gas
firm Burisma Holdings, to meet his father, then-vice president Joe
Biden.â€
The article continues to then cite all sorts of “reliableâ€
sources that allege that the Post’s allegations are untrue, and
then caps those various statements aimed at discrediting the New
York Post with mentioning:
“The New York Post published images and PDF copies of
text that purported to be emails, but their authenticity and origin
have not been determined.â€
For those not hip to how Wikipedia works, behind every article
of notable interest there’s a team of editors and a lot of
discourse behind the scenes.
This area within Wikipedia is known as the “talk†section of
every article.
And those editors
who were trying to source the New York Post articles within
another Wikipedia entry titled “Conspiracy theories related to
the Trump–Ukraine scandalâ€, there was some back and forth over
directly linking to the Post.
One Wikipedia editor that goes by the username “Soibanglaâ€
was telling another Wikipedia editor that goes by
“Elijahandskip†to not only remove any citations from the New
York Post – but also from Fox News:
“Fox News is now deprecated for political
news…Elijahandskip, please revert your edit…Elijahandskip,
Simply removing the reference is inadequate. The content based on
the reference must be removed as well.â€
What this “Soibangla†editor was telling “Elijahandskipâ€
to remove from the article was the mentioning of Hunter Biden being
featured in photos with an alleged crack pipe.
Another editor that goes by “Valjean†piggybacked off that
instruction, responding with “Yes, and do it COMPLETELY.â€
And funnily enough, this “Soibangla†Wikipedia editor has
been known to proclaim that anything related to Hunter Biden and
Ukraine dealings that are reported on are false.
Well, more specifically that editor claims they’ve all been
debunked according to the edit made on the
Hunter Biden article that reads:
“He and his father have been the subjects of debunked
right-wing conspiracy theories pushed by Donald Trump and his
allies concerning Biden business dealings and anti-corruption
efforts in Ukraine.â€
DEBUNKED pic.twitter.com/CbKi1RQyjt
— Echo Chamber (@echo_chamberz)
October 20, 2020
And this same “Soibangla†editor was among those
trying to scrub any connections between Jeffrey Epstein and
Bill Clinton from a Wikipedia entry, which was reported last year
by RT.com:
“Clinton’s denial of the “26 flights†number was
added to the article on Tuesday night by user ‘Soibangla,’ a
known quantity in the American politics topic area, who also
tweaked a Clinton quote praising Epstein, noting there was “no
evidence [Clinton and Epstein] were ‘friends.’â€
REBUNKED
— DR TYRONE JACKSON, PHD. HARVARD. (@TYRONE_FROM_ATL)
October 20, 2020
Strange how Wikipedia is trying to cover things up.
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