{"id":1180034,"date":"2023-08-15T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T01:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/?p=143136"},"modified":"2023-08-15T01:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T01:00:15","slug":"the-free-speech-twitter-psyop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/15\/the-free-speech-twitter-psyop\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u201cFree-Speech Twitter\u201d\u00a0PSYOP"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s never a very enjoyable experience, facing the fact that you\u2019ve been bamboozled. Realizing that you\u2019ve fallen prey to an elaborate con, or PYSOP, is painful. It\u2019s embarrassing. People feel ashamed. No one likes to see themselves as a sucker. It\u2019s humiliating. It makes people angry. It makes them want to lash out at someone.<\/p>\n

The funny thing is, it usually isn\u2019t the person who conned them that they want to lash out at. Doing that would only make them feel more ashamed. No, typically, who people want to lash out at, when they finally realize that they\u2019ve been bamboozled, are the people who didn\u2019t get bamboozled along with them, and who tried to warn them that they were being bamboozled.<\/p>\n

This phenomenon is occurring right now. I know this, because a certain sector of my readers are angrily unsubscribing from my Substack, and unfollowing me on Twitter, and so on. This happens more or less every time that people start to realize I was right about some PSYOP or con that I warned them about \u2026 Russiagate, Covid, and now \u201cfree-speech Twitter,\u201d or \u201cX,\u201d or whatever we\u2019re calling it today.<\/p>\n

Yes, that\u2019s right, the jig is up. The bloom is off the rose. The cat is out of the bag. The party is over. The thrill is gone. Folks are finally starting to realize that \u201cfree-speech Twitter\u201d was an elaborate con (or a PSYOP, depending on how paranoid you are), and they\u2019re none too happy about this realization.<\/p>\n

So, they\u2019re taking it out on blasphemers like me who tried to warn them about The Emperor Elonicus<\/a>, and how the Twitter Files was a textbook limited hangout<\/a>, and who pointed out how Musk shut it down as soon as it had served its purpose<\/a>, and who referred to some of them as “Musk cultists<\/a>,” and \u201csuckers,\u201d and who tweeted sarcastic Tweets like this \u2026<\/p>\n

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But I\u2019m not writing this column to whine about that. It\u2019s part of human nature. I get it.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m writing this column because, maybe, now that folks are starting to face the fact that the whole \u201cfree-speech Twitter\u201d thing was an elaborate con, or a trap, or a PSYOP, maybe, now, they can knock off the \u201cElon is our savior!\u201d crap and try to pay attention to what is actually happening.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an example of what is actually happening \u2026<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a link to that Tweet<\/a> with a recording of the Spaces thing. It\u2019s Linda Yaccarino, X CEO, explaining how the new censorship system works. And here\u2019s my favorite Yaccarino quote:<\/p>\n

Since acquisition, we have built brand-safety and content-moderation tools that have never before existed at this company. And we\u2019ve introduced a new policy to [address?] your specific point about hate speech, called \u201cFreedom of speech, not reach.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What she\u2019s talking about is the future of Internet censorship. Not the ham-fisted government-initiated censorship that people tend to think of when they think about censorship. Corporate censorship. \u201cFree-market\u201d censorship. What she\u2019s talking about is the virtually imperceptible moment-by-moment manipulation of social-media content, search engine results, \u201creference\u201d platforms like Wikipedia, everything most people see on the Internet. The corp-speak term is \u201cvisibility filtering.\u201d<\/p>\n

From now on, instead of being suspended or deplatformed \u2014 which is bad PR, and only draws more attention to the deplatformed party \u2014 dissident voices will be \u201cdeamplified.\u201d We will be \u201cfree\u201d to post whatever we like, but we will be talking to no one, in a digital void, which most people won\u2019t even know exists. \u201cRed\/blue\u201d culture-war mud-slinging content, and other such harmless entertainment that keeps the masses infuriated and at each other\u2019s throats, will of course be allowed, and will be \u201camplified\u201d and \u201cmonetized.\u201d But any serious form of political dissent or deviation from official narratives will be labelled \u201chate speech,\u201d \u201cdisinformation,\u201d \u201cmalinformation,\u201d or simply \u201cunhealthy.\u201d Corporations like X, Meta, Alphabet, and Tencent will decide what is \u201chealthy.\u201d They will do so with algorithms, but not only with algorithms.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Linda Yaccarino again<\/a>, talking to CNBC this time \u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026 X is committed to encouraging healthy behavior \u2026 99.9% of all impressions are healthy \u2026 and we have an extraordinary team of people who are overseeing, hands on keyboards, monitoring, all day, every day<\/em><\/strong>, to make sure that that 99.9% of impressions remain at that number.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I don\u2019t know how much clearer she could make it. A team. Of people. Monitoring everything. Moment by moment. Every day. Not some badly-written algorithm. Not some secret cabal of mutinous Wokesters sabotaging Elon\u2019s vision. Not the FBI. Not the CIA. Not the WEF. Not the Rothschilds. Just Twitter. Just X.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t one of my \u201cconspiracy theories.\u201d There is absolutely nothing secret about it. It\u2019s all explained right here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, and here<\/a>, on the Twitter Safety blog.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s one of the interstitial labels that Twitter might put on your \u201cunhealthy\u201d Tweet before they \u201cdeamplify\u201d it into oblivion.<\/p>\n

