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The Era Of Informed Consent Is Over

The Era Of Informed Consent Is Over

Authored by Victor Dalziel via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

In a significant blow to patient autonomy,…

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The Era Of Informed Consent Is Over

Authored by Victor Dalziel via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

In a significant blow to patient autonomy, informed consent has been quietly revoked just 77 years after it was codified in the Nuremberg Code.

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On the 21st of December 2023, as we were frantically preparing for the festive season, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final ruling to amend a provision of the 21st Century Cures Act. This allowed

“... an exception from the requirement to obtain informed consent when a clinical investigation poses no more than a minimal risk to the human subject ...” [emphasis added]

This ruling went into effect on January 22nd, 2024, which means it’s already standard practice across America.

So, what is the 21st Century Cures Act? It is a controversial Law enacted by the 114th United States Congress in January 2016 with strong support from the pharmaceutical industry. The Act was designed to

“... accelerate the discovery, development, and delivery of 21st-century cures, and for other purposes [?] ...”

Some of the provisions within this Act make for uncomfortable reading. For example, the Act supported:

• High-risk, high-reward research [Sec. 2036].

• Novel clinical trial designs [Sec. 3021]

• Encouraging vaccine innovation [Sec. 3093].

This Act granted the National Institutes of Health (NIH) legal protection to pursue high-risk, novel vaccine research. A strong case could be made that these provisions capture all the necessary architecture required for much of the evil that transpired over the past four years.

Overturning patient-informed consent was another stated goal of the original Act. Buried under Section 3024 was the provision to develop an “Informed consent waiver or alteration for clinical investigation.”

Scholars of medical history understand that the concept of informed consent, something we all take for granted today, is a relatively new phenomenon codified in its modern understanding as one of the critical principles of the Nuremberg Code in 1947. It is inconceivable that just 77 years after Nuremberg, the door has once again opened for state-sanctioned medical experimentation on potentially uninformed and unwilling citizens.

According to this amendment, the state alone, acting through the NIH, the FDA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will decide what is considered a “minimal risk” and, most concerning, will determine:

“... appropriate safeguards to protect the rights, safety, and welfare of human subjects.”

Notice the term subjects, not patients, persons, individuals, or citizens... but subjects. In asymmetrical power relationships such as clinician/patient, it is understood that the passive subject will comply with the rulings and mandates of their medical masters. The use of the term subjects also serves to dehumanise. The dehumanisation of populations was a critical component of Nazi human experimentation and, as Hannah Arendt argued, is an essential step toward denying citizens “... the right to have rights.”

This ruling also allows researchers and their misguided evangelical billionaire backers to potentially pursue dangerous experimental programs such as Bill Gates’ mosquito vaccinesmRNA vaccines in livestock, and vaccines in aerosols. This Act encourages these novel and high-risk programs, with medical studies approved as “minimal risk” by the regulators no longer requiring researchers and pharmaceutical companies to obtain patient consent. Yet, the histories of pharmacology and medicine are plagued with clinical investigations and interventions that were thought to pose no more than minimal risk to humans but went on to cause immeasurable pain, suffering, and death.

This amendment represents merely a first tentative step as the U.S. government tests the waters to see what it can get away with. Given the lack of attention this ruling received in both the corporate press and independent media, the government is likely to feel emboldened to widen its scope. Thus, this decision represents the beginning of a chilling revisionism in Western medical history, as patient autonomy is again forsaken.

This ruling, to be actioned by potentially corrupt scientists, health bureaucrats, and captured health and drug regulators, is another step toward a dystopian future unimaginable just five years ago. No doubt the infrastructure to implement this decree is already being constructed by the same groupthink cultists responsible for the nightmarish pandemic lockdowns, continuing to place the pursuit of profit and the greater good above individual choice, bodily autonomy, and informed consent.

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Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times or ZeroHedge.

Tyler Durden Sat, 03/30/2024 - 23:20

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Remote customer service jobs: What they pay & how to get one

Remote customer service jobs at virtual call centers are one of the few work-from-home opportunities open to candidates at the entry level. Here’s where…

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Quick facts:

Remote customer service jobs are available directly from companies and also from third-party customer experience firms called BPOs.

