Ep. 82 – Part 1: Big Tech Colluded with US Government to Censor Online Information | Peak Prosperity (with Dr. Chris Martenson) | Nov 1, 2022 (Video)
Ref: https://peakprosperity.com/exposed-government-and-big-tech-colluded-to-violate-the-1st-amendment/
To see Part 2 (No Amnesty for the Censors and Covid Criminals), please visit (subscriber content):
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Key Moments:
5:13 – Section 230 Goals
13:52 – Meet the Vimeo Censors
27:50 – A Sin of Omission?
35:12 – A Failure of Internal Counsel?
39 min
Episode Summary:
A leak from the Department of Homeland Security reveals that the FBI, the DHS and the entire suite of censorious Big Tech social media companies were in cahoots to censor inconvenient voices and unpleasant truths about everything from the Afghanistan pullout, Hunter Biden’s laptop and, of course, Covid and vaccines.
The recent purchase of Twitter by Elon Muck, who promptly fired the entire executive suite and the entire board of directors, seems to have put these censorious folks into a very bad mood.
Our Peak Prosperity channel even got entirely deleted this past week by Vimeo, possibly the worst-run company in the streaming space. Their perpetually tanking stock prices and cratering revenues attest to the validity of that opinion.
Their view seems to be, “your choices are to accept what we tell you at face value, shut up about it all, or face being marginalized or even silenced.” The very idea that they may have to explain their point of view or, worse yet, defend it (the horror!) seems to strike many of them as a completely unacceptable turn of events.
And it should be, honestly, because their views are anti-America, and even anti-life. Remember, these are the folks that silenced all the good doctors, ridiculed off-patent and cheap early treatments, forced people to choose between economic survival and vaccination, and continue to insist that children right down to infants should be vaccinated with a concoction that offers those youngsters zero provable benefit, and a lot of provable risk/harm.
The DHS leak reveals just how bad it really was. The First Amendment was clearly and obviously breached and ignored by both the federal government, and the social media and big tech companies.
Where was internal counsel for these companies? Isn’t it their job to protect their customers while simultaneously not exposing their companies to corporation-ending risk? I cannot believe that in-house lawyers weren’t acutely aware of the shareholder lawsuits that would result when it becomes completely obvious these private companies consciously chose to conspire with the federal government to violate the First Amendment.
Further, where was counsel when these same companies were openly and flagrantly ignoring Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act? By censoring one political affiliation while promoting another, and by censoring any medical inquiry or data that happened to run counter to “official” government Covid policy, they effectively placed themselves in the role of “content providers” by virtue of deleting any balancing content.
This removes the liability shield by violating two of the three necessary tests that confer that protection. The potential exposure is practically infinite. Where was their legal counsel? Were they out back smoking? Were they too caught up in the mass psychosis framework? Were they true believers? Or did they keep silent because they lacked the stones to stand up to the censoring freight locomotive the government was busy shoveling coal into?
Regardless, I hereby announce my full boycott of Vimeo, they deserve to go entirely broke, and I fully expect they will. If you care to also voice your intention to boycott Vimeo, you can reach out to “Dan R.” of Vimeo’s “Trust & Safety” department at legal@vimeo.com.
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