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hope you did too. Good food, great people out there.

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you haven't been to one, you should come because they're

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of the station and the show and us as well.

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I mean, we're just kind of you know, value add

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on that thing. So thanks again. It was great to

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talk with everybody last night. Too many people to name,

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and frankly nobody had name tag, so I probably would

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get a bunch wrong too. So anyway, thanks again for

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coming out. I had a lot of fun, and I

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hope you did too. One of the people I spoke

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to last night mentioned we got to talk on a

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little bit during the event about the censorship, the censorship

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industrial complex basically, and I'm not sure if you are

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aware of this or not, but we have some developments

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in what Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, refers

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to as a dark chapter in America's constitutional history. He

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wrote an op ed over at the Federalist dot com,

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and he announced that the State Department is taking a

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quote crucial step towards keeping the President's promise to liberate

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American speech by abolishing forever the body formerly known as

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the Global Engagement Center or the GEC, or as I

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call it, the GEK. The GEK was supposed to be

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dead already, but as many have learned the hard way

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in Washington, d C, few things ever truly die. When

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Republicans in Congress sunset gek's funding at the end of

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last year, the Biden State Department renamed it the GEK

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became the Counter Foreign I'm writing these acronyms down to

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the letters counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Office or

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the RFIMI or the r FIMIPA ME and the same people.

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They just moved. They just renamed the GEK to the Arphamy.

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With the new name, they were hoping to survive the

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transition to the new administration. That did not work out

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because the State Department under Marco Rubio put that to

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an end as well. Whatever name it goes by, GEK

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is dead. It will not return, he said. Over the

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past half decade, bodies like the GEK, crafted by our

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own governing ruling class, nearly destroyed America's long free speech history.

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The enemies of speech had new lingo to justify their

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authoritarian impulse. It was disinformation allegedly pushed by nefarious foreign

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governments that was the number one threat to our democracy,

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and to protect our democracy, this disinformation had to be

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identified and stamped out. See this is one of the things,

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and Rubia alludes to it, which is what George Washington's

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warning about government right. It is a useful servant, but

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a fearful master, and fire right easily becomes uncontrollable, and

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so it is imperative that we constantly be on guard

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for the excesses of government because government has a natural tendency,

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because it is comprised of human beings, it has a

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natural tendency to grow and to take liberty from its citizens,

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and the citizens have a natural tendency to yield their

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liberty to their governments. That is the natural order of

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government citizen relations. That's usual what happens. Governments rarely ever

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devolve power right. They're always taking more, and that leads

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to tyranny. And that's what the founders tried to guard

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against in constructing the system that we have. They recognized

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that natural tendency, and the GEK is a perfect example

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of it. Gek's history, Rubio writes, the history shows the

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pernicious way that Washington turns laudable public goals into a

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means of entrenching its own power and rolling back the

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freedom of regular Americans. GEK began life in twenty eleven.

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It was then called the Center for Strategic counter Terrorism

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Communications or the cSCC, RIGHT, and its purpose was to

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monitor the narratives of al Qaeda and ISIS and other

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foreign terrorist organizations that were trying to recruit and to

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propagandize to Americans. Twenty eleven, RIGHT remember this Obama's in office,

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the rise of ISIS, all of that. They're recruiting all

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these British girls to go over and be you know,

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slave wives to the ISIS fighters member all of that.

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Obama administration renames it the Global Engagement Center and it

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strips away the explicit focus on international terrorism. Then Donald

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get's mission then gets expanded to cover any and all

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quote foreign state and non state propaganda and disinformation efforts,

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and at that point game on. That's why we saw

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what we saw during the Trump administration and through COVID

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right through the Biden administration. That's why people were getting blacklisted, banned, deplatformed,

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their accounts, throttled, just regular people. That's why that all occurred.

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The pivot was not an accident. Keep this name in mind,

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Rick Stengel. That was Obama's guy who was in charge

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at the GEK, and he touted his efforts to protect

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democracy while redefining it so that democracy came to means

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silencing the part of the electorate that he didn't like.

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In twenty nineteen, he directly equated President Trump's campaign with

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foreign and terrorist propaganda. He wrote, quote Trump employed the

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same techniques of disinformation as the Russians. That sounds familiar,

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and much the same scare tactics as isis. That same year,

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he wrote an entire article about why America needs a

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hate speech law. He said, quote, I'm not against propaganda.

