Suppressed: Scott Horton's Appearance On Dave Smith's Podcast Censorsed By YouTube

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The success of Scott Horton's best-selling book Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine clearly illustrates how the narrative that has fueled NATO's war with Ukraine has all but completely collapsed. That collapse has been expedited by the erosion of trust in not only governments, but the means by which they have disseminated their propaganda through media. While big tech censorship seemingly reached its zenith in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and fallout from the 2020 Presidential Election, the desperation of the architects behind situation in Ukraine has seen them return to their old tricks. Big tech once again has tried to pull the wool over the public's eyes by censoring Scott Horton's appearance discussing the malfeasance that led to the war in Ukraine on fellow libertarian thinker Dave Smith's podcast.

According to Smith, YouTube removed his latest episode which featured Horton because it claimed the interview violated its community standards. The ambiguity of the claim is a reprisal of big tech's iron-fisted rule over media in which its arbitrary and capricious enforcement of its own bylaws was exercised to fulfill ulterior political motives. Although the tactic is nothing new, the culture shift that has occurred in the last election cycle in which big tech's censorship, its motives, and the government influence behind them has been exposed left many believing populism had finally triumphed against technocracy.

Unfortunately, like Ukraine, the battle between big tech and those who use platforms like YouTube to try to reach as broad of an audience as possible to spread truth rages on. Unlike the change in ownership of Twitter, YouTube is still run by Google which remains unwavering in its commitment to being one of the technocratic tentacles of the leviathan that is the censorship industrial complex. However, the magnitude of that influence may be mitigated as measures have been taken to break up its monopoly.

In August, Federal Judge Amit Mehta ruled in favor of the Department Of Justice by ruling that Google has held a monopoly on online search engine and advertising markets. In the wake of that ruling, the DOJ has argued that Google must sell its flagship browser Chrome to restore competition to that market. That victory in the fight against Google's big tech monopoly could also lead to the company having to divest itself from YouTube, which could put it into the hands of ownership that shares Musk's commitment to a crusade against censorship.

For the time being, the censorship of Horton's appearance on Dave Smith's podcast shows how the system whose censorship efforts irrevocably shifted the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Election and silenced dissent against the medical tyranny unleashed during the plandemic has not been eradicated but simply has laid dormant.

YouTube isn't the only platform where Horton's message is being suppressed. Across Amazon.com, reviews for Provoked appear to be astroturfed by bots attempting to conflate Horton's criticism of the NATO-axis with Russian propaganda. The very idea that the "Russia, Russia, Russia" cries of the mouthpieces pushing the latest iteration of the red scare have any credibility highlights how detached from reality those behind the continued censorship of dissent are.

In the waning days of the Biden administration, the deep state actors who fear they are losing control not only of the narrative they've created about Ukraine but on the raison d'etre behind it makes the already perilous situation of that conflict even more volatile. The danger that desperation poses was made utterly apparent following a reports that the Biden administration considered arming Ukraine with nuclear weapons and NATO member-states France and the United Kingdom has ramped up attempts to deploy troops to the country to fight against the Russian Federation.

With so much hanging in the balance in Ukraine in the lame duck period until Trump's inauguration, the importance of Horton's message rings more loudly than ever. His position will be made unabated without any fear of censorship during tonight's ZeroHedge Debates presentation moderated by the Hoover Institute's Peter Robinson featuring Scott Horton and Sir Niall Ferguson. The debate will be featured live on-site at ZeroHedge, X, and our own YouTube channel. Given how Horton's appearance on Dave Smith was censored by YouTube, we're interested to see how our debate will be treated by the platform.