Good day all. One of the major scandals of 2020 and beyond is the flat out assault on Free Speech by the Government. It started with the covid-19 panicdemic where doctors and researchers were posting things that didn’t back the WHO and CDC narratives. It then spread to flat out censoring people who were conservative or questioning the government. The whole thing blew apart when Elon Musk bought Twitter and releases the twitter files.
There have been hearings in the Republican controlled House of Representatives, but, as usual, not much has been done. Now it looks like the State Department might be colluding with Bif Tech again to censor online speech during the 2024 election. Here are the details from the Federalist:
The State Department is refusing to say whether it is communicating with Big Tech platforms to censor free speech online leading up to the 2024 election.
The agency’s silence on the matter came after The Federalist asked about a new working group launched by the United States and Poland on Monday that seeks to counter Russian “disinformation” about Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Called the “Ukraine Communications Group (UCG),” the body will involve the two aforementioned countries and representatives from NATO states, and work to “coordinate messaging, promote accurate reporting of Russia’s full-scale invasion, amplify Ukrainian voices, and expose Kremlin information manipulation.”
And just how do they plan to counter “Disinformation?” The best way is, of course with more information with accurate sources. Somehow, I don’t think that’s what they have planned.
According to the Associated Press, James Rubin, the special envoy and coordinator for the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC), was involved with and attended the UCG’s inaugural launch in Warsaw. As The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland previously explained, GEC “funded the development of censorship tools” that work to silence (primarily conservative) speech online and “used ‘government employees to act as sales reps pitching … censorship products to Big Tech.’”
Forget firing these people, I think jail would be more appropriate. They are violating the civil and constitutional rights of people they don’t agree with.
Notably, Rubin and the GEC are named defendants in a lawsuit filed by The Federalist, The Daily Wire, and the state of Texas in December to stop the federal government’s censorship operations.
That’s interesting, and hardly surprising. Both the Federalist and the Daily Wire have been targeted by the Left with attempts to have them deplatformed and shut down.
When pressed by The Federalist on whether the UCG or its participating members — including the State Department and GEC — will be collaborating with Big Tech and social media companies to censor what they deem to be “Russian disinformation,” a State Department spokesman claimed the working group “is a coordination mechanism between governments and will not involve collaboration with private technology companies or social media companies.”
However, when subsequently pressed on whether the State Department or GEC are collaborating or plan to collaborate with Big Tech and social media companies outside of their work with the UCG to counter so-called “disinformation,” the spokesman did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment.
What’s so hard about this? All they had to say was “No! Of course we’re not going to do that.” That they refuse to say this is telling.
Meanwhile, the FBI confirmed to The Federalist last month it has resumed communications with social media platforms ahead of the 2024 election. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) — another wing of the government’s censorship-industrial complex — declined to comment when asked about its alleged resumed communications with Big Tech.
GEC has acted as a critical component of the federal government’s orchestrated campaign to silence free speech.
Congress needs to defund the State Department and the paychecks of everyone involved. That this department even exists is a criminal violation of the Constitution.
Through GEC, the State Department funded the U.K.-based Global Disinformation Index (GDI), a so-called “disinformation” tracking organization “working to blacklist and defund conservative news sites,” including The Federalist.
And the United Kingdom used to be a bastion of freedom and liberty. Churchill must be spinning in his grave.
The goal, as described by Marshall, is “to financially hurt independent publications and ultimately prevent them from disseminating content.” Other non-leftist media outlets GDI’s 2022 “exclusion list” labeled as the “riskiest” pushers of supposed “disinformation” include The Daily Wire, RealClearPolitics, and Newsmax.
I read Newsmax daily, the Daily Wire fairly often and RealClreaPolitics when I see something usually on the Bongino Report. One of the issues with Newsmax is their use of stories from the Associated with terrorists Press. I just takose particular stories with a grain of salt unless I can verify them elsewhere. No, I don’t think AP should be shut down because I don’t like what they say. I just ignore them most of the time.
NewsGuard — another “disinformation” tracking group with a history of assigning bogus ratings to news organizations — has also received federal grant money through an initiative sponsored by GEC.
More and more I’m thinking that President Trump’s next Secretary of State should make Rex Tillerson’s chain saw look like a minor trimming device.
An interim report released by House Republicans in November revealed GEC’s censorship efforts in U.S. elections. According to that analysis, GEC — along with CISA — colluded with Stanford University to pressure Big Tech companies into censoring what they claimed to be “disinformation” during the 2020 contest.
One of their claims of “Disinformation” was the Biden laptop. Any attempt to post information about it was blatantly censored by Big Tech. We now know it was all legitimate and the FBI knew this back in 2019. However, the goal for 2020 was to “Get Trump!” and “Protect the Bidens!”
At the heart of this operation was the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), “a consortium of ‘disinformation’ academics” spearheaded by the Stanford Internet Observatory that coordinated with DHS and GEC “to monitor and censor Americans’ online speech” ahead of the 2020 election.
That group did tremendous damage to the 1st Amendment rights of thousands of people for simple reasons. They either supported President Trump or they were writing things that were both true and put Joe Biden in a bad light.
As documented in the interim report, this operation attempted to censor “true information, jokes and satire, and political opinions” and submitted flagged posts from prominent conservative figures to Big Tech companies for censorship. Among those targeted were The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway and Sean Davis.
There was a court case that was filed in 2022 by the Attorney Generals of Missouri and Louisiana regarding the censorship by the Federal Government and Big Tech an injunction was issued to stop them and was upheld by the 5th Circuit. However, in one of the Supreme Court’s dumber decisions, they canceled the injunction. Justices Gorsuch, Thomas and Alito dissented. This clears the way for a flagrant violation of people’s rights.
We have reached the point that the Federal Government of the United States of America is now an existential threat to the citizens of the United States. I hope that the 2024 election goes as we think and the Greatest President of the 21st Century, Donald Trump, is returned to office. The problem is the Deep State bureaucrats, Democrats and Fake Republicans. I fear what may prove necessary if We, The People, can’t get these Swamp Dwelling tyrants under control.
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