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Mike Benz

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

That's how long he had misgivings about this.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

Well, part of this is known and part of this can be, the full answer can be easily obtained by our representatives in Congress.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

I'll give you one example of this.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

in 2021, I believe it was February 2021, about a month into Biden's term, literally brand new, you know, seat barely warm at the State Department USA desks there, USAID put out this

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

97-page disinformation primer about how to coordinate their whole of society counter disinformation assets, their censorship tentacles into the whole of society.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

Again, the government tentacles into the tech platform personnel.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

their tentacles into the civil society organizations, their tentacles into the media.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

And 31 times in this 97-page document, they cite advertisers and external engagement to advertising companies and advertiser revenue spend pools and advertising exchanges in order to cut off the money flow

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

to social media platforms and independent websites who don't take the best practices counter disinformation codes that they lay out.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

Now, that was obtained through a lawsuit from America First Legal, but that's a formal U.S.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

government program dedicated to killing news websites, to killing their advertiser revenue,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

And it's all there in black and white that you have the U.S.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

government contorting the private sector flow of dollars between independent, arms-length parties, news websites and tech platforms, and advertisers.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

And by the way, all these advertisers are almost wholly dependent, I shouldn't say wholly dependent, but they are hugely dependent on U.S.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

government contracts.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

Four of the... How so?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

Well, take for example, there are

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

four major advertising agency conglomerates.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

These are places like Publicis.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#132 Mike Benz - Inside the Censorship Industrial Complex

and Omnicron.