The Global Alliance for Responsible Media, one of the biggest censorship groups in the world, is dead. 

Elon Musk killed it by filing a lawsuit. 

To put this in perspective, GARM has cost conservative and free speech publications, Rumble, and X/Twitter billions of dollars of revenue by steering advertisers away from any platform or publication they label "unsafe." They are, and I say this with malice and completely seriously, an evil part of the left-wing brainwashing industry and to them I say "good riddance."

NEWS: A few days ago, @elonmusk & X filed an antitrust lawsuit against advertising group Global Alliance for Responsible Media. In response, GARM has decided to shut down & discontinue all activities.

The group said it doesn’t have the money to fight X. https://t.co/AQQvtBWYyI

— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt) August 8, 2024

Not, I think, that it will matter in the long run. These groups are part of the blob or swamp, and what disappears here will pop up in some even more nefarious way elsewhere. It's the same as firing Jim Comey at the FBI. He went on to make millions and we got Christopher Wray, who sure looks like he is part of a conspiracy to keep Donald Trump out of the White House, and is willing to commit perjury before Congress to do it. 

The swamp never loses, or at least hasn't so far. 

A group of advertisers, called the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), have “discontinued” activities, Business Insider reports, citing an email sent to members. The group said it had limited money, and was focused on fighting the antitrust lawsuit filed against it by X.

GARM was an initiative formed in 2019 by the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA); the idea was to stop advertising on social media platforms that don’t meet certain safety standards. In its lawsuit, X said that GARM “organized an advertiser boycott of Twitter.”

The report in The Verge, a radical left-wing website that pretends to be about technology, makes it sound like Musk's lawsuit was about revenge and punishing anybody who disagrees with him.

That's rich. The whole point of GARM was to destroy anybody they disagree with, and maintain a pristine infosphere in which only left-wing voice can even get heard. Their goal is to bankrupt anybody they disagree with, and made no bones about it. 

Screw you, Verge. I read the site when it was about tech, but it made me wretch when it revealed itself to be a political hothouse. 

Freedom of association is generally recognized as guaranteed by the First Amendment, and there’s precedent showing that boycotts are protected speech. But that’s not all that makes the GARM case odd. Musk himself has made comments that are hostile to advertisers. Last November, in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin, Musk said, “I hope they stop. Don’t advertise.”

He added, “If somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is.”

See what I mean? GARM doesn't even admit that it was about "boycotting," just maintaining "safety" in a supposedly nonpartisan way. 

That was always BS, and at least The Verge admits that. It also admits that it is fine with people blackmailing conservatives by strangling their revenues because they have the "wrong" opinions. 

Did I say they were evil? UnAmerican?

Perhaps I am a bit ticked off because these people have worked assiduously to strangle Hot Air, Townhall Media, and every other independent media site in the world unless they tow the line. GARM thought that Huffington Post was totally cool and uncontroversial, though, and has no problem with Facebook, which literally allows advertising for illegal drugs, and TikTok, which creates mental illness problems for teens. 

We and all conservative sites will remain under pressure. The blob is like a balloon. Press one place and it expands elsewhere. The best we can do is keep fighting it. 

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