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Marco Rubio Ends State-Sponsored Censorship – But Is Free Speech Really Back - Robert Ian Reports · Financial Survival Network

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  Speaker 2: Hey, Carrie, this is Robert Ian with conker Change dot com.
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  Speaker 2: This past week, there was a State Department interview with
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  Speaker 2: Secretary of State Marco Rubio. I met Secretary Rubio, then
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  Speaker 2: Senator Rubio in twenty fifteen when he was in Las
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  Speaker 2: Vegas for Freedom Fest. President Trump had just declared his
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  Speaker 2: presidential run for twenty sixteen and was delivering one of
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  Speaker 2: his first speeches as a newly minted candidate, along with Rubio,
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  Speaker 2: who was running in the primary opposite to Trump. I
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  Speaker 2: caught up with Rubio not at the conference, but at
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  Speaker 2: a semi private local event where he gave a lengthy,
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  Speaker 2: well articulated stump speech and provided an up close and
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  Speaker 2: personal Q and A session following his talk. Now fast
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  Speaker 2: forward ten years to the interview he gave this past week,
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  Speaker 2: which was all about freedom and referred to a momentous
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  Speaker 2: day in the history of the State Department, as the
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  Speaker 2: US government begins the process of restoring free speech. Rubio declared,
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  Speaker 2: we have ended government sponsored censorship in the United States
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  Speaker 2: through the State Department. From a timeline perspective, he recapped
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  Speaker 2: how followed nine to eleven. The idea was to go
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  Speaker 2: after messaging of hostile geopolitical groups trying to radicalize people,
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  Speaker 2: which he said at the time sounded plausible. This apparatus
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  Speaker 2: was then expanded and escalated to include the idea that
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  Speaker 2: there was quote interference in the twenty sixteen election. Then
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  Speaker 2: by twenty twenty, he said, it evolved into a movement
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  Speaker 2: to go after individual American voices. Here's how it worked.
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  Speaker 2: The State Department was using NGOs, which stands for non
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  Speaker 2: governmental organizations and other third party groups, as proxies and
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  Speaker 2: pass through entities, who in turn were tagging and labeling
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  Speaker 2: voices in American politics as foreign agent's. In other words,
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  Speaker 2: the State Department was funding attack dogs to silent's American voices,
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  Speaker 2: many of whom were deplatformed from social media in the
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  Speaker 2: months leading up to the twenty twenty election and as
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  Speaker 2: a result, rendered unable to communicate their ideas and opinions.
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  Speaker 2: According to Rubio, the censorship group within the State Department,
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  Speaker 2: identified by the host later within the interview as the
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  Speaker 2: Global Engagement Center, was disbanded before Trump took office. An
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  Speaker 2: archived State Department web page says the Global Engagement Center
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  Speaker 2: closed on December twenty third of twenty twenty four. In
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  Speaker 2: my opinion, it should state that it conveniently closed on
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  Speaker 2: that date. Rubio stated the principle by which the State
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  Speaker 2: Department would be operating on a go forward basis, namely
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  Speaker 2: that the best way to counter disinformation is with free speech.
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  Speaker 2: He said, what's true must have an equal or greater
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  Speaker 2: chance to counter what isn't true, in particular when disinformation
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  Speaker 2: gets turned into a political weapon to go after people
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  Speaker 2: you don't like. He said, every day he watches mainstream
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  Speaker 2: media where they put out material they know is disinformation.
