There are generally two forms of censorship on the internet.

1. China’s is fairly straightforward. They don’t hide it and claim to censor disinformation or sensitive topics that can disrupt public/social disorder. Everyone knows about the Great Firewall.
2. The other form of censorship is what the rest of the world has (minus North Korea).

This one is hard to detect because it’s claimed that there’s free speech, yet speech is being controlled. Instead of banning speech, they fill the void with astroturfs, disinformation and upvote/downvote bots.

If the government fills a political topic with 90% disinformation and uses their astroturfs to character assassinate, mass downvote or shut down speech that’s trying to get to the truth, then this is a very dangerous form of censorship.

Think about it like this. In the Truman Show, does the creator Christof tell Truman from the start that he’s living in a lie? No. Once Truman figures out he’s living a lie, he leaves.

In 1984, when Winston’s working at the Ministry of Truth, do they announce to the world that the history they promote is fake and was changed by the government? No. Winston, who works at the Ministry and knows the real truth, is tortured and conditioned to love Big Brother.

Because of this, it’s what makes the Truman Show and Ministry of Truth more believable to their target audience. And like the Ministry of Truth, intelligence agencies have been pushing fake news onto you for decades.

• 1984 was based on Orwell’s experience working at BBC between 1941–1943 and observing them pushing fake news:

• And here’s the government and oligarchs rewriting history and controlling speech online:

Google is already helping the government write, and rewrite, history.

However, papers leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden indicate that US and British intelligence agencies have been deeply engaged in planning ways to covertly use social media for purposes of propaganda and deception. They included a unit engaged in “discrediting” the agency’s enemies with false information spread online.

• They also use straight up censorship and bans for voices they don’t want to be heard.

3. Now, do these news reports of government-backed disinformation and social media control match reality?

• All you need to do is to look for sensitive topics that the US government doesn’t want you talking about and claims to be conspiracy theories or Russian/Chinese disinformation. Topics that are already public knowledge don’t apply.

Go over in extreme detail on these topics, read all sources on the other side of the argument and figure out the truth. Then try to spread this truth on social media giants like Reddit, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook.

The better you are at getting to the truth and proving it, the more censorship tactics will be applied to you.

• Another thing to look for is upvote patterns and catchy propaganda messages. On Reddit and r/worldnews, there are massively upvoted “China bad” threads every week/month. In these threads, users massively repeat propaganda terms such as “fuck China”, “Free Tibet”, “West Taiwan”, etc. They don’t want real conversation, they want to manufacture hate.
• Topics they try to control include:

1. Domestic political candidates. They want their own ppl in power.
2. Geopolitics (Russia, Iran, Taliban, China..any country they’re illegally operating in)
3. Trump - the establishment don’t like him
4. Systemic pedophilia. Intelligence agencies use it for blackmail and cover it up with help from media
5. COVID-19. Controlled the narrative right from the start.