When a Curious Fox Gets Curious
Foxes use their keen senses to investigate below the surface and sometimes find a morsel
Fox came across a story about the free speech video platform, Bitchute, being targeted by the censorship mafia demanding they lose the valuable internet protection of Cloudfare from malicious attacks - often very sophisticated ones by nation-state level actors. Cloudfare is about as good as it gets to defend against that level of attack that brings down websites. Odds are Substack is protected by Cloudfare. There are a few other defensive website security providers out there, but Cloudfare is in a league of its own.
Bitchute has been able to hold the line, so far, Cloudfare continues to protect them. But Cloudfare has sent signs they may break. They have pulled protection for other sites before, recently Kiwifarms, accused of threatening “transgenders,” self-styled neo-Nazi agitator DailyStorm and “conspiracy social platform” 8chan. But, times, they are a changing very rapidly in this post-constitutional republic as the powers that be tighten and tighten up restrictions on free speech.
So, a curious Fox being a curious Fox decided to train keen senses on who is at Cloudfare in positions of power to make decisions on censorship. Usually that’s the top corporate lawyers. And Freedom Fox found the name of Cloudfare’s General Counsel, Doug Kramer. Who the heck is Doug Kramer?:
"Mr. Kramer has served as our General Counsel since August 2016 and our Secretary since August 2019.
From November 2013 to March 2015, Mr. Kramer served as General Counsel of the United States Agency for International Development. [color revolution specialists USAID]
He served in the White House as Staff Secretary and Deputy Assistant to the President from March 2012 to November 2013 and Associate Counsel and Special Assistant to the President of the United States from September 2010 to March 2012.
From July 2009 to September 2010, Mr. Kramer served as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice."
“What is Douglas James Kramer's net worth?
The estimated net worth of Douglas James Kramer is at least $3.78 million as of September 1st, 2021. Mr. Kramer owns 42,652 shares of Cloudflare stock worth more than $3,776,835 as of January 24th. [Note: stock price is much lower today, not sure of his current holdings, if/when he bought/sold] This net worth evaluation does not reflect any other investments that Mr. Kramer may own. Additionally, Mr. Kramer receives a salary of $550,000.00 as General Counsel at Cloudflare."
Also noteworthy about Cloudfare:
“Cloudflare was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer"
Let's go back to that position Doug Kramer held as Obama's Staff Secretary. Arguably the most powerful role in an administration, controlling every single piece of information a president sees, many consider it more powerful than Chief of Staff:
“His replacement will be Douglas Kramer, an attorney who’s now in the White House Counsel’s office and before that worked in the Justice Department’s antitrust division. Kramer, we’re told, had been a student of Obama’s back when he was teaching at the University of Chicago law school. Must have gotten a pretty good grade."
Did I mention that White House Staff Secretary is a very important position? Once held by John Podesta during the Clinton Administration (and by Harriet Miers during the Bush 43 administration):
“It was as a White House staff secretary during Mr. Clinton's first term that Podesta built the portfolio he still carries today. As one of two deputies to Bowles, Podesta has been the point man for Whitewater and other investigations swarming around the president. It was Podesta, at President Clinton's request, who prevailed upon then-U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson to interview Monica Lewinsky for a New York job with the United Nations."
Cloudfare. General Counsel Doug Kramer. A political Swamp Creature having held the same role for Obama that Podesta held for Clinton. And a former DOJ lawyer.
If/when Cloudfare gets pushed to censor by the same DOJ that has declared the exercise of free speech, political speech is a felony, what do you think Cloudfare will do when push comes to shove?
Probably the same thing this Fox thinks. And Fox is thinking every single free speech website that uses Cloudfare for protection from state-level malicious attacks, Substack?, had better have a Plan B. Because while Cloudfare has generally held the line against censorship my confidence level in them with the general counsel that a curious Fox discovered, Obama’s former student, indebted to him for his entire career, a DOJ alumni, with nearly $4 million in Cloudfare stock on the line, isn't going to be advising Cloudfare to defy DOJ.
Fox hopes these types of discoveries from being curious inspires readers to use those keen senses they also have. Dive in below the surface of stories that get your attention, you never know what morsels you’ll find. Like a curious Fox.
And if Cloudfare's role in protecting free speech isn't enough there's a shaddow-banning effort underneath, unseen, across the entire internet, not just a platform.
Conservative Treehouse just posted this disturbing piece. Coming a lot sooner than we care to imagine.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/16/the-shadowbanning-of-the-united-states-internet/
CTH shares a lot of great info, even though many of its readers who comment are Trump cultists. Any critiques of him are bashed, if you don't agree he walks on water and never makes mistakes you get piled on. Objectivity isn't permitted. That said, Sundance who runs it does great research and analysis worth taking in if you can push past the sycophancy.
"Keen sense" questions to your article...
Why is substack such a polished platform, very easy to use?
Why are commenters completely free to comment on substack?
Why is substack not having to be obedient to Australian 'online safety' censors?
This is roughly how I felt about twitter at the outset, but before the 'online safety' censors took hold. It was completely 'free'. I constantly thought of the JK Rowling line in the Potter series "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain" I suspected there was something bad about it but I considered that I was probably buying more than I was selling there.
When you quoted “Cloudflare was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer" I lurched. The WEF is completely polished. The 'forces' will always want a vehicle to show them what the thinkers are thinking. When the thinkers were shut out of facebook and twitter the WEF would've needed a new vehicle to register the thoughts.
Anyway, here we are on Substack.