Jobs at customer experience BPOs are the easiest to get without experience, but starting pay is relatively low, and work can be inconsistent.

The highest-paying work-from-home customer service roles are with insurance companies, but these jobs may require experience or licensing.

Those new to the field can start at a customer service BPO, then aim for higher-paying roles with specific companies after they gain experience.

For many types of job-seekers, remote work is ideal, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to come by. The COVID-19 pandemic thrust the idea of working from home into the mainstream in 2020, and while the concept has certainly held onto some of its footing, many companies, even some in the tech sector — like Amazon — have since instituted fairly strict return-to-office policies. Remote positions, as a result, can be harder to find than they once were, especially for entry-level applicants.

One fairly broad field that consistently seems to employ remote workers, even at the entry level, is customer service. These days, customer service roles typically involve speaking on the phone and chatting online with customers (and sometimes other stakeholders like suppliers and vendors) to answer questions, resolve issues, and route important queries upward to more experienced professionals when appropriate.

Jobs like these certainly have their downsides — long, sedentary hours spent on the phone and computer and repeated interactions with sometimes-irritated customers, for instance — but the fact that they can be done remotely and usually don’t require a wealth of credentials or experience makes them a convenient choice for entry-level applicants who need to be able to work at home.

We scoured the web to find out what you need to do in order to get a work-from-home job as a customer service rep, what sorts of opportunities are out there, and what they pay.

Related: Amazon remote jobs & what they pay: Customer service, management & more

Equipment & qualifications for a job at a virtual call center

Different customer service roles have different requirements, but based on the common requisites listed across the bulk of job postings by individual companies and dedicated customer service firms, the following are must-haves for anyone applying to work as a remote call center representative.

  • A modern computer with a relatively fast processor (Intel i5, AMD Ryzen 5, Apple M1, etc.) and plenty of RAM (8+ GB)
  • A reliable high-speed internet connection (25 MBPS download; 5 MBPS upload)
  • Headphones with a microphone
  • The ability to type quickly (at least 35 words per minute)
  • General fluency with common computer operations (Microsoft Office, web navigation, form filling, etc.)
  • Language fluency
  • Problem-solving skills and a friendly, helpful attitude

Individual positions often have additional requirements, but the core list above represents the most crucial toolkit for anyone who wants to get hired to work from home in the customer service field.

In very rare cases, certain supplies (like a computer, keyboard, and headset) may be provided by the employer, but this is the exception and not the rule, so it’s best to show up to the virtual interview already equipped.

Some companies have their own customer service departments, while others outsource call center work to dedicated customer experience companies. 

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How to find remote customer service jobs

Some companies run their own virtual call centers and hire their own remote customer service representatives, while others contract this work to a third-party customer experience company that serves many different corporate clients. These are known as BPO (business process outsourcing) firms.

It’s also worth mentioning that many of the higher-paying opportunities in remote customer service are in the insurance industry, although these sometimes require specific licenses and may involve some sales work.

For someone new to customer service work, all three of these options (working directly for a company, working for a BPO firm, and working in insurance) are worth exploring. A first job in an entry-level call center position could later serve as resume fodder when applying for a higher-level customer support position with an insurance company.

Here’s where to look for jobs in each of these three categories:

Positions at BPO customer experience companies

Positions at dedicated customer experience companies can be less stable than those working directly for a specific company, as employees may be assigned to a specific “campaign” (e.g., a one-month customer-support contract from, say, TurboTax) and then left hanging with few or no hours until another campaign comes up. For this reason, these companies and positions are known for high turnover.

That being said, working for a BPO customer experience firm can be a great way to get experience in the customer service industry, often providing support for major, Fortune 500 clients like Apple or Oracle. This type of experience can go a long way when applying to subsequent, potentially higher-paying, more stable positions in the remote customer service field.

Here are a few major work-from-home CX (customer experience) companies to check out:

Alorica

Alorica is a large, multinational customer experience company with over 115,000 employees worldwide. It contracts with major clients in both the public and private sectors, including government organizations, banks, utilities companies, and wireless providers.

Most of Alorica’s U.S.-based remote customer service jobs start at around $15–$17 per hour at the entry level, but higher-paying opportunities ($18–$25 per hour) are also available to applicants with special qualifications, like those who are bilingual, have previous customer service experience, or have industry-specific certifications (like CompTIA A+ for IT-related positions). Training is paid, and permanent positions with Alorica come with a full suite of employee benefits.

