Mike Benz explains the evolution of the military-industrial complex into the censorship industry.
THE EVOLUTION
“[The]censorship industrial complex is kind of a play on the military-industrial complex, which is a concept really from the 1950s with Eisenhower. It was his Farewell Address where he basically complained that the end of World War II, you know, from the late 40s to the 1950s, there was spawned war as essentially an industry, as a profit-making thing.
“At the time, a lot of manufacturing was wrapped up in the war. The Pentagon renamed itself from the Department of War to the Department of Defense, and there was this defense industry with – not just contractors -but also with lobbyists and also with civil society and private sector institutions.
“Really, when the wheel of commerce wrapped itself around war, it completely warped American foreign policy, because now you would start doing wars, not necessarily because they’re best for the country, but because they’re best for the industrial stakeholders of war.
“This is obviously something that predated World War II. Smedley Butler wrote about this in War Is a Racket in 1936.
“But essentially, you have a very similar thing happening right now with the field of social media censorship, and that is a field; it is an industry.
“Before 2016, you could not make a living censoring what other people have to say on the Internet. That was not a job description; that was not something like Borat, where you can make $45 million a year doing it.
“There was no industrial complex to sustain 100 – 200,000 American jobs all in the field of controlling, by tuning down the information that you try to distribute on the Internet. Now it is a massive field. It is an industry. And what’s even more curious about its industrial nature than simply the dollars is who is sort of controlling the flow of those dollars.
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“Because when you trace all of these domestic censorship organizations upstream time and again, what you find is what I term … Obama’s deputy national security advisor Ben Rhodes term, but you find this thing, called the BLOB, which is basically the State Department the Defense Department, and the Intelligence services, the same federal agencies that are in control of the American empire on the foreign-facing side, have basically redirected their own statecraft military and intelligence capacities for controlling domestic information flows. And that’s really what you’re up against when you’re trying to uncensor the Internet.”
“When the wheel of commerce wrapped itself around war, it warped American foreign policy… You have a very similar thing happening right now with social media censorship.”
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— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) November 14, 2023
A very thoughtful presentation!
All amounts to dishonest back-door govt. phuckery. Problem is, censorship is a form of lying, and liars have this tendency to get caught up in their own lies. If the public brings intelligence of their own and honesty, the liars will ultimately be in a big world of hurt and hard-pressed to defend or justify themselves. News:who/what/when/where/how/why. Tell it like it is and don’t adulterate it. MSM has the same dang problem, they think we the readership are stupid and they can tell us or not-tell us anything they want and get away with it.
‘Reader beware’, the problem far far exceeds just our own media or govt. That New Zealand minister lady was just one example of people that want to ‘understand’ it for you, and let’s not forget hillary and her reprogramming rant against republicans. And these are the kind of people that set the gears in motion for censorship apparatti.
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
-Benito Mussolini
“Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.” -President Eisenhower. From the same speech warning against the military-industrial complex.
Our governance has become a form of Fascism of the scientific-technological elite and military industrial complex.
There is a timely connection to make here which this site is not doing. Vivek exposed Haley as a member of the MIC. That exposure is undeniable. Haley collects millions on boards of defense firms, and her husband runs one. For us to have to wait until the articulate Vivek told us shows how irresponsible the media is.
Haley endorsing censorship and loss of privacy, while being exposed as a MIC member, is relevant to this story. Vivek just indicated ethical superiority by exposing Haley.
The article going up at 10 am today will do that.