Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Twitter has published what it calls a "crisis misinformation policy" announcing that it will be actively reducing the visibility of content found to be false which pertains to "situations of armed conflict, public health emergencies, and large-scale natural disasters."
If one can't see the REAL aggressor in all this that person has to be extremely blind and/or stupid. When the USA overthrew a democratically elected Ukranian President in 2014, everything afterwards became ILLEGAL. Russia has shown itself in the past several decades to be the nation that actually does what the USA portends to- rescue mankind. Does anyone with at least half a brain think the USA would NOT attack a neighboring nation if Americans living their were being massacred?
You're overstating the case when you claim "the USA overthrew a democratically elected Ukrainian President in 2014." The truth of the matter is much more complex than that. Even Oliver Stone who is largely responsible for promoting this propaganda related to the Maidan Uprising has backtracked somewhat and condemns Putin's invasion. Putin has used him as he uses all useful idiot Russian apologists in the West and all outright explicit unapologetic Russian apologists in the West.
In the same interview, the director decried "bloodthirsty" media coverage saying, "they have no proof that Russia intends to invade Ukraine; I doubt that they would. I think Russia is concerned only with the Donbass region."
After the invasion, Stone, who had also criticised the media for using the term "invasion" to characterise Russia's plans, came around.
"Although the U.S. has many wars of aggression on its conscience, it doesn't justify Putin's aggression in Ukraine. A dozen wrongs don't make a right. Russia was wrong to invade."
I do. It would depend. It would depend on whether or not those "Americans" were of and for the plutocracy and if not whether attacking would benefit the plutocracy in some unofficial way never to be broadcast.
You have less than half a brain, in fact it would be generous to say you have even one brain cell, if you believe Putin's invasion is for the reasons he has stated. His officially stated reasons for invading Ukraine are no more the true reasons than yellow cake and al Qaeda and 9/11 were Shrub's reasons for invading Iraq.
The only question is, what truly is the truth? There's Russian propaganda and Western propaganda and Eastern propaganda. All of it vying for your heart and mind. I will say this, where is the equivalent of The Saker for example in Russia? If an American equivalent of The Saker were in Russia, well, it's absurd to even think it let alone countenance it, because said equivalent would be dead and yet The Saker continues here in America (Florida allegedly) with his diarrhea of the fingers unabated and undeterred without a fear in the world.
I've been interested to read Matt Taibbi's new substack where he publishes writers who reportedly can't get published in Russia. https://russiandissent.substack.com/
Yes, I've read a few items from that space. 1420 is also interesting and from Russia no less. It's an interesting approach to skirting or circumventing censorship.
Come on. Seriously? If there was one, we would know it. Granted, there are Russian dissidents who have fled Russia and criticize Putin and Russia from abroad, but they're Russian. Imagine if Snowden decided to take the tact The Saker has taken and criticize Putin and Russia. What would his fate be? It's obvious.
Yes, seriously. If there was one, how would we know it, or rather how would you know it? Good question. Do you speak Russian? Are you following Russian TV?
I think not, cause if you did you would have heard about Khodaryonok and his recent comments on Russian TV?
In fact I suspect the only info on Russia you have comes from the western media sources.
There are entire TV channels that are not so fond of Putin and United Russia - the biggest party in Duma,
Granted they are not popular, but that is, at least partly, because Putin and United Russia have immense approval in Russia. his approval rates never went below 60% and currently are at 85%.
Funny you mentioned Snowden in this context.
Russia does not care about dissidents, there has never been any attempt by Russia to stop a diplomatic flight to "get" some Russian dissident. Kind of makes you think who the real oppressor is. That is if you have ability to think.
This is an act of EXTEME cowardice, but hey, that's the KGB cum FSB for you. A bunch of lowly cowards. Targeting civilians in their chess games. Don't think the fact she's black and a lesbian doesn't play a part in it. Scum. Who can forget the Soviet communists clandestinely, openly even, supporting revolutionary black movements in America during the cold war and here they show their true racist, sexist colors. Russian leadership whether it be during the cold war or now has always used everyone in their mission to attain and secure power.
