Source: Malone.news
July and August 2024 bore witness to a profound interplay of events, intricately weaving together geopolitics, international public policy, censorship, propaganda, PsyWar, and the World Wide Web (internet). These events, previously discussed in the substack essay titled “Harris, Walz, and the UK Thought Police,” included a surge in internet speech, thoughtcrime, and pre-crime arrests in the UK. These activities, with their potential to set a precedent for similar actions in Canada, other FVEY intelligence alliance nations, and depending on 2024 presidential election outcomes, even the United States, carry a significant weight.
All of this reminds me of the infamous curse, “May you live in interesting times.”
These actions are not just isolated incidents but are likely to lead to a major restructuring of the current Western national political consensus concerning the classical liberal value of “freedom of speech” and the structure of the internet as we know it. This potential restructuring, with its far-reaching implications, should not be taken lightly, but rather be a cause for concern and a topic for deep, thoughtful consideration.
I am also reminded of the African saying, “When the elephants fight, the mice hide.”
Undoubtedly, the World Wide Web, otherwise known as the Internet, is a truly disruptive technology.
As I consider current trends in the globalization movement, and advocacy for some sort of a “one world government” consisting of a multi-tiered governance structure modeled on the European Union (with nation-states at the bottom, a UN-WEF alliance in operational charge of daily management, and global public-private partnerships setting agendas and policy goals), I am struck that all of this is justified based on the thesis that the “big” problems facing the world cannot be solved at the level of shifting alliances and treaties between sovereign nation-states.
Strangely, the beating heart of the many “global” challenges that seem to prompt the most gnashing of globalist teeth is not energy, population, climate, technology, or resource allocation. The biggest problem seems to be the global free flow of information, opinion, thought, and speech, which is a direct consequence of the fundamental nature of the World Wide Web.
“Information wants to be free”
Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, during a conversation at the first Hackers Conference in 1984.
This battle regarding the freedom of information to cross international boundaries and the rights of governments, globalist organizations, and NGOs to manipulate and define “The Great Narrative” using advanced psychological warfare (PsyWar) and Fifth Generation Warfare/Hybrid Warfare methods and doctrine is now coming to a head like a massive global boil.
And as the battle lines are drawn, various high-net-worth individuals, businesses, senior politicians, and top-tier “influencers” are forced to take sides. As with any war, this creates both enormous risk and strange bedfellows. Because this is a global conflict, there is essentially no place of refuge. We will all be swept up into what will likely become a combination of information, economic, and kinetic warfare.
I cannot predict the outcome at this point. As I discussed in my Geneva “Battle of Evermore” speech, it is increasingly difficult even to sort friend from foe. Hence, the metaphor of Janus, the Roman god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings, who is typically depicted as having two faces.
What I do know is that those who value liberty and freedom of speech and thought need to pay attention to the Elephants’ fights, what they fight over, and how they war with each other because this is essential knowledge for preparing and protecting yourself and your loved ones during their battle.
As of August 06, 20204, GARM, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, is now being sued for business damages incurred by both “X” and Rumble, which are consequent to what they claim to be GARM harms.
In an almost immediate (August 08, 2024) response to this lawsuit, GARM sponsor, the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), has decided to “discontinue” GARM. According to the WFA statement:
Today we announce that GARM will discontinue its activities.
The Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) was a voluntary cross-industry initiative created in 2019 to address digital safety. GARM was set up in the wake of the Christchurch New Zealand Mosque shootings during which the killer livestreamed the attack on Facebook. This followed a slew of high-profile cases where brands’ ads appeared next to illegal or harmful content, such as promoting terrorism or child pornography – creating both consumer and reputational issues for brands.
Since its launch, GARM has enhanced transparency in ad placements on digital social media by providing voluntary and pro-competitive tools for the advertising industry. These tools provide information to help advertisers avoid inadvertently supporting harmful and illegal content, reducing such ads from 6.1% in 2020 to 1.7% in 2023. GARM’s toolset includes the Brand Safety Floor and the Adjacency Standards Framework, which have supported brand owners in their independent development of their own bespoke, brand-specific safety frameworks to ensure that their advertising dollars do not inadvertently support illegal or harmful content that damages their brands.
GARM is a small, not-for-profit initiative, and recent allegations that unfortunately misconstrue its purpose and activities have caused a distraction and significantly drained its resources and finances. WFA therefore is making the difficult decision to discontinue GARM activities.
Frankly, I fully expect WFA to fold up GARM and then see the formation of another cutout organization seeking to advance the same agenda, supported by the same cast of characters.
GARM’s activities and alleged actions have implications for Google AdSense, as they may impact the advertising revenue of content creators and publishers who rely on AdSense:…