#460: Deconstructing the Censorship Industrial Complex with Mike Benz
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast · Marty Bent
November 14, 20231h 6m
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Show Notes
<p>Marty sits down with Mike Benz, the executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online to discuss digital censorship, corporate control, prosecution of uncooperative politicians, and more.</p>
<p>Mike on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber</p>
<p>FFO website: https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/</p>
<p>0:00 - Intro<br />
6:17 - Censorship Industrial Complex<br />
13:06 - Turning point in 2016<br />
15:08 - Twitter files and wrongspeak terminology<br />
22:44 - NGO participation<br />
26:07 - Corporate control<br />
32:30 - Russian gas<br />
37:15 - Biden laptop<br />
43:09 - Justice Department can kill you<br />
48:40 - Destabilization ops<br />
53:07 - End goal of control<br />
57:33 - Methods of resistance<br />
1:01:11 - Monetary censorship and Bitcoin<br />
1:04:11 - We’re gonna win</p>
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