Thread by @MikeBenzCyber

🚨Censorship Hearing Superthread🚨

In this thread, I will be covering a critically important House Homeland Security hearing on the DHS’s role in the censorship industry.

Analysis & live reactions below:

youtube.com/live/HY_hMVRF5…

2. I note upfront a bit of personal pride: it was our foundation, @FFO_Freedom, that coined the phrase “censorship laundering” and has laid the groundwork for accountability that is happening today.

For a full primer background, see here:

foundationforfreedomonline.com/dhs-censorship…

3. Chairman Dan Bishop is absolutely killing it with his introductory remarks. Pitch perfect. He just put a video clip first discovered and published by @FFO_Freedom on the Congressional Jumbotron for all Americans to see.

It shows DHS plot w/ EIP:

rumble.com/v1nd5vy-eip-fi…

4. I am typically very picky & perfectionist about public presentation of this scandal, but Chairman Dan Bishop laid out the case in beautiful detail & framed case perfectly.

Hugely impressed w/ introductory remarks and depth of research @HomelandGOP has clearly put into this.

5. Ranking Member Ivey for the democrats seems surprised & is apparently learning about DHS censorship activities for the first time.

He said censorship issues are “tangential” to oversight of DHS.

That uses to be true. But DHS became a censorship factory. So now here are.

6. Here is Chairman Bishop’s beautiful summary encapsulation of DHS’s role in the laundering of domestic censorship:

7. This clip is a knockout punch. It’s no wonder the folks on the other side of the issue today have no rebuttal to it:

8. Stunning deception by Cynthia Miller-Idriss in her witness response.

She tried to fool the committee that her digital literacy (censorship & brainwashing) work is not “teaching people what to think.”

Here she is targeting vaccine skeptics with censorship & thought control:

9. We are 30 minutes in and no one from the democrats or the expert witness have even attempted to defend what CISA did to censor domestic speech.

They know it’s indefensible, and aren’t even trying.

10. If Cynthia Miller-Idriss is not teaching people what to think, how does she explain her extensive work to stop people thinking about not taking vaccines, or from reading online news critical or vaccines?

That is literally the science of brainwashing people what to think:

11. “Not telling people what to think” but she is government-funded by the NSF and the DHS and she is making literal brainwashing “attitudinal inoculation” videos — with government money — to stop people from resisting vaccines.

12. Cynthia Miller-Idriss even created a “codebook” of English-language “anti-vaccine rhetoric” —- mapping the slogans, hashtags, slang and words of ordinary Americans hesitant to take the Covid vaccine.

13. Cynthia Miller-Idriss is the very example of the government-funded whole-of-society censorship apparatus this hearing is supposed