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Every country does it, and they have to do it

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to their own population, And I don't necessarily think it's

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that awful. This was the guy in charge of deciding

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who should get censored and who should not. The guy

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who's not against propaganda. He doesn't think it's that awful.

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What could go wrong? Right? Like fire? Useful servant, fearful master?

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dot com. Alrighty, So Marco Rubio gave an interview to

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Mike Bens no relation to Mercedes. Mike Bens is a

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former State Department official and he is also the founder

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of Foundation for Freedom Online or the FFO. And Rubio

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sat down to talk with Ben's because Benz has been

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hammering this issue of the censorship industrial complex, basically the

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State Department's abuse of American citizens. He's been hammering away

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at this for years. So Rubio gave him like a

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fifteen minute interview. I pulled a couple of soundbites. Here's

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the first.

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Speaker 3: Well, we ended government sponsored censorship in the United States

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through the State Department.

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Speaker 1: And I may explain how we get there.

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Speaker 3: This started out, you know, fifteen ten years ago, with

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this effort of let's go after the messaging that al

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Qaeda and ISIS and others are putting to radicalize people,

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or no, who's going to be against that?

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Speaker 1: That sounds normal?

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Speaker 3: And then it was like in twenty sixteen, oh, you know,

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we had this foreign interference in our election. We need

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to start targeting some of that stuff. By twenty twenty,

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it had grown into this movement of like actually going

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after individual American voices. And one of the ways that

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was being done wasn't just directly, because the guy that

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was running this thing, Stingle, was actually a guy that

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was out there saying, you know, Donald Trump talks just

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like a Russian spy.

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Speaker 1: He talks just like a terrorist, and so do the

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people around them.

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Speaker 3: But they were also taking money from this program and

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using it to fund these NGOs, these third.

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Speaker 1: Party groups who were supposed to be like impartial.

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Speaker 3: Those groups were then tagging, they were literally taggling and

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labeling voices in American politics, Ben Shapiro, the Federalists, others.

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Speaker 1: Tagging them as foreign agents.

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Speaker 3: So you look at it and say, American taxpayers through

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the State Department, were paying groups to attack Americans and

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to try to silence the voice of Americans. And they

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were consequent these were just a label they put on people.

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Some of these people got deplatformed, they got taken down,

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they couldn't communicate, So it was outrageous. So before President

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Trump took over, they disbanded this unit. They just renamed

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it and moved it somewhere else. But now over the

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last few months, we've worked on it, just taking it

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down and to the extent we're spending money.

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Speaker 1: Now, we are going to spend money on messaging.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be pro American messaging, and it's going

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to be incentivizing and protecting free speech, which is threatened

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in all over the world, including countries that are allies

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of ours. The best way to counter disinformation, and that's

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what people are thinking is out there, the best way

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to counter disinformation is free speech. Is to make sure

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that what's true has as equal or greater opportunity to

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communicate as what's not true.

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Speaker 1: We've learned that the hard way.

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Speaker 3: But when you turn disinformation into a weapon, a political weapon,

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a label that you can use to go after people

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you don't like and say, oh, anything that person's saying

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is disinformation. Well, listen, I read mainstream newspapers every day,

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or I watched mainstream broadcast, mainstream broadcast every day that

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I know are disinformation.

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Speaker 1: We have an issue right now.

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Speaker 3: They keep calling it Maryland manor to tell Salvador, No,

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not Maryland man El Salvador citizen deported, Tell Salvador, that's disinformation.

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Speaker 1: Every day.

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Speaker 3: A US senator yesterday said that this guy was a

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kidnapp American citizen and they published it in the article

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without any fact check.

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Speaker 1: Not an American citizen.

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Speaker 3: So the important thing is that we have free speech

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Speaker 1: That's the way you handle that.

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Speaker 3: And you know, but we have instances now in Western

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countries where people are being arrested.

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Speaker 1: You've seen this. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 3: People are out there, they put a post and the

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cop comes knocking on their door. You're going to go

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to jail for sixty days for posting something online. You know,

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this is crazy stuff that's happening or all, and their

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vice president addressed this in his speech at the Munich

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conference back in February.

