In Sept & Oct of 2024 Hillary Clinton stated on national television that U.S. Citizen's should be arrested for what she calls "misinformation." (20) The U.S. Constitution be damned arrest anyone and all for those that the govenment, big tech, or whomever decides your opinions are against the agenda (whatever that maybe) and arrest them. Gavin Newsom is now facing multiple lawsuits for his illegal free speech ban laws. As the Babylon Bee is one of many suing. BB stated: "Gov. Newsom has no constitutional authority to act as the humor police." (18) As of 10/03/2024 a Federal judge agreed too, "Finds Newsom's New California Deepfake Ban Unconstitutional." (19)
Sounds ridiculous, but the UK govenment is doing exactly that. They are arresting their own citiens for criizing the govenments open border policies that have led to innocent white British children slaughtered by illegal aliens. (1) (4) London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner has also come out and threated to "extridite US citizens who violate British social media laws" now too. (2) According to the World Economic Forum, misinformation and disinformation are the most severe global risks of the next two years. (3)
The First Amendment prohibits the federal government from passing laws restricting freedom of speech and abridging freedom of the press. Of all the clauses in the Bill of Rights, this one is deeply ingrained as an overall part of American culture, regardless of its impact on the law. (5)
"What can be unburdened by what has been." This is a phrase Kamala Harris likes to repeat, so much so she has said it over 100 times. (6) Harris's Father, Donald J. Harris, was an economic Professor who taught Post-Keynesian - Marxism. The full quote: “When young children see someone who looks like them running for office they see themselves and what they can be, unburdened by what has been." The meaning is to remove everything that exists before. How our future can escape the bonds of our past. It is a Marxist phrase rooted in ideology to implement their version of the World. Remove all history. Remove all religion. Remove all rights. Remove the past. Remove freedom. Remove everything. Start a new by their rules and their views. The New World Order's rules. The future unburdened by what has been.
Hence MDM: "Misinformation. Disinformation. Malinformation." You may be aware of these words as on April 27, 2022 the government attempted to implement and fund an entire agency called the "Disinformation Governance Board" under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). AKA: "The Ministry of Truth." Orwellian (7) to its core as the true intent is censorship to stop any and all who challenge the narrative the govenment expounds. See the lawsuit Missouri-v-Biden. (8) The State Department revealed in a Monday filing that they are "substantially likely" to shut down their $100M Global Engagement Center (GEC), which was revealed in early 2023 to have been funding a "disinformation" tracking group which worked to pressure advertisers to demonetize outlets it accuses of spreading "disinformation." (21) The CEG ranked Leftist publications as "least risky" and Conservative publications as "riskiest" to silence and censor free thought.
While defunded, the US government has simply rebranded the censorship program now called the “Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub,” a polysyllabic, “rebranded” version of the GEC. Many of the people employed by the GEC are now employed by the new “hub.” They’ll need new business cards, stationery, and signs for their offices. Doubtless, there will be other expenses. But since much of the GEC's budget has been “realigned” to the new shop, that won't be a problem." (23)
Marxist's like AOC are using additional manufactured phrases like "media literacy," "fact check" and "misremember" in an attempt to fool the public into supporting mass censorship under the guise of hate speech or the concocted "violent words." Another reference comes to mind from the book 1984: "Newspeak: a purposefully ambiguous and confusing language with restricted grammar and limited vocabulary used in Oceania, according or Orwell, “to diminish the range of thought.” For example, in newspeak, the term plusgood had replaced words better and great." (13)
The freedom of expression of an artist is heavily limited by such a censor where the entire meaning of an artwork could be lost.
So how does MDM effect the role of creatives in marketing and advertising? The World Federation of Advertisers shutting down GARM "Global Alliance for Responsible Media" project is an excellent example. Elon Musk and Rumble sued WFA over a mass censorship campaign in the form of an ad boycott. (9) The big four agency networks, which totalled forty companies, intentionally got together to ban Conservative companies freedom of speech by banning any and all of their advertising media buys. Rumble CEO Pavlovski explained that "What the World Federation of Advertisers has done is they created a monopoly to basically tell all these advertisers how they should spend money based on certain speech."
Censoring the language, concepts and big ideas we as creatives produce for brands and products sounds unbelievable, impossible even, but when one realizes there is a global agenda to patrol ideas, speech and individual thought so it all follows the same narrative it becomes more realistic. There are obvious examples of these narratives. Anti-white casting, the Trans agenda in marketing, Woke marketing, the denigration of masulinity, the war on women, all use strategeies in creative briefs that one must abide by. Any content creator with a Youtube account knows all to well about mass censorship and the rules one must obey to be allowed to post there or be banned. Facebook, Meta, has a long legacy of silencing critical thought and mass surviellence. (17) Digital marketing has become rife with censorship on mulitple levels. To what end?