Is Putin trying to goad America into attacking Russia? He should know America would never get Griner's back when the chips are down. Putin could execute her and America would not attack. Griner isn't Madeleine Albright or Bill Clinton or George Bush or Elon Musk or David Solomon.
A military analyst has returned to the Kremlin propaganda TV channel where he gave a damning critique of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine that subsequently went viral.
However, Mikhail Khodaryonok, a former air defense commander, on Wednesday gave a rosier view of Russia's military capabilities than on Monday, when he warned the situation for Russian troops "will frankly get worse."
That clip was viewed more than 6 million times, with many noting the stony-faced demeanor of anchor Olga Skabeyeva—dubbed the Kremlin's "propagandist-in-chief," who usually trumpets Russian successes in the campaign and lambastes the West for its support of Kyiv.
After listening to Seth Harp's account on Radio War Nerd of his trip to .ua as a journalist sponsored by Harpers, I am now pretty clear that any individual report cannot be trusted no matter who it comes from. Truth sometimes emerges after a while as various stories come into a sort-of alignment, e.g. the Moskva loss, the Azovstahl bunker siege, etc. Others are still unclear, e.g. was .ru's early move on Kiev a repulsed attempt at capturing the city or a pinning maneuver designed to keep .ua resources from moving east and to keep Z alive?
You're the troll. It's been mentioned many times over at this venue and many others that America is a representative democratic republic in name only. Functionally, effectively, it's a plutocracy. There is no "we." You know it. So why do you continue unless you're trolling?
I can't see where Simple Bear Necessities is "offer[ing] arguments that [they] admit are bullshit."
I know, if you don't, that there is no "we" in the United States today.
There are the oligarchs and then there are several groups which are exploited. Trying to vote in our compromised, rigged electoral system is one avenue, amongst many others, in which we are exploited for their gain.
Sorry for any cognitive dissonance this may cause.
"We" is a rhetorical device, one that I suspect most people understood was not to be taken literally, as if the readers of this post were personally enacting 1984-type measures.
The following is a quote from the cesspool known as The Unz Review. It was left by an anonymous troll. Note the "we" and "our" references. This freak is inspired by you.
"Frankly, Russia’s best chance, not to win a nuclear war with the West, but to at least get a few licks in before they are annihilated, is to wage a first strike against the West, and especially Washington, NOW, while they still have some advantages including their unstoppable hypersonic missiles. Facing existential extermination from a disdainful enemy that considers them to be subhuman, thoroughly inept and about to be conquered by their betters, I think they will soon realise that an all out first strike is their only remaining option to take our obnoxious selves with them to the abyss. Besides, the future is not looking too bright for the America we remember under the new “woke” regime now in control. Once all fairness for Russia is gone–because the place no longer exists courtesy of Uncle Sam, expect the same for America’s new white minority already being blamed for every sin under the sun. If I’m gonna perish soon anyway, at least I might be able to thank Russia for eliminating my domestic haters, as Russophobia gives way to the emergent leucophobia."
"The Typhoid Mary of Disinformation,” produced by GG’s Substack and Matt Orfalea
A clear connection between
- CIA bipartisan Ukraine coup against its democratically elected government,
- the immense Russia-gate hoax and
- current bipartisan proxy war against capitalist Russia
What is still missing is the truth about bipartisan disinformation and total censorship about Nazi-dominated Ukraine government and US taxpayer support, including paychecks for card-carrying Ukraine Nazis. We are living in a midst of unspeakable crime and disinformation.
"unspeakable crime" is nothing new. The "disinformation" aspect is a novelty only because it can be more easily observed due to the internet in this new spiral of civilization "progress". Otherwise, everything is as old as the world itself.
It is an extraordinarily explicit statement of truthmongering...
> "a global policy that will guide our efforts to elevate credible, authoritative information, and will help to ensure viral misinformation isn’t amplified or recommended by us during crises. In times of crisis, misleading information can undermine public trust and cause further harm to already vulnerable communities."
