16 thoughts on “News/Politics 2-17-24

  1. Fauci continues to be exposed as a lying fraud who bares a large part of the responsibility for Covid being unleashed on the world.

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  2. Our govt no longer works for us, they work against us, and the truth.

    “🚨THREAD: @MikeBenzCyber speaks with @TuckerCarlson about the Department of Homeland Security-backed censorship consortium that censored millions of social media posts during the 2020 election and COVID-19.The 2020 election and COVID-19 were the two most censored events in American history.Mike Benz outlines how the government established a permanent domestic censorship office under the pretext of countering misinformation. and disinformation.Initially considered for the State Department, CIA, and FBI, the censorship office found its home in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), utilizing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).DHS classified elections as critical infrastructure and online misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation as cybersecurity attacks.The original goal of countering Russian disinformation shifted to suppressing domestic dissent and the populist movement led by President Trump.Examining the 2020 election’s censorship strategy, Benz details CISA’s collaboration with Stanford University, University of Washington, Graphika, and the Atlantic Council through the Election Integrity Partnership.The censorship consortium employed coercive tactics, leveraging its deputized status to pressure tech companies through government threats.A critical element was the seven-month pre-censorship campaign before the 2020 election. The consortium compelled social media companies to introduce a new “delegitimization” violation, targeting content challenging faith in mail-in ballots, early voting, and ballot drop boxes.The overarching goal was narrative control, preventing doubts about a Biden victory and avoiding a crisis akin to the 2000 Bush-Gore election.Anticipating Biden’s victory hinging on mail-in ballots, early voting, and ballot dropboxes, the consortium precensored any questioning of the election’s legitimacy, particularly if Trump appeared to win on election night but later lost due to late-arriving mail-in ballots.The so-called “Red Mirage-Blue Shift event.”The thread continues below.👇”

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  5. Looking forward to putting the Fani Willis fiasco behind us one way or another. Judges are suppose to use good judgement. I felt sorry for her dad who was brought in to testify on her behalf.

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  6. I went to Tangle. It said give us your email and read the full story. I gave them my email. Then it said ‘upgrade’ your membership to read the (same) story. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice….no thanks.

    Even the WSJ has the integrity to tell you the story is behind a paywall without giving your email first. Just one more piece of spam I’ll have to deal with. :–/

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  7. Debra, that’s odd. I signed up for the free newsletter — yes, they ask you if you want to upgrade, I didn’t and so I’m signed up for the free newsletter. I didn’t find the process cumbersome.

    -dj

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  8. Their newsletters are free and open Monday through Thursday, they tell you the Friday newsletter is behind a paywall. That’s fine, I just want to get a feel for them right now and M-Th is fine for me. I found it pretty transparent. -dj

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  9. It’s similar to what we’ve done on our site in an era when most of our income (ads) has vanished and been grabbed by the internet. We label some stories on our home page as “Subscribers only.” The rest is open. Eventually, those stories may come out from behind the paywall if they’re sill on the website, but not sure how that works.

    Anyway, it’s the way many sites now are forced to work in order to get some kind of (very) modest income to pay the folks who work hard to put it all together. Wish it weren’t this way, but it is. Bottom line, it is a business. As a consumer, I pick and choose carefully what I want to subscribe to and then get what I can from the other sites via their open content.

    -dl

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  10. And I apologize for the string of separate comments, too much coffee and I didn’t mean for that to sound so intense — I’m sorry you encountered a glitch in getting access to the story you were trying to read. (I did read the piece on the interview with no problem though, so that one is out from behind the paywall.) -dj

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  11. Put down the coffee, DJ!

    As for Tangle, I do not have a paid subscription, but can read the Monday through Thursday newsletters. Every now and then, the Friday newsletter will be free.

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