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Is “escaping Twitter moderation” a bad thing?

Max Blumenthal pointed out to us a few days ago that OFFG gets a nice little mention in the Paul Mason emails – apparently we are deeply sus for recommending people join us on Telegram in preference to Twitter.

We assume by “maybe they aren’t obvious to place” Emma means we don’t fit into their binary worldview where everyone who opposes imperialism must be getting paid by Russia or China?

That’s perfect for us. We are always happy to be outside the bi-polar consensus.

Interesting language too – “escape Twitter moderation”. As if “moderation” were a form of legitimate punishment we’re trying to evade!

FYI Emma, what Twitter does isn’t “moderation” it’s CENSORSHIP. And dishonest censorship at that.

Ever since our Twelve Experts piece went viral in 2020 Twitter has slapped a “warning” on all links to our site which implies we could be “spammy” or “dangerous” without actually saying so…

We contacted Twitter to ask for an explanation – why exactly have they concluded we are “dangerous”? – They declined to give any response.

If you haven’t already done so we recommend you go read the Grayzone article on the Mason emails. Well worth the trouble.

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niko
niko
Jun 22, 2022 8:07 PM
RealPeter
RealPeter
Jun 22, 2022 11:06 AM

I haven’t got a cellphone, so I don’t care about Twatter or Telegram. What I am concerned about is the MSM speaking as one, no diversity allowed, shoving the compulsory narratives down our throats 24/7. Journalism is lost, and the epithet ’empire of lies’ is, alas, perfectly apt. St Jacinda actually summed up the globalist viewpoint well, though probably not with the implications she intended: ‘We are the single source of Truth.’ (Amen.)

The looming threat is internet censorship. Alternative news sites vary in quality, but at least they vary. How long before sites like this one are shut down? Then what? How will we know anything or will we all just ‘know nothing and be happy’. Ignorance, after all, is bliss.

Steph Amson
Steph Amson
Jun 21, 2022 4:18 PM

Personally am suspicious of Telegram gathering everyone’s data, linked to their mobile phone, which you need to register. Grateful to have a private site like OffG to post my comments. Thank you. <3

Paul Vonharnish
Paul Vonharnish
Jun 21, 2022 2:31 PM

Only the braindead use Twitter. Why bother to even acknowledge its existence? It’s a CIA tool. Nothing more.

Howard
Howard
Jun 21, 2022 1:14 PM

I am very happy and very proud to announce that I haven’t a clue what this article is about.

I have yet to master – and hope to God never to be able to master – Twitter language, or any sort of social media language for that matter.

I would have better luck deciphering ancient Sumerian than modern text.

George Mc
George Mc
Jun 21, 2022 2:18 PM
Reply to  Howard

I’m totally with you there. And while I’m at it I don’t know what transgender means either. I’m sure I must have read articles on it but could never get the hang of what it’s supposed to mean and don’t much care either.

Howard
Howard
Jun 21, 2022 6:14 PM
Reply to  George Mc

I hear you. I can remember when being a transvestite was scandalous – and that only involved a change of undies.

Nowadays, with transgender, transexual, transhuman and heaven knows what else, all a transvestite could expect would be a walk-on in the Theatre of the Woke.

Bob the Hod
Bob the Hod
Jun 22, 2022 7:37 AM
Reply to  George Mc

To me, transgender seems to mainly mean “I’m a massive attention seeker”.

As for twitter, or any social media, or smartphones, fuck them all off and your life will be better for it. They are the nexus of the new normal control matrix, just cut them out of your life completely.

Mucho
Mucho
Jun 21, 2022 1:01 PM

Did you know that around half of schools in COMMUNIST BRITAIN (a plaything for the banksters and their criminal Commie mates in the US, Israel, Russia and China) employ a system of fingerprinting the children in order to obtain things like school meals. This has been in place for well over a decade although the first I heard was very recently. What an absolute sh*tstain this craphole has become. The politicians, the church, every branch of government you can think of, its all infested with these putrid maggots passing themselves off as leaders. People who have enjoyed lives of comparatively healthy levels of freedom are now actively destroying what was one of the most free countries on Earth and replacing it with this ā€œdesigned in Israel made in Chinaā€ dystopian Orwellian Communist surveillance state driven by lies, terror and fear. They are turning these kids into complete morons, oven ready… Read more Ā»

entitled2
entitled2
Jun 21, 2022 2:52 PM
Reply to  Mucho

for there safety of course.

