The Censorship-Industrial Complex: Top 50 Organizations To Know

I am struck by the relative rarity of the moment.

History has provided us with many different opportunities to observe and analyze just how our human world has been arranged to operate. That operation is usually, ostensibly, for the benefit of humanity as a whole... we sort of 'grow' institutions; like marriage, government, even religions and others... all of which are meant as a natural, organic way to provide adaptation to the world around us, as humans, as a human community.

But rarely, we see the attempt to establish 'new order' by inserting 'new' and 'improved' institutional apparatus' to serve the human order of things... and one of the latest of these is the entire construct we are calling "The Censorship-Industrial Complex"... but unlike the many other examples of these things... we are actually witness to it in a previously unavailable light.

What we see is from a certain perspective, both troubling and intensely disappointing... because we have here an engineered collection of operations which was marketed as a means to eliminate malicious and misleading information strategies to harm the public good... but was then immediately and directly used, to instead insert such strategies into the world of humans for the benefit of the 'few' ... we handed a defensive weapon to 'authorities' which they then pointed directly 'at us.'

The Censorship-Industrial Complex: Top 50 Organizations To Know

Before the ridiculous practice of 'source shaming' begins, the news aggregator cited is not the source (as it usually never is) this rather large read is actually the product of Susan Schmidt, Andrew Lowenthal, Tom Wyatt, Techno Fog, and 3 others via Racket News... which I cannot find to cite directly.



I want to include this here, for those of us who might find it useful to reference when we run across new material that is 'duly fact-checked' or 'authoritatively proclaimed' but whose origins seems oddly non-specific... it is often a product of this complex's output and efforts. These organizations cut their teeth long before the COVID event, but many mastered delivery and operation of censorship during that last phase (especially the for-profit part.)

In March of 2017, in a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on hybrid war, chairman Mac Thornberry opened the session with ominous remarks, suggesting that in the wider context of history, an America built on constitutional principles of decentralized power might have been badly designed:

Americans are used to thinking of a binary state of either war or peace. That is the way our organizations, doctrine, and approaches are geared. Other countries, including Russia, China, and Iran, use a wider array of centrally controlled, or at least centrally directed, instruments of national power and influence to achieve their objectives…

Whether it is contributing to foreign political parties, targeted assassinations of opponents, infiltrating non-uniformed personnel such as the little green men, traditional media and social media, influence operations, or cyber-connected activity, all of these tactics and more are used to advance their national interests and most often to damage American national interests…

The historical records suggest that hybrid warfare in one form or another may well be the norm for human conflict, rather than the exception.

Around that same time, i.e. shortly after the election of Donald Trump, it was becoming gospel among the future leaders of the “Censorship-Industrial Complex” that interference by “malign foreign threat actors” and the vicissitudes of Western domestic politics must be linked. Everything, from John Podesta’s emails to Trump’s Rust Belt primary victories to Brexit, were to be understood first and foremost as hybrid war events.

It is almost sad that we have been both developing and simultaneously subject to something that can be used to completely remove the public's ability to truly understand what is being reported in the world in terms of context, truth, and responsibility. However, humans are, if nothing else, highly adaptable and one of the things which seems ever-present in the order of human society is that 'leadership' is almost invariably less intelligent than they believe themselves to be ...

“The Top 50 List” is intended as a resource for reporters and researchers beginning their journey toward learning the scale and ambition of the “Censorship-Industrial Complex.” Written like a magazine feature, it tries to answer a few basic questions about funding, organization type, history, and especially, methodology. Many anti-disinformation groups adhere to the same formulaic approach to research, often using the same “hate-mapping,” guilt-by-association-type analysis to identify wrong-thinkers and suppressive persons. There is even a tendency to use what one Twitter Files source described as the same “hairball” graphs.

Where they compete, often, is in the area of gibberish verbiage describing their respective analytical methods. My favorite came from the Public Good Projects, which in a display of predictive skills reminiscent of the “unsinkable Titanic” described itself as the “Buzzfeed of public health.”

Together, these groups are fast achieving what Eisenhower feared: the elimination of “balance” between the democratic need for liberalizing laws and institutions, and the vigilance required for military preparation. Democratic society requires the nourishment of free debate, disagreement, and intellectual tension, but the groups below seek instead that “shared vocabulary” to deploy on the hybrid battlefield. They propose to serve as the guardians of that “vocabulary,” which sounds very like the scenario Ike outlined in 1961, in which “public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific and technological elite.”

I hope others find this information useful. Thanks for reading.

a reply to: Maxmars

Thank you. It's an old tribe, ultimately. Dinosaurs, natch.
"It's a big club, and you ain't in it!" - G. Carlin

Interesting note for the archives...

Upon publication of this article (which was released on Facebook as well as the source I found. Facebook removed the post, citing it as "hate speech".

Irony of ironies.... an article about research into censorship which refers to cooperation between Facebook and other entities to control narratives is "hate speech."

After an inquiry by the authors, the material was restored...

Facebook claimed it was an algorithmic "bug" that accidentally categorized the article wrongly.


I don't know... I thought that funny.

a reply to: Maxmars

Great information Max is a lot to take in one read, but we all know what is been going on with the media bias, only those that belong to the globalist idealistic club will be allowed to stay in power.

This is all by design.

a reply to: marg6043

Indeed, although my intent for this is not to reiterate old news, or to raise some alarm about this happening. I am often met with such statements like "ho hum."

My true intent is to demonstrate the mechanisms 'designed' to support this effort, who designed them, and how they are actually functioning. It is not really about conspiracy theories as much as it is about "conspiracy tools."

Elite and globalist cabals are not only the source of censure, they are the executors of its industrial application. I would alert anyone with a keen interest in minutiae, there are think tanks and NGOs and government entities and banks that do not appear in this article... that does not mean they aren't participating... this is a big deal ... not as much about money... as it is about directed social engineering.

But that's just opinion.

It's 2 things basically; we live in a state of eternal war; on drugs, on terror, climate change, poverty etc and government wedded with big tech have used social media to rewire humanity at large resulting in the covid emergency power grab. Safety and security at any cost which is always extracted from we the people.

a reply to: Maxmars

We all see all this talk of a 'new civil war'. Like it's some thing that is to come. I swear every time I see it, it strikes me as clueless to the reality that the idea that there is a civil war that its not already the game.

Wars dont start with bullets and bombs. That's how they end.

Wars start with PSYOP / information / propaganda / indoctrination warfare, political warfare, economic warfare, oh and cultural / entertainment etc forms of warfare. It can be a toss up between those lots which are the 'front lines' of a conflict.

When you can tell its an actual war front is best self-exposed when it all switched from persuasion based to coercion based conflicts as aforementioned.

From there they tend towards coups, assassinations, rogue hit squads, gulags, etc. And at that point there can be no mistake, somebody missed the part that a war has been waging against them and they're soundly losing.

So everyone take a step back from group whatever. Take a look at the world you can see. And make a choice. Because this war, nobody wins. Maybe not even the poor frogs or even the crickets the people still reading this can hear!