Mike Benz

And this is what they're doing in all these foreign countries to bring X to heel and to put pressure on Facebook to make sure they continue their censorship work, which is that in order to, because we're restricted by the First Amendment here, and there's only so much that you can do politically, there's only so much leverage that you can actually apply given the economics of the social media ecosystem.

And this is why, by the way, they started at this right away, right away after the 2016 election.

And I've gone over some of these lectures in my own subscriber lectures that I've done where I've gone into these 2017 consensus building meetings that were being done in early 2017 about how to stop Trump's, how to kneecap Trump politically and stop him from getting reelected by saying,

changing the economics of the news industry by making sure that advertising revenue can't flow to unfiltered alternative news websites and that tech platforms are held accountable for misinformation so that they themselves get hit with billions of dollars in boycotts or advertiser withdrawals or regulatory pressure or crisis PR.

in order to ban Trump's representation in the U.S.

on social media.

Because their whole autopsy was that Trump only won because of social media.

He didn't get a single print media endorsement.

He was 97 to 3, disfavorable coverage on TV.

But David Brock and Cher Blue published this January 2017 autopsy that they only lost the election because of unfiltered alternative news on the internet.

And so very quickly after that, you started to have these major blob campaigns

Some of them, like one of the conferences I went over was a conference that was held in Bratislava.

It was held in Slovakia at the GlobSec, Global Security Conference, and it involved Michael Chertoff and a guy named Christopher Walker.

At the time, Walker was at the National Endowment for Democracy, which is the CIA cutout, and is currently at USAID, which is CIA funding conduit and State Department funding conduit.

And Michael Chertoff, he was the first head of DHS.

DHS was the first government agency to establish this censorship infrastructure, as I mentioned at the start of this, through CISA and then the Disinformation Governance Board.

And they played the quarterback of everything from the State Department to the FBI to the Pentagon.

There was this whole of government, whole of society thing that DHS quarterbacked.

But you had the first full-term head of DHS, by the way, Michael Chertoff,

was also the head of Freedom House, this major State Department sort of CIA free speech NGO, which was doing, I think, noble work up until it switched to censorship because it would try to pry open foreign countries so that...