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Speaker 1: So we got a lot of work to do.

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Speaker 3: But the most important thing is we're going to make

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sure that as we communicate to the world, it's going

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to be pro American.

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Speaker 1: You know, things that build up with this country is.

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Speaker 3: Working on and explaining what we're doing, not attacking Americans

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who are exercising their First Amendment rights.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Americans exercising their First American rights. Like during the

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COVID pandemic GEK, the GEC popped up with a report

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warning that a Russian disinformation apparatus was behind and all

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of this public speculation that the virus was an engineered

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bioweapon or that it existed due to research conducted at

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the Wuhan Institute of Virology. That was Russian disinformation, according

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to the GEK, which then tarred not only specific claims

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as foreign propaganda, but also specific users. It created blacklists

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of thousands of accounts that were accused of being foreign

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propaganda vectors simply for sharing articles or even if they

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just followed some accounts that the GEK didn't like. These

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lists were then sent to social media companies for quote

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unquote review, but nobody was fooled. He says. The purpose

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of more censorship and less free speech. And we know

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this now. We have gotten the information from the fo

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the Freedom of Information requests. We've got the emails and

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text messages and group chain and such, so we know

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what they were doing now. And finally the GEK has

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been dismantled inside of the State Department. It's a good

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take the win, So I am taking the win. I'm

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going to celebrate this win. Thank you Marco Rubio, and

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thank you Donald Trump for dismantling the GEK, the GEC

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Global Engagement blah blah blah whatever and whatever name they

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adopted to try to hide inside the State Department so

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they can continue censoring Americans and American publications like The Federalist.

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And that's why Marco Rubio published his op ed at

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the Federalist dot com. Because the Federalist was a website

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that was targeted by the GEK. The GEK put them

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on a blacklist, sent that blacklist to social media companies,

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so they wouldn't be allowed to share their content, and

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they put it on a you know, an advertiser block list,

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so advertisers wouldn't spend any money at the Federalist dot com.

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That's how they did it. That's fascism, by the way, folks,

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that's what that is. All the people on the left

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that are like fishism, that fascism is. That's what fascism is.

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When the government doesn't directly do it themselves, but they

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use a cutout basically to use you know, a spy term.

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you are not legally allowed to do, which is to

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directly censor free speech or uh, you know, blogs and

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websites and social media. So the government can't censor you,

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but we can use the social media platforms. We can

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use the advertising boycot essentially, which the left has been

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doing for twenty years. Right, they they started targeting Rush Limbaugh.

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When was that air not Air America Center for American Progress, Right,

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isn't that what the and that the David Brock won

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and they they launched advertiser boycotts of Rush Limbaugh's show.

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beat you in the debate on the ideas and the policies,

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and so their tactic is shut up. Andrew Claven did

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the seminal work on shut up or Eat like twenty

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five years ago. It's a great YouTube video. Go watch it.

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It's a fantastic rundown. It's a I mean, the events

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he's talking about are dated because he did it, you know,

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in like two thousand and three or something like that.

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But this is the This was the system that they

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had erected and they used initially right the law was

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to combat disinformation from actual terrorist organizations, and then they

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loosened the parameters so they could target American citizens because

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democracy and this is why Marco Rubio said, accountability is

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vital in the tearing down of this infrastructure.

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Speaker 3: Because it doesn't just provide justice, but it also prevents

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it from happening in the future. You have something you

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can point to at the same time and say these

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are the kinds of things we want to stay away from.

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And you know, it's also a very important lesson here.

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If I take you back fifteen years and I asked somebody,

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do you think we should be doing more to make

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sure ISIS and al Qaeda are not radicalizing people online

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fifteen years ago to say, yeah, of course, but look

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what that turned into. And I'm not saying I'm you know,

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obviously we don't want ISIS radicalizing everybody. But you have

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to understand that sometimes some idea that starts out as

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innocuous or maybe even good intention whatever can metastasize becomes

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a weapon that can be turned into something else by

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someone else. That's a valuable lesson here and everything we do,

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you have to understand that when you create something, what

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you created and what it turns into are not necessarily

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the same thing, especially when the people in charge.