To browse and apply to the company’s open positions, visit Alorica’s careers portal and search using your location (e.g., United States) and keywords like Remote or Work from home.

Concentrix is a large customer experience firm that handles call center work for a number of major companies. 

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Concentrix + Webhelp

Concentrix, which acquired Webhelp in 2023, is a similar business to Alorica, although it employs almost four times as many people worldwide. Concentrix’s clients span multiple industries, including technology, financial services, natural resources, healthcare, media, and others.

Unlike Alorica, Concetrix doesn’t provide starting wages on most of its job postings, but based on information shared by current and former employees on career data sites, starting pay for entry-level customer service positions is usually around $15 per hour. As with Alorica, however, applicants who are bilingual or have specialized certifications or previous experience may be eligible for higher starting pay. Training is paid, and most non-temporary positions are eligible for employee benefits and performance-based bonuses.

To browse the company’s open positions, visit Concentrix’s remote careers portal, click into the search bar, and select Contact Center from the “Job Categories” drop-down menu. This will land you on a list of open positions. On the left side of the screen, select the checkbox that corresponds to your country to further narrow your search.

Teleperformance is only slightly smaller than Concentrix but provides similar customer support services to large companies across a variety of industries. 

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Teleperformance

Teleperformance, headquartered in France, has a workforce of around 410,000 worldwide, making it slightly smaller than Concentrix. As a BPO, It provides similar customer communication services to Alorica and Concentrix.

Like Concentrix, Teleperformance doesn’t provide starting wages on its job listings, but the company’s positions do come with paid training and a full suite of employee benefits. Current and former employee-provided wage information on career data sites indicates that while Teleperformance’s positions vary quite a bit compensation-wise, $15 per hour is common for entry-level employees, and those with specific qualifications can earn more.

To browse the company’s open positions, visit Teleperformance’s careers site, enter your location, and toggle the “Only work-from-home” switch.

Company-specific customer service positions

For many work-from-home customer service professionals, working directly for a company rather than working for a customer service BPO can have certain advantages like stability, pay raises, upward mobility, and sometimes, company-sponsored training for certifications. That being said, these jobs can be more difficult to land, so working for a BPO first to gain experience can be a good stepping stone.

Modivcare

Modivcare is a social services company headquartered in Atlanta that works with individuals through government programs like Medicaid, juvenile justice, welfare, and others. Modivcare hires its own customer service employees, so these jobs can be more stable than those at BPO companies, and employees may be able to move into higher-paying positions with experience.

Remote customer service positions here come with a full suite of benefits, and starting pay ranges from around $14.50 to $19 per hour, depending on the specifics of the position.

To look over the company’s job openings, visit Modivcare’s careers portal, and select Remote in the “Location” drop-down menu and Customer Service & Support Group in the “Job Category” drop-down menu. Some remote positions at Modivcare are state-specific, so be sure to read job postings carefully.

Rather than outsourcing call center work to a BPO, CVS has its own customer service department, and many representatives work from home. 

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CVS

CVS is an American healthcare, pharmacy, and retail company with around 300,000 total employees, most of whom do not work remotely. The company does, however, regularly hire remote employees to work in customer service, sometimes in Medicaid-specific customer support roles.

Most of these positions do require some degree of experience (usually one or more years of call center work and/or some experience in the medical field) and the bulk of these tend to go to candidates who are bilingual in English and Spanish.

Because these jobs can be a bit harder to qualify for, they also tend to have better starting pay ranges. Most of the ranges listed on open customer service positions as of this article’s last update have a lower end around $17 per hour and a higher end closer to $30.

To browse what the company has available, go to CVS’ careers site, select Customer and Member Services from the “Job Category” drop-down men,u and check the Remote box under the “Remote Jobs” heading.

Tip: Start with a job at a customer service BPO like Teleperformance. Learn Spanish on your own time while gaining experience for a year or more, then apply to a higher-paying bilingual customer service role at CVS or Progressive.

Insurance industry customer service positions

Work-from-home call center jobs in the insurance industry tend to offer higher compensation, as they usually involve some element of sales, at least eventually — and that brings incentive pay into the equation. The very best insurance call center agents bring home over six figures per year after bonuses.

