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Mar 13 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
This entire government agency, CISA, part of DHS, should be abolished. Its leaders & programs have flagrantly & repeatedly violated the First Amendment. The Supreme Court rejects gov't censorship save those rare cases when speech immediately incites *physical* violence.
The censorship industrial complex defines harm far more broadly than the Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court defined “fighting words” in Chaplinsky v New Hampshire (1942) as words which ”by their very utterance, inflict injury or tend to incite an public.substack.com/p/exposed-amer…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Last week, @MikeBenzCyber caught @CISAgov secretly changing their web site to delete mentions of its domestic censorship effort.

"CISA's self-invented censorship powers... went from being pointed outward against supposed Russian bot accounts to being pointed inwards at tens of millions of US citizens"

The contents of this report are truly shocking:

report.foundationforfreedomonline.com/11-9-22.html
CISA is a deeply dishonest and creepy government agency.

It tricked everyone into thinking it was doing "cyber security" when it was actually doing censorship.

This is truly deranged stuff:

Hi @RepColinAllred & @chrislhayes

You both claimed last week that there is no “government angle” here.

racket.news/p/the-democrat…
But how do you square that claim with the evidence summarized above and here?

public.substack.com/p/exposed-amer…
How do you square your claim with the evidence gathered here?

And here?

report.foundationforfreedomonline.com/11-22-22.html
And here

foundationforfreedomonline.com/?page_id=875
It appears that we are in the "It's not happening!" phase

Should we expect the, "Yes, it's happening, and it's a good thing!" phase to begin soon?

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'Censorship-industrial complex' uses power to threaten democracy nypost.com/2023/03/10/cen…
“Free speech means precisely that: free — not just right, correct, or factual speech but lies, wrongness, fabrication, and fantasy. Imagine the arrogance of thinking you and your high-positioned co-workers alone could correctly parse and label all speech”
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“The censors are a familiar type.
Overly confident in their ability to discern truth from falsity, good intention from bad intention, the instinct of these hall-monitor types is to complain to the teacher.
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“‘At long last, have you left no sense of decency?’ This week, nearly 70 years later, Welch’s words seem more relevant than ever after House Democrats savaged two journalists who attempted to explain a government effort to censor citizens.”
“As someone who grew up in a liberal, Democratic family in Chicago, I knew that a commitment to free speech was one of the most compelling values of the party — back then. Today, free speech often is treated as harmful and dangerous.” @JonathanTurley
“There is a major difference between today and the McCarthyism of 1954. Back then, when attorney Welch objected to the Republican senator trashing his client, the press lionized Welch. Yet, as noted by Shellenberger and Taibbi, today’s media have remained largely silent as fellow… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Mar 11
Public: Power Grab Behind Democrats' War On Free Speech public.substack.com/p/power-grab-b…
In 1989, the year I graduated from high school, the Supreme Court did something that made me and other liberal Democrats proud: it voted 5-4 to protect the right to burn the American flag.
Eleven years earlier, the ACLU had defended the right of neo-Nazis to march through Skogie, Illinois, where many Holocaust survivors lived. Sixteen years before that, Berkeley students launched the New Left by challenging campus regulations on freedom of speech.
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Mar 10
Do you work for an organization working on “disinformation,” “misinformation,” or “malinformation” that has been funded by the U.S. government? If so I would like to speak with you! My DMs are open. I scrupulously protect my sources, and can connect on any secure platform.
Do you know someone who works on those issues and would like to share information?

Have you received information about their work and would like to share it?

Please be in touch!

I strongly believe in the Pentagon Papers principle and will protect my sources, no matter what.
Please keep in mind that not all journalists still hold the Pentagon Papers principle. As we discovered, some have publicly rejected it. Such reporters simply cannot be trusted.
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Mar 9
EXPOSED: America's Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex

U.S. government officials, agencies, and contractors are violating the First Amendment

My testimony to Congress

public.substack.com/p/exposed-amer…
Over the last three months, a small group of us have, thanks to the Twitter Files, exposed the ways in which social media platforms have, under pressure from U.S. government agencies, censored ordinary Americans and spread disinformation.
At 10 am ET, @mtaibbi & I will testify before Congress to share shocking new findings: a highly-organized network of government agencies and contractors has been creating blacklists and pressuring social media companies to censor Americans, often without them knowing it.
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