These two have been up on the Hill before outlining the increasingly illiberal and creepy censorship mentality that’s engulfed the Democratic Party, the progressive activist wing, and its leeching into the mainstream media that have pundits who defend this Politburo nonsense.
A bunch of wealthy corporate authoritarians, and politicians who had dinners with them, decreed that emergency rule was the preferred form of governance.
….based on its operations and insofar as we can tell, it had every intention of remaining secret. This is for a reason. A systematic effort by government to bully private sector companies into a particular narrative while suppressing dissent contradicts American law and tradition.
On Monday, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters that federal agencies such as the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) restarted discussions with Big Tech platforms.
If conspiracy theorists are becoming found to be more and more correct and consensus drivers are found to be more and more incorrect and deceitful and gaming the system for their own personal game, have the two concepts switched places?
Because NewsGuard worked with the Defense Department to test its technology, it seems likely the government had some input in determining what qualified as ‘disinformation.’
“NewsGuard is clearly in the business of censoring the truth,” noted Dr. Joseph Mercola, a gadfly voice whose website was ranked as misinformation by NewsGuard after it published reports about Covid-19’s potential origin from a lab in Wuhan, China.
‘More speech is being censored and suppressed by government actions than has ever been the case in the past,’ constitutional attorney Andrew Grossman says.
In 2020, the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), along with writers at The Federalist, had their social media posts flagged, suppressed, and even censored by a government-nonprofit-industry taskforce supposedly designed to combat election “misinformation” from foreign powers.
For too long behind closed doors and private emails, government officials have exerted significant influence and pressure on social media companies’ content decisions. This case is a welcome chance to bring it out in the open—and hopefully, it will end the practice of government officials effectively censoring viewpoints they dislike on social media.
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