Dustin Broadbery is an investigative journalist and blogger, who has written for various publications including Off Guardian.

He chatted to me about the subversive origins of the internet.

I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind.

John F Kennedy

Conversation summary

  • Insurgency as an organised political struggle by a hostile minority seeking power through revolutionary means.
  • Counterinsurgency and how it infiltrates and eradicates non-state actors.
  • How central intelligence’s focus has shifted from foreign to domestic populations (evidenced by Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelations about the NSA’s data collection).
  • The COVID™ era has further highlighted this trend of targeting those who do their own research.
  • Big Philanthropy plays a huge role in shaping narratives (such as George Soros’s Open Society).
  • Facebook’s suspicious origins and the role of the CIA and central intelligence in media.
  • Counterinsurgency has shaped the internet and influenced public opinion, leading to a significant loss of privacy and freedom.

Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.

Edward Snowden

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