In this episode of Conspiracy Theories, host Alex Blumberg and co-host John Rocha discuss the censorship industrial complex, and the role of the Jewish Defense League, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and the SPLC.
00:00:00.000I saw the substack being shared by a number of con ink people and I realized, man, this is either intensely dishonest or we're dealing with morons.
00:00:11.400Well, take your pick. Racket News on their substack had a report on the censorship industrial complex and they had listed the top 50 organizations to know the citizens starter kit to understanding the new global information cartel.
00:00:28.280It's written by Susan Schmidt, Andrew Lowenthal, Tom Wyatt, Technofog, and four others.
00:00:34.480So this was an introduction by Matt Taibbi, right? So they've done some good things in regards to the censorship industrial complex.
00:00:41.940The Twitter files were coming out. That's something, you know, Elon did, right? That was interesting.
00:00:45.860By the way, that's another reason we didn't mention before why maybe he was blackmailed to some kind of capacity to get this new shitlib CEO of Twitter.
00:00:54.000But regardless, check out this graph here. I can pull it up in full screen here.
00:00:58.280And we can spend a little bit quickly looking at it.
00:01:00.660Now, it's of course that there are some groups mentioned here that you should definitely know about and some of them are good.
00:01:05.580But as I was looking around at these 50 organizations, something struck me and it was very fascinating, right?
00:01:12.000Of course, they have the big tech companies. Everyone knows that. That's the usual suspects, right?
00:01:16.440Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, etc. LinkedIn, which of course started by the pedophile we just talked about.
00:01:23.240They have various NGOs. They have fact checkers. They have think tanks, for-profit groups. They have academic initiatives and, of course, government and foundations as well.
00:01:33.840But guess what? As I was looking around on this, it's not that some of them are inaccurate. It's a conspiracy by omission.
00:02:01.180What's his name again? Christopher Wray, sitting with Jonathan Greenblatt, thanking him for basically providing the information of what groups to target.
00:02:10.400The one dot that maybe one of your members has is brought forward with the one dot that we might have so that we can disrupt the attack.
00:02:20.300So the eyes and ears part of it is huge.
00:02:22.580Well, I know many of us, you know, we look at the IMA bombing in Argentina or even the bombing in Oklahoma City.
00:02:28.940We worry about this lone threat, whether it's Iranian sleeper agents or domestic extremists.
00:02:34.760And when we've had so many issues on a day-to-day basis, it is the FBI that works directly with the ADL every day.
00:02:43.080And we could not do our job, if you will, of fighting anti-Semitism without them doing their job of protecting our community.
00:02:50.320So, Director Wray, we are we are in your we really, really have the deepest appreciation for you and all of your professionals.
00:03:57.280We do, but we think there's a lot of benefit from being able to hear from groups and underrepresented groups that otherwise we never would have heard from.