War on Free Speech: Are Twitter Spaces compromised?

What seemed to be a boon for free speech after Elon Musk took over Twitter has now seemingly given rise to a whole new brand of censorship.

The booming Twitter Spaces scene was stoked initially by Spaces featuring Elon Musk, and blossomed into a place where fruitful discussions could take place about contentious subjects. Naturally, we can never have nice things for long. Some malevolent force has to be deployed to engage in subterfuge and suppression.

I've been frequenting Twitter Spaces, personally, for only a short time. I started joining them as both a listener and a speaker after Elon took over Twitter because it seemed like people could speak freely and not have to worry about the hammer coming down on them. That lasted about a week, in my estimation.

Now there are instances where people get on as speakers in these Spaces, and tend to ramble on about a subject or go off on tangents, which I think is entirely organic and not a conspiracy of any sort. At least so far. Many times I find users will just join any space and try to derail the conversation toward what they want. Subjects like religion and recreational drug use seem to be the most common instances of this type of derailment. While not malevolent, it is annoying. So if you’re one of those people joining a Space about JFK’s assassination, for instance, and you steer it toward religion or drugs, please stop. Stay on topic or host your own Space where you can talk freely about those subjects with individuals who want to hear it. But I digress.

In my experience on the whole, I found that Twitter Spaces, while being a fantastic means for people to gather quickly and easily to discuss ideas and meet new people they find interesting and insightful, are also attracting a myriad of people looking to control narratives on a variety of topics. And Twitter’s current staff might even be involved in some small, but potent, way.

While I'm not aware of any user suspensions over their rhetoric in Twitter Spaces, I am vehemently aware of spaces getting shut down over wrongthink. I've seen it happen numerous times. And often it is the smaller spaces that get torpedoed.

So what ideas were being discussed in these Spaces that were removed? One was about buying local produce from your local farmers, bypassing the supermarket cartels and Big Agriculture to get wholesome foods that are not adulterated with chemicals and processed until the nutritional value was brought almost to zero. Also I added some of my knowledge of the corruption of the USDA - which is well-documented on this Substack - to the mix, and that was about the time 'technical difficulties' arose. It could have been a coincidence but as we harken back to what we know about the tentacles that the intelligence community has spread all throughout social media to control narratives, I'm leaning toward intent being the reason behind that space suddenly being removed.

Other Spaces that are often nuked off the platform in my experience have to do with discussing things like covid vaccine efficacy, vaccine injury, and covid in general. Also, things like the 2nd amendment, Joe Biden's strange proclivity for children, and finding a way to escape the grip of fiat currency are topics that tend to conveniently be removed in a timely fashion.

Crypto spaces are often untouched unless they tend to lean into that realm of encouraging people to move toward bypassing central banks and decentralizing finance. But so long as cryptocurrencies are discussed in a manner more akin to traditional securities traded in the stock market, things are allowed to persist.

Again, it's almost never done to large spaces, because those large spaces often contain people who I can only describe as counterintelligence program agents, or cointelpro agents. These users are often there to pose as someone attempting to provide 'the other side' of an argument, which I am all for. I think echo chambers are as dangerous as rampant censorship.

What I don't agree with, however, is how the hosts of these large Twitter Spaces that allow these cointelpro agents to wholly derail a conversation, habitually speak over other speakers with no reprisal, and even in some cases, attacking special guests on these Spaces with ad hominem attacks, and half-baked challenges to the points made by these guests and speakers in general are often allowed to air unchallenged because the host will step in and show preferential treatment to their resident cointelpro agent while muting anyone who would have something meaningful to say in counterpoint.

This is why I've stopped attending any spaces that contain individuals like Nelson Epega and Johnathan Bing, for example, who appear to be a host/agent duo working together to manage the narrative while appearing on the surface to be adversarial to one another. You'll recognize the game they’re playing as soon as you hear them in action.

I have to also throw Grant Cardone’s name in the pile, who hosts large Spaces himself, because he often surrenders the bulk of the hosting duties for his spaces over to Nelson Epega. and then the Epega/Bing duo of disinformation can flourish. I find myself conflicted with Cardone, though, who seems to make a lot of cogent points on sensitive matters, but he still allows the dynamic duo of disinformation to run their slicker game in his Spaces.