Lost in a dark wood
Lost in a dark wood
Jun 21, 2022 4:53 PM
Reply to  Mucho

What an absolute sh*tstain this craphole has become.

This is why I think a “Biblical” event is in order. In fact, it’s long overdue!

J A
J A
Jun 22, 2022 5:10 AM
Reply to  Mucho

sheesh…

banana
banana
Jun 21, 2022 10:17 AM

Pail is a (free)Mason

Johnnycomelately
Johnnycomelately
Jun 21, 2022 9:43 AM

Whats Matt doing releasing private emails.?

Edwige
Edwige
Jun 21, 2022 9:05 AM

If we’re re-visiting apparent lefties who the BBC gave a platform, try Martin Jacques and ‘When China Rules the World’.

The BBC loved the theme so much they returned to it in ‘Dragon’s Ascent’. One of the filmmakers of that series has a very familiar surname….

Nigel Watson
Nigel Watson
Jun 21, 2022 8:06 AM

Nearly a decade ago, Paul Mason wrote a book called ‘Post Capitalism’. It was all about how AI would now enable central planners to overcome Mises’s Socialist Calculation problem. I conclude that (a) Paul Mason is a technocrat (b) is part of the WEF programme to push technocracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyY38-fSYPw

Donald Duck
Donald Duck
Jun 21, 2022 9:39 AM
Reply to  Nigel Watson

Mason is an ex-Trot from an outfit which styles itself ‘Workers Power’. (I am not aware whether or not this group still exists.) But this is a common phenomenon in politics. Like the US Trots in the first cold war, – I would refer you to James Burnham, Sidney Hook and the revisionist Max Shachtman who retired into the lush pastures of social democracy –

Mason eventually saw the light. Of journalism and good pay cheques – and with consummate ease climbed the greasy pole into right-wing establishment politics publications and TV appearances.

Mason did a good job working on his image and projecting himself as a no-nonsense northerner complete with a permanent semi-shave. The BBC loved it.

But when all said and done, Mason is just another political cliche in the make, ten a penny.

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
Jun 21, 2022 1:58 PM
Reply to  Donald Duck

The same trajectory that Christopher Hitchens took as well if I’m not mistaken. I’m seeing a pattern here DD. And I won’t even start on the Trots at the WSWS. We all know just how “revolutionary” they have been the last 2 plus years. By the way, Workers Power is still going and has its headquarters in London. Founded in 1975.

Penelope
Penelope
Jun 21, 2022 5:41 AM

Does anyone know what happened to globalresearch.ca? They had an estimated 350,000 reads on each article, plus an extraordinary research archive because they’d been online for so many years. I relied on them for the history of so many past conflicts and histories. And now they’re gone.

Are they still available on some other platform?

Michel Chossudovsky is the Canadian professor behind the site. Wikipedia has of course criticized him for every correct position he’s taken.

Jenner
Jenner
Jun 21, 2022 6:10 AM
Reply to  Penelope

But I checked your allegation at 0606h GMT from well outside Canada on 21 June.and reached the URL: https://www.globalresearch.ca/ instantly.

I do not know what settings you have on your computer not what provider you use, etc.

Penelope
Penelope
Jun 21, 2022 11:14 PM
Reply to  Jenner

Jenner, thank you so much for answering. I kept getting an error message, so naturally I thought Canada had gone full-Nazi & taken them down. Turns out the little icon at the top of the page that I use to access those I visit most frequently simply stopped working after years and years. Your encouragement led me to just enter the url manually– and voila! I guess I should’ve thought of that, but never had the problem w ANY site.

Thanks again.