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See! Twitter is, like, totally committed to transparency!<\/p>\n

Of course, you have nothing to worry about if you are tweeting (or Xing?) \u201chealthy\u201d content. That \u201cextraordinary Twitter-Safety team\u201d that is monitoring everything \u201call day, every day,\u201d would never \u201cdeamplify,\u201d or \u201cvisibility-filter,\u201d or otherwise censor political speech that isn\u2019t \u201chate speech,\u201d or \u2026 you know, use one of those interstitial labels to maliciously defame some troublesome author by deceiving people into thinking he was tweeting child pornography or graphic violent content, like bestiality, or necrophilia, or some other type of \u201cage-restricted adult content,\u201d as Twitter was doing to me until May of this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m just joking, of course. They\u2019re going to keep doing that. Not to me anymore, not that way. (After I embarrassed Ella Irwin publicly<\/a>, they removed the fake labels and just deamplified me.) But they are going to keep doing it to other people. And not just X. All the corporations. They are going to keep \u201cvisibility filtering,\u201d and \u201cdeamplifying,\u201d and vaporizing dissent, and there is currently nothing we can do about it.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, we (i.e., the \u201cFree Speech Movement\u201d) will be celebrating our \u201cvictory\u201d over the bad apples in government who were forcing the poor, helpless global corporations to censor everyone until we took them to court and made them stop with our democratic rights! Then we\u2019ll all live happily ever after!<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mean to shit on my friends and colleagues who are fighting hard against government censorship. At least they\u2019re actually achieving something, while I\u2019m just sitting here running my mouth. And the fight against government censorship is important. It is vitally important. And it has to be fought. I support it wholeheartedly, and I applaud them for fighting it. But it isn\u2019t going to change what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s happening is, GloboCap, or Corporatism, or whatever you want to call the network of global corporations, governments, media, non-governmental governing entities, investment banks, global health authorities, academia, the culture industry, and other such entities that together comprise the decentralized system of power and ideology that is currently running the entire planet \u2026 whatever you want to call that, it\u2019s going totalitarian.<\/p>\n

It has been going totalitarian, more or less openly, for the better part of the last three years. I\u2019ve been covering this transition for quite a while now, and I have reiterated my analysis in many of my essays, and I published a book about it, which is possibly going to get me sent to prison here in Germany, so I\u2019m not going to rehash it all again here (which should come as a relief to my regular readers). If you\u2019re new to my work, you can read the book, or my essays, which are all on my blog<\/a> and my Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For now, trust me, we are going totalitarian. That\u2019s what all the \u201cvisibility filtering\u201d is about. That\u2019s what the \u201ccancel culture\u201d is about. That\u2019s what all the mindless mass hysteria and the demonization and criminalization of dissent is about.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s what the \u201cFree-Speech Twitter\u201d PSYOP is about. At the end of the day, it doesn\u2019t matter whether Elon Musk even knows what he is doing. The system that he is an integral part of is evolving. Musk will help it evolve or he will be replaced by someone who will help it evolve. Musk, Yaccarino, Zuckerberg, Pichai, Gates, Klaus Schwab, Wang Zhonglin, or pick your evil mastermind! These people, notwithstanding their very real power, are just components of a system, a global system, a system that is evolving toward totalitarianism, because it doesn\u2019t really have anything else to do.<\/p>\n

I do not know how to stop this from happening, this evolution of global capitalism into a new form of totalitarianism, but one thing that occurs to me is, it might help matters if we slowed down a bit and tried to actually understand what is happening, like in the broader, historical, systemic sense, and maybe didn\u2019t chomp down on every little piece of red-meat bait that gets dangled in our faces, and then whipped up into a frenzy over whatever the visibility-filtering team at Twitter, or X, or Meta, or Alphabet, or some other corporation, wants us whipped up over.<\/p>\n

Oh, and, maybe, next time some self-aggrandizing global-capitalist military contractor comes riding into town like Billionaire Jesus to save us from his buddies in the proverbial Big Club \u2014 you know, the one that you ain\u2019t in<\/a> \u2014 maybe folks could take a moment and at least hear me out before they start prostrating themselves at his feet.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not right about everything, of course, but I seem to be doing OK with this PSYOP stuff.<\/p>\n

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