Government infrastructure from things like cyber attacks I mean at least that’s what the name would suggest but in reality cisa was carrying out a mass censorship campaign in the United States its main targets interestingly were conservatives and this represents not just direct evidence of government censorship in violations of the First
Amendment but also the government’s manipulation of every us election since 2016 the house Judiciary Committee just released a detailed report on on this government operation it puts a serious damper on one of the big narratives on censorship we’ve been told for a while now conservatives they’ve been crying a
Foul about government censorship for years this had mainly to do with political censorship on you know social media sites places like Facebook Twitter Youtube the common narrative on the left to counter that claim has usually been along the lines that censorship is only censorship if the government does it and
The argument was that private businesses is they have a right to moderate content as they see fit which they do and if Government tried to step in and tell social networks for example that they couldn’t remove content that they don’t want on their platforms then that would actually be government interference with
The companies and also their freedom of speech but it turns out this is not what was happening now we discovered through these so-called Twitter files that government agencies were in fact running campaigns of political censor ship this included evidence at the FBI for example that they were directly communicating
With social networks to flag content which was then deleted or hidden from the public based on their recommendations now this showed a type of public private partnership and this raised questions over whether censorship by proxy could still be regarded as Government censorship and on that violation of the First Amendment of the US
Constitution now there are legal cases on that right now and the debate on it likely not going to end until it goes to the Supreme Court and they make a decision but now something else is being been uncovered it turns out now the Department of Homeland Security was running a large scale censorship
Campaign even bigger than the FBI one it follows a similar model to what we knew about before the public private partnership that lets government agencies censor people by proxy only now it’s it seems the system actually goes deeper representative Jim Jordan of the house Judiciary Committee the chairman
He gave a brief overview on X about the new findings and he detailed hundreds of secret reports that show Department of Homeland Security CIA and the state department working with Stanford University to censor Americans now a big focus of this campaign was to impact the 2020 elections and information that was
Censored well it included news reports that were accurate it included people posting jokes and opinions in other words this was about this was not about so-called misinformation or disinformation it was protected speech that they were censoring and this can represent a major violation of the basic
Rights of Americans not the fact not not also in the fact in itself it could represent a form of really just direct election interference now representative Jim Jordan wrote that federal government disinformation experts at universities big Tech and others work together through the election Integrity partnership to monitor censor American
Speech it says the big bombshell here really in my opinion is that new the election Integrity partnership or EIP he says was created at the request of cisa now representative Jordan posted two internal messages explaining this one is an email stating we just set up an election Integrity partnership at the
Request of DHS cesa and are in weekly comms to debrief on disinformation iO Etc this basically means that the government was not just communicating with platforms to flag content which we knew about before and that could you know then be removed that type of action really walks a fine line when it comes
To legalities the New Evidence is more direct the New Evidence means that the federal government was involved in creating an organization which then recruited private organizations to do its bidding in other words it gives the appearance that people and organizations were recruited by the government to do
Whatever it wanted to violate laws that they could not themselves get around now repres resentative Jordan explained how it worked he said that the election Integrity project which included the federal government notably would submit reports on so-called misinformation the EIP would then analyze the report and find similar reports across the internet
Then the EIP would send the reports to Big tech companies like social networks along with recommendations on how to censor the content now the house Judiciary Committee report noted that Congress was only able to get the documents showing how the system worked after they threatened to hold people in contempt
And other words even though this was a government operation being run with private companies it was being hidden from the public and the initial refusal some of those involved to keep the documents from Congress suggests that at least someone didn’t want the public or even members of Congress to know about
What they were doing now the campaign mostly targeted conservatives as I noted targeted everyone to an extent all groups but conservatives the main ones and among the people who are being silenced and included president Donald Trump as well as many news outlets and Top influencers This Could represent a
Direct attack on the freedom of the press now I’d personally argue this represents a direct attack on the foundations of the American system of government the ability of the public to cast their votes and choose their elected leaders our election system in America depends on an informed public
Making informed decisions and if the government or even worse a particular political party decides to filter information that people rely on when making those decisions then this represents a direct assault on America’s foundation with with its elections public debate was being stifled key information that could have changed the
Way people cast their votes was being deleted or hidden from the public the house Judiciary Committee published internal Communications detailing what was happening behind the scenes and they show some of the content that was being flagged by EIP and it turns out guess what The Epic Times was
Being censored through this system and this includes many of our stories about problems with the 2020 elections the internal Communications they even detailed the amount of engagement that our posts were getting on social media I’ll give you a few examples it notes that the government system this is the
Content made to flag our content for censorship it says this Biden getting 21k dead voters in Pennsylvania Epic Times thousands of fake voters in Nevada Consolidated Narrative of ways Dems cheated through mailin ballots Consolidated Narrative of how the CCP has influenced the elections now those are not headlines those are the notes
From the EIP to categorize our content and to try to ensure the public didn’t see our reports on those topics it also includes Communications on plans to censor news outlets on Facebook now this is a note in September of 2020 it Flags both the daily wire and The Epic Times
For having Facebook pages where content goes beyond the technical scope of the pages they argued now it claimed that the daily wires page called angry Republican doesn’t represent a real unique media brand it claims that The Epic Times Texas page doesn’t represent any real media brand in Texas and of
Course that’s nonsense epic times does have a branch in Texas and many News zeets Post content on Local Pages with national news now interestingly the EIP internal communication it even acknowledges that it did not have grounds to censor us or daily wire on these grounds it says this quote these
May not constitute coordinated inauthentic Behavior as Facebook defines it suggesting they knew what they were doing and of course most news OTS have social media pages and most of them have different pages for different audiences but EIP stretched the definitions using the their own interpretations in order to flag our
Articles all everyone that’s it for YouTube for the rest of the episode come join us on Epic TV we we talking about what happened with the local elections yesterday what they show us for 2024 and actually some interesting discussions around centrism and maybe the political parties have the issues wrong maybe
They’re not talking about the things Americans actually care about we’ll be talking about what Americans actually do seem to care about all that’s going to be on I TV EP ptv.com we’re also going to be going more into how censorship is impacting the elections and other things like that
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