Duckman
Duckman
Jun 21, 2022 6:14 AM
Reply to  Penelope

managed to get home page in uk, had tried previously and got page not found, sign of the times? trust very little to be as it is being made to appear to be.
good interview with Vigano availabe at uk “white rose”

Penelope
Penelope
Jun 21, 2022 11:22 PM
Reply to  Duckman

Duckman, yes, Archbishop Vigano has incredible moral authority:
ViganĆ² said the “ostracism” of those who have opposed the administration of COVID-19 vaccines was similar to the treatment reserved for those who refuse to call Putin an “invader” or “tyrant.”

Who wd think one living w/in a religious hierarchy wd be so well-informed?
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ChairmanDrew
ChairmanDrew
Jun 21, 2022 9:48 AM
Reply to  Penelope

I had trouble recently with Globalresearch.ca getting host server errors. But I found I could access the site by not going in via the homepage.

stu
stu
Jun 22, 2022 5:31 PM
Reply to  ChairmanDrew

With my VPN enabled — which obscures my location — the page generates an error. With it disabled I am able to access it. So it appears they are blocking access from certain locations for whatever reason.

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
Jun 21, 2022 2:04 PM
Reply to  Penelope

I still find them, even with using Google Penelope, but notice that even typing in their exact name, they’re usually the 6th or 7th entry on my search results and the font is smaller than the other entries on that page. Was looking at them yesterday.

Nice Guy Eddie
Nice Guy Eddie
Jun 21, 2022 5:56 PM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

I watched a recent interview with Michel Chossudovsky. He mentioned that GR is getting 70,000 attacks of various kinds per week.

Howard
Howard
Jun 21, 2022 5:11 PM
Reply to  Penelope

Penelope, please forgive my bluntness; but I have to come right out and ask you – especially since this is the second time you asked about globalresearch.ca.

Are you trying to drum up business for globalresearch? or perhaps trying to find out how many OffG readers also visit that site?

You should already know that globalresearch articles are perhaps the most frequently linked by commenters here.

You seem to have some affiliation with Lew Rockwell: is globalresearch kind of a rival of Rockwell?

Penelope
Penelope
Jun 21, 2022 11:26 PM
Reply to  Howard

Howard, are you a teensy bit paranoid? I forgot where to check for an answer to my first query. I personally don’t regard truthtellers as rivals of one another, and I’ve no affiliation w any site. I’m just a long-time researcher.

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
Jun 21, 2022 5:20 AM

Paul Mason is just another pretend leftie presstitute doing the bidding of his real masters. There’s a long list of these faux leftie flakes, especially over at The Guardian, to give one example. Owen Jones and George Monbiot are 2 names that spring to mind. There’s also a long list on alternative media and left wing sites who showed their true colours during the last 2.5 years of the convid pysops and who put on their jackboots to support the most draconian restrictions against us.
Why then am I completely unsurprised by these revelations about Paul Mason? It’s the sort of thing I expect now. As I said the other day, I don’t listen to them, I don’t read them and I don’t watch them. Simple.

Marilyn Shepherd
Marilyn Shepherd
Jun 21, 2022 8:08 AM
Reply to  Gezzah Potts

Yeah, the media in Australia have been utterly as one in Australia, the ABC being the worst ever with ‘in the pandemic’ used in every sentence by every journalist every day. But never mind we are back to refugee bashing.

Edwige
Edwige
Jun 21, 2022 8:41 AM

The point about Mason, Monbiot and Jones is that they would not engage in “refugee bashing”.

Here you are giving a mis-leading steer to someone else’s comment… not for the first time.

Marilyn Shepherd
Marilyn Shepherd
Jun 21, 2022 11:21 AM
Reply to  Edwige

My comment was only about Australian’s media and the refugee bashing but the UK media are doing their fair share too.

Gezzah Potts
Gezzah Potts
Jun 21, 2022 2:09 PM

As I don’t read them, listen to them or watch them Marilyn, I don’t really know what they’re dribbling on about, however I did notice quite a lot of headlines about the Australian Stock Market in the last week. I didn’t know about the refugee bashing but that’s par for the course with these maggots.

