indirection - evasion and circumvention

Indirection – evasion and circumvention

Following up on indirect aggression, we can see that indirection is a technique that is used in many ways to evade responsibility, conceal involvement, and circumvent regulation and authority.

  1. Despite a moratorium on gain-of-function research, NIH funded gain-of-function research indirectly by funding EcoHealth Alliance, which then directed funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
  2. Missouri AG Eric Schmitt is suing the Biden administration for colluding with social media companies to censor on behalf of the US government. This is an attempt at circumventing the Constitution’s first amendment protection of free speech, which prohibits the government from censoring. Nancy Pelosi among other government officials have threatened to regulate tech platforms unless they censor “disinformation” and “fake news”. The CIA’s Operation Mockingbird illustrates the government’s enduring interest in controlling speech to advance the regime narrative.
  3. The government frequently acts through intermediaries to preserve plausible deniability. Intelligence assets are used to do the dirty bidding of our government, whenever they want to hide their fingerprints. Consider the role of National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and their connection to the CIA in destabilizing foreign governments toward regime change and color revolutions.
  4. The US and its NATO allies are currently engaged in a proxy war against Russia using Ukraine.

24 thoughts on “Indirection – evasion and circumvention”

  1. Twitter Files part six outlines how the FBI (Elvis Chan of the San Francisco area of responsibility), DHS, and other state government agents had direct channels into Twitter to surveil and order users removed or otherwise punished. So-called pubic-private partnerships of this kind are collusions between government and private enterprises to violate everyone’s speech, privacy, and due process rights in contravention of the US Constitution.

    https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1603857534737072128?t=kQ0AUOQLEm2Rz61Umw5oJQ&s=19

  2. (Germany’s) «Parliament approved the Network Enforcement Act, commonly known as NetzDG, on June 30, 2017, and it took full effect on January 1, 2018.

    The law requires large social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, to promptly remove “illegal content,” as defined in 22 provisions of the criminal code, ranging widely from insult of public office to actual threats of violence»

    https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/02/14/germany-flawed-social-media-law

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