1. "public trust" (in the ruling regime)
2. "vulnerable communities" (the Herman-Chomsky worthy victims)
3. "authoritative information" (that supports public trust, i.e. consent)
4. "misinformation" (that undermine public trust, i.e. dissent)
5. "elevate" (clear enough)
6. "ensure ___ isn’t amplified or recommended" (clear enough)
7. "crises" (that which justifies this truthmongering)
All that's really missing in this is a definition of what is the ruling regime. It's clear enough to us, I think, but I wonder if Twitter's execs can manage to say it out loud, even in secret among themselves.
Twatter has such a plethora of fake accounts for censorship of fools, bet you the number of so called real folks on there ain't enough that feral musket will bother buying it
Who needs Twatter anyway, other than the Hacksxxxxxine depopulation agenda Whorganization
They declare monkeys to push there junkies, literally
Twitter was fun while it lasted. But now it feels like any participation in Twitter is promoting a platform deliberately being used for narrative control - that fuels more bombs being built and dropped.
SiVal censorship is disturbing, ofc, but on the plus side it's much easier now to talk to people about it than during the PropOrNot/Russiagate era. Twitter's policy statement is _perfectly_clear_. There is simply no denying what it represents. So now it's just a question of what side are you on: Do you like that SiVal controls what people know in the interest of "public trust" or are you opposed?
The censorship of The Revolution Continues began in earnest in 2016 after Hillary's loss and has only gotten worse since Biden took office. Wonder if this has anything to do with his Ministry of Truth? Can't be calling out the powers to be, can we? Sigh... Oh well, onward with revealing the truth as we see it even if no one ever finds it to read it.
This is entirely true: 'they're worried about the spread of information' not disinformation. Exactly right.
We're living in a sad, sad time aren't we? We, the Westerners, are learning day after day that we are part of an evil, conscienceless mendacious empire.
That is waging war on the whole world continually. That's one thing.
But also waging war on us, its own citizens. That's another thing entirely. Robs us of everything.
We are under attack and embroiled in a losing war that not even our children nor our 'leaders' nor most of our compatriots seem to comprehend, have the first inkling of.
It is terrible.
I'd say it's like having clear precognition in nazi germany, maybe, say, one year ahead, and seeing the first bang on the door from the police or military, whoever, whatever and seeing with this precognition the gas chambers and the mountains of dead.
Yep.
Bloody awful. Ah well. It's not all done yet and maybe it won't be.
Here's a bit of truth crept in through the cracks in the wall of censorship:
War in Eastern Ukraine Looks a Lot Different in Person Than it Does on CNN
Crisis misinformation policy is what we've been getting. But can they convince people that starving in the cold and dark is bearable - along with concomitant nasties - for a good cause? There is a point beyond which all the Goebbels-speak simply doesn't work anymore. We're fast approaching that point.
Caitlin writes, "the Ukraine war is the first crisis to which this new censorship policy will be applied." So comforting to know there was no crisis to which these exact same tools were applied in March, 2020. And yes, we are being protected from evil Putin supporters who are trying to defeat the global rules based order that provides us all with the benefits of empire, just as dissidents like Del Bigtree and the Great Barrington crowd were trying to "kill granny." /sarc
Never have I been so motivated to tweet the truth about the U.S. proxy war on Russia.
If one can't see the REAL aggressor in all this that person has to be extremely blind and/or stupid. When the USA overthrew a democratically elected Ukranian President in 2014, everything afterwards became ILLEGAL. Russia has shown itself in the past several decades to be the nation that actually does what the USA portends to- rescue mankind. Does anyone with at least half a brain think the USA would NOT attack a neighboring nation if Americans living their were being massacred?
You're overstating the case when you claim "the USA overthrew a democratically elected Ukrainian President in 2014." The truth of the matter is much more complex than that. Even Oliver Stone who is largely responsible for promoting this propaganda related to the Maidan Uprising has backtracked somewhat and condemns Putin's invasion. Putin has used him as he uses all useful idiot Russian apologists in the West and all outright explicit unapologetic Russian apologists in the West.
https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/international/oliver-stone-criticises-putins-aggression-in-ukraine
In the same interview, the director decried "bloodthirsty" media coverage saying, "they have no proof that Russia intends to invade Ukraine; I doubt that they would. I think Russia is concerned only with the Donbass region."
