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Government Surveillance, De-platforming, and Conspiracy Censorship
from I Am The One Who Dox · #134
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5 minThey discuss government monitoring of private group chats, a story about a classmate getting an FBI visit for a tweet threatening Obama, comedian Jake Flores getting a Homeland Security visit over an ICE joke, and Tim's concern that labeling things 'conspiracy theory' is being used to suppress legitimate government critique like Abu Ghraib torture revelations.
- 1:09:49Tim argues that real change won't come through armed revolution but through the internet and social media.
- 1:10:14The Arab Spring demonstrated how social movements can organize online.
- 1:10:46Most people operate under willful ignorance that they're being monitored by intelligence agencies.
- 1:11:17Tim recalls a high school Republican who texted a death threat against Obama and got visited by federal agents.
- 1:12:08Comedian Jake Flores got a knock on his door from Homeland Security for tweeting a joke about ice.
- 1:12:43The government's definition of anti-government speech expands to criminalize legitimate policy critiques.
- 1:13:03Before torture was publicly acknowledged, anyone claiming the U.S. ran an organized black-site program would have been labeled a conspiracy theorist.
- 1:13:44YouTube censoring conspiracy material is problematic because it prevents people from questioning official narratives.
YouTubeJake FloresAbu Ghraibgovernment surveillanceBarack ObamaArab Spring