Thread by @Eric_Schmitt

Across the West, our civilization is threatened by a radical network of NGOs.

These groups lie behind almost every crisis of our time—from mass censorship to mass migration.

Tomorrow, we're going to expose their war on freedom of speech. 🧵

In the internet age, information is power.

The Left knows the stakes. That's why they've waged a decade-long, multi-billion-dollar campaign to control what you see and say online.

I explained how their censorship operation works earlier this month:

This operation is a dangerous marriage of public and private power—a global system of security agencies, tech firms, activist groups, nonprofits, media orgs and government bureaucracies taking what they describe as a "whole-of-society" approach to censoring disfavored speech.

All of this is completely unprecedented.

It's an entirely new, sprawling system of speech and thought control—far more powerful and far-reaching than anything we've seen the past, built with and for the new technology of the digital age.

And most of it operates in the shadows.

The censorship enterprise is enabled by a vast ecosystem of "non-governmental organizations" (NGOs). These groups represent a fifth column in American politics—a shadow state that serves the interests of the ruling elite, with no accountability to the society it wields power in.

I went into detail about who these groups are, what they do, and how they coordinate with elites in government and elsewhere in my thread earlier this month. We'll get into it much more in tomorrow's hearing too.

But let me briefly tell you why this is of such urgent importance.

In the 21st century, the internet is the new public square. This is where people get the information they need to understand the world. It's where they read, write, argue, and learn. It's where they shape the ideas that will define the future. It's where politics happens.

That's why this fight matters. The fight for freedom of speech online is the fight for a free people's right to access, analyze, share and discuss information on their own terms, and to draw their own conclusions.

In that sense, it's the fight for self-government itself.

The assault on free speech across the West isn't happening in a vacuum. It's inextricably connected to the war on our shared history, heritage, and identity.

In other parts of the West—where the crisis is much further along—politicians admit this openly:

You heard the Australian Premier above: They need censorship to carry out their entire social agenda.

In America, too, this is part of a much deeper war on *who we are.* It's a tool to silence the critics of the disastrous social transformation that the Left wants to carry out.

And—as we'll discuss tomorrow—it's all funded by your tax dollars.

The sprawling labyrinth of leftist NGOs, nonprofits, foundations and activist groups that drive this agenda don't just work hand-in-glove with their friends in the federal bureaucracy; they're paid by them, too.

At our hearing, we'll be exposing all of this with three of the world's leading experts on the vast censorship enterprise—all of whom have been warriors for free speech: @MZHemingway, @JonathanTurley and @bhweingarten.

Tomorrow. 2 PM. You won't want to miss this one. — End