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Statement you see if you try to view Rumble in France.

"NOTICE TO USERS IN FRANCE

Because of French government demands to remove creators from our platform, Rumble is currently unavailable in France. We are challenging these government demands and hope to restore access soon."

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Nov 8, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Digital book burners.

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Nov 8, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Hazard a guess that Germany will be next to ban Rumble. Looks like the French may be closer to needing to circumnavigate the fire wall, like the Chinese. Let that sink in.

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Nov 8, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Everyone can and should use VPNs to work around this kind of censorship. It disarms nation level censorship and opens access to information. Plus it’s easy!

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I joined Gab to keep up with the jab situation in the early days, but I've had to get a VPN as my ISP blocked it. Bitchute is permanently muted for some reason. That happened around the same time. I agree wholeheartedly with all of your points regarding frees speech/war/death penalty etc.

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Nov 8, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

It appears as though, in this case, Rumble self-deplatformed in France, rather than being forced off by French government bodies. It's as though fighting with the latter was too hard or something, so instead French users get thrown under the VPN bus.

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Modern governments are discarding the principles that have been the accepted basis for a free society for over two hundred years.

"The majority of the eminent men of every past generation held many opinions now known to be erroneous, and did or approved numerous things which no one will now justify ... [Therefore] if all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

-John Stuart Mill, 1859

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In this day and age, anyone not using VPN for several reasons, and in this case to bypass idiocy, is, well, not wearing is thinking cap. I noticed the ban last night when I turned off my VPN to screen capture a program on Paris Premiere. This channel, by the way, has adopted the deplorable practice of showing a little Ukronazi flag right next to its station logo during entire programs. With Macron, we are deeper and deeper into the merde here, our "leader" is a Schwabista only a little less offensive than Trudeau.

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Dear Mathew.

I am a big fan of your body of work.

Let me talk about another greatly censored subject. The Brazilian presidential elections and the findings of an independent audit. I know you have plenty of full plates, but maybe you'll be interested in applying your statistical muscles to it.

The election was won by Lula 50.9% against the incumbent Bolsonaro 49.1% just about a week and half ago. All voting is done on electronic voting machines, without any paper trail.

The audit has shown that the model of the machine influences the vote ratio: the older models, which according to them has more vulnerabilities, favor Lula. They calculate the difference is about 2.4% in the whole country in the cities with less than 100,000 inhabitants, with p<10^(-18), and up to 10%, 11% in some states. Among other claims of "anomalies".

Do you think it is correct or is it mainly the result of p-hacking/ignoring cofactors?

The central electoral commission, TSE, has not commented on the anomalies. Instead, they "updated" some data at their website and are censoring people, threatening to punish anyone who dares to question the electronic voting machines or any step of the process.

The source data and a slide deck of their methods and conclusion (in English) can be found at www.brazilwasstolen.com/en

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Nov 8, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

"The problem that I have with capital punishment is that I don't trust the state as an entity to adjudicate with such finality. " Yes, exactly this.

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UK government blocked RT.com . Bummer.

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Enemies of humanity are busy today. They have to do math so that the power “balances”.

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Because these kleptocrats, weakened severely by their psychopathic Toxic Narcissism, simply are unable to handle the truth.

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Thank you! Looking for root causes, have you looked at Katherine Watt's SubStack: https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/

Looking at the (illegal) legal structure in place right now in the US, the DOD is running the show and the HHS secretary is the only person who can stop the program. Katherine just did an interview a couple of days ago:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/qCEGQhrfqaM1/

We are in the middle of a government run eugenics program; unless we can LEGALLY stop it, it will continue. Bobbie Ann Cox won a case against the "governor" of New York - preventing quarantine centers and forced "vaccination" - those laws are on the books in several states, including Florida:

https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/forced-internment-on-communicable

Thanks!

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https://rumble.com/v1r4ay4-dod-ccp-both-clients-of-big-tech.html

I found something that chilled my spine in terms of what we are seeing today and where it started in 2015. The link to the article went down after I shared it with 3 friends. So I made a video from way back machine. Dod CCP and big tech.

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Telegram is a good app to avoid censorship. Lots of channels there, however, you must self curate, as much garbage also. You can down load it from the google or apple app stores, but the best way is the Telegram website. Apple and google can force telegram to censor, which they generally do not do when you "side-load" the app from the Telegram website. Still however, there are some things that are too egregious even for Telegram. Its a wonderful way to bypass the MSM.

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