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…pandemic, says Benz, were the “two most censored events in human history.” And 2024 is shaping up to be the same, thanks to the emergence of a federal censorship-industrial complex….

…“fast, comprehensive misinformation enforcement.” WiseDex’s “partners” include Meedan — a pro-censorship nonprofit that targets so-called internet “misinformation,” and MIT — which works with the federal censorship hub Cybersecurity and Infrastructure…

…and the pro-censorship left will require more work. But this simple snapshot confirms taxpayers’ money is funding the expansion of the Censorship Complex, as the prior eight fiscal years, from…

America is facing an “existential threat” from a “vast censorship enterprise,” according to Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri. “This vast censorship enterprise represents an existential threat to the American…

…on their platforms that private publishers enjoy. This means any government regulation that restricts an platform’s authority to censor speech will, in fact, amount to a form of viewpoint censorship…

…operate to censor speech in America. 1. Big Tech Censored Speech It Didn’t Like While Twitter censored certain speech as part of its coordination with other partisan actors, Twitter also…

On Monday, the censorship-industrial complex was put on trial when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the landmark free speech case Murthy v. Missouri. Evidence in the case revealed…

…discuss the latter’s censorship efforts. But these efforts are just one facet of the government’s censorship operations. CISA regularly facilitated meetings “between Big Tech companies, and national security and law enforcement…

…frame demands for censorship as patriotic: a fight against foreign influence to save democracy! The Censorship Complex Expands The Censorship Complex’s push to silence speech under the guise of preventing…

…in particular.” Laundering Censorship Through Shell Corps These investigations are revealing how government officials have edited media monopolies’ content moderation policies to enable censorship. This is why, the Missouri plaintiffs…

…congressional report about AI censorship. These “…projects threaten to help create a censorship regime that could significantly impede the fundamental First Amendment rights of millions of Americans, and potentially do…

…continued, “the plaintiffs have not shown that they are likely to face a risk of future censorship traceable to the defendants.” Barrett argued plaintiffs were already incentivized to self-censor by…

…media censorship is against certain disfavored viewpoints, regardless of where those viewpoints fall on the political spectrum. Yes, social media companies do infringe on free speech rights when they censor…

Democrats had a tough time at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing yesterday on the censorship industrial complex. They had to argue there was never any censorship during the Biden administration…

…but led this creation of … a mass flagging and censorship operation that was coordinated with a broader effort to pressure [Big Tech] platforms to do more censorship,” independent reporter…

…hesitancy narratives” to the Stanford team, and the Stanford team then providing censorship requests to the tech giants, the government censorship loop was closed. Censorship requests were not limited to…

…voting. Meanwhile, as The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland reported, GEC “funded the development of censorship tools and used ‘government employees to act as sales reps pitching the censorship products to Big Tech.’” One of…

…surest way to kill a democracy is to practice political censorship under the guise of protecting society from disinformation. Censorship causes disinformation. It’s the grandaddy of disinformation, not a solution…

…(GEC) — but GEC did much more than cajole tech giants to censor viewpoints the government didn’t like. As The Federalist previously reported, GEC funded the development of censorship tools…

…$25,000 — among other things, several censorship companies involved can be identified, including NewsGuard, PeakMetrics, and Omelas.  NewsGuard’s censorship technology includes “its unreliable reliability ratings database of thousands of news and information…

…engaging in censorship by proxy — using surrogates to censor, suppress, or discourage speech in a manner that the government is unable to do itself.” The Intercept reported in 2022…

…censorship. Among those targeted were The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway and Sean Davis. Will SCOTUS Save the Day? Federal agencies’ ability to continue coordination with Big Tech to censor posts they…

…Wasserman Schultz’s failed effort to censor Kennedy’s testimony followed demands from House Democrats that Republicans rescind Kennedy’s invitation to testify altogether. Kennedy was invited to testify at the censorship hearing…

…detect “misinformation” on the site. These outside partnerships played an aggressive role in pushing Twitter censorship. Taibbi calls this group the “Censorship-Industrial Complex.” A 2020 internal email from Nick Pickles,…

…force-multiplying cutouts for laundering government censorship efforts. Krebs’ Role in Censorship Krebs was integral to these efforts. As the presidential memo details, he was involved in “the censorship of disfavored…

…federal censorship empire immediately strike back. Censorship apologists like Litman and Tribe rushed to the government’s defense, and the government appealed the injunction, claiming “irreparable harm” if their censorship activities…

…a “blunt truth” that “most red Americans either don’t know or don’t care about social-media censorship.” I wouldn’t be so bold as to assume “most,” in fact, do care. But…

…outlets unprofitable by funding the infrastructure, development, and marketing and promotion of censorship technology and private censorship enterprises to covertly suppress speech of a segment of the American press.” This…

…censorship has insinuated itself into global business by leveraging the lucrative Chinese market. The Blizzard boycott was just the tip of the censorship iceberg. America’s Tug-of-War with Chinese Censorship We…

…Project, the Virality Project flagged content for censorship by social media companies, including Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram, through a ticket system. While it was those private platforms that censored…

…rational debate — from working as it’s supposed to. The problem is if that’s the reason for opposing state censorship (and I think it’s a good reason), nothing about censorship…

…censorship of conservatives. During the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on The Constitution hearing, Welch said the Supreme Court “rejected the allegation that government had unconstitutionally censored conservatives by pressuring social…

…to seek an appropriate governmental remedy to online censorship. This request comes after we have carefully tracked and documented viewpoint censorship for years. Repeatedly, we have urged Big Tech leaders…

…total censorship the DSA permits, Tedesco said. He estimated nearly 90 percent of online censorship is “preemptive, proactive mitigation measures.” He said that companies will program their algorithms to limit…

…on speech in this country.” Through its own CensorTrack database, MRC found Facebook to be the greatest culprit, with users undergoing secondhand censorship 86,627,526 times. YouTube was second at 23,543,230,…

…with the FBI to censor U.S. citizens. The FBI and SBU reportedly sent “massive spreadsheets” that contained “thousands of accounts” for censorship to Meta. The FBI also “facilitated” the SBU’s…