Of all major U.S. insurance companies, Progressive tends to have the most available remote customer service positions at any given time. 

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Progressive

Progressive is a large, American insurance company with about 55,000 employees. The company hires a large number of remote call center employees who, once they obtain the proper licenses (usually Property and Casualty or Personal Lines), can earn higher wages by acting as actual insurance agents.

Positions are available across the U.S., and most require either two years of post-secondary education or two years of relevant (i.e., customer service) experience. Additionally, the company prefers to hire candidates who are bilingual in English and Spanish. Because of these requirements, remote call center jobs here start at $20.25 per hour (or $21.50 per hour for already-licensed candidates).

These positions come with full employee benefits, the opportunity for performance-based bonus pay, and 10% additional pay for evening and weekend shifts. The company also supports unlicensed hires through their licensing process during training. To browse the company’s open positions, visit Progressive’s careers site, type Remote into the “Keywords” field, and select Contact Center under the “Job Category” field.

Allstate, like Progressive, hires remote reps, but the company tends to have fewer work-from-home opportunities available at any given time. 

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Allstate

Allstate is also a large American insurance company. Based in Illinois, it employs around 55,000 people. Allstate, like Progressive, offers remote customer service positions, but they are a little harder to come by, so it’s important to check their site frequently to see if anything has become available.

Customer service positions at Allstate are usually called “Licensed Inside Sales Representative,” and as the name implies, they do require an active Personal Lines or Property and Casualty License, although some candidates can earn these certifications post-hire.

These positions come with a base salary of around $36,400 annually (around $17.50 per hour), but the company states that average performers usually bring home between $57,000 and $69,280 per year, including performance-based incentives. These positions also come with a full array of employee benefits that go into effect immediately.

To see what jobs are available, visit Allstate’s careers portal and select the Call Center box under the “Departments” heading.

Related: Apple remote jobs & what they pay: Customer service, AI engineer & more

How to land your first work-from-home customer service job

  • Make sure you possess all of the equipment and qualifications listed above.
  • Craft a resume that highlights any relevant job experience (i.e., anything involving interpersonal interaction like retail or service work) and your technical proficiency with computer and telephone systems.
  • Apply to as many jobs as you can, including those at BPO customer experience companies, especially if you don’t have any previous call center experience and aren’t bilingual.
  • During interviews (which are usually remote and conducted via video chat), wear clean, smart clothing (i.e., business casual attire).
  • Look your interviewer in the eye, speak slowly and clearly, and maintain a polite composure to demonstrate your ability to respond calmly to questions and concerns as you would in a customer service role.

How to advance your career in remote customer service

  • Become bilingual. If you are in the United States, this means English and Spanish, although other, less common languages can qualify you for very specific positions that may offer higher pay.
  • Once you have at least a year of experience and are bilingual, begin applying to higher-paying positions at pharmacy or insurance call centers.
  • If you are able to land a job at an insurance company, begin working toward your certifications. In some cases, the company may be willing to reimburse you for the cost of courses and exams.
  • Once you are licensed, hone your sales skills, and aim to earn as much incentive pay as you can.
  • Over time and with experience, try to move up to training and management roles, which come with higher base salaries, while continuing to conduct sales in order to earn incentive pay. 

Related: Disney remote jobs: The most magical WFH careers on earth?

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Southwest Airlines challenged on its low-cost claims

The company markets itself as a ‘low-cost’ airline but that may not actually be true.

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Some words have no legal definition even if most consumers take an "I know it when I see it" approach. 

You can call your company "low cost" or "discount" and that can mean very different things. 

For someone who shops at high-end retailers, Macy's may seem like a value brand (although the company does not make that claim). Or a regular Dillard's shopper might see Marshalls, Bealls and other retailers that market based on offering low prices as the low-cost or discount brands.   

Related: Failed deal leaves another airline facing bankruptcy, liquidation

When it comes to airlines it becomes even more confusing. Many full-fare airlines have higher prices and charge for "extras" like checked bags and onboard WiFi.

