Good evening. It's Monday, June 26. Welcome to a new episode of System Update. Our

live daily show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 PM Eastern, exclusively here on Rumbull, the free speech alternative to

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Tonight, if forced to identify the single greatest danger of the West faces, I would almost

certainly choose the ongoing institutionalization of censorship

or put another way the incremental yet aggressive erosion of free speech both as a legal

right and as a social value.

There are multiple ways the censorship regime is being implemented.

We know from the Twitter files and from other reporting both before and since

that U.S. and Western security state agencies apply enormous

pressure on big tech corporations to heavily censor online political discourse

largely by banning dissent from establishment orthodoxies on virtually every

consequential debate.

From reporting on Joe Biden to the integrity of elections,

from COVID to the war in Ukraine.

All of those issues have ushered in extreme levels of

censorship, invariably aimed at those who question or dissent from

establishment narratives. We have reported on such efforts many times.

Then there is the truly pernicious attempt to stigmatize or even criminalize political dissent by depicting it as,

quote, too dangerous to allow allow based in the theory that this dissent is the

primary culprit that inspires violent attacks.

After a white supremacist shooter murdered people at a grocery store in

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