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Speaker 2: Change yeah, unintended consequences. It is part of every single

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government action and policy, every one of them. There is

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no way that you can know every single impact your policy,

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once it becomes law, is going to have. It's just impossible.

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When it wasn't directly nagging social media companies to censor more,

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the GEK paid private actors to do it for them.

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GEK funneled grants to organizations around the world dedicated to

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pushing speech restrictions under the guise of fighting disinformation. Right

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there was one called the Global Disinformation Index or the GDI.

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another called NewsGuard, and by the way, the board of

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advisors of NewsGuard, one of those advisors Rick Stengel. The

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same yep, the one and the same Rick Stengel from

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the GEC. Some of the third party implementers of the

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GEK paid to fight so called disinformation were downright laughable.

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One such implementer, which continued to receive funding even after

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Congress sunset the GEK, this one organization flagged the doge dog.

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Do you know the dog I'm talking about. It's on

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all the memes. I don't know what kind of breed

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it is. I think it's a quirky or something. And

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it's a corki, I would say, corky corgi, and it's

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kind of looking at you like side eye or something like,

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with a surprise look on its face. That meme of

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the dog, they said that that was a symbol associated

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with Nazi SS officers. These are the same people that

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were like, that's not an okay, symbol, that's white power,

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not realizing that the four chan trolls created that to

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make you say that, to make you look stupid. But

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you're so stupid that not only did you adopt the

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four chan troll as true, but you don't even realize

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it when the secret the troll is exposed, like, haha,

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joke's on you. You're like, no, it's not. That's really

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white power thing, what we made it up? No, you

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did it? Duh, there's white power? Like that's the kind

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of These are the people that are like, you can't

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use the different skin tone emojis right, Like if you

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use the yellow emoji, that's somehow inappropriate. Like this is

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the kind of of districtive mindset these people have. The

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problem wasn't that the government picked the wrong people and

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the wrong NGOs to police disinformation. The problem is they

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the op ed at the Federalist dot Com, pointing out

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that the problem wasn't that the government picked the wrong

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people or the wrong NGOs to police disinformation. The problem

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was that they were picking anybody at all. The entire

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disinformation industry, from its very beginnings, has existed to protect

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the American establishment from the voices of forgotten Americans. Everything

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it does is the fruit of the poison tree, the

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hoax that Russian interference, misinformation, and meddling is what caused

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Trump's victory in twenty sixteen than a winning political message

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that only he was offering right. Rubio said that this

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travesty has gone on long enough, and he says the

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American people don't need an obscure agency to protect them

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from lies by pressuring Twitter to ban users or trying

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to put the Federalist out of business. At her birth,

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America was a loan beacon of freedom to the world.

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If necessary, we will happily be that loan beacon once again,

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he said. In that interview with Mike Ben's, he said

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that they are they're now going to be creating a

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process to determine who was targeted and for what specifically.

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Speaker 3: We already know some of the higher profile ones, but

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they're more than a higher profile ones, right, there are

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a lot of other including everyday individual American citizens who

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suddenly were labeled. And I think this is going to

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require some cross jurisdictional work because some of it's going

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to require us to go back and prove, Okay, somebody

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got deep platformed and one and like in the middle

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of COVID twenty twenty, someone got deplatformed, and tracking we

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can prove that people can show, hey, I got deep

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platformed by the old Facebook or by the old Twitter

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or whatever, but then linking that, so, why were they

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deep platform who told them the deep platform?

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Speaker 1: And if we could.

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Speaker 3: Somehow with internal review create a linkage between some information

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that came from something the State Department paid for and

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an actual a grief party, that's what's important because I

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think that one thing is to point to the high

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profile cases, which we're aware of, but I think when

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people see that there were actually just individual everyday Americans

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that were deplatformed and for whatever was silenced because somebody

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associated with this program identified them, I think that's what's

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really going to be eye opening to a lot of people.

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But we didn't want to wait for that to take action.

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We know enough to already act, but we obviously want

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to know the depth and the scope of this that's

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going to happen.

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Speaker 1: It's already happening.

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Speaker 2: So Eric Schmidt, he is the former Attorney General of Missouri.

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I believe he's now a US Senator. He celebrated this announcement.

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He said, it's hard to overstate how big this is.