Patrick L.
Patrick L.
Jun 21, 2022 5:14 AM

CLAIM: Paul Mason is an arse.

FACT CHECK: Paul Mason is not an arse but an elbow.

Paul Mason identifies an an elbow, therefore he is an elbow. He is an elbow trapped in the body of an arse.

Stop noticing things, it’s bigoted.

Sgt Oddball
Sgt Oddball
Jun 21, 2022 10:05 AM
Reply to  Patrick L.

…- Evidently he is incapable of telling the one from the other, though…

Patrick L.
Patrick L.
Jun 21, 2022 4:29 AM

BBC World News, front page: “‘You’re my hero’ – Ben Stiller meets Zelensky”

Enjoy the luxury of cringing at headlines. These are the last days of the golden years. We’re still in a very comfy kind of hell, before the hunger sets in and the arrests start.

Duckman
Duckman
Jun 21, 2022 6:18 AM
Reply to  Patrick L.

non-conforming has never been so “in” before…

that word “hell” keeps getting bandied about, its time we all took on board the true relevance/significance, we might then be more resolved/united.

i have some faith, would you like some?

Hele
Hele
Jun 21, 2022 7:04 AM
Reply to  Patrick L.

Witless:ben stiller,sean penn, bono.

Johnny
Johnny
Jun 21, 2022 7:44 AM
Reply to  Patrick L.

Further proof that celebrity and wealth are inversely proportional to a modicum of intelligence or a scintilla of wisdom.

Edwige
Edwige
Jun 21, 2022 8:50 AM
Reply to  Johnny

You think Stiller is doing this because he’s dumb or because he lacks information?

He’s doing it because he’s controlled, as the vast amount of celebrities are.

BTW for all the George Carlin lovers around here who dismiss his freemasonic imagery, Ben Stiller got an early breakthrough in a film with Carlin called ‘Working Trash’. Stiller’s father was a regular on ‘Seinfeld’ and Michael Richards who played Kramer is an open freemason. The show’s logo has a checkerboard pattern on it tucked away.

Johnny
Johnny
Jun 21, 2022 9:17 AM
Reply to  Edwige

Once the stench of wealth permeates oneā€™s neurones, thereā€™s no turning back.
No matter what religion, philosophy or wet dream one wallows in.

George Mc
George Mc
Jun 21, 2022 9:19 AM
Reply to  Patrick L.

I think they’ll keep the comfy hell going indefinitely no matter what’s happening on the ground. Didn’t covid show how well they could invert reality? We could have real mounds of corpses piling up but our tellies will still be fretting over how some celeb was traumatised by the colour of a duvet used in a soap which upset his/her/its quadro-gender non-specificity hour.

George Mc
George Mc
Jun 21, 2022 9:24 AM
Reply to  Patrick L.

The Hollywood set are utterly at the mercy of the media vamps. Stiller and Co are eager to fellate whatever social hero the press hacks currently elevate. And if anyone says anything even vaguely suspect, any hint that things may not be what they seem then they’ll find themselves accused of a whole line of sexual misdemeanors going back to the time of their birth.

S Cooper
S Cooper
Jun 21, 2022 5:41 PM
Reply to  Patrick L.

“Can Stiller also play the piano with his dick? So what. Perhaps it is time for him to join dear ole dad in Hessian Lake.”
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The longer Kabuki War Theater in the Ukraine continues the more the psycho Nazis are going to rip us off at the pumps and on the shelves.”
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“The Great Ripoff and the Psycho Nazis need to end.”

les online
les online
Jun 21, 2022 3:50 AM

In today’s mail: https://scheerpost.com/2022/06/20/washington-allies-plan-for-a-long-war-against-russia-in-ukraine/ https://scheerpost.com/2022/06/20/daniel-ellsberg-on-nuclear-war-and-ukraine/ Old Danny has been wheeled out to talk-up the possibility of Russia using Nukes if it faces defeat in The Ukraine…Time to think about “The Unthinkable”, which is always said to be due to “escalation.” … Take notice of Old Danny’s claim that Russia’s “war threatens people in Africa with famine.” Like Chomsky, Ellsberg seems to rely on reliable sources such as The Washington Post…The point is made in Jacques Ellul’s Propaganda.The Formation of Men’s Attitudes that intellectuals are the most vulnerable to all forms of modern propaganda… Old Danny also shares the deceit of Knowing What Putin Thinks… The use of Nuclear Weapons, even if only “tactical” ones, IS thinkable. A general who doesnt factor in their use in a proxy war with a nuclear opponent should be sacked…Did no one read the report, just after Russia started its Ukraine Military Operation, that NATO… Read more Ā»

