Trump’s Next Target In Dismantling The Censorship Complex Is CISA
The legislative branch must codify the administration’s policies to ensure a speech policing apparatus does return under a future president.The legislative branch must codify the administration’s policies to ensure a speech policing apparatus does return under a future president.Mollie Hemingway slams Democrat senator for benefiting from 'censorship industrial complex'
Mollie Hemingway, the editor in chief of the Federalist, spoke out against the Biden administration's "censorship industrial complex" before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
In an exchange with Democratic Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont, Hemingway pointed out how his party has peddled and directly benefited from measures implemented by former President Joe Biden that censor or otherwise stunt speech that deviates from the political orthodoxy of the day. Welch, however, insisted that the censorship industrial complex is merely an "abstract term."
'You can rely on the censorship industrial complex to do the work for you.'
"The industrial censorship complex is an abstract term that doesn't mean a lot to me, but it conveys a lot of meaning obviously to the many people here," Welch said. "But it has to get down to something very concrete as to what the government did. If it's an NGO, your view and I think the chairman's view too is that that NGO is hand and glove with the government."
Hemingway promptly explained the extent of the government's relationship with NGOs that has caused conservative and dissenting outlets to be censored.
"The government will work in partnership with NGOs on something like the Election Integrity Partnership where they flag items for removal from social media companies," Hemingway replied. "And so they are funding these NGOs, sometimes they're actually flagging for these NGOs, for-profit Big Tech companies will then remove the content."
It's no secret that the government has worked closely with NGOs to suppress dissenting speech and independent platforms, including Blaze News. Despite the long and well-documented history of this collusion, Welch argued that Democrats are simply not sophisticated enough to execute such large-scale censorship.
"This is just an observation," Welch said. "I'm part of the Democratic Party. You give us way too much credit for being that organized to be able to put this whole massive enterprise together."
"In part because you can rely on the censorship industrial complex to do the work for you," Hemingway said.
Immediately following Hemingway's response, Welch quickly yielded the remainder of his time.
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Trump Shouldn’t Hire Kristi Noem, Or Anyone Else, To Run DHS. He Should Abolish It
DHS was supposed to protect us from foreign terrorist attacks. Instead it has become an instrument of censorship and propaganda.RFK Jr. blows Tucker Carlson’s mind; says what NO politician will admit
The Biden administration has never been a fan of political dissidents, and RFK Jr. is living proof.
“Thirty-seven hours after he took the oath of office, President Biden’s White House opened up a portal for the FBI to begin to have access to social media posts on all the different social media sites,” RFK explained in an interview with Tucker Carlson.
“The FBI then invited in the CIA, DHS, the IRS, and CISA. CISA is this new agency that is the center of the censorship industrial complex that is in charge, making sure Americans don’t hear things that their government doesn’t want them to hear.”
Those agencies, as well as agencies like the CDC, were given access to social media sites to change posts and shadow-ban users.
“I lost my Instagram account; I had almost a million followers. They say it was for ‘misinformation,’ but they could not point to a single post that I ever made that was factually erroneous,” RFK explains.
In emails, Facebook was recorded pushing back and saying RFK wasn’t factually incorrect, so they had to come up with a new word for what RFK was doing.
“Malinformation, which is information that is factually true but nevertheless inconvenient for the government,” he says, to which Tucker responds, “That’s illegal.”
“The White House was overtly telling them that if they didn’t comply, that their Section 230 immunity was in jeopardy,” RFK adds.
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” isn’t surprised but is disturbed.
“It should be noted that even if RFK Jr., with his 1 million followers on Instagram, was sharing misinformation,” Rubin says, “it's not illegal.”
“It would be against the First Amendment,” he adds.
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Mark Zuckerberg admits the TRUTH about government censorship — what now?
Americans were gaslit for years as they were told that information that was clearly being censored on social media was not being censored.
Now, in a letter to Congress, Mark Zuckerberg has admitted to caving to government pressure and shadow-banning certain viewpoints and accounts.
“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree,” Zuckerberg wrote in the letter.
“Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure. I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” he continued.
Zuckerberg went on to explain a warning the company received from the FBI regarding a potential Russian disinformation operation that involved the Biden family and Burisma in the lead-up to the 2020 election.
When the New York Post reported on corruption allegations involving the then-Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, the story was temporarily demoted while waiting for a fact-check.
“It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story,” Zuckerberg wrote.
Glenn Beck is not exactly impressed by Zuckerberg’s admission.
“Well, Mark, that’s big of you,” Glenn says sarcastically. “Thank you, thank you very much. I appreciate that. I just would like to ask if I can get, you know, unbanned now. You know, can you not shadow-ban me now?”
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Why The Court’s Murthy Ruling Is Probably The Worst Free Speech Decision In History
SCOTUS put Americans affected by censorship in an unenviable position, reversing the burden of proof and denying any effective remedy.Next week, SCOTUS will hear 'the most important free speech case in the history of the country.' Here’s what you need to know.
The Federal government’s collusion with social media giants to control the narrative through censorship may be coming to an end.
On Monday, March 18, the Supreme Court will hear the case Murthy vs. Missouri (formerly Missouri vs. Biden).
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) joins Glenn Beck to discuss the details of the upcoming hearing.
The case “deals with the Federal government in its vast censorship enterprise — coercing, colluding, cajoling these social media giants to censor speech,” Schmitt says.
“What the judge found at the lower court ... was that it was almost exclusively conservatives being censored. It reeked of viewpoint discrimination, which violates the First Amendment.”
“What was uncovered, Glenn, were tens of thousands of pages of emails and text messages from high-ranking government officials to social media giants saying, ‘Take it down or we're going to launch an investigation or we're going to sue you under antitrust issues,’” Schmitt explains. “The full power of the Federal government was being used to suppress dissent to silence Americans.”
Of course, this has been “appealed by the government” because “they want to continue to censor people,” says Schmitt, but thankfully, “the Supreme Court is going to hear oral arguments on that on Monday.”
“How do you think it’s gonna go?” asks Glenn.
“I’m hopeful. ... A lot of it will come down to: what was the government actually doing and were they, in fact, coercing? Were they using the power of the Federal government to get these social media giants to do the things that they can't legally do themselves?”
On top of FBI agent Elvis Chan “pre-bunking the Hunter Biden laptop story — calling it Russian disinformation [and] a hack and leak operation” in preparation for 2020, the Federal government squashed any talk of “the efficacy of masks,” “vaccine issues,” and potential “origins of COVID.”
“All of that is uncovered in this lawsuit,” says Schmitt, adding that “Elon Musk buying Twitter with the Twitter files” has also helped tremendously in bringing the blatant violation of the First Amendment to light.
“How much of this do you think was willing, and how much of it was fear of the government?” asks Glenn.
“Both,” is Schmitt’s answer.
“These social media platforms typically were very aligned with the left,” especially Facebook, who he thinks is run by “willing participants.”
However, other documents reveal that some companies “were pushing back” and that the content they were being told to censor “didn’t violate their terms of service.”
“We're dealing with the virtual town square now, Glenn.”
To hear more about Monday’s SCOTUS hearing, watch the clip below.
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