The True Force Behind the ‘Censorship Industrial Complex’

[Vambram]

The Foreign Policy Blob Has Launched a 'War on Wrongthink'

The foreign policy blob is codifying a "war on wrongthink" through Big Tech and the Biden administration, analysts warn.

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The foreign policy establishment that once thrived under the control of both political parties has used Big Tech and the Biden administration to codify a “war on wrongthink” that stifles dissent from the elites’ narrative, a journalist and an online censorship analyst warned.

“What we’re up against here are not pink-haired, ambi-gendered LGBT-BLM-maximizing identitarian politics when we’re talking about censorship on the internet,” Michael Benz, a former State Department official under President Donald Trump and founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online, said Tuesday at an Oversight Project event at The Heritage Foundation.
It’s not “partisan politics” driving censorship, said Benz, but “the foreign policy establishment.” Conservatives and populists “don’t think about the American empire, they don’t think about the managers of the American empire, which is the foreign policy establishment, our State Department, our Pentagon, our intelligence services.”
“When you go upstream on internet censorship and what’s driving it, you will find that foreign policy establishment,” Benz argued.

Benjamin Weingarten, editor-at-large at RealClearInvestigations, also attributed “the leading edge of all the attacks on Donald Trump as an avatar for tens of millions of dissenting Americans” to the administrative state and the “deep state” within it. (The “deep state” refers to bureaucrats who oppose the agenda of the duly-elected president.) These entrenched bureaucrats “felt most threatened that [Trump] would upend the uniparty foreign policy blob,” he said.
“You also had the tech companies identify that what happened in 2016 could never happen again,” Weingarten said, referring to both the Brexit referendum and Trump’s election victory.

“They kind of used the pretext of Russian mis-, dis-, and malinformation, grafting a Cold War paradigm” to define a new enemy—Americans who disagree with their agenda, he said. “We are the enemy that’s engaging in wrongthink that threatens to undermine their power.”

 

[wing2000]

I've heard the Heritage Foundation has gone off the rails.....content like this confirms it.

“What we’re up against here are not pink-haired, ambi-gendered LGBT-BLM-maximizing identitarian politics when we’re talking about censorship on the internet,” Michael Benz, a former State Department official under President Donald Trump and founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online, said Tuesday at an Oversight Project event at The Heritage Foundation.
It’s not “partisan politics” driving censorship, said Benz, but “the foreign policy establishment.” Conservatives and populists “don’t think about the American empire, they don’t think about the managers of the American empire, which is the foreign policy establishment, our State Department, our Pentagon, our intelligence services.”
“When you go upstream on internet censorship and what’s driving it, you will find that foreign policy establishment,” Benz argued.

 

[Hans Blaster]

I've heard the Heritage Foundation has gone off the rails.....content like this confirms it.

I remain suspicious that Heritage Foundation was ever "on the rails".

 

[iluvatar5150]

I've heard the Heritage Foundation has gone off the rails.....content like this confirms it.

I love getting lectures about misinformation and "wrongthink" from a crowd that both promoted the Jan 6 lies and tried to boycott Bud Light when they hired a trans spokesperson.

 

[AlexB23]

I love getting lectures about misinformation and "wrongthink" from a crowd that both promoted the Jan 6 lies and tried to boycott Bud Light when they hired a trans spokesperson.

Well, I do not like the trans ideology that much (when we can focus on reducing poverty and reducing global warming as a society), but I totally agree with you on Jan 6. January 6, 2021 was a terror attack that should have never happened. Alright, I am gonna leave this thread before the trans supporters attack me, and Jan 6 Magadonian rioters dismember me.

 

[Vambram]

I've heard the Heritage Foundation has gone off the rails.....content like this confirms it.

That is the response which I expected the liberals to have.

 

[wing2000]

That is the response which I expected the liberals to have.

Why do you think I am a liberal?

 

[wing2000]

Conservatives and populists “don’t think about the American empire, they don’t think about the managers of the American empire, which is the foreign policy establishment, our State Department, our Pentagon, our intelligence services.”
“When you go upstream on internet censorship and what’s driving it, you will find that foreign policy establishment,”

So to be clear Vambram, you agree with the author that the US State Department, Pentagon and our intelligence services are the "establishment", "the deep state" and any other label of the day?

 

[AlexB23]

Why do you think I am a liberal?

I have no idea @Vambram thought that you are a liberal. From your other posts @wing2000, you seem more to be a centrist, neither far left liberal nor far right conservative. I am a centrist on certain things also, liberal on specific things, and a slight conservative on other stuff.

 

[rambot]

People FAR to the right, tend to think most people are liberal.

 

[rambot]

I feel less informed and stupider for having read that article sadly.

 

[Vambram]

Why do you think I am a liberal?

I apologize. From the content of your various posts I have read, I had thought that you were a liberal.

 

[Vambram]

So to be clear Vambram, you agree with the author that the US State Department, Pentagon and our intelligence services are the "establishment", "the deep state" and any other label of the day?

I believe that there is a clear history of the people in the US State Department, as well as people in the Pentagon and CIA who have their own interests at heart instead of that of the American citizens.

 

[wing2000]

I apologize. From the content of your various posts I have read, I had thought that you were a liberal.

No need to apologize. I think you will find there is a broad spectrum of views represented by those of us who reject liberal or conservative labels.

 

[AlexB23]

No need to apologize. I think you will find there is a broad spectrum of views represented by those of us who reject liberal or conservative labels.

Hey bro, can we be friends here? We both reject the labels of liberal and conservative. My name's Alex.