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  Speaker 2: He cited instances in Western countries right now where people
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  Speaker 2: are being arrested for social media posts, with officers sent
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  Speaker 2: to their home to tell them they're going to jail
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  Speaker 2: for sixty days for posting something online. Going forward, his
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  Speaker 2: State Department is defunding and restructuring the censorship unit to
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  Speaker 2: share pro American messaging with the world, not attack and
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  Speaker 2: jail citizens for exercising their free speech. An effort is
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  Speaker 2: underway to document what happened and so it doesn't happen again,
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  Speaker 2: he said. People in the US who were harmed not
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  Speaker 2: only need to know how it happened, but also be
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  Speaker 2: able to prove they were harmed to restore their reputations
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  Speaker 2: and livelihoods. He reiterated that fifteen years ago the idea
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  Speaker 2: to combat radicalization may have seemed reasonable enough, but in
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  Speaker 2: a short amount of time that process metastasized into what
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  Speaker 2: we have today. It was turned into something else by
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  Speaker 2: someone else when the people in charge changed. He's promised
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  Speaker 2: that an in depth transparency process is underway, not just
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  Speaker 2: in high profile censorship cases, but with many more everyday
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  Speaker 2: American citizens who were suddenly labeled. One example is when
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  Speaker 2: people were deplatformed near the beginning of the pandemic. He
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  Speaker 2: wants to find out who ordered them to be deplatformed,
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  Speaker 2: who within the State Department and elsewhere tagged people to
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  Speaker 2: be silenced, he said. Unpacking the depth and scope of
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  Speaker 2: what happened will be made known. The interviewer then specifically
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  Speaker 2: asked as the State Department is repositioned as the global
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  Speaker 2: beacon for free speech and liberty. Threats exist from censorship
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  Speaker 2: laws coming out of the European Union, of which many
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  Speaker 2: countries have taken the efforts of what he referred to
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  Speaker 2: as Global Engagement Center ecosystem partners, many of whom were
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  Speaker 2: funded by the US State Department and are now shaping
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  Speaker 2: foreign censorship laws. He asked, how will the State Department
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  Speaker 2: restore free speech in a world where places like the
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  Speaker 2: European Union are targeting Americans and interfering with their free speech.
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  Speaker 2: Rubio says the number one priority is Americans. He doesn't
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  Speaker 2: want to see an American living in London, for example,
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  Speaker 2: post something online about US politics or any politics for
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  Speaker 2: that matter, and then suddenly they are facing ramifications in
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  Speaker 2: the European Union, like being denied entry into a country
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  Speaker 2: or getting arrested because they posted something while living overseas.
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  Speaker 2: He said, one of the things that's supposed to link
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  Speaker 2: us to places like Europe are shared values. One of
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  Speaker 2: those values is supposed to be freedom of expression. If
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  Speaker 2: that's eroded, then one of the fundamental pillars of that
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  Speaker 2: shared interest, beyond military cooperation, is under attack. Apparently, this
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  Speaker 2: very issue was raised with the Prime Minister of England
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  Speaker 2: when he visited the Oval Office. The mere fact it
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  Speaker 2: had to be raised indicates how far the problem has
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  Speaker 2: gone and how big it has actually become. He calls
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  Speaker 2: it a foreign policy irritant and impediment. I call it
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  Speaker 2: escalating totalitarianism that clearly illustrates their philosophical underpinnings. It's not
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  Speaker 2: just that censorship saber rattling is happening with high profile people,
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  Speaker 2: like how the EU Commissioning Body recently tried to strong
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  Speaker 2: arm and essentially threatened both the President and Elon Musk
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  Speaker 2: to not talk about recent protests in the UK. He said,
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  Speaker 2: everyone is at risk, citizens, commentators, journalists, everyday, people talking
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  Speaker 2: about world events, and even officeholders in the US. It's
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  Speaker 2: a very wide and punitive net that could impact even
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  Speaker 2: this discussion on the topic. What I found refreshing, though
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  Speaker 2: and promising about this conversation is the energy and spotlight
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  Speaker 2: Rubio is bringing to this critical issue. He underscored, the
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  Speaker 2: State Department is there to serve the American people and
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  Speaker 2: protect their interests, not use stealth and arbitrary power to
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  Speaker 2: go after those who disagree. For the vague and nebulous
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  Speaker 2: concept of misinformation. The approach is not to shut other
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  Speaker 2: people down. It's to say, here's how they're lying, and
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  Speaker 2: here's the truth in reality. That's always been the way
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  Speaker 2: until it wasn't and hasn't been over the past to
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  Speaker 2: get decades of incremental information weaponization on the surface, it
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  Speaker 2: looks like the censorship gun is getting laid down. Or
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  Speaker 2: is it? Time will tell, But the good news is
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  Speaker 2: we'll be able to tell very quickly and until next time.
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  Speaker 2: This is Robert Ian with conquer Change dot com. Thanks Carrie,
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