Is Democratic Senator Mark Warner the Mastermind Behind Move to Further Weaponize U.S. Tech Giants?

In a corporatist system of government, wherein there is no meaningful separation between corporate power and state power, corporate censorship is state censorship. Because legalized bribery in the form of corporate lobbying and campaign donations has given wealthy Americans the ability to control the US government’s policy and behavior while ordinary Americans have no effective influence whatsoever, the US unquestionably has a corporatist system of government. Large, influential corporations are inseparable from the state, so their use of censorship is inseparable from state censorship.

This is especially true of the vast megacorporations of Silicon Valley, whose extensive ties to US intelligence agencies are well-documented. Once you’re assisting with the construction of the US military’s drone program, receiving grants from the CIA and NSA for mass surveillance, or having your site’s content regulated by NATO’s propaganda arm, you don’t get to pretend you’re a private, independent corporation that is separate from government power. It is possible in the current system to have a normal business worth a few million dollars, but if you want to get to billions of dollars in wealth control in a system where money translates directly to political power, you need to work with existing power structures like the CIA and the Pentagon, or else they’ll work with your competitors instead of you.

– From the Caitlin Johnstone post: In A Corporatist System Of Government, Corporate Censorship Is State Censorship

Let’s be clear about something up front because it’s extremely important. This narrative that three tech giants, Apple, Google and Facebook all decided independently and simultaneously to de-platform Alex Jones without any threats or pressure from U.S. politicians and other powerful forces behind the scenes is pure fantasy. This isn’t private companies doing that private company thing, this is Silicon Valley oligarchs making a decision to appease politicians and the status quo system which made them billionaires in order to avoid regulation.

I’ve been warning about this for a long time, but let’s revisit something the late Robert Parry noted in September of last year.

From the post, Was Facebook Pressured Into Finding ‘Something’ to Implicate Russia?

The article purports to give the inside story of how Facebook belatedly came to grips with how the “company’s social network played a key role in the U.S. election,” but actually it is a story about how powerful politicians bullied Facebook into coming up with something – anything – to support the narrative of “Russian meddling,” including direct interventions by President Obama and Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and a key legislator regarding regulation of high-tech industries.

In other words, Facebook was sent back again and again to find what Obama and Warner wanted the social media company to find. Eventually, Facebook turned up $100,000 in ads from 2015 into 2017 that supposedly were traced somehow to Russia. These ads apparently addressed political issues in America although Facebook has said most did not pertain directly to the presidential election and some ads were purchased after the election.

This seemed important at the time, but it’s become even more significant in light of recent events. For instance, Mark Warner appears to be the point man for Democratic politicians who intend to use Russiagate and “fake news” hysteria to intimidate tech giants into submission. It appears to be working.

There’s a big piece to this story that people seem to be missing, which I explained in a brief Twitter thread earlier today.

It’s no coincidence Warner’s paw prints appear to be all over the latest pressure exerted upon tech giants. He and other Democratic politicians are methodically using fear around Russiagate and fake news to get Silicon Valley oligarchs do as they please.

Moreover, they know for a fact this sort of thing is effective, because the U.S. government’s done it before. Specifically and spectacularly with regard to domestic surveillance.

Again, politicians have no interest in actually reining in the power of the tech giants, they merely want to further weaponize them for their own ends.

The big game here is politicians bullying tech companies so that they censor their platforms in a way they see fit. See the following tweets by Democratic Senator Chris Murphy:

Don’t worry though, that’s not a veiled threat just a friendly suggestion from the politburo.

Meanwhile, it appears Sen. Murphy got an earful following those tweets and responded by pointing out that Trump demonizes the press daily. That’s true, but so is the following:

There’s a big power play afoot — you can ignore it at you own risk.

Oh, and DELETE Facebook.

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19 thoughts on “Is Democratic Senator Mark Warner the Mastermind Behind Move to Further Weaponize U.S. Tech Giants?”

  1. What makes this really rich from a classic reverse psychology spook tactic perspective, is that in all likelihood Jones and InfoWars is a disinfo operation.

    So that makes Jones a perfect candidate for the Statists to use to float this censorship trial balloon.

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    • disinformation:

      noun; false information that is intended to mislead, especially propaganda issued by a government organization to a rival power or the media.

      Exactly who do you claim is the mastermind of the Alex Jones “disinfo operation”, pray tell?

