Earlier this week, The Washington Post let the American public know which side they are on when it comes to free speech and government-sponsored censorship. They are on the side of censorship.

In summary, the Post’s lengthy article “harassed” a wealthy and growing industry dedicated to combating so-called misinformation and disinformation by Republican lawmakers, conservatives, and media organizations such as the Daily Caller News Foundation. It has framed an effort to hold them accountable. We are not making this up.

Of course, given all we’ve learned from Twitter files and other investigative reporting on how these groups really operate, the fight against disinformation is almost always a matter of particular interest to conservatives. Clearly a euphemism for censoring unfavorable facts and opinions from .

It’s no coincidence that conservatives are overwhelmingly the ones who get banned from platforms, shadowbanned, fact-checked and censored on social media and Google. It just so happens that the conservative press, not the corporate or liberal ones, is always on secret blacklists created by pro-censorship groups and sent to advertising agencies to take revenue from those sites. do not have.

The DCNF recently revealed that a major group dedicated to de-monetizing conservative sites was in fact funded by the Biden State Department. In fact, many of the same organizations that promote censorship also receive huge checks from the federal government. This should sound alarm bells for all Americans, regardless of party affiliation or ideology.

But WaPo wants you to ignore all that and believe that the real victims are the government-funded censors and not the people they are trying to silence. Unfortunately, the Biden Department of Justice seems to agree.

Shortly after WaPo removed an article that said ‘censors are the real victims’, journalist Lee Fang advised a little-known Homeland Security commission to combat misinformation and disinformation. The Biden Department of Justice released an email showing that it intervened to block the DCNF’s request for records.

Given everything we’ve learned over the years, especially from Twitter files, about the federal government’s efforts to censor and silence opinions we don’t like, we wonder what this secret committee is up to. I wanted to know After all, it is our duty to inform the public about threats to basic rights, especially free speech.

A key member of the panel was Kate Starbird of the University of Washington, who founded the Disclosure Center. Not only is she a member of this committee, she also collects government research grants. In fact, while Starbird was featured prominently in a WaPo article defending the censorship-promoting industry, the paper conveniently omitted Starbird’s role in advising a small secret committee at the DHS. I wonder why?

We thought the public had a right to know what this DHS advisory board was going to do, which seems to have alarmed the Biden Department of Justice.

In a flattering email sent in September 2022, Assistant U.S. Attorney Annalisa Cravens asked the University of Washington to delay releasing the records to the DCNF. They are excluded from disclosure “to allow time to review the records and assess whether legal action should be taken to protect them.” “

Mind you, we got our records from the University of Washington. It took me just 6 months to get them all. Of course, now I’m wondering if we really got all the documents we requested. Please rest assured. I have already submitted a follow-up request to find out the truth.

someone has to. As WaPo’s puff article made clear, corporate and traditional media have no interest in holding the censorship industrial complex accountable. In fact, the mainstream media are often the biggest proponents of this insidious industry.

And now we need to keep the public from knowing that the Biden administration is actively participating in a cover-up and what their government is doing to undermine the core of our constitutional guarantees. , it became clear that it intends to use all available legal means.

If there’s one problem that unites Americans from all walks of life, it’s that government officials are colluding with an industry dedicated to censoring ideas and information unfavorable to the political parties in power. If we do not hold these powerful and secretive groups accountable today, we all risk being silenced in the future.

Indeed, democracy perishes in darkness.

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