Still No Response to My Query. Imagine That :)
“It is unclear how FB/Twatter/SS/DHS/Congress defines ‘clear, objective facts"
O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!” ― William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1
Yes well we must be clear that in the climate of right now truth is what power says it is. We can blame Marxism I suppose, many do, I know news vendors historically slanted “truth” well before Marx. Politicians as well. I do think in the past 65 years lying has become the cancer killing us all. Lying is now so very respectable - like say changing from a mere Pirate to a servant of a State as a Privateer.
My being forbidden to comment irks me and greatly amuses me. In my making a comment I somehow shouted fire in a crowded theater or was busy handing out war resistance pamphlets to inductees. I can only speculate the comment was far too close to overturning a great lie and this meant if I were permitted to comment further the continual pernicious lying might be exposed. Remarkable if true. Remarkable also because shutting me up suddenly - if my ground assumption is right -must mean readers might rethink what a writer of reputation wrote. And they might not, which was I thought much more likely. I do not know if the post or posts were on Uvalde. I think so. I doubt my rhetorical appeal for Maquis is construable as an incitement, but that was not on Uvalde as I recall but more on the total bankruptcy of our polity and a time of total war against the population by an Occupation governmentality. I think m my objections to the lone gunman narrative of shooting up a school was the trigger based on the DHS memo of Wed. BUT, if then, evidence aside, I was wrong wrong wrong then it is not a pernicious lie but truth entire and surely truth can overcome my silly ideas. I am sure DHS disagrees. I am sure SS listens to DHS and proactively searches for offenders, heretics, schismatics, FREE THINKERS, and bans them from saying a word except on their little Stack. And for now I do. If though my little musings had a thousand readers contributing monthly I wonder if I would be banned.
Now along with amusement this situation irks me in the main by demonstrating the post-truth world is alive and well on SS. The Brand sold itself by pretending to be above the fray. Suddenly banning comments, refusing to explain what I said, or when I said it, or what context my “Comment” arose within and behaving like a Zuckerberg clone the Brand let me down. Naturally I am not in the Golden Chariot pulled by ducats and name. I see the players and I see the revenue. People will buy information sold by a reputation and some will pay very well. And due to the reputation mis-direction and disinformation become the narrative and thus honeyed guile for busy truth seekers.
I charge nothing for my musings and seek to incite no riot and no armed insurrection by hot headed rhetoric. I do of course hope for an internal, psychological shift that brings the edifice down in a fashion uncontrived by the Masters of War. I submit the power of one word-NO, and meaning this word will do the job. And I think by questioning narratives peddled by very respectable people making money from post-truth, I am saying my Big No. George Grosz of blessed memory wrote his Autobiography with the title “Ein kleines Ja und ein großes Nein”
\Now on to the newest lie/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bidens-homeland-secretary-lied-about-disinformation-board-whistleblower-documents
Mayorkas told the Senate in May that the DGB hadn’t yet begun its work even as a meeting with social media executives was apparently being staffed by Nina Jankowicz, who had only been nominated in April by President Joe Biden to be the board’s executive director, according to the documents.
Leaked Documents
The Twitter meeting was, again according to the documents, scheduled for April 28 and would include Twitter head of global public policy Nick Pickles and head of site security Yoel Roth.
“The meeting is off-the-record and closed to [the] press,” one of the leaked documents stated.
The papers also suggest that DHS officials drafted legislation to codify a “Rumor Control Program of the Department of Homeland Security to Counter Mis-information, Dis-information, and Mal-information,” including a public-facing website known as “Rumor Control.”
In addition, the leaked documents concerning the Twitter meeting mention numerous “discussion points,” including one noting that “the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) created a domestic terrorism branch within its counterterrorism mission center to ensure DHS develops the expertise necessary to produce sound and timely intelligence, at the lowest possible classification level in order to inform our stakeholders.”
In a June 7 letter to Mayorkas, the senators expressed their fear that the DGB would, in fact, act as a government censor targeting political opinions that, while being unapproved by the Biden administration, are nevertheless protected speech under the First Amendment.
The leaked documents include multiple references to the DGB relying on “clear, objective facts,” but the senators told Mayorkas in their letter that “it is unclear how DHS defines ‘clear, objective facts,’ and it is unclear what safeguards, if any, DHS has put in place to ensure that individuals charged with determining which issue areas have ‘clear’ and ‘objective facts’ are not influenced by their own ideological and political beliefs.”
Yes, and if you had thousands of paying subscribers you would be lauded as a SS hero like some others I’ve had to unsubscribe to lately for the demonstrations of corruptible and self-serving logic. Watch what SS “itself” reads also. As I suppose it should be amidst a dying civilisation we’re surrounded by fractured logic.
Substack should farm its servers out to the world, and allocate them on IP address. Iceland for Swedes, Brazil for Americans etc etc. And set up companies the same way. To make the censorship harder. I don't think they have a choice this time but have not seen the post that has offended AFAIK. Definitely they need to be a little more transparent. And if they can't the logo for the ban should be a canary in a cage.