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For years, the State Department ran a global censorship operation,

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not just in America but across the entire Western world.

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As Attorney General of Missouri, he says, I sued the

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Biden administration for working with big tech to censor conservatives.

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We took them all the way to the US Supreme Court.

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In that case, Missouri v. Biden, led to the release

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of thousands of pages of documents detailing a vast censorship enterprise.

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Piece by piece, we uncovered exactly how the system worked.

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Under Biden, government agencies funded an army of third party

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censors and disinformation groups to do what they could not

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do legally themselves, which was to censor American speech. One

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of the nerve centers of this censorship machine was the GEK,

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the Global Engagement Center founded under Obama. The GEK was

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originally billed as a way to combat foreign propaganda, but

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it began to target Americans under the guise of fighting disinformation.

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with powerful NGOs, non governmental organizations, which, by the way,

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I would submit, if you cannot survive, if your operation

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cannot survive without government funds, then I don't think you're

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actually a non government organization. But I digress. The GEC

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funded and worked with powerful NGOs, pushing speech restrictions and

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creating advertiser blacklists designed to crush conservative media across the West.

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Your tax dollars were funding a global war against conservatives.

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For example, of the London based Global Disinformation Index, funded

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by GEK, it compiled blacklists of media outlets to feed

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to advertisers, essentially a form of financial warfare against disfavored outlets.

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The top ten outlets on its disinformation list You may

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want to sit down for this development. They were all

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from the right. Last year, he said, I let a

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fight in Congress to shutter the GEC for good. The

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agency was supposed to sunset at the end of twenty

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twenty four, but the Biden State Department simply renamed it,

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kept all the same employees, and tried to smuggle it

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into the next administration. That's how the administrative state works.

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It morphs and adapts to protect itself. But he said

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this is a huge step in dismantling the left's censorship enterprise.

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Free speech and in particular free speech online is one

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of the major battlefields of our time. It's one of

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the fights that will define whether we win or lose

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on everything else. Also related, the Director of National Intelligence

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Tulcy Gabbert, has declassified a Biden administration plan to counter

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domestic terrorism established in the months following the January sixth

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Capital riots. Gabber declassified Joe Biden's Strategic Implementation Plan for

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Countering Domestic Terrorism or the SIPCDT, which I'm not even

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going to try to make that into an acronym. So

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it was declassified at the urging of conservative groups, including

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America First Legal. The Washington Examiner reports that the fifteen

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page declassified plan from June of twenty twenty one established

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four pillars that it hoped to achieve. One Understand and

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share domestic terrorism related information, prevent domestic terrorism, recruitment and mobilization,

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to violence, disrupt and deter domestic terrorism activity, and confront

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long term contributors to domestic terrorism. See the plan and

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called to drive other executive and legislative action. That's the

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point of the plan. And when you call, you know,

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parents going down to a school board meeting domestic terrorists.

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Now all of a sudden, you know, the net that

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you're casting gets really, really big and you can catch

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way more people with it. Among the the action items

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in the plan to drive legislative action banning assault weapons

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and high capacity magazines. Huh, that's interesting, so weird how

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leftist goals just sort of map on to this, you know,

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non partisan effort to root out domestic terrorists. Look, I

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was saying this when people were running around saying, punch

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a Nazi, Punch a Nazi. The problem is, first off,

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you don't know they're actually Nazis. Secondly, they're not actually Nazis.

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Third if you're the only one who gets to determine

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who is and who isn't a Nazi and then you

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get to commit violence on that is a slippery slope.

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That's going to lead to a lot of innocent people

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who are not Nazis getting punched and then that leads

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to them punching you back. That's how that works. It's

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like they never understand that the other team gets a

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turn at back. The Biden administration also called for sharing

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with relevant technology and other private industry companies information concerning

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domestic terrorism. The outline garnered criticism from even the American

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Civil Liberties Union. Even the ACLU called it a reflection

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of the ever expanding authority to surveil and monitor American communities.

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When you've lost the ACLU as a Democrat, when you've

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lost the ACLU on the wrong path, and this was

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all done by President Auto pen Like, I don't even

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know who to blame for this. I don't think Joe

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Biden even was aware that the internet existed at this point.

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All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you

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