After the invasion, Stone, who had also criticised the media for using the term "invasion" to characterise Russia's plans, came around.
"Although the U.S. has many wars of aggression on its conscience, it doesn't justify Putin's aggression in Ukraine. A dozen wrongs don't make a right. Russia was wrong to invade."
You don't think RF is a real aggressor in UA?
I do. It would depend. It would depend on whether or not those "Americans" were of and for the plutocracy and if not whether attacking would benefit the plutocracy in some unofficial way never to be broadcast.
You have less than half a brain, in fact it would be generous to say you have even one brain cell, if you believe Putin's invasion is for the reasons he has stated. His officially stated reasons for invading Ukraine are no more the true reasons than yellow cake and al Qaeda and 9/11 were Shrub's reasons for invading Iraq.
The only question is, what truly is the truth? There's Russian propaganda and Western propaganda and Eastern propaganda. All of it vying for your heart and mind. I will say this, where is the equivalent of The Saker for example in Russia? If an American equivalent of The Saker were in Russia, well, it's absurd to even think it let alone countenance it, because said equivalent would be dead and yet The Saker continues here in America (Florida allegedly) with his diarrhea of the fingers unabated and undeterred without a fear in the world.
I've been interested to read Matt Taibbi's new substack where he publishes writers who reportedly can't get published in Russia. https://russiandissent.substack.com/
Me too. But those are mostly political critiques. Very interesting but not much factual war reporting.
Yes, I've read a few items from that space. 1420 is also interesting and from Russia no less. It's an interesting approach to skirting or circumventing censorship.
https://incendiaryishka.substack.com/p/1420
How do you know there is no Saker equivalent in Russia? And why do you think it is going to be dead?
Come on. Seriously? If there was one, we would know it. Granted, there are Russian dissidents who have fled Russia and criticize Putin and Russia from abroad, but they're Russian. Imagine if Snowden decided to take the tact The Saker has taken and criticize Putin and Russia. What would his fate be? It's obvious.
Yes, seriously. If there was one, how would we know it, or rather how would you know it? Good question. Do you speak Russian? Are you following Russian TV?
I think not, cause if you did you would have heard about Khodaryonok and his recent comments on Russian TV?
In fact I suspect the only info on Russia you have comes from the western media sources.
There are entire TV channels that are not so fond of Putin and United Russia - the biggest party in Duma,
Granted they are not popular, but that is, at least partly, because Putin and United Russia have immense approval in Russia. his approval rates never went below 60% and currently are at 85%.
Funny you mentioned Snowden in this context.
Russia does not care about dissidents, there has never been any attempt by Russia to stop a diplomatic flight to "get" some Russian dissident. Kind of makes you think who the real oppressor is. That is if you have ability to think.
This is an act of EXTEME cowardice, but hey, that's the KGB cum FSB for you. A bunch of lowly cowards. Targeting civilians in their chess games. Don't think the fact she's black and a lesbian doesn't play a part in it. Scum. Who can forget the Soviet communists clandestinely, openly even, supporting revolutionary black movements in America during the cold war and here they show their true racist, sexist colors. Russian leadership whether it be during the cold war or now has always used everyone in their mission to attain and secure power.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/4/1/brittney-griner-teammates-break-silence-amid-russia-detention
Is Putin trying to goad America into attacking Russia? He should know America would never get Griner's back when the chips are down. Putin could execute her and America would not attack. Griner isn't Madeleine Albright or Bill Clinton or George Bush or Elon Musk or David Solomon.
Stop with the propaganda. Please.
Gee, I wonder what made Khodaryonok change his tune? Hmmm. What could it have been? I'm stumped.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-mikhail-khodaryonok-60-minutes-critical-1708100
A military analyst has returned to the Kremlin propaganda TV channel where he gave a damning critique of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine that subsequently went viral.
However, Mikhail Khodaryonok, a former air defense commander, on Wednesday gave a rosier view of Russia's military capabilities than on Monday, when he warned the situation for Russian troops "will frankly get worse."
