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When the Watchmen Are Silenced, the Gates Are Left Open

The Watchman’s role is moral, not political. He is accountable not for outcomes, but for truth. Every society depends on such Watchmen. They are the ones willing to speak uncomfortable truths before the threat is obvious, before it is too late to respond. Today, many of the most important Watchmen are inside the technology systems that increasingly govern our lives.

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We Must Resist The Rise Of A Global Censorship Regime

Further, citizens in countries outside of the E.U., like the United States, are at risk of facing new levels of censorship, because the DSA applies to large online digital platforms and search engines accessed within the E.U. but that have a global presence. It explicitly states its extraterritorial applicability as it covers platforms used by people “that have their place of establishment or are located in the Union, irrespective of where the providers of those intermediary services [the platforms] have their place of establishment.”

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The Military vs. Technocracy’s ‘Science Of Social Engineering’ – ‘We Are Everywhere’

“The art of PSYOP relies on persuasion rather than physical force. The tools of the trade are logic, fear, desire and other mental factors used to evoke specific emotions, attitudes and behaviors,” according to a U.S. Army report. “The ultimate objective is to persuade enemy, neutral and friendly nations and forces to take favorable actions toward the U.S. and its allies.”

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EU’s Digital Services Act Threatens to Censor Americans on Social Media

The Digital Services Act compels very large online platforms—think Facebook, YouTube, and X—to remove so-called illegal content without delay. The problem? “Illegal” is defined not by clear, fixed principles, but by a moving target: whatever violates the law of any EU member state, now or in the future. That means a speech restriction passed in one small European country could trigger content takedowns across the entire internet—a lowest-common-denominator approach to censorship.

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