Newsom lashes out at report of inmates using his tablet program to groom children — and Christopher Rufo fires back



California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom is furious over a report claiming that his "digital equity" program has allowed death row inmates to watch pornography and groom children on the outside.

The report at City Journal quoted prisoners and others who said the restrictions on tablets provided by the Newsom program were easily circumvented by those seeking porn and children.

'We have the receipts — and this is something the governor's office simply cannot defend.'

Newsom, who is widely considered to be planning a presidential run, railed against the report on Wednesday.

"This is flat-out FALSE. This MAGA nonprofit provides ZERO evidence for its outrageous claims," read the statement from his press office on social media.

"Their 'sources'? Convicted murderers and a random guy who doesn’t even live in California. FACT: Prison tablets DO NOT provide open internet access. FACT: Communications are monitored, recorded, searchable, and investigated," he added.

"FACT: These tablets are are [sic] used for education, rehabilitation, family communication, and reentry support proven to reduce crime — conveniently omitted from this propaganda post," the statement concluded.

BlazeTV host Christopher Rufo, one of the authors of the report, fired back at the governor.

Rufo posted a list of all the sources cited in the story, including a "former high-ranking California prison official," a dozen current inmates who say they are accessing porn on the tablets, and "federal prosecutors, who are pursuing charges against a prisoner for grooming a minor through his state-issued tablet."

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One of the inmates who spoke about his tablet use was infamous rapist and serial killer Robert Maury, who claimed he had been able to get a topless photo from a psychology student in Germany. Maury said the female student hoped to get his comments for a class project in exchange. "Prisoners are using the state-issued tablets for nefarious and lurid purposes," wrote Rufo on social media. "We have the receipts — and this is something the governor's office simply cannot defend."

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Newsom's 'digital equity' plan allows death-row inmates to watch porn and groom children online, report finds



An infamous serial murderer and rapist said that taxpayer-funded digital tablets allowed him to watch pornography and receive a topless photo from a 22-year-old German psychology student.

That's just one account in a City Journal investigation into a "digital equity" program pushed by Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom to ensure prisoners had access to the Bible. And also porn.

Amador told the Journal that he alternates between watching short clips of his 'family at the beach' and pornography delivered in 30-second clips.

Officials told the Journal that the tablets were "tightly controlled education tools" to provide inmates "access to the Bible, education, and re-entry resources that actually reduce crime."

The investigation found dozens of death-row inmates who said the tablets allowed them access to pornography as well as sexually explicit conversations.

The program under the Newsom administration tossed $189 million of taxpayer funds to ensure criminals had free access to porn and the Bible online.

Robert Maury, an infamous rapist and serial murderer from the 1980s, did not mention the Bible but told the Journal that a German student sent him topless photos in the hope that he would share his story with her for a psychology class project.

Maury was known as the "tipster killer" because he would call a crime tip line and give law enforcement authorities tips about his crimes before he was captured.

Another serial killer named Samuel Amador told the Journal that he alternates between watching short clips of his "family at the beach" and pornography delivered in 30-second clips.

He said guards try to stop sexually explicit texts when they see them but that inmates figure out how to "get around their bulls**t."

One inmate named Nathaniel Ray Diaz allegedly used a tablet to talk with a girl for hours and sexually exploit her. Diaz is facing new charges related to the alleged child exploitation and was already in Avenal State Prison for sex crimes against a 12-year-old girl.

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Douglas Eckenrod, a former California parole operations director, told the Journal the Diaz case was just the tip of the iceberg.

"I would bet my pension that there's a vast amount of childhood pornography on the tablets," Eckenrod said. "There are probably several thousand [children] that are currently being groomed."

He went on to say that California is simply empowering criminals to groom more victims through the tablets.

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Net Neutrality Could Expand Biden’s Social Media Censorship To The Whole Internet

What could possibly go wrong by placing one of the nation’s most dynamic economic sectors under greater control of federal bureaucracies?

Biden's plan to control EVERY ASPECT of the internet EXPOSED



The Biden administration has a new plan for “digital equity,” which masquerades as a way to control every aspect of the internet.

The plan will affect all internet services and infrastructure and calls for the Federal Communications Commission to apply a far-reaching set of government controls.

"Never before in the roughly 40-year history of the public internet has the FCC or any federal agency, for that matter, claimed this degree of control over it."

“This is breathtaking control of all information,” Glenn Beck warns.

In a statement from the FCC’s commissioner, Brendan Carr, he writes “The federal government has a roving mandate to micromanage nearly every aspect of how the internet functions.”

This will affect everything from “how internet service providers allocate capital [and] where they build to the services that consumers can purchase — from the profits that ISPs can realize and how they market and advertise services to the discounts and promotions that consumers can receive.”

Not only is Glenn horrified at what this means for the internet in general, he recognizes how this might affect his own company, TheBlaze.

“This is so far-reaching that it will mean even TheBlaze, because we are on the backbone of the internet,” he says, “we will now have to comply by government FCC regulations.”

Glenn, who has done broadcasts under FCC regulations for 48 years, knows well what this means for free speech.

“This is a very big deal,” he says.


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