Evidence Suggests Years Of US-UK Military & Intelligence Planning Behind Sweeping Brazil Censorship
Secret evidence, specialized spy units, and permanent bans on populists were key tactics developed by government operatives - by Michael Shellenberger
source Michael @Shellenberger, X
Late last night (April 17th), the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives released over 500 pages of confidential Brazilian court documents relating to censorship demands on X, formerly Twitter.
The Committee had obtained them from X through its subpoena powers.
The documents show a single Superior Electoral Court (TSE) Justice, Alexandre de Moraes, demanding permanent bans on over 150 elected officials and journalists.
De Moraes demanded these bans in secret processes, without explanation or means of appeal, and across social media platforms.
Given the dependence of elected leaders on social media, these demands for bans may constitute electoral interference.
In one case, De Moraes demanded that all major social media platforms, including at least one, Twitter, which did not publish the offending material, ban a federal Congressman, Marcel Van Hattem.
The TSE had claimed that Van Hattem had criticized the election results.
Not only had Van Hattan’s video not been related to the elections, but it was also a criticism of the Labor Department.
It was released one day before the election.
In many ways, Brazil’s sweeping censorship system is unique to Brazil.
Brazil’s Censorship Industrial Complex is located in the judiciary rather than in the executive branch, as it is in Europe, in the European Commission, and the U.S., in the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, National Science Foundation, and other agencies.
However, in other ways, Brazil’s censorship simply reflects the most advanced form of the Censorship Industrial Complex vision created by US and UK government officials, particularly ones working for the military and intelligence agencies.
Our work revealed that current and former agents from the US Department of Defense, the CIA, the Department of Homeland Security, and the British Ministry of Defense all developed comprehensive censorship programs.
The Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation have been caught funding the creation of censorship tools, including AI-based ones, for Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms to engage in mass censorship.
Beginning in early 2017, several military and intelligence agencies and agents from the US and UK governments developed similar censorship tactics that Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) was caught using.
Those tactics included…
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Brazil is important in part because it reveals how much further developed the Censorship Industrial Complex was than in other parts of the world. For example, Brazilian social media influencer Felipe Neto enjoyed special access to Twitter executives and demanded the banning of particular people, ostensibly because they violated Twitter’s Terms of Service.
And the creation of a special censorship police force inside of the TSE goes beyond past spying-for-censorship efforts, such as the one run by Stanford Internet Observatory for the Department of Homeland Security in 2020.
One of the most important elements of the Censorship Industrial Complex strategy is to repress narratives it doesn’t like and promote ones it does like.
Cognitive scientists and social scientists have long recognized that most people think in stories or “narratives.”
As such, the leaders of the Censorship Industrial Complex are obsessed with narratives.
As you probably have guessed by now, the government propaganda narratives are:
Trust only "official" (government) sources and corporate government media
Don't listen to independent journalists
Don't do your own research
Our Notes
Whenever the playbook is similar or even the same across continents, it is not because the leaders of social media are getting together in a kumbayah moment to share what is and isn’t working.
The plans and instructions from a foundation and/or NGO that has one thing in common…
The Open Society Foundation
Other NGOs and foundations are involved but the OSF is the head of the snake.
Blissfully lying on their website is their mission statement…
The open society foundations work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their people.
First of all, democracies?
That’s mob rule - 50%+1
Our Founders avoided such as mob rule is totally based upon feelings - what is law today is criminal tomorrow, or even in the next hour…
Then there is the “whose governments are accountable to their people”…
Do some homework and keep tabs now and in the future - whenever the OSF has been involved the government has been UNaccountable to their people.
Observe who they support and what changes happen whenever any country embraces the OSF - in the past, now, and the future…
Why was Soros banned from
Philipines
Hungary
Russia
Turkey
Poland
Pakistan
???
Fact-checkers will say he is not banned from the above countries - yet not one OSF office in these countries when there had been there before 2017.
All 6 countries have a common denominator not even concerning Soros but has resulted in the abolishment of any distribution of OSF funds in their country.
Don’t use Google or other Liberal-based sources to fact-check all this, we recommend Brave and/or FreeSpoke (compare a political search in all 3 and see the difference. With Google, preface your search with before:2023 and see the difference there as well)
Why won’t Soros visit Hungary, his home nation?
Why hasn’t the USA banned him (yet)?
Now, how do you catch a snake???
You should know by now…
