{"id":168625,"date":"2020-09-14T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T11:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=168625"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:09:06","slug":"tech-titans-and-censorship-the-same-people-profiting-from-the-quarantine-are-censoring-criticisms-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/09\/tech-titans-and-censorship-the-same-people-profiting-from-the-quarantine-are-censoring-criticisms-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Titans and Censorship\u2014the Same People Profiting from the Quarantine Are Censoring Criticisms of It"},"content":{"rendered":"

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11 Sep 2020 – <\/em>The same bloated Tech\/Data and Telecom Titans now gorging themselves on the corpses of our obliterated middle class are rapidly transforming America\u2019s once proud democracy into a censorship and surveillance police state. As Naomi Klein chronicled in her classic, Disaster Capitalism<\/em><\/a>, totalitarian elements and ruling elites have, throughout history, reflexively used crisis as opportunities to shift wealth upward. \u201cYou never,\u201d Rahm Emmanuel counseled<\/a>, \u201cwant a serious crisis to go to waste.\u201d The tread worn strategy is to inflame public fears to justify the imposition of authoritarian controls and censorship thereby allowing oligarchs to silence protest against their power-grabs and their wholesale privatization of the commons.<\/p>\n

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\u2026 permanently bankrupted over 100,000 small businesses including 41,000 Black-owned businesses some of which took three generations of investment to build.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Led by Bill Gates, Silicon Valley applauded from the sidelines as medical charlatans fanned pandemic panic, confined the world population under house arrest, and shattered the global economy. Silicon Valley fattened as masked and isolated families turned to social media and Amazon. In five months, their quarantine put 58 million<\/a> Americans out of work, permanently bankrupted over 100,000 small businesses<\/a> including 41,000 Black-owned businesses<\/a> some of which took three generations of investment to build. These policies have also set into motion the inevitable dismantling of the social safety net that nurtured middle-class prosperity. Government officials have already begun liquidating the 100-year legacies of the New Deal, New Frontier, the Great Society, and Obamacare to pay the accumulated quarantine debts. Say goodbye to school lunches, healthcare, WICS, Medicaid, Medicare, University scholarships, etc., etc., etc.<\/p>\n

The Tech Barons used the lockdown to accelerate construction of their 5G network<\/a> of satellites, antennae, biometric facial recognition, and \u201ctrack and trace\u201d infrastructure that they will use to compel obedience, suppress dissent, and to manage the rage when Americans finally wake up to the fact that they have stolen our democracy, our civil rights, our country, and way of life while we huddled in orchestrated fear from a flu-like illness.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.\u2019s reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal actions. Mr. Kennedy is the Chairman of Children\u2019s Health Defense and was named one of <\/em>Time Magazine\u2019s \u201cHeroes for the Planet\u201d for his success to restore the Hudson River. The group\u2019s achievement helped spawn 300 Waterkeeper organizations across the globe. He serves as President of Waterkeeper Alliance and of counsel to Morgan & Morgan, a nationwide personal injury practice. He was previously Chief Prosecuting Attorney for the Hudson Riverkeeper, Senior Attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and a Clinical Professor and Supervising Attorney at Pace University School of Law. Earlier in his career he served as Assistant District Attorney in New York City.<\/em> Mr. Kennedy is a graduate of Harvard University. He studied at the London School of Economics and received his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School.<\/em><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 childrenshealthdefense.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

11 Sep 2020 – The same bloated Tech\/Data and Telecom Titans now gorging themselves on the corpses of our obliterated middle class are rapidly transforming America\u2019s once proud democracy into a censorship and surveillance police state. They used the lockdown to accelerate construction of their 5G network of satellites, antennae, biometric facial recognition, and \u201ctrack and trace\u201d infrastructure that they will use to compel obedience and suppress dissent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":168626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[910,887,1009,232,958,1829,550,1868,555,542,328,1864,1109,1213,911],"class_list":["post-168625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","tag-big-brother","tag-big-pharma","tag-big-tech","tag-capitalism","tag-control","tag-coronavirus","tag-corruption","tag-covid-19","tag-elites","tag-fascism","tag-freedom","tag-pandemic","tag-spying","tag-super-rich","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284907,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168625\/revisions\/284907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}