That clip was viewed more than 6 million times, with many noting the stony-faced demeanor of anchor Olga Skabeyeva—dubbed the Kremlin's "propagandist-in-chief," who usually trumpets Russian successes in the campaign and lambastes the West for its support of Kyiv.
After listening to Seth Harp's account on Radio War Nerd of his trip to .ua as a journalist sponsored by Harpers, I am now pretty clear that any individual report cannot be trusted no matter who it comes from. Truth sometimes emerges after a while as various stories come into a sort-of alignment, e.g. the Moskva loss, the Azovstahl bunker siege, etc. Others are still unclear, e.g. was .ru's early move on Kiev a repulsed attempt at capturing the city or a pinning maneuver designed to keep .ua resources from moving east and to keep Z alive?
The easiest first step would be to censor all information coming from the NYT, CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, and all other branches of American Pravda.
The NYT and Washington Post at least already censor themselves with pay walls.
If the truth were so obvious to all, why must we take such extreme measures to protect people from wrongthink?
Here's that "we" again. Why do you persist with the "we?" There is no "we." Only the illusion of such.
Do "we" not live under a government which purports to be a Representative democracy?
Or are you trolling again?
You're the troll. It's been mentioned many times over at this venue and many others that America is a representative democratic republic in name only. Functionally, effectively, it's a plutocracy. There is no "we." You know it. So why do you continue unless you're trolling?
You offer arguments that you admit are bullshit, which is trolling.
Now, you're apparently trying to play word games for the sake of arguing. That also is trolling.
I can't see where Simple Bear Necessities is "offer[ing] arguments that [they] admit are bullshit."
I know, if you don't, that there is no "we" in the United States today.
There are the oligarchs and then there are several groups which are exploited. Trying to vote in our compromised, rigged electoral system is one avenue, amongst many others, in which we are exploited for their gain.
Sorry for any cognitive dissonance this may cause.
This was in a different column by Caity.
"We" is a rhetorical device, one that I suspect most people understood was not to be taken literally, as if the readers of this post were personally enacting 1984-type measures.
SBN was simply arguing in order to argue.
The following is a quote from the cesspool known as The Unz Review. It was left by an anonymous troll. Note the "we" and "our" references. This freak is inspired by you.
"Frankly, Russia’s best chance, not to win a nuclear war with the West, but to at least get a few licks in before they are annihilated, is to wage a first strike against the West, and especially Washington, NOW, while they still have some advantages including their unstoppable hypersonic missiles. Facing existential extermination from a disdainful enemy that considers them to be subhuman, thoroughly inept and about to be conquered by their betters, I think they will soon realise that an all out first strike is their only remaining option to take our obnoxious selves with them to the abyss. Besides, the future is not looking too bright for the America we remember under the new “woke” regime now in control. Once all fairness for Russia is gone–because the place no longer exists courtesy of Uncle Sam, expect the same for America’s new white minority already being blamed for every sin under the sun. If I’m gonna perish soon anyway, at least I might be able to thank Russia for eliminating my domestic haters, as Russophobia gives way to the emergent leucophobia."
Funny how the dominant group, once they are unseated and have to take a place at the table with the rest of humankind, becomes an instant victim.
Now you are making strawman arguments, as well as attributing influence that I don't have.
In other words, you are trolling some more.
An extraordinary video documentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiLoJsrr8bg
"The Typhoid Mary of Disinformation,” produced by GG’s Substack and Matt Orfalea
A clear connection between
- CIA bipartisan Ukraine coup against its democratically elected government,
- the immense Russia-gate hoax and
- current bipartisan proxy war against capitalist Russia
What is still missing is the truth about bipartisan disinformation and total censorship about Nazi-dominated Ukraine government and US taxpayer support, including paychecks for card-carrying Ukraine Nazis. We are living in a midst of unspeakable crime and disinformation.
"unspeakable crime" is nothing new. The "disinformation" aspect is a novelty only because it can be more easily observed due to the internet in this new spiral of civilization "progress". Otherwise, everything is as old as the world itself.
The increasingly heavy handed reliance upon overt censorship is a sure sign of weakness and not strength.
