Fmr. State Dept. Official Mike Benz Says the U.S. Government Started with Internet Censorship in 2014 with the Ukraine Coup
‘In 2014, we had about 25 years of successful free-speech diplomacy, and then we successfully overthrew the government of Ukraine’
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BENZ: “It started in 2014 with the Ukraine fiasco —“
ROGAN: “The coup.”
BENZ: “— the coup and then the counter-coup. The coup was great for internet free speech. I mean, you really do need to start the story of internet censorship with the story of internet freedom because censorship is — promotion of censorship is sort of the flip side of promotion of free speech. And we’ve had this free speech government diplomatic role for 80 years now. When the — when World War II ended, we embarked, you know, we had the international rules-based order that was created in 1948.”
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