    • Nevermind, just read your subsequent post and understand what you’re getting at… and agree.

  2. Per the D/R-NCs, only they (yes, the GOVERNMENT – remind you of anyone?) should be able to “knowingly spread lies and hate”. No one rememebers Northwoods, Frank Church hearings, Echelon, military PsyOps dept, the farcical post 9-11 colorerd alerts, Saddam’s nonexistant ABCs (er, scarier WMDs), etc., etc., etc. .. no.. we’ve had a careful memory/media wipe.

    And, since today is an Ohio election, anyone recall the Warren vote counting, where press was excluded for first time, because ‘FBI warned of possible terrorists’…. only, after the count for Bush, they said they never said that. And I’m still waiting for DCPD or FBI to surface Seth Rich’s computer.

    But, even if the 25% brainless knew the truth… would it matter? “You shall know the truth.. and it will lock you tigher into your bubble.” I think our only hope is another 30’s Depression…. but R/D-NCs will preclude another FDR. Or maybe ….SECESSION!

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  3. “This isn’t private companies doing that private company thing, this is Silicon Valley oligarchs making a decision to appease politicians and the status quo system which made them billionaires in order to avoid regulation.” News: congress owns stocks too. Stocks are part of capitalism. Many corporations do things that wrangle some of the people some of the time. But, I don’t intend to buy my food in the dog food aisle in retirement because “capitalism is evil.”

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  4. George, there’s plenty of evidence if you have the knowledge set to recognize it in its proper context.

    Suffice it to say that Jones is very good at bringing up certain topics that deserve further scrutiny from people who have a lot of cred. But as soon as he touches the topic it acts as a repellent to those people. Because they don’t want to be associated with the way over the top reputation Jones has purposefully built for himself.

    That reality serves a very useful purpose for the bad guys who would prefer that it just go away.

    Nonetheless, I wrote “in all likelihood”. So I’m not saying it as a known fact. However, I am far from the only person who agrees with that strong possibility.

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  5. There needs to be Congressional hearings to determine if there is collusion between these large platforms and the Democrats. It’s a safe bet they are working together to stifle voices on the Right. Fascism has officially arrived.

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    • Agreed,infowars is not really to my taste,but an attack on one really is(or will be)an attack on all.

  6. Good point on the scorecard tweet. Trump is the yapping dog meant to distract, like a magician waving one hand theatrically for the crowd while the other covertly performs the trick.

    Jones may be a buffoon but large scale censorship is no joke. Have been wondering if the US will try to publicly introduce a modified form on Chinese Sesame Credit here at some point. It wouldn’t be nefarious, of course, because it would be for our safety. Or better yet for the safety of our children!

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  7. Yes, when one starts connecting all the dots a high-definition picture appears. And what we see is the state in bed with banks and corporations working hand-in-hand to keep the wealth extraction machine running for as long as possible, hopefully long enough to gain control over the entire globe.

    Of course this machine is complex and has many moving parts, a few of which are starting to overheat and weaken, namely money printing, the mainstream media and military intervention. And, I might add, at the very bottom of the machine we find Joe Citizen slogging along trying to make ends meet with two McJobs and a pile of student loans.

    I believe your instincts are correct, Michael, this censorship phenomenon is just getting started.

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  8. I agree that Alex Jones is likely disinformation. Even if true, that would be irrelevant.

    Three govts., the UK, US and Ecuador have effectively silenced Assange, an editor with 100% accuracy to his name. Clearly, Assange is not being silenced for putting out fake news. Member of USGinc. have come forward openly calling for his assassination.

    Palestinian voices are regularly removed from FB. Three antiwar libertarians punished by Twitter. Actual progressive sites are obliterated or demonetized.

    Assange and Jones are a test. They are a test that our population, especially the “left” is failing. If we won’t pull together on this, we’re done.

    P.S. Our arbiters of moral probity enjoy bondage and the abuse of women. No one seems to think it’s odd that people who will hurt other people for “fun” (or enjoy watching others get hurt) are chosen as guardians of morality and will define social “justice”.

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  9. Facebook and Google are corporate sponsors of the Rockefeller CFR. Mark Warner is a CFR member, along with Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook) and Eric Schmidt (Google). Also Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney and George Soros. See lists in the CFR annual report.

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