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And this all comes out after U.S. officials straight up told the press that the Biden administration has been deliberately sowing disinformation to the public using the mainstream press in order to win an info-war against the Kremlin. They've literally just been circulating completely baseless stories about Russia and Ukraine, but nobody seems to be calling for the social media accounts of Biden administration officials to be banned.
You see so many discrepancies between what the oligarchic empire says and what it actually does regarding the issue of disinformation because the empire has no problem with disinformation. The empire that is built on propaganda and lies, has no problem with propaganda and lies. It has a problem with the truth.
They're not worried about disinformation, they're worried about information. They're worried about journalists using the unprecedented information-sharing power of the internet to reveal inconvenient facts about the largest and most murderous power structure on earth.
They're worried about people finding out that they've been lied to their entire lives about their world, their nation and their government. They're worried about people using their newly connected minds to decide together that they don't much like the status quo as it's been laid out for them, and deciding to build a new one.
All the safeguards they're setting up now to manipulate the flow of information online are not there to eliminate lies, they're there to eliminate truth. These people have a vested interest in keeping things dark and confused, and we the ordinary people of the world have a vested interest in shining a big inconvenient spotlight on everything. The elite agenda to keep things endarkened is at direct odds with the people's agenda to get things enlightened.
We are not being protected by a compassionate alliance of corporations and governments who only want us to know the truth. We are being manipulated and oppressed by an oligarchic empire that wants us to believe lies.
That's why they're locking up Assange, that's why they're censoring the internet, that's why they're filling our minds with propaganda, and that's why we can't let them win.
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