The lowest-cost carriers — Spirit (SAVE) , Frontier, Allegiant and similar players — market themselves as low-cost, but they are really a la carte. Passengers pay little for their tickets, but they pay extra for everything from carry-on bags to checked luggage and even getting an actual seat assignment.

Southwest Airlines (LUV) , which considers itself a discount carrier, has always operated differently from its rivals at both ends of the pricing spectrum. The airline's fares are generally cheaper than traditional airlines like United, Delta and American, but they cost more than Spirit, Frontier and Allegiant.

In addition, Southwest included carry-on and checked bags in your ticket price, so it's offering added value in that way as well. Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O’Leary, a longtime supporter of Southwest, no longer sees the company as a low-cost carrier.

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Ryanair CEO makes Southwest Airlines claims

Southwest clearly defines its "purpose" on its website: "To connect people to what's important in their lives through friendly, reliable, and low-cost air travel." 

At the top of its "About Us" page, the airline also touts its "one-of-a-kind value."

O’Leary does not see it that way.

“Southwest’s average fare in the last decade has crept up – their average last year was $170 a seat. That’s not a particularly cheap airline. Our average airfare in Europe was €44 [$47] a seat. I don’t think Southwest is really a low-fares airline anymore,” he told Skift.

Ryanair's CEO says Southwest is causing itself problems by not charging for checked bags. He noted that his airline saw its rate of passengers who check bags drop to 20% from 80% once it started charging for the privilege.

“And yet at Southwest, you go through American airports and people are carrying on five bags, checking in five bags. The whole process is delayed," he said. "They put out all this schlock about ‘our passengers are our guests, and you wouldn’t want to charge your guests for their bags,’ but why do you charge for the seats if that’s the case? Give it all away for free.” 

Southwest allows two free checked bags per passenger.

O'Leary took one parting shot at the airline he studied when building Ryanair: “Southwest has lost the passion for low-cost, low-fare air travel.” 

Data show Ryanair's O'Leary may have a point

While 2022 may have been an abnormal year as airlines and the overall economy recovered from the covid pandemic, a study of airline revenue per seat mile conducted by Flight Advisor was not favorable to Southwest. 

"Although Southwest Airlines is technically the world’s largest low-cost carrier, the airline’s total revenue per seat mile is the highest on our list at $0.1729," wrote Amy Lancelotte. "This isn’t much more than Delta, but travelers who think that Southwest offers the lowest prices are in for a surprise. This brings forth the question of whether Southwest should even be considered a budget carrier."

Spirit, Frontier and Allegiant, in that order, had the lowest revenue per seat mile. 

A similar report by LendEdu, done in May 2023, also ranked Southwest as the most expensive of the major U.S. airlines on a cost-per-mile basis.

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Why The Department Of Justice Wants To Take Down Apple

Why The Department Of Justice Wants To Take Down Apple

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute,

On May 5, 2021, White House…

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Why The Department Of Justice Wants To Take Down Apple

Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via The Brownstone Institute,

On May 5, 2021, White House press secretary Jen Psaki issued a mob-like warning to social-media companies and information distributors generally. They need to get with the program and start censoring critics of COVID policy. They need to amplify government propaganda. After all, it would be a shame if something would happen to these companies.

These were her exact words:

“The president’s view is that the major platforms have a responsibility related to the health and safety of all Americans to stop amplifying untrustworthy content, disinformation and misinformation, especially related to Covid-19 vaccinations and elections. And we’ve seen that over the past several months. Broadly speaking, I’m not placing any blame on any individual or group. We’ve seen it from a number of sources. He also supports better privacy protections and a robust antitrust programSo, his view is that theres more that needs to be done to ensure that this type of misinformation, disinformation, damaging, sometimes life threatening information is not going out to the American public.

On the face of it, the antitrust action against Apple is about their secure communications network. The Justice Department wants the company to share their services with other networks. As with so many other antitrust actions in history, this is really about the government’s taking sides in competitive disputes between companies, in this case Samsung and other smartphone providers. They resent the way Apple products all work together. They want that changed.

The very notion that the government is trying to protect consumers in this case is preposterous. Apple is a success not because they are exploitative but because they make products that users like, and they like them so much that they buy ever more. It’s not uncommon that a person gets an iPhone and then a Macbook, an iPad, and then AirPods. All play well together.