les online
les online
Jun 21, 2022 6:10 AM
Reply to  les online

US/NATO began pouring weapons into The Ukraine BEFORE they could figure out Russia’s strategy and aims. The weapons are not being sent to The Front (or handed to Zelensky) because what weapons are pouring in are determined by how the US planned to deal with Russia, plans drawn up before Russia started its SMO…And…

‘180 Australian mercenaries flee the battlefield ‘ !! That has got to be Russian Propaganda !!

https://cairnsnews.org/2022/06/21/russian-update-us-uk-aussie-mercenaries-on-trapped-killed-in-eastern-ukraine/

Antonym
Antonym
Jun 21, 2022 3:20 AM

Twitter: left it when they banned a sitting US president.

TDj
TDj
Jun 21, 2022 7:17 PM
Reply to  Antonym

The President of the dis-United States of America, in front of the very eyes of the people, Disenfranchised and subject to Corporate Fascist Controllers of what may, or may not, Constitute Free Speech. So freakin’ Absurdistan after Afghanistan & Azerbaijan (Transit Hub). Forget Sovereign Laws in all nations. Corporate Fascist Currency of the day, assuming such command, after summoning genies. From Aladdin ‘s cellular, networking HFT sayA.i. … ‘Viva la Ukraine’ . You killed it… And eternal credibility ! Central Arsehole Bankers. War on C.A.B.s Ask any Cabbie… “If ‘they’ can do this to the President of the United States of America, Imagine what ‘they’ can Do to you ” Jim Jordan (Ohio) Fast food nations die, of starvation… Food is knowledge. Food for thought… The Danish, Dutch & Deutsche Volk, wagen/ wetten Firing Up Coal again: ask Ursula. Absurdity beyond sanity, Takes the Biscuit from Trump’s lips šŸ’‹ &… Read more Ā»

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Jun 21, 2022 1:40 AM

Well there you have it: “champion” of the working class, “radical socialist” and “post-capitalist” Paul Mason colluding with British intelligence (capitalism’s secret police). Do we need to wonder how the left became the Brownshirts of the WEF?

S Cooper
S Cooper
Jun 21, 2022 2:58 AM
Reply to  Tom Larsen

Right-Center-Left are just terms(labels) that the war racketeer corporate fascist oligarch mobster psychopaths use to keep WE THE PEOPLE (Humanity) at each others throats so the psychos could continue with their wholesale grand theft of us.”
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“The Scamdemic ‘BIG LIE’ (which is a crime against humanity) was the signal for all the jackbooted crocodile teared corporate fascist Fabian eugenicist brown shirts to come out full Third Reich and do their Nazi thing.”

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S Cooper
S Cooper
Jun 21, 2022 3:14 AM
Reply to  S Cooper

“The jackbooted crocodile teared corporate fascist Fabian eugenicist brown shirt charlatan fraudsters are as phony baloney as they come.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/vgmd9y/ernest_ramirez_had_his_healthy_16yearold_son/

https://www.reddit.com/r/FauciForPrison/comments/vg72ge/healthy_young_people_now_dying_en_masse_across/

Thinktwice
Thinktwice
Jun 21, 2022 3:35 AM
Reply to  S Cooper

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banana
banana
Jun 21, 2022 10:21 AM
Reply to  Thinktwice

I always wondered why so many ‘hoards’ of gold/silver where found buried over the centuries.

