Fascist Creep Rob Rakowitz Wants to Control What You Read — Good On the House for Exposing Him; Report: Globe’s Largest Companies Colluded In ‘Likely’ Antitrust Violation To Censor Conservatives

Fascist creep Rob Rakowitz wants to control what you read — good on the House for exposing him:

Ever heard of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media?

No, and that’s the idea.

It’s a secret, bureaucratic group that nonetheless wants to decide what you read, see and hear online.

GARM, as it’s known, is an initiative from the World Federation of Advertisers, a cartel that exerts control over some 90% of global marketing spending — and it used (possibly illegal) big-bucks leverage to go after free speech online, per a bombshell new House Judiciary Committee report.

The idea is simple.

GARM pick out supposed bad websites that allegedly spread “disinformation.”

That word almost always means correct information on Hunter’s laptop or now-accepted arguments that COVID may have come from a lab or anything else that cuts against the Dem-dominated narrative.

Then, under the GARM rubric, the cartel with its massive list of its big-company partners and huge ad agencies would work to starve those sites of ad dollars.

GARM is masterminded by a pseudo-fascist named Rob Rakowitz, who’s appointed himself mega-censor of everything people can read and professes himself frustrated by an “extreme global interpretation of the US Constitution” on speech issues.

He and his jackbooted crew went after the familiar targets.

Like Twitter: Hardly had Elon Musk taken it over before a GARM member was pushing for a boycott.

And Facebook, which GARM tried to get to censor a Donald Trump campaign ad.

Facebook told them where they could get off; Rakowitz whined that was “reprehensible.”

Rakowitz even — insanely — went after Spotify for daring to host Joe Rogan’s podcast, though Rogan wasn’t taking ad bucks from any of the companies in GARM’s cartel. —>READ MORE HERE

Report: Globe’s Largest Companies Colluded In ‘Likely’ Antitrust Violation To Censor Conservatives:

Republican investigators said that GARM’s ‘collusive conduct to demonetize disfavored content is alarming.’

The Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) likely violated federal antitrust laws when it used its “tremendous market power” in the advertising world to encourage the demonization of news websites, platforms, and podcasts it deems guilty of wrongthink, a new report published by the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday found.

Shortly after Rob Rakowitz co-founded GARM in 2019 with the World Federation of Advertisers, he complained that “[p]eople are advocating for freedom of speech online” and using a “‘radical interpretation[]’” of freedom of speech.” To curb this First Amendment phenomenon and prevent it from going global, he called for an “uncommon collaboration” to “rise above individual commercial interest.”

“For an organization reliant on speech and persuasion in advertising, GARM appears to have anti-democratic views of fundamental American freedoms,” the report warns.

GARM claims to “safeguard the potential of digital media by reducing the availability and monetization of harmful content online” using a Steer Team of four major advertisers (Proctor & Gamble, Mars, Unilever, and Diageo), the world’s largest media buying agency (GroupM), and three trade associations.

“GARM also includes the so-called ‘Big Six’ as members. In the advertising industry, the ‘Big Six’ refer to the ‘biggest ad agency holding companies around the world.’ Together, these companies hold nearly every major advertising agency,” the report notes.

Section 1 of the Sherman Act prohibits organizations like GARM from conspiracy against commerce or restraint of trade. House Republicans, however, warned the ongoing “collusion” between GARM and the world’s largest advertisers inevitably results in unjust viewpoint censorship of popular dissidents over their First Amendment-protected speech.

When Elon Musk took over Twitter and turned it into X, GARM, at the behest of Rakowitz, organized a boycott among its members to prevent advertisers from spending their money there. Rakowitz denied his role in the coordinated campaign against Musk’s free speech efforts in a transcribed interview with Republican investigators, but documents obtained by the committee indicate he “took credit for Twitter’s revenue decline.” —>READ MORE HERE

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