Take Ireland's “hate speech bill” for example. (10) “Twitter Files” journalist Michael Shellenberger stated clearly that “there is no hate crisis in Ireland” and that the case for censorship was brought about by “elite panic” trying to stifle open conversation and discourse among the Irish people. The bill, that did not pass, made it an offence to possess (for distribution) material that could lead to “hatred” in Ireland, with punishment of up to 5 years in prison. The bill offers no clear definition of what “hate” entails, but would impact the right to share views on social media across much of the world allowing authorities to censor any speech the state opposes. Your work, everyone's work, would be subject to these unethical laws too.
In the United States the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) published “A Look Behind the Scenes: Examining the Data Practices of Social Media and Video Streaming Services” report in September 2024, the FTC suggests Amazon, Facebook, Google’s YouTube, Twitter, Snap, ByteDance (TikTok’s parent company), Discord, Reddit, and WhatsApp are guilty of participating in a “vast surveillance” operation. There is concern by the Commissioner of the FTC that the report itself could lead Big Tech to justify its mass censorship of American citizens. (11) Now what is CISA? America's Cyber Defense Agency and National Coordinator for critical infrastructure security & resilience, a component of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
On November 16, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018, which elevated the mission of the former NPPD within DHS, establishing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The agency now monitors online disinformation to enhance the nation's "cognitive infrastructure" and utilized the CISA's rumor control website. In 2020 Real Fake, a 2020 graphic novel from CISA about disinformation and misinformation campaigns was produced. In George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, there is a ‘Ministry of Truth’ which is responsible for propaganda, historical revisionism, culture and entertainment. Of course, as with the other ministries in ‘Oceania’, the name is a misnomer as the Ministry’s main purpose is misinformation and falsifying historical events so that they agree with Big Brother - it's the place where lies are manufactured. (12)
“Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.” ~ John Adams
Recall The Clash song "Know Your Rights?" (15) Rights not privileges in America, but if you believe the State cannot force creative's to self-censor, listen to Joe Strummer's lyrics and dig deeper into Mao Zedong (16). Note the past and push back against those that falsely claim "Censorship Can Be Good for Creativity." Advertising censorship like, face masks, can become the new normal and censorship is about stopping ideas. Ideas are the business cretaive's live for.
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(1) “Think before you post”: The U.K. is now jailing people for social media comments(2) UK police commissioner threatens to extradite and jail US citizens over social media posts: 'We will come after you'London's Metropolitan Police chief announced officials will not only be cracking down on British citizens for commenting on the riots in the UK
(3) WEF Is Waging War on Misinformation and Cyber Insecurity
(4) British Woman Caught Up In UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Crackdown On Free Speech Speaks Out
(5) Founding Fathers Quotes on Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Press in the First Amendment
(6) What can be, unburdened by what has been: a meme
(7) Ministry of Truth in 1984 by George Orwel
(8) A Federal Court Just Handed Biden’s Ministry of Truth a Big Defeat
(9) World Federation of Advertisers shuts down GARM project after Elon Musk, Rumble sue over ad boycott
(10) Ireland’s hate speech law could “censor the entire internet”
(11) FTC Commissioner Warns New Report Could Be Used By Big Tech To Justify Censorship
(12) The Ministry of Truth
(13) George Mason Univerity: Big Brother and Other Terms from "1984"
(14) Censorship and the Arts
(15) The Portrayal Analysis Of Know Your Rights By The Clash
(16) The People’s Republic of Censorship
(17) New Docs Reveal Facebook Trained CDC Bureaucrats How To Censor Americans
(18) Babylon Bee sues Gov Gavin Newsom, California over anti-satire laws
(19) Judge Finds Newsom's New California Deepfake Ban Unconstitutional
(20) Hillary Clinton calls for mass censorship of American citizens or "we lose total control."
(21) "State Department Scrambles To Scuttle $100M Censorship Network Before Trump Takes Office"
(22) Faking 'wokeness': how advertising targets millennial liberals for profit
(23) "How The Global Engagement Center Lives On Through Rebranding."
(24) "USAID Funded Massive 'News' Platform, Extending 'Censorship Industrial Complex' To Billions Worldwide"
(25) "USAID Censorship Scheme Exposed; Global Engagement Center Worked With UK Government And Media Firms To Deploy AI Tools"