by Barbara Boyd, LaRouche PAC:

On June 5, 2019 YouTube “permanently” removed the video, “The Special Relationship is for Traitors” from the LaRouchePAC Videos YouTube channel. The video presents historical facts about the British Empire’s colonial atrocities and its role in sparking two world wars. It documents the prevalent American belief, following these catastrophes, that the British Empire (not the British people) was and is our sworn enemy. YouTube said the video violated its ever-expanding “community standards.” Then, after this author, using the contents which follow, blasted YouTube’s censorship on the July 18, 2019 LaRouchePAC Fireside Chat, the video reappeared on LaRouchePAC’s channel four days later on July 22. Neither decision was explained.

Status notification from YouTube before the documentary was reinstated.

According to various news reports, YouTube’s community standards were updated on June 4 to cover what YouTube’s machine algorithms and “Trusted Flaggers” (the name for its outside censors) consider “borderline hate speech.” According to YouTube’s insiders, videos expressing what the YouTube censors call “conspiracy theories” are the targets of the new standards. Numerous mainstream academic and history sites were censored or disabled in the June purge, and it scooped up journalists nominally on the left, such as Max Blumenthal, as the machine algorithm and YouTube’s “Trusted Flaggers” marched on. 

As this article goes to press, word emerges that Twitter suspended, then reinstated, the main twitter account for Julian Assange supporters and that the popular Consortium News website,which has reported on the Assange case among other atrocities by our ruling elites, has been subject to a malware attack.

Censoring these voices occurs just as CNN published another fact-less piece of hate propaganda claiming that Assange and WikiLeaks were working with the Russians to swing the 2016 U.S. elections. According to CNN’s fabricators, Assange did this from a “command post” in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. CNN of course, fails to reference the 24 hour-a-day surveillance then operating against Assange in the very capital of the imperial oligarchy, the City of London.

Apparently, as we head into hitman Robert Mueller’s scheduled July 24 testimony before Congress, the Russiagate narrative, having completely flopped with the American people, requires hands on cyberwarfare for its attempted resurrection. More and more people have realized that they were fooled, not by the Russians, but by all of those “authoritative” and “trusted” corporate media who have been caught lying to them, outright and brazenly, for full on three years now. The public has either tuned out, because of the gargantuan nature of the fraud, or has become incredibly angry and awaits leadership as to how to respond. Now the flipside of this fraud is becoming the most prominent dynamic. The enemy went all-in and exposed themselves, including the long-time instruments of social control resident in the individual laptop. The time has become ripe for taking both the nation and your mind back.

We have repeatedly demonstrated that the British intelligence services, their vassals in the then government of Ukraine, and the Obama Administration intervened, first to swing the 2016 presidential election to Hillary Clinton, and then to nullify Donald Trump’s election. They thought Hillary Clinton was going to win the election and their actions would never be known. As of November 8, having acted criminally, their choice was either to continue that course in the hopes of overturning the election or to await inevitable discovery given the number of people they employed in their grand conspiracy. Pursuing that course, however, has now publicly exposed even more of their operations. Similarly, the frantic censorship measures now undertaken invite inquiry into all that these companies have been doing previously, further exposing those who formerly lived behind the classified curtain.

See: Part I—The British Role in the Coup Against the President Is Now Exposed. Will You Act Now to Save the Nation?

This article intends to trace the wholly British evolution of the present campaign and reference its primary fallacy—that artificial intelligence or machine learning can ever account for, or control truly human behavior. Donald Trump’s election proved that. He used Silicon Valley as a tool—rather than being used by them. Hillary Clinton’s total reliance on deep data, making electoral decisions based on computer models of social media behavior, also proved that, albeit negatively. The reason Hillary did not visit the Rust Belt states which sealed Trump’s victory is because a computer, called Ada by her deep data team, told her not to. As Lyndon LaRouche urged throughout his lifetime, no artificial intelligence regime can defeat a mobilized and creative human mind consciously seeking a higher form of human existence. They can, however, inflame fixed, linear, and irrational modes of behavior, into a force of destruction—witness the violence caused by killer video games and the cognitive passivity engendered by both drug and pornography addictions.

