Geopolitics and Empire is joined by Kim Iverson of the Kim Iverson show, a populist and

independent thinker who questions everything. Welcome to geopolitics and empire, Kim.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, you know, I thought we could start by getting your thoughts on the increased authoritarian

and Orwellian censorship, which is happening in the West, in America and Europe.

A few months ago,

you covered the case of PayPal banning Mint Press Consortium and myself. And I believe it was at the

behest of the DHS because it was the same week, as you know, they rolled out the Disinformation

Governance Board or the Ministry of Truth, which is now defunct for now. But, you know, our example

is just a drop in the bucket. And this is happening

to many people now and worse things are happening to them. Bank accounts being frozen. Peaceful

Americans are being put on terrorist watch lists and no-fly lists simply for gently questioning

the government. And so what do you sort of make of what is unfolding? Well, obviously, yeah, it is very dystopian, very

Orwellian, what is happening. And wrong, you know, flat out wrong. I mean, we should be, we pride ourselves in

America on being a free society, on having a culture of free speech. A lot of times people say, well,

if it's not the government that's doing it and it's a

private company doing it to you, you know, that's not a violation of the First Amendment. And that might

be technically true. The First Amendment is for protection from the government. But we pride ourselves

as Americans as having a, and the West in general, having a culture of free speech, not just

the actual legality of free speech. And so, but there's also pressure coming from the government,

which then to me does make an actual First Amendment issue. You know, if it is coming from the

disinformation board and they are, and they are pressuring PayPal or pressuring, you know, if it is coming from the disinformation board and they are and they are pressuring

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