My purpose in posting the following 4-minute video is to let readers know what we escaped via the Trump election. Furthermore, Musk’s purchase of Twitter, may have been an equally significant event in turning the tide regarding the Censorship Industrial Complex, CIC.
That is, conservatives, Christians and people of other faiths got a taste of the kind of censorship that is currently underway in the European Union.
I actually believed we were going to become a Socialist state and would be subject to the same type of censorship; but when Musk acquired Twitter and removed censorship from it, he facilitated Trump’s election. Moreover, since President Trump has Musk auditing government agencies, we have discovered how USAID and the UN were working together to promote the CIC.
In the following brief video, representative Ben Cline questions Michael Shellengerg, revealing the aims of the above corrupt organizations regarding our free speech.
Highlights of their discussion are presented in bullet points below video.
Title of video at Forbes: ‘It’s Out Of Black Mirror’: Shellenberger Warns Of ‘Extremely Disturbing’ USAID Digital ID Program
From the YouTube site, Forbes Breaking News, linked below:
HIGHLIGHTS: [Censorship Industrial Complex, CIC]
- Tax dollars had been abused by funding the CIC via USAID and the UN
- UN promoted initiatives regarding information management via third parties for the development of censorship tools and technologies via US tax dollars
- AI was used in those tools
- Their goal: fact-checking tools were to label speech as misinformation, disinformation, mal-information, toxic or hate speech
- In 2021, the USA gave the UN $190 million tax dollars for their program
- Thus far, above program has been tested in 5 countries: Kenya; Honduras; Liberia; Sierra Leon; and Zambia
- The plan was to expand the above information-management testing to other countries
- UN had partnered with other players in the CIC: Crowd Tangle; FB Meta
- Meedin [likely incorrect spelling] was awarded grant for $250K from the National Science Foundation for identifying and countering misinformation on closed messaging platforms
- International Fact-Checking Network, IFCN, a grant and fellowship making organization was to help fact checkers, solution providers and other eligible organizations launch new and innovative fact-checking programs and initiatives
- “I Verify” [apparently the name of an organization] may be part of a larger global trend towards centralized control over information
- USAID had been pushing for digital IDs that would tie people’s bank accounts to their social media profiles [as in a recent CBS post in this blog, and apparently a Netflix show, Black Mirror]
- The goal, to police and de-bank dissenting views [as they did in this country to President Trump and his wife]
- As our agencies are audited, new censorship initiatives are uncovered, hidden away as at USAID
- It’s madness; it’s terrifying
- An authoritarian government could weaponize such information tools [the CCP uses such things]
- The Biden regime was silent about such organizations / practices; that had an impact upon the world
- A Canadian woman testified and noted that such things occurred during the trucker protest, including the de-banking
- People are reluctant to express opinions in such environments [I certainly learned, during the Biden administration to keep my opinions to myself when in the public arena; that is why pollsters have difficulty predicting elections, many people stay silent to keep from being cancelled…]
- Several people expressed gratitude to God for the work of President Trump and Elon Musk
LINK TO ARTICLE ON EU CENSORSHIP:
ELON MUSK EXPOSES 60 MINUTES FOR BRAZEN FAKE NEWS EDITS AND DEMANDS IT TO BE TAKEN OFF AIR – SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA
THE FOLLOWING NARRATIVE AND LINKS ACCOMPANIED VIDEO AT YOUTUBE:
Feb 18, 2025
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing last week, Rep. Ben Cline (R-VA) spoke to Michael Shellenberger about government censorship.
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