The Present Purge

Since November 2016, Facebook and Google, which owns YouTube, have been relentlessly attacked, by the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, numerous Parliamentary big wigs in Britain, and the mainstream corporate media, for fostering allegedly fake Russian posts, conspiracy theories, and other “disinformation” through their news feeds, resulting—according to them—in Brexit and Donald Trump’s election in the United States. Not incidental to the media’s outrage was the fact that major mainstream media was shutting down in the United States, at record rates, as bored and disgusted readers and viewers migrated to the internet, hoping to find websites and blogs more reflective of their views.

In response to these attacks, and the surprise changes to its business model demanded by its former enthusiasts turned critics, Google announced, in April 2017, that it was going to promote and boost traffic to “authoritative” viewpoints, namely, corporate media, over those it dubbed “alternative” viewpoints. In May 2018, it cemented a formal alliance with the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, and other corporate media to promote their products. Facebook announced a similar promotion of “trusted sources” on its news feeds. In other words, the nation’s major social media platforms were to be brought under control by the fake news media. All of these steps were in addition to 2016 announcements altering machine learning algorithms and content policies in order to prevent traffic from reaching certain sites designated as extremist, discriminatory, or simply “controversial.”

Even these perverse steps by Google and Facebook, however, failed to satisfy the aspiring ministers of truth. Facebook, at its annual developers’ conference in April 2019, announced that it was completely changing its algorithms to favor posts within groups rather than favoring reposting or boosting of news feeds. Mark Zuckerberg noted that the change was made to eliminate the “town square” type of debates about ideas taking place on the platform as the result of the former emphasis on news feeds.

As the result of all of these steps, there has been a huge drop in engagement on independent internet “news” sites, silencing independent voices who depended on Facebook advertising and YouTube views for revenue. In addition, Facebook’s private group format is intended to foster the type of small group dynamics which favor identity politics, small bore tribalism, and cult-like group think and brainwashing—dynamics which prevent the development of universal human identities and values required for effective political action, while encouraging outright fascism. Facebook has now also assigned censors to these groups to make sure that they are appropriately policing their own speech. But the pornography, killer violent video games, and other platforms for mass popular derangement are obviously not a target of this censorship effort. Silicon Valley intends for this income stream to continue.

It is unclear how Google and Facebook’s algorithms and machine learning will be impacted by the current purge. For years, astute analysts have pointed out that social network engagement algorithms drive people into siloed behaviors and the extremes of identity politics. Once a teenager, for example, questions politically correct ideas of behavior, they are very often presented with a menu of successively extreme videos and messages prompting a deep dive into racial, sexual, or other forms of identity dynamics in order to sustain “engagement.”

It is a well-known psychological and sociological fact that propaganda has a limited if visceral impact on targeted populations. The impact of any single wave of lies wears off quickly and requires constant repetition under closed conditions to have an impact. What is being proposed here, by Facebook, is the type of closed system which shrinks heads and produces the type of irrational hysteria now dominating entire sections of the American population as the result of being saturated with “trusted” and “authoritative” mainstream media feeds for the last three years in the hoax called Russiagate.

Both Facebook and Google-owned YouTube get away with this censorship because they have thus far successfully argued that their social media platforms are “privately” owned and hence not subject to the free speech provisions of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Their argument, of course, ignores the inconvenient fact that all of these platforms were developed by the Defense Department’s DARPA program and, as demonstrated by Edward Snowden’s revelations, have been open government spying platforms for years. On July 9, by contrast, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City ruled that President Trump’s Twitter account is a “public forum” subject to the First Amendment and, as a result, the President may not block the hate speech directed at him by trolls, many of whom are paid to attack the President 24/7. This, of course, degrades the platform this President has chosen as his primary communication mechanism with the American population.

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