10/31/25 Mike Benz on How the Censorship Complex Works

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Mike Benz joins the show to talk about how the various government, corporate, and NGO groups making up the censorship machine work together to control the information space and, therefore, how the public understands the world. Discussed on the show: God Complex: The Rise Of America's Censorship Machine “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election” (Time) “Trump Fired Them. Now They’re Plotting to Stop Him.” (NOTUS) Mike Benz is the founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online. He formerly worked for the State Department. Follow him on Twitter @MikeBenzCyber For more on Scott's work: Check out The Libertarian Institute: https://www.libertarianinstitute.org Check out Scott's other show, Provoked, with Darryl Cooper https://youtube.com/@Provoked_Show Read Scott's books: Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine https://amzn.to/47jMtg7 (The audiobook of Provoked is being published in sections at https://scotthortonshow.com) Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism: https://amzn.to/3tgMCdw Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan https://amzn.to/3HRufs0 Follow Scott on X @scotthortonshow And check out Scott's full interview archives: https://scotthorton.org/all-interviews This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Roberts and Roberts Brokerage Incorporated https://rrbi.co Moon Does Artisan Coffee https://scotthorton.org/coffee; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom https://www.libertyclassroom.com/dap/a/?a=1616 and Dissident Media https://dissidentmedia.comYou can also support Scott's work by making a one-time or recurring donation at https://scotthorton.org/donate/ https://scotthortonshow.com or https://patreon.com/scotthortonshow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen of the press have been less than honest, reporting to the American people, what's going on in this country?
0:11.0	Because the babies are making it.
0:13.0	We're dealing with Hitler Revisited.
0:15.0	This is the Scott Horton Show, Libertarian Foreign Policy, mostly.
0:21.7	When the president doesn't, that means that it is not only...
0:24.5	We're going to take out seven countries in five years.
0:27.0	They don't know what the fuck they're doing.
0:29.3	Negotiate now.
0:31.4	End this war.
0:33.5	And now, here's your host, Scott Horton.
0:39.0	All right, y'all, introducing Mike Benz.
0:42.2	He is the executive director of the Foundation for Freedom Online.
0:48.4	And he has a hell of a YouTube channel where he does a lot of podcasts and talks about things and you
0:54.5	follow him on Twitter. He is Micah Benz that's with a Z at the end, Cyber on X there.
1:03.4	And yeah, welcome the show. How are you doing? Great, Scott. It's going to be an interesting
1:07.7	week ahead. Spooky Halloween. Yeah. All right. Well, we'll get to that in a week. I mean, in a few minutes. But here's some things to talk about. First of all, yeah, first of all, let's talk about the new documentary. We don't have to get into the whole thing, but I want to at least give you a chance to plug it. Maybe we can talk about some of the substance of the thing later. And I think you do so many interviews for so many things. You
1:30.7	might not even know which. whole thing, but I want to at least give you a chance to plug it. Maybe we can talk about some of the substance of the thing later.
1:28.1	And I think you do so many interviews for so many things. You might not even know which documentary I'm referring to, but there's one. I think you're talking about God Complex. Yes, I believe so. All about the new, all about the censorship regime and how they did that. And you play a great role in that. And that's available for everybody on YouTube, right?
1:45.0	Yes, free.
1:46.0	Yeah.
1:46.8	Okay.
1:47.2	So go ahead. and how they did that. And you play a great role in that. And that's available for everybody on YouTube, right?
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