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Subject: Silicon Valley Giants Collaborate With The US Government On Venezuela
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 by: AnonUser - Sat, 11 May 2019 10:02 UTC

Nothing many of us don't already know, but Caitlin is a good writer and
always worth a read:

Silicon Valley Giants Collaborate With The US Government On Venezuela
Caitlin Johnstone
May 10

Whenever you speak out on a public forum against internet censorship, like
the recent Instagram/Facebook banning of Louis Farrakhan, Infowars, and
several right-wing pundits, you always offend two major political groups.
The first group are the power-serving authoritarians who identify with the
left side of the political spectrum; they argue that it’s good and right
to trust Silicon Valley plutocrats to regulate political speech on giant
monopolistic platforms. The second group are the capitalism cheerleaders
who believe there’s a free market solution to every problem; they argue
that these Silicon Valley giants are private companies which are
completely separate from the government, so it’s not accurate to refer
to what they do with their own property as censorship.

Is that really true, though? Is it really accurate to claim that these
sprawling corporations that nobody’s been able to compete with are
simply private companies, separate and distinct from the government of the
nation they’re based in? If you look at their behavior, it certainly
doesn’t seem like it.

The US government is working to topple the government of Venezuela and
replace it with a puppet regime. On the off chance that you were still in
denial of this self-evident fact, check out this April 24th fact sheet on
the website for the US embassy in Brazil which openly boasts about the way
economic and diplomatic pressures are being deliberately placed on the
Venezuelan government to install Washington puppet Juan Guaido to the
nation’s leadership. Trump’s National Security Advisor has blatantly
threatened that the US will starve the families of Venezuelan military
officers if they don’t overthrow their government, right there on
Twitter.

This is a known, unconcealed US government agenda. And the Silicon Valley
giants are actively facilitating it.

For example, as highlighted by journalist Max Blumenthal, if you go to
Google and look up Venezuela’s embassy in Washington, DC, the result you
get looks like this:

Google lists Venezuela’s ambassador to the US as Carlos Vecchio, who has
no governmental power and no authority to issue Venezuelan passports,
because he represents no actual government but rather the puppet
government that the US is attempting to install. Google has no reason to
refer to this US government propaganda construct as “Ambassador”, but
it does so anyway in support of the US government’s aggressive campaign
to replace the Venezuelan government staff in the DC embassy with the
staff of its imaginary puppet regime.

Google, by the way, has been financially intertwined with US intelligence
agencies since its very inception when it received research grants from
the CIA and NSA for mass surveillance. It pours massive amounts of money
into federal lobbying and DC think tanks, has a cozy relationship with the
NSA, and has been a military-intelligence contractor from the beginning.

With Wikipedia, whose leadership allows it to serve as a narrative
management operation for the US-centralized empire, it’s the same thing.
Look up Juan Guaido, who has no actual political power and no authority
whatsoever in Venezuela, and this is what you’ll see:

It’s been that way since January.

With Twitter it’s the same. During and immediately after the April 30th
failed coup attempt in Venezuela the site suspended numerous Venezuelan
government accounts, some permanently, and earlier this year Twitter
deleted the accounts of nearly 2,000 pro-Maduro users. In 2017 we saw the
same, with thousands more pro-Maduro accounts deleted. Nothing comparable
has ever happened with the governments of US-allied nations.

With Facebook we’ve seen the pages of Venezuela Analysis and TeleSUR
English temporarily suspended, along with the permanent deletion of
“inauthentic” Venezuelan, Iranian and Russian accounts in conjunction
with Twitter. Facebook’s censorship program is directed by the Atlantic
Council narrative control firm, which is funded by the governments of the
US and its allies.

There is no legitimate reason for these massive Silicon Valley
corporations to be acting in the interests of US State Department agendas,
and yet here they are doing exactly that.

Friendly reminder that in an October 2017 Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing, senators spoke with top legal and security officials for
Facebook, Twitter and Google in a very disturbing way about the need for a
Ministry of Truth to silence dissenting voices. Democratic Senator Mazie
Hirono of Hawaii demanded that the companies adopt a “mission
statement” declaring their commitment “to prevent the fomenting of
discord.”

Think tank narrative manager and former FBI agent Clint Watts kicked it up
even further, saying, “Civil wars don’t start with gunshots, they
start with words. America’s war with itself has already begun. We all
must act now on the social media battlefield to quell information
rebellions that can quickly lead to violent confrontations and easily
transform us into the Divided States of America.”

“Stopping the false information artillery barrage landing on social
media users comes only when those outlets distributing bogus stories are
silenced — silence the guns and the barrage will end,” Watts added.

These corporations are not separate from the US government in any
meaningful way, and their behavior is therefore no better than the state
censorship we commonly see US government officials decrying in the
governments of non-allied nations. It’s arguably worse in some ways,
because at least the Chinese know their government is censoring them.

In a corporatist system of government, where there is no meaningful
separation between government power and corporate power, corporate
censorship is state censorship. The US Constitution protects its citizenry
from government censorship, but they remain completely unprotected from
the brand of corporate censorship we’re seeing today which functions in
precisely the same way. Whoever controls the narrative controls the world,
and they’re using corporate censorship to control the narrative.

Our world’s fundamental problem is that the people calling the shots are
omnicidal sociopaths, and the only force capable of stopping them, the
collective will of the public, is too thoroughly propagandized to do so.
The narratives are too tightly controlled, so the people don’t rise up
against the oppressors who are driving them toward extinction via climate
chaos or nuclear war. We won’t make it as a species if we can’t find a
way to overcome this.
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 by: anonymous - Sat, 11 May 2019 21:47 UTC
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thanks for sharing this article, i found it interesting and the concepts
of social control by deep state agencies are consistent and have been
investigated earlier, i have not seen them documented and explained so
well yet.

i wonder though if all the info in that article is accurate ? at least the
current wikipedia entry for Juan Guaido is different than described in the
article (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Guaido, I will attach a
screenshot). Of course, it could have been accurate during the time of
writing and changed afterwards.

anyway: the big lesson about all this for me is that centralized services
are doomed to be tools of manipulation and control, because either they
have been planned like that from the start, or the state steps in at one
point and starts to build in all kinds of controls and censorship
mechanisms. only decentralized, peered services runs by users can try to
build something like a free space of expression.
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