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I’d love to know the increase in Substack subscriptions, free or paid. What a welcome censor free oasis this has been for me. Yes, my reads are for the most part writers with whom I agree... but the common denominator amongst you all, is common sense and subsequent truths. Exiting Tweeters amuse me, where will all the unemployed trolls go next where their fiction will not be questioned???

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I don’t know of account suspended under the Covid-19 misleading information policy that has been reinstated yet. My guess is that Musk will do another “Freedom Friday.”

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Nov 30, 2022Liked by Bill Rice, Jr.

I remain very unconvinced by Elon Musk's supposed 'free speech' on Twitter!

He himself said that Twitter will have 'freedom of speech - but not freedom of reach' - meaning that (as he admitted in a tweet) he is going to continue shadow banning like crazy those tweets which he deems 'negative' or 'hate speech'.

A free speech platform would not be deciding for themselves who is allowed to 'come back' to Twitter' - and nor would they be censoring whatever opinions they don't like.

I think that Elon Tusk was sent in by the global cabal to take over Twitter, because Twitter and the mainstream media were losing so many people's trust that they could no longer control the narrative.

Tusk's job is to create the ILLUSION of free speech, by allowing certain messages to be tweeted which the global cabal don't like - but which they are prepared to tolerate, as they'll probably only display them to Twitter users who already oppose the global cabal!

Everything in the world today is an illusion.

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Tucker Carlson did us a service by highlighting the fact that Apple seemingly endorses China’s crack-down on “Zero Covid” protests in China. If I remember correctly, his monologue also included a scroll of scores of companies that have either pulled advertising from Twitter or are threatening to do this (in “protest” of Twitter possibly allowing real free speech under the ownership of Musk).

This actually makes an important and under-appreciated point. Namely, all of these major companies have supported social media and legacy media sites that have implemented brazen censorship policies for almost three years. That is, with their advertising expenditures, they are endorsing companies that violate the founding tenet of our nation (free speech).

Conversely, these companies have BOYCOTTED sites that DO allow free speech and allow commentary and journalism that challenges any of the “authorized” narratives. For example, this is why My Pillow is the only big advertiser on Tucker’s show. This is why we don’t see Pfizer or Coca Cola or GM or Procter & Gamble running commercials in Tucker’s show.

Nor do we see any major company placing ads at sites like Zero Hedge or Citizens Free Press, which happen to have tens of millions of regular visitors (every one of whom is a consumer, who companies would be expected to want to reach).

Another example would be the Daily Sceptic. This vital website’s audience has dramatically increased in the last two years. The site is now running a few ads. However, I don’t even have to ask - I know - no major company is going to place an ad at The Daily Sceptic.

Bottom-line: Just about every company in the world endorses and supports rampant censorship and has intentionally withheld advertising from sites that do allow free speech. This is a massive “tell” about how rotten our system has become and how “captured” virtually all our major companies now are.

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Ever since I started a blog on Blogger back in 2008, I’ve had this nagging suspicion that these “free” platforms like Fakebook and NitTwit (and probably Blogger) were being funded by our government to keep tabs on us and sniff out any dissenters. Remember how long it took Fakebook to turn a profit? I think regular investors would have turned their backs and walked away from Mr. Sugarmountain’s Fakebook.

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It will be very interesting to see how Musk handles his pay masters when they start applying pressure.

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It's noteworthy that Twitter is offering functions on Twitter whereby users can automatically block any designated types of tweet - i.e., those which would contradict the views of that Twitter user.

The whole point of freedom of speech is that people are able to hear a wide range of opinions and information - and that they would thereby be more able to have a well-informed opinion on each issue!

I think that Tusk has identified a fantastic commercial opportunity: to have a platform where users will largely or entirely only see tweets which reinforce their own opinions - and where opinions and information which would undermine the global cabal will only reach those users who already oppose the cabal - thereby doing no damage to the cabal!

Using AI to quickly identify each user's political position - anti-globalist / awake conservative, leftist, or believing the mass media narrative, etc., Twitter will be able to give conservatives the impression that Twitter is now 'free speech' - because they will see lots of people 'liking' their tweets, and will therefore imagine that they are waking the sleeping masses / leftists up to what is going on in the world.

But actually, 'awake' conservative's tweets will only reach other 'awake' conservatives - thereby creating the illusion of a free speech platform - but where the whole purpose and function of free speech - to influence the opinions of those of a different mindset - will be deliberately prevented from happening.

By this means, the global cabal will be able to regain its influence over vast numbers of people - while Tusk uses Twitter to launch the cabal's version of the 'do everything' version of Wechat, whereby they will gain control over, and access to, all user's data and monitoring of every aspect of their daily lives, minute by minute.

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