Always remember that our FBI, CIA, and intelligence community are our most anti-democratic entities in our system, organized to keep information from the people and to mislead and manipulate, and this has been their nature for the entirety of their existences. It is healthy to distrust them.. It is essential to always be skeptical about their claims or intentions. We of course need some versions of these entities, but they need to much more constrained.
Link: https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/
Politicians are the worst offenders because the power they crave above all depends on their controlling the narrative.
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The original free speech battles in this country were waged from the left against the right.
Ironically, Mario Savio's passionate free speech oratopry happened right acorss the Bay from where today's would be censors ply their high tech repression.
Link: https://youtu.be/lsO_SlA7E8k
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Link: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1580949199151325184.html
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Oh, that's right, when they became useful tools to try to remove a democratically-elected president. Gotcha.