Before, the Empire was more subtle.
It is an extraordinarily explicit statement of truthmongering...
> "a global policy that will guide our efforts to elevate credible, authoritative information, and will help to ensure viral misinformation isn’t amplified or recommended by us during crises. In times of crisis, misleading information can undermine public trust and cause further harm to already vulnerable communities."
1. "public trust" (in the ruling regime)
2. "vulnerable communities" (the Herman-Chomsky worthy victims)
3. "authoritative information" (that supports public trust, i.e. consent)
4. "misinformation" (that undermine public trust, i.e. dissent)
5. "elevate" (clear enough)
6. "ensure ___ isn’t amplified or recommended" (clear enough)
7. "crises" (that which justifies this truthmongering)
All that's really missing in this is a definition of what is the ruling regime. It's clear enough to us, I think, but I wonder if Twitter's execs can manage to say it out loud, even in secret among themselves.
Truth
US war on Russia is aimed at China they say so.
Twatter has such a plethora of fake accounts for censorship of fools, bet you the number of so called real folks on there ain't enough that feral musket will bother buying it
Who needs Twatter anyway, other than the Hacksxxxxxine depopulation agenda Whorganization
They declare monkeys to push there junkies, literally
I agree. Twitter is a farce. Even without censorship, it's propaganda.
https://incendiaryishka.substack.com/p/twitter-is-propaganda
Silicon Valley should be renamed Silicone Valley due to their aggressive efforts to replace real with fake.
I always call it sillycone valley
Would "silly-con" be even better?
Twitter was fun while it lasted. But now it feels like any participation in Twitter is promoting a platform deliberately being used for narrative control - that fuels more bombs being built and dropped.
SiVal censorship is disturbing, ofc, but on the plus side it's much easier now to talk to people about it than during the PropOrNot/Russiagate era. Twitter's policy statement is _perfectly_clear_. There is simply no denying what it represents. So now it's just a question of what side are you on: Do you like that SiVal controls what people know in the interest of "public trust" or are you opposed?
The censorship of The Revolution Continues began in earnest in 2016 after Hillary's loss and has only gotten worse since Biden took office. Wonder if this has anything to do with his Ministry of Truth? Can't be calling out the powers to be, can we? Sigh... Oh well, onward with revealing the truth as we see it even if no one ever finds it to read it.
This is entirely true: 'they're worried about the spread of information' not disinformation. Exactly right.
We're living in a sad, sad time aren't we? We, the Westerners, are learning day after day that we are part of an evil, conscienceless mendacious empire.
That is waging war on the whole world continually. That's one thing.
But also waging war on us, its own citizens. That's another thing entirely. Robs us of everything.
We are under attack and embroiled in a losing war that not even our children nor our 'leaders' nor most of our compatriots seem to comprehend, have the first inkling of.
It is terrible.
I'd say it's like having clear precognition in nazi germany, maybe, say, one year ahead, and seeing the first bang on the door from the police or military, whoever, whatever and seeing with this precognition the gas chambers and the mountains of dead.
Yep.
Bloody awful. Ah well. It's not all done yet and maybe it won't be.
Here's a bit of truth crept in through the cracks in the wall of censorship:
War in Eastern Ukraine Looks a Lot Different in Person Than it Does on CNN
By John Parker - May 20, 2022 3
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/05/20/war-in-eastern-ukraine-looks-a-lot-different-in-person-than-it-does-on-cnn/
the internet or silicon valley needs burning down
Crisis misinformation policy is what we've been getting. But can they convince people that starving in the cold and dark is bearable - along with concomitant nasties - for a good cause? There is a point beyond which all the Goebbels-speak simply doesn't work anymore. We're fast approaching that point.
Caitlin writes, "the Ukraine war is the first crisis to which this new censorship policy will be applied." So comforting to know there was no crisis to which these exact same tools were applied in March, 2020. And yes, we are being protected from evil Putin supporters who are trying to defeat the global rules based order that provides us all with the benefits of empire, just as dissidents like Del Bigtree and the Great Barrington crowd were trying to "kill granny." /sarc
Keep on fighting Caitlin!