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Vanda Salvini's avatar

The censorship laws/regimes that the 5 eyes countries, USA, UK, NZ, Aus, Canada are soon enacting will target companies like Substack, Rumble, even Twitter etc with huge fines and/or imprisonment for failing to censor, i.e., allowing free speech, i.e., anything that contradicts the official gov narrative. That's how I see it. In a video with Russell Brand and John Campbell on Rumble, Russell Brand alluded to this as well. I don't see VPN's of much help in this case. Europe is probably the same, the rest of the world is already there.

I'm thinking carrier pidgeons.

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AndyinBC's avatar

Agreed, VS! I suspect that the evolving totalitarian governments of the West allowed the "free speech" platforms to establish themselves in order to identify potential "troublemakers"; people who have the nerve, the unmitigated gall to disagree with the omnipresent, omniscient state.

What are the odds that "Substack, Rumble, even Twitter, etc" will exist, in their current form, at this time next year?

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Kateinhi's avatar

Carrier pigeons - a business opportunity 👍

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Lucia P's avatar

Their drones will incinerate the poor birds.

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Cirze's avatar

Link, please?

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Vanda Salvini's avatar

https://rumble.com/v3mg6km-rumble-threatened-with-jail-wtf-is-going-on.html

Russell brand featured this in his video at the beginning. Go to about 1:55 and you'll see the chart he puts up.

In Canada, it's bills C-11 & C-18, passed into law earlier this year.

They start off slow: they say it's aimed to support Canadian content on the internet but they're a foot in the door for censorship by eliminating 'disinformation' and 'misinformation'.

You'll have to look up the legislation in the other countries.

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