Paul Vonharnish
Paul Vonharnish
Jun 21, 2022 2:28 PM
Reply to  Thinktwice

Hello Thinktwice: Americans want to forget how they were delivered to the destination… >

http://stopthepirates.blogspot.com/2010/09/cestui-qui-trust-strawman.html

The Federal Reserve is almost as bad a joke as Franklin Delano Rosevelt. The filthiest scumbag in American history.

eman
eman
Jun 21, 2022 2:58 AM
Reply to  Tom Larsen

Maybe it should be British intelligence is using propaganda to defend the Oligarchs that hired the intelligence agents and contractors, who the government pays? After all the nation state is about delivering wealth to the wealthy at the expense of those who produce the wealth. Everyone supports [pay advertising dollars] the Oligarch owned Propaganda Machinery. The Oligarchs use the propaganda machinery to keep the minds and thoughts of the governed classes thought-controlled, behavior -controlled and knowledge depleted. Basically those who serve the oligarchs have been paid to establish and maintain a completely controlled information environment, and to keep contained within that controlled information environment, every one of us that are the governed. People refuse to admit they are incarcerated in at least one nation state of the global system. Its a challenge to find a single person who has escaped being confined to one of the 256 different crucibles (nation… Read more Ā»

Edwige
Edwige
Jun 21, 2022 8:58 AM
Reply to  eman

British intelligence was formed out of the East India Company’s intelligence network.

The OSS/CIA was formed out of Wall Street. The early OSS was stuffed full of the off-spring of the Mellon banking dynasty. Andrew Mellon was a robber baron who became Treasury Secretary 1920-32 but who hardly ever gets mentioned in the alt-media unlike other robber barons. Allen Dulles worked for Sullivan and Cromwell before heading the CIA.

Nigel Watson
Nigel Watson
Jun 21, 2022 8:08 AM
Reply to  Tom Larsen

Paul Mason clearly favours authoritarianism. As I explain here, many of the self-styled ‘progressives’ are actually fascists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oiRg-wxSSM&t=54s

Edwige
Edwige
Jun 21, 2022 8:53 AM
Reply to  Tom Larsen

Radical socialism is the ideology of monopoly capitalism and it was from the outset.

S Cooper
S Cooper
Jun 21, 2022 12:19 PM
Reply to  Edwige

Corporate Fascism is not honest Socialism. It is the antithesis of it. The Robber Baron criminals and their toadies imprisoned and murdered Socialists and Workers because they were in opposition to their wholesale grand theft thievery not because they supported it.”
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ā€œPolitically what exists today in many parts of the world is a large criminal gang of war racketeering corporate fascist psychopaths passing themselves off as ā€œgovernment,ā€ preying upon (and victimizing) the rest of hapless humanity. If only there was honest government of the people,by the people, for the people, based on the principles of equality (political/economic/social)civil liberty, respect and peace.ā€

https://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1918/court.htm

Johnny
Johnny
Jun 21, 2022 12:39 AM

Twitter, like Facebook and many other social platforms, was designed for adolescents.
It is trivial, puerile and superficial.
The world has regressed.
But we already knew that, because we are adults.

0use4msm
0use4msm
Jun 21, 2022 1:27 AM
Reply to  Johnny

Depends on how you use it. The best use I have for Twitter is as an alternative to RSS feeds for those sites that for some reason don’t use RSS.

Viridis
Viridis
Jun 21, 2022 12:20 AM

By declaring that Twatter does censorship you are legitimizing it as the de facto platform for public discourse. It is in fact a shitty social media site designed by and for idiots who think they are “smart”. You do not have to use it unless you are participating in the virtual world of dehumanisation. Your job or career is a shit eating activity if it relies on Twatter. Get a real job that involves honest work. Plumbers, for example, have no need for Twatter and are always in demand. You also don’t seem to understand that Twatter’s very format is designed to destroy public discourse and intelligent thought. It is not about what is allowed there. It is the fact that everyone and his dog has flocked to Twatter like sheep to the fucking slaughter. The very name of this thing is a giveaway. It is the tool of the… Read more Ā»

J A
J A
Jun 21, 2022 2:25 AM
Reply to  Viridis

The very name of this thing is a giveaway. It is the tool of the Idiocracy.

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