MUST WATCH: Tucker Carlson exposes national security state as 'main driver of censorship and election interference' in the US

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In an interview posted on Friday, Tucker Carlson spoke with Mike Benz, executive director of Foundation for Freedom Online, on how the national security state in the US acts as the “main driver of censorship and election interference” in the country.

Benz began by noting the “story of internet freedom” and how it switched from “internet freedom to internet censorship.”

He noted that “free speech on the internet was an instrument of statecraft,” and that free speech “was championed, more than anybody, by the Pentagon, the State Department, and our sort of CIA cut out NGO blob architecture as a way to support dissident groups around the world in order to help them overthrow authoritarian governments.”

“Essentially, the internet free speech allowed kind of instant regime change operations.”

Benz noted Google, which “began as a DARPA grant by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were Stanford PhDs,” and quickly grew to using CIA satellite software for Google Maps and becoming a military contractor.

“All of the Internet free speech technology was initially created by our national security state. VPNs, virtual private networks to hide your IP address, Tor, the dark web to be able to buy and sell goods anonymously, end-to-end encrypted chats, all these things were created, initially as DARPA projects, or as joint CIA NSA projects to be able to help intelligence backed groups to overthrow governments that were causing a problem to the Clinton administration or the Bush administration, the Obama administration.”

Noting conflicts and wars such as the Arab Spring and the 2014 conflict in Ukraine, Benz said, “it’s infinitely cheaper than conducting a military war to simply conduct an organized political influence operation over social media.”

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