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Now this is a website that I've never heard of. Thanks, Blinken!

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The current US regime (and many before it) always has the same default setting. It goes something like this: If a media outlet or journalist states a fact that we don't like and want to cover up, this media outlet/journalist is automatically labeled as being under "Russian influence" and needs to be shut down forthwith. Predictable and so anti-free speech as to make your teeth clench.

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Imagine an African criticising Africa's great friend and ally, the USA. Unthinkable, considering all the democracy the USA spreads everywhere, especially Africa! Actually, Blinken's not a democrat, which we knew already, but his zeal for censorship is proof, and his party's name is a joke in very bad taste.

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The choke point that is the payments company, in this case Stripe, is proving to be quite useful to exploit. I would have to look it up, but I think they in particular, have been happy to cut off services to those deemed heretical.

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Russia.

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And Blinken ( and many others) still hasn’t been charged with Treason…..all we need to know about this Regime!!!! They will squash TRUTH no matter the Constitution!!!

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I absolutely agree that the current Democrats in power have shown an alarming lack of respect for free speech and a willingness to suppress true information they don’t like. However, I also have to ask whether you have proof that Africa Stream was not funded by Russia? It’s possible for both to be true.

Our current media situation is tricky. In theory, we have a free press. In practice, nearly every media outlet is the propaganda arm of one of the two political parties. They’ve managed to accomplish this even without direct government ownership or control of the media, which makes it difficult to invoke constitutional authority to stop it. Our current system also leaves us open to propaganda and manipulation by anyone who wants to influence American public opinion or create dissent. I struggle with this because while I believe in free speech and generally believe that the remedy for inaccurate speech is more speech explaining why it’s inaccurate, I also see us falling into a situation where it’s difficult to know who’s telling the truth, splintering into tribes who grow more and more extreme and only consume information that backs up our world view, and platforms, not the government, choosing a side and only allowing speech that supports their point of view. I’ve watched my own vulnerable child be brainwashed by people online using sophisticated techniques. And who knows who’s taking funding from whom.

Transparency would be a better solution than shutting down speech. If the government has proof that Africa Stream is being funded by Russia, they should have to show that proof and allow people to judge for themselves whether it’s a credible source of information.

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How would one go about proving a negative?

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The sooner Americans change their us vs them mentality they will see their govt hqs been genocidal maniacs hellbent in division racism and world domination its comical so self consumed and entitled expecting the world to bow down to their chronic threats of force how many countries are sanctioned by this govt! America enjoy what little you have right now because it will never be better then it is right now.

Your govt the terrorists of the planet subjugated and brainwashed each and everyone of you!

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Dear God. When will the USA learn to mind their own Fckn business?

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I don’t trust this administration and its lackeys (I.e. Blinken, et al) one iota - in fact, I think very poorly of them, and wouldn’t doubt for a second that they are engaged in exactly the conduct of which you accuse them.

Despite my openness to the charge (one might even go as far as saying I am eager to learn that they are engaged in such bullshit), this article offers little in the way of evidence confirming it.

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You can not like what they say, but they have every right to say it.

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They shouldn’t blame “the democrats” for trying to counter a decade of right-wing “truth”. Our democracy is under attack. I hope African Stream appreciates the chaos Trump offers the US and world. Project 2025 would fundamentally change the world.

Both sides of the US government *should* be criticized. Power=(perceived) abuse.

I completely agree we shouldn’t support Israel. I think the US should focus on human rights for all. Freedom of information is part of that.

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What democracy? How exactly are we a democracy other than in theory? If a government’s way of “countering” particular information it claims to be untrue, is to ban and censor, rather than prove with evidence that it’s untrue, isn’t that anti-democratic? Isn’t it, in fact, fascist?

You say you “hope African [sic] Stream appreciates the chaos Trump offers the US and world,” but is it not at least as important that the world recognizes the future of endless war, that the U.S.’s imperial and ruthless project of attaining global hegemony offers? You go on to say that “Project 2025 would fundamentally change the world.” But America’s unequivocal and psychopathic support, with bombs, money and words, for the terrorist pseudo-state of Israel regardless of its flouting of international law, particularly with respect to committing the most heinous genocide, and its shameless proxy war in Ukraine, has already changed the world, and would continue to do so under Harris, as she has indicated. Nobody likes a genocider, Mr. Coates. You say you think the U.S. should focus on protecting human rights for all. I think we should first focus on human rights for our own country, respect the sovereignty of others’, and that would require a first and immediate step of ending any and all assistance to Israel. But because we’ve already fundamentally changed the world for the worse in our teaming up with Israel to conquer the planet, we must now do much more to right the deadly course we’ve plotted …for the world.

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What does democracy under attack mean? How would Trump accomplishment. Take a look at the Biden administration and compare it any current use to be democracy and how they lost it. Venezuela being one. Research folks who left dictatorships for America. Rest assured People are armed for the Constitutional mandate of protecting this country against tyranny. I understand the fear of the left, the sheep always live in fear.

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