Judging by the banter between Cardone, Epega, and Bing, they’ve also done this old routine for a number of years on Clubhouse, another social media platform that is focused entirely on doing what Twitter Spaces does also for allowing people to gather in rooms and speak via voice chat.

I won’t pretend like the discussions with these guys aren’t always fruitful, but I find it tedious separating the wheat from the chaff in their case because there is an inordinate amount of derailing of discussions that goes on. Trying to ask a question about one topic by raising your hand as a speaker often results in you being left behind in said discussion because the topic shifts so frequently.

Is that by design? I can’t say for sure. I do know that if they are running a cointelpro game, they’re exceedingly good at making it look convincing. Still, any time an important topic is thrown by the wayside and expert speakers aren’t given a fair chance to make their points because Johnathan Bing is doing his Porky Pig stuttering routine on the mic to try and drown them out, or Nelson Epega is muting and overtalking people who are just trying to be heard over him and Bing, the quality of the discussion suffers immensely.

I suppose Cardone really doesn’t care what happens with these Spaces as long as they work as a marketing funnel to generate revenue by pushing people toward his Real Estate coaching business and such. I’m not hating the player or the game, I’m just calling it how I’m seeing it. He has the power to stop discussion derailments by his friends Epega and Bing, and does not do so most of the time. I can only assume he’s still getting what he wants out of these Spaces he hosts.

Mario Nawfal is another host who seems to always allow cointelpro agents to flourish in the spaces he hosts, and his Spaces boast huge listener accounts in the thousands, typically. Though there are many of the usual suspects in there, often he has different agents depending on the topic at-hand.

I really wish Spaces had a means of automatically transcribing things so I could just go back and listen to the parts that contain information I care about rather than the chaff

Now this could be entirely organic and these people just happen to make it up as speakers in his Spaces by happenstance ( I have tried dozens of times and never once made it up ) but when it happens as regularly as it does, often in order to stifle the effect an expert on whatever matter is being discussed, then I tend to believe it's by design.

You'll notice also that there are many grifter types who tend to make it up. People like Ian Miles Cheong who are exceedingly good at eating up a lot of airtime by saying a lot of words that sound nice, but ultimately amount to imparting no cohesive message whatsoever. Anyone like that automatically sets off my alarm bells.

Listen to anyone who has ever been an agent of the CIA or some other alphabet agency talk, they're exceedingly good at saying a lot without saying anything of substance.

I know it's impolite to call out names but I'm just trying to arm you with the knowledge that whatever you hear in spaces featuring those people

It should be obvious why any medium that allows people to freely join and speak their minds in real time with no censorship or editing is a danger to the powers that be. It's the same reason that we were allowed to gather in large stores like Wal-Mart and Costco during the heights of the pandemic, and yet churches, restaurants, and bars were severely policed.

That is because communities gather and discuss things at these types of places. It was never about preventing the spread of covid, it was about preventing people from gathering where government agents and their social media lackeys had no means of policing their speech.

Ironically enough, the United States revolution might not have ever taken shape had the founding fathers not been able to freely gather in churches, taverns, and inns to discuss how to break free of the subjugation imposed upon the colonies by the British Crown.

Those same founding fathers would never have dreamed of limiting the ability of people to peaceably assemble. But it should be painfully apparent that we now have a system of government in the U.S. that thinks more like the British Crown did back in the 18th century, looking to hold onto - and consolidate - their power at every turn.

Nowadays, with the ability to assemble instantaneously from anywhere in the world with a device you can carry around comfortably in your pocket with an innumerable amount of people, your government and their fascistic corporate allies have seen fit to expend untold resources and manpower to make sure you only discuss the things they want you to discuss, and don’t get too deep in the weeds on matters that they believe should not concern you.

To quote Thomas Kean, former governor of New Jersey who was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002 to serve on the 9/11 commission: “People oughta stay out of our business.”

That’s how government types feel about you, a lowly citizen, discussing matters with which they believe you shouldn’t be concerned.

I’m writing this to remind everyone to be on the lookout for these cointelpro types, and understand that your right to free speech is under attack from all sides.

Don’t let your resolve be swayed by hostile actors.