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How Deep Is the Deep State? – Jeffrey A. Tucker 9/13/23

Source: TheEpochTimes.com

We received some seemingly excellent news over the weekend. The appellate court of the 5th Circuit has reimposed the restrictions on the White House, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the FBI to stop bullying social media companies to censor content.

This has taken place ahead of the actual trial because two judges found that the practice was so egregious that it needed to be stopped right now before more damage is done to the First Amendment.

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Threads Is Already Blacklisting Covid Terms From Search, As Part of New Censorship Campaign – Cindy Harper 9/12/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Meta is once again up to its old tricks. The new social networking app Threads, which was marketed as an alternative to the platform formerly known as Twitter, is now limiting access to information and prohibiting searches related to key terms such as “coronavirus” and “vaccines,” as revealed by the Washington Post.

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Vivek Ramaswamy Calls For a Social Media Ban For Under 16s – Dan Frieth 9/1/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Republican presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy is pushing for the implementation of an outright social media ban for under 16s.

As shown in a video of a campaign event taken Friday, his premise is that safeguarding children is a duty that transcends party lines.

Ramaswamy argued that the legal restrictions holding young people back from addictive practices such as smoking until they reach 18 should also apply to the fervent usage of addictive social media platforms. He boldly captioned the video on his social media, urging a decisive “Ban it.”…

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Justin Trudeau’s Online News Act has Caused a News Blackout as Wildfires Rage – Cindy Harper 8/22/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

In an age where digital platforms are primary sources of real-time information, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s clash with Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, formerly Facebook, has become more poignant than ever. With wildfires raging across the country, the stakes are high.

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X is Hiring Staff to Combat Election “Disinformation” – Christina Maas 8/18/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

X has distributed a call for applicants to fill new roles tasked with combating disinformation amidst an approaching 2024 election. This move will raise eyebrows among advocates of freedom of speech, particularly considering what happened when this was done with the 2020 election and since Elon Musk had famously bought Twitter with the pledge to honor the values of free speech and had initiated the release of the Twitter Files, detailing instances of election censorship from the past.

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Eyebrows Are Raised About X’s Partnership With Pro-Censorship Group – Christina Maas 8/16/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

The debate surrounding online free speech is once again ignited as allegations arise regarding X, previously known as Twitter. Critics claim the social media monolith’s “brand safety” advertising strategies, influenced by a potentially censorial group, could surpass the boundaries permitted by federal law.

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Inside YouTube’s new “Medical Misinformation Policy” – Kit Knightly 8/18/23

Source: Off-Guardian.org

A few days ago YouTube amended their Covid19 Misinformation policy, changing it so it now applies to all things medical.

The original policy was put in place in the early days of the pandemic, May 2020, and outlawed content in the video sharing platform that “contradicted the WHO or local health authorities” concerning the pandemic.

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YouTube Is Sued, Accused of Enabling Mass Shooting By Not Censoring Hateful Content – Cindy Harper 8/18/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Tech giants Alphabet, Google and its subsidiary YouTube, together with Reddit, find themselves embroiled in legal action linked to a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York in 2022. The litigation alleges that the platforms fostered an environment promoting “extreme and harmful” content, which supposedly played a significant role in preparing the shooter for his racist attack that left ten individuals of color dead.

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Missouri v. Biden: Strong Showing in the Appellate Court – Aaron Kheriaty MD 8/12/23

Source: aaronkheriaty.substack.com

As I explained previously, the government appealed the district court’s preliminary injunction in Missouri v. Biden, which would prohibit the government from pressuring social media companies to censor Americans online. Two days ago, a three-judge panel in the 5th Circuit court of appeals heard oral arguments from both sides.

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Jim Jordan Publishes Evidence Proving Biden Admin Pressured Facebook to Censor Conservatives – Frank Bergman 8/3/23

Source: SlayNews.com

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) has just published explosive documents that prove Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration was pressuring Facebook to censor conservatives.

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UK Government Censorship Unit Consulted With United Nations and G7 on “Misinformation” – Tom Parker 7/28/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

The UK government is not a fan of free speech and its Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU), which urged social media companies to censor Covid dissent from UK citizens, is one of many recent examples of the ways it tries to chill the public’s speech.

But recently released witness statements have revealed that the government’s eagerness to crack down on speech is so great that it doesn’t even restrict its censorship operations to domestic government agencies. Instead, it lets representatives from foreign governments, who weren’t elected by UK citizens, give feedback to a domestic censorship unit that target the lawful speech of UK citizens.

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Jordan Releases ‘Smoking Gun Docs’ Confirming Facebook Bowed to White House Censorship Demands – John-Michael Dumais 7/27/23

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) today released today a series of unredacted emails from Facebook, that he characterized as proof the White House and other federal agencies exerted pressure on the social media company to censor authors whose posts ran counter to the government’s official pandemic narrative.

