They Told You it Was Gone - They Lied - Mike Benz (Video)
In this 30 September 2025 published video, host Winston Marshall talks with Mike Benz, former State Department official and leading critic of the Censorship Industrial Complex, who exposed how governments and NGOs are working hand-in-glove with Big Tech to police free speech across the West.
Mike explains how the EU’s Digital Services Act and Britain’s Online Safety Act are being used to impose AI-driven censorship, threatening not only European citizens but also Americans posting from within the US. We explore how these laws function as a “digital censorship regime,” backed by crippling fines and international coordination.
From USAID funding NGOs to shut down cross-border political movements, to the Hate Lab in Cardiff feeding real-time speech data to UK police, Benz reveals how censorship has become industrialised — and how Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter briefly broke the system.
We also discuss the Biden administration’s role, the UK’s crackdown on comedians and dissidents, and the disturbing reality of AI censorship ‘Death Stars’ designed to silence debate on elections, COVID, climate, and more.
A deep dive into the machinery of modern censorship — and what it means for the future of free speech in the West.
https://youtu.be/AZlnIO5kqJc
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:32 What Is the Censorship Industrial Complex?
06:10 How the Government Outsources Censorship to NGOs
11:45 The EU’s Role in Exporting Censorship to the US
17:30 AI-Powered Censorship & The Death of Free Speech
22:05 Twitter Files & the Exposure of Government Pressure
28:40 How “Trust & Safety” Became a Weapon
35:15 The Role of the National Security State
41:10 Elon Musk vs The Censorship Machine
47:35 How the Online Safety Bill Extends UK Censorship
53:20 The Global Coordination of Digital Repression
1:00:45 How NGOs Control the Narrative Across Borders
1:07:12 Mike Benz’s Plan to Dismantle the Censorship Network
1:12:40 Final Thoughts & A Warning for the West
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