Aaron Maté has been among a handful of reporters to whom Elon Musk granted access to Twitter records to uncover efforts by the United States government along with Twitter to censor communication on the social media platform in the time before Musk gained control over it. The newest revelations from Maté concern the US government, via the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), having acted as an assistant to the Ukraine government’s main intelligence agency, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), to seek censorship of 163 targeted Twitter accounts — Maté’s included — as well as personal information related to those Twitter accounts.
Maté’s chilling revelations here.
It is bad enough that the US government has been seeking to censor social media communication to advance the goals of power-hungry politicians, businessmen, and bureaucrats here in America. Now, comes revelations that, on top of that, the US government has been seeking to advance the censorship goals of, and hand over personal information of individuals using social media to, the government of Ukraine. Keep in mind that Ukraine is an intensely corrupt government, is overrun with nazis, and is apparently comfortable with targeting for assassination foreign individuals merely because those individuals have expressed views judged intolerable regarding Ukraine or its war with Russia.
The Ukraine government has also been relentless in suppressing free speech, opposition political parties, and the free exercise of religion within its borders.
Of course, the US assistance to Ukraine’s censorship effort has extended beyond Twitter. Maté notes in the concluding paragraph of his article:
News of the FBI’s work with Ukrainian intelligence to censor Twitter users also follows reporting from journalist Lee Fang that the FBI has pressured Facebook to remove accounts and posts deemed by the SBU to be Russian ‘disinformation.’ According to Fang, a senior Ukrainian official in regular contact with the FBI defined ‘disinformation’ in such broad terms that it could mean viewpoints that ‘simply contradict the Ukrainian government’s narrative.’
How about the US starts respecting the First Amendment, and stops assisting Ukraine in pursuing its authoritarian objectives?
Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.
The FBI & Biden are Ukraine’s censorship assistants. Biden has brainwashed the American People into thinking Ukraine is an equal opportunity democracy & its existence is being threatened by Russia.
Ukraine persecutes the Russian speakers & NATO keeps expanding closer & closer to Russia’s borders. Putin is on Zelensky’s kill list.
That they are able to convince some that Ukraine is something they are not depends on the swell American school system and its lack of emphasis on European politics, history and thought processes epecially of that region along with a bunch of lies from willing accomplices in the media.
I propose we change the arraignment of the letters FBI to FIB as in the word “fib”.
This will bring the organizations name inline with what it actually does.
Power and its attendant corruption flow from domestic to foreign shores, then wash back up domestically again. It is all a symbiotic process of the steady erosion of human rights.
The only real solution is to dismantle the state, or at least to reduce it as much as possible. No power, no threat.