DeepSummary
In this episode of Triggered, Don Jr. interviews Mike Benz, a former Trump administration State Department official and expert on deep state censorship efforts. They discuss how the government, big tech, and civil society organizations have colluded to censor online speech and information, particularly targeting the MAGA movement and Trump supporters. Benz explains how AI technology originally developed for counterterrorism purposes has been repurposed to mass-censor dissenting views on issues like COVID, the 2020 election, and foreign policy.
Benz details how a group called the Transition Integrity Project, comprised of former government and military officials, simulated scenarios for a "domestic color revolution" to prevent Trump from taking office in 2020, including potentially leveraging groups like Black Lives Matter as "street muscle." He argues this amounts to a conspiracy against constitutional rights and the undermining of free elections.
They also touch on how the censorship industry is restructuring itself for greater opacity after recent setbacks, the implications of the Supreme Court's upcoming decision in Biden v. Missouri, and what a second Trump administration could do to combat censorship and defund organizations engaged in it.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- The US government's intelligence agencies like the CIA have a long history of intervening covertly in other countries' internal affairs and elections, tactics now allegedly being applied domestically.
- A shadowy network of former government, military, and private sector actors allegedly conspired to censor online information and foment unrest to prevent Trump's re-election in 2020.
- Advanced AI censorship technologies originally developed for counterterrorism purposes have been repurposed to systematically suppress online speech around topics like COVID, the 2020 election, and foreign policy.
- The censorship industry is restructuring itself to be less visible after recent setbacks, relying more on civil society groups funded by government money.
- A potential second Trump administration could issue executive orders defunding organizations involved in online censorship, similar to actions taken against discriminatory diversity programs.
- Big tech companies like Google have played a central role in algorithmically suppressing online information from sources deemed unreliable or disinformation.
- There are concerns from this episode that civil liberties like free speech are being eroded under the pretext of combating misinformation and domestic extremism.
- The censorship issue has created strange bedfellows where establishment Republicans have aligned with traditional Democrat-aligned groups like the intelligence community.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “Google was doing all of that re ranking that you were referring to from that article in 2017. In mid 2017, Google launched something called Project Owl, which is a way to basically kill all access to alternative news on Google searches.“ by Tony Bobulinski
- “What you could do with a single pen stroke is basically copy the. The template that was used by the late Trump administration around Dei, if you remember. I think it was like October 2020 or something. It's pretty late in the game. But Trump passed a. Did an executive order around, I think it was around federal contracting for companies that had these crazy diversity programs that were hugely discriminatory and had an immediate impact.“ by Tony Bobulinski
- “And you had factions of the DNC, you basically had a DNC civil war, and then you had almost all of the Republican Party on board for doing this. We're living and sort of the inverse of that right now.“ by Tony Bobulinski
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Triggered With Don Jr.
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3/22/24