The Justice Department calls this anticompetitive even though competing is exactly the source of Apple’s market strength. That has always been true. Yes, there is every reason to be annoyed at the company’s hammer-and-tongs enforcement of its intellectual property. But their IP is not the driving force of the company’s success. Its products and services are.

Beyond that, there is a darker agenda here. It’s about bringing new media into the government propaganda fold, exactly as Psaki threatened. Apple is a main distributor of podcasts in the country and world, just behind Spotify (which is foreign controlled). There are 120 million podcast listeners in the United States, far more than pay attention to regime media in total.

If the ambition is to control the public mind, something must be done to get those under control. It’s not enough just to nationalize Facebook and Google. If the purpose is to end free speech as we know it, they have to go after podcasting too, using every tool that is available.

Antitrust is one tool they have. The other is the implicit threat to take away Section 230 that grants legal liability to social networks that immunize them against what would otherwise be a torrent of litigation. These are the two main guns that government can hold to the head of these private communications companies. Apple is the target in order to make the company more compliant.

All of which gets us to the issue of the First Amendment. There are many ways to violate laws on free speech. It’s not just about sending a direct note with a built-in threat. You can use third parties. You can invoke implicit threats. You can depend on the awareness that, after all, you are the government so it is hardly a level playing field. You can embed employees and pay their salaries (as was the case with Twitter). Or, in the case of Psaki above, you can deploy the mob tactic of reminding companies that bad things may or may not happen if they persist in non-compliance.

Over the last 4 to 6 years, governments have used all these methods to violate free speech rights. We are sitting on tens of thousands of pages of proof of this. What seemed like spotty takedowns of true information has been revealed as a vast machinery now called the Censorship Industrial Complex involving dozens of agencies, nearly one hundred universities, and many foundations and nonprofit organizations directly or indirectly funded by government.

You would have to be willfully blind not to see the long-run ambition. The goal is a mass reversion to the past, a world like we had in the 1970s with three networks and limited information sources about anything going on in government. Back then, people did not know what they did not know. That’s how effective the system was. It came about not entirely because of active censorship but because of technological limitations.

The information age is called that because it blew up the old system, offering hope of a new world of universal distribution of ever more information about everything, and promising to empower billions of users themselves to become distributors. That’s how the company YouTube got its name: everyone could be a TV producer.

That dream was hatched in the 1980s, gained great progress in the 1990s and 2000s, and began fundamentally to upend government structures in the 2010s. Following Brexit and the election of Donald Trump in 2016—two major events that were not supposed to happen—a deep establishment said that’s enough. They scapegoated the new systems of information for disrupting the plans of decades and reversing the planned course of history.

The ambition to control every nook and cranny of the internet sounds far-flung but what choice do they have? This is why this machinery of censorship has been constructed and why there is such a push to have artificial intelligence (AI) take over the job of content curation. In this case, machines alone do the job without human intervention, making litigation nearly impossible.

The Supreme Court has the chance to do something to stop this but it’s not clear that many Justices even understand the scale of the problem or the Constitutional strictures against it. Some seem to think that this is only about the right of government officials to pick up the phone and complain to reporters about their coverage. That is absolutely not the issue: content curation affects hundreds of millions of people, not just those posting but those reading too.

Still, if there is some concern about the supposed rights of government actors, there is a clear solution offered by David Friedman: post all information and exhortations about topics and content in a public forum. If the Biden or Trump administration has a preference for how social media should behave, it is free to file a ticket like everyone else and the recipient can and should make it and the response public.

This is not an unreasonable suggestion, and it should certainly figure into any judgment made by the Supreme Court. The federal government has always put out press releases. That’s a normal part of functioning. Bombarding private companies with secret takedown notices and otherwise deploying a huge plethora of intimidation tactics should not even be permitted.

Is there muscle behind the growing push for censorship? Certainly there is. This reality is underscored by the Justice Department’s antitrust actions against Apple. The mask of such official actions is now removed.

Just as the FDA and CDC became marketing and enforcement arms of Pfizer and Moderna, so too the Justice Department is now revealed as a censor and industrial promoter of Samsung. This is how captured agencies with hegemonic ambitions operate, not in the public interest but in the private interest of some industries over others and always with the goal of reducing the freedom of the people.

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