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FBI As Twitter Subsidiary
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| Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report. | |
| Twitter files make it clear we must abolish the FBI. | |
| As we learn more and more from the Twitter files, it's becoming all too obvious that the federal government agencies such as the FBI viewed the First Amendment of our Constitution as an annoyance and an impediment. | |
| In Friday's release from the pre-Musk era, journalist Matt Taibbi makes an astute observation, Twitter was essentially an FBI subsidiary. | |
| The FBI, we now know, was obsessed with Twitter. | |
| We learned that agents sent Twitter Trust and Safety Chief Yoel Roth some 150 emails between 2020 and 2022. | |
| Those emails regularly featured demands from the U.S. government officials for the private social media company to censor comments and ban commenters they did not like. | |
| The Foreign Influence Task Force, a U.S. government entity that included the FBI as well as other intelligence agencies, expressly forbidden from domestic activities, numbered 80 agents engaged regularly in telling Twitter which tweets to censor and which accounts to ban. | |
| The Department of Homeland Security brought in outside government contractors and government-funded non-governmental organizations who separately pressured Twitter to suppress speech the U.S. government did not like. | |
| U.S. federal government agencies literally handed Twitter lists of Americans it wanted to see silent, and Twitter complied. | |
| This should be a massive scandal and likely it would have been had it occurred under a Trump administration. | |
| Indeed, Congress would be gearing up for impeachment 3.0 if Trump allied officials had engaged in such egregious behavior. | |
| But since these U.S. government employees were by and large acting to suppress pro-Trump sentiment, all we hear are cricket. | |
| What is interesting about these Twitter revelations is how obsessed the FBI and its government partners were with satire and humor. | |
| Even minor Twitter accounts with small numbers of followers were constantly flagged by the feds for censorship and deletion. | |
| But knowledge of history helps us understand this obsession. | |
| In Soviet times, the population was always engaged in joking about the ineptitude, corruption, and idiocy of the political class. | |
| Underground publications known as Semadotts were rich with satire, humor, and ridicule. | |
| Tyrants hate humor and cannot withstand satire. | |
| That is clearly why the FBI and CIA was determined to see a heavy hand raised against any American poking fun at the deep state. | |
| There is good news in all of this. | |
| However, as Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley wrote over the weekend, a new Harvard CAPS Harris poll found that even though the mainstream media has ignored the Twitter files, Americans have not. | |
| Nearly two-thirds of respondents believe that Twitter was involved in politically motivated censorship in advance of the 2020 election. | |
| Some 70% of those polled believe Congress must take action against this corporate state censorship. | |
| As Professor Turley points out, although the First Amendment only applies to the U.S. government, it does apply to agents or surrogates of the government. | |
| Twitter now admits that such a relationship existed between its former officials and the government. | |
| So now we have proof that the FBI, along with U.S. intelligence agencies and the Department of Homeland Security, have been acting through private social media companies to manipulate what Americans are allowed to say when they communicate with each other. | |
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Is This Un-American?
00:00:21
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| Is there anything more un-America than that? | |
| Personally, I find it sickening. | |
| We do not need the FBI and CIA and other federal agencies viewing us as the enemy and attacking our Constitution and the Fed and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. | |