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Lawmakers Introduce Free Speech Protection Act to Curb Government Censorship – Monica Dutcher 7/24/23

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, on Thursday introduced the Free Speech Protection Act.

According to a committee press release, the bill would:

“Prohibit executive branch employees and contractors from using their positions to censor and otherwise attack speech protected by the First Amendment. [It] will also impose mandatory severe penalties for those executive branch employees who censor speech.”

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FBI Serves as a Conduit for Ukraine’s Censorship Campaign – Ted Galen Carpenter 7/24/23

Source: Antiwar.com

The U.S. government has long tolerated and excused Ukraine’s authoritarian behavior even as Washington and its NATO partners have lavished financial and military aid on Kyiv. Evidence has now emerged, though, that the US national security apparatus has actively assisted Volodymr Zelensky’s regime to undermine the Constitutional rights of Americans. CNN notes damning revelations in a new report from the House Judiciary Committee. “The committee says SBU [Ukraine’s top security agency] sent the FBI lists of social media accounts that allegedly ‘spread Russian disinformation,’ and that the FBI then ‘routinely relayed these lists to the relevant social media platforms, which distributed the information internally to their employees in charge of content moderation and enforcement.’”

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‘The Perfect Crime’: Tech Companies Are Manipulating Our Elections and Indoctrinating Our Children; How We Can Stop Them – Robert Epstein 7/23/23

Source: GatestoneInstitute.org

Big Tech companies are deliberately manipulating the outcomes of our elections and the thinking and beliefs of our children. And they are having an enormous impact.

If you doubt that, consider this latest snippet of data from my lab, the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (AIBRT).

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The Australian Government Censored Many Factual Online Posts For “Misinformation” – Cindy Harper 7/23/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Newly disclosed documents reveal a troubling pattern of clandestine censorship of social media posts by the Australian government at the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, with numerous instances targeting legitimate content, in stark contradiction to claims of misinformation.

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The FBI Told Twitter The Hunter Biden Laptop Story Was Real The Day The Story Broke, New Testimony Shows – Christina Maas 7/20/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

In newly unveiled testimony, Laura Dehmlow, section chief of the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), disclosed that the FBI was aware of the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop as early as 2019. However, the Bureau declined to affirm its legitimacy to major tech companies during the 2020 election period.

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‘Disgraceful’ Coutts ‘De-Banked’ Nigel Farage Because of his Conservative Views, Internal Dossier Reveals – Thomas Brooke 7/19/23

Source: RMX.news

Nigel Farage had his bank accounts shut down with the high-net-worth bank Coutts after officials decided the former conservative politician’s views did not align with the bank’s values, it has emerged.

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Appeals Court Pauses Ban on Biden Big Tech Censorship Collusion – Dan Frieth 7/14/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

The 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has granted a reprieve to the Biden administration in a case concerning its interactions with social media firms over contentious online speech and “misinformation.”

The decision temporarily suspends a preliminary injunction that sought to ban censorship collusion with social media platforms in an order previously issued by US District Judge Terry Doughty….

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Is The FTC The Latest Agency To Be Weaponized Against Free Speech? – Cindy Harper 7/13/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Twitter, helmed by Elon Musk, has petitioned a federal court to annul an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) addressing alleged privacy infringements, describing the FTC’s investigative approach as “burdensome and vexatious.”

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Probe Shows Tax Prep Companies Shared Personal Data With Tech Giants – Jake Johnson 7/12/23

Source: CommonDreams.org

After a seven-month investigation, a group of congressional Democrats and Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders released a bombshell report Wednesday showing that private tax prep firms have been secretly sharing U.S. taxpayers’ sensitive personal information with tech giants for years, a practice that the lawmakers condemned as outrageous and possibly illegal.

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The EU’s Mass Censorship Regime Is Almost Fully Operational. Will It Go Global? – Nick Corbishley 7/7/23

Source: NakedCapitalism.com

Government censorship of public online discourse in the West’s ostensibly liberal democracies has been largely covert until now, as revealed by the Twitter Files. But thanks to the EU’s Digital Services Act, it is about to become overt.

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Biden Administration Files Notice of Appeal Against Social Media Censorship Collusion Ban – Christina Maas 7/5/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

The US Justice Department has formally filed a notice of appeal against a court ruling that prohibits federal agencies and officials from engaging in discussions with social media companies to censor speech on their platforms.

The ruling in favor of free speech, justified by First Amendment rights, has been met with consternation by the Biden Administration, which says it poses a restriction on their efforts to counter the dissemination of what it says is “misinformation.”…

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State Department Cancels Meetings with Meta After Ban on Government Censorship Collusion – Dan Frieth 7/5/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

The injunction against the Biden administration, preventing it from colluding with social media platforms to censor is already having an impact.

The US State Department has already put on hold its scheduled meetings with social media giant Facebook, pertaining to discussions on 2024 election “safeguards,” The Washington Post reported.

This abrupt decision occurred one day following a ruling by a federal judge in Louisiana, who ruled that the Biden administration’s antics were a likely First Amendment violation….

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Judge Hits Biden Administration With Injunction Against “Orwellian” Censorship – Tom Parker 7/4/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

In a major move that could potentially reshape the relationship between the government and social media companies, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction barring key agencies and officials of the Biden administration from communicating with tech companies on matters related to suppressing protected speech.

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Need to Get Plan B or an HIV Test Online? Facebook May Know About It – Darius Tahir and Simon Fondrie-Teitler 6/30/23

Source: kffhealthnews.org

Looking for an at-home HIV test on CVS’ website is not as private an experience as one might think. An investigation by The Markup and KFF Health News found trackers on CVS.com telling some of the biggest social media and advertising platforms the products customers viewed.

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How Do We End Government-Sponsored Censorship? – Dr. Joseph Mercola 6/26/23

Source: ChildrensHealthDefense.org

Story at a glance:

  • The internet was likely not intended to remain free forever. The intention for it to be used as a totalitarian tool was baked in from the start.
  • Google started as a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant and was part of the CIA’s and National Security Agency’s (NSA) digital data program, the purpose of which was to conduct “birds of a feather” mapping online so that certain groups could be neutralized.
  • All of the early internet freedom technologies of the ‘90s were funded by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of State. They were developed by the intelligence community as an insurgency tool — a means to help dissident groups in foreign countries to develop a pro-U.S. stance and evade state-controlled media. Now, these same technologies have been turned against the American public, and are used to control public discourse.
  • In the past, censorship was a laborious task that could only be done after the fact. Artificial intelligence (AI) has radically altered the censorship industry. AI programs can now censor information en masse, based on the language used, and prevent it from being seen at all.
  • One of the most effective strategies that would have an immediate effect would be to strip the censorship industry of its government funding. The House controls the purse strings of the federal government, so the House Appropriations Committee has the power to end the funding of government-sponsored censorship.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Joins Rumble, Becomes The First Democratic Presidential Candidate To Join Free Speech Platform – Cindy Harper 6/20/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

In a bold move for the 2024 Presidential Election, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Democratic candidate for President, has announced his decision to join Rumble, a free speech video-sharing platform. This development marks the first time a US Democratic presidential candidate has taken this step, adding Kennedy to Rumble’s growing roster of prominent figures in the 2024 Presidential race, that includes Republican candidates such as Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, and Vivek Ramaswamy.

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Astroturfing For More War In Ukraine – Moon Of Alabama 6/14/23

Source: MoonOfAlabama.org

Fellaraktar🇺🇦@fellaraktar – 14:46 UTC · May 29, 2023

As a British citizen I want to say that arming Ukraine is the single best use of tax payer money for decades

My only criticism is that the west aren’t sending enough, fast enough

Ukraine is paying for political posturing with the lives of their sons and daughters

Do more now

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Shadowy UK Unit Surveilled Telegram Posts, Had Hourly Contact With Social Platforms – Cindy Harper 6/12/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

The Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU), an enigmatic arm of the UK government that monitors misinformation, was relentlessly liaising with social media platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic, sometimes on an hourly basis. This revelation came from the unit’s leader, Sarah Connolly, who spilled the beans on the operation in front of MPs.

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Daily Wire Hit With YouTube Censorship Wave, Faces Possible Ban – Christina Maas 6/11/23

Source: ReclaimTheNet.org

Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing has blasted YouTube, accusing the video platform of betraying its promise to foster open debate. The Daily Wire has been hit with multiple violations, dubbed as “Hateful and Derogatory,” which Boreing claims mainly targets commentary on transgender issues.

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Billionaire Biden Donor Bankrolled 2020 Election Social Media Censorship Effort – Lee Fang 6/8/23

Source: LeeFang.com

The Department of Homeland Security’s controversial social media censorship effort during the 2020 election was propped up by a partisan billionaire.

Newly obtained documents, acquired through a public records request, confirm that Pierre Omidyar, the billionaire founder of eBay, financed a specialized portal maintained by the Center for Internet Security (CIS). This portal was used to facilitate the swift removal of predominantly conservative messages on Twitter and Facebook during the previous presidential election.

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‘Zuckerberg Must Explain’: EU Demands Answers On ‘Instagram Pedophile Network’ – Zerohedge 6/9/23

Source: Zerohedge.com

The European Union’s senior commissioner on internal markets has demanded answers from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg over a report in the Wall Street Journal about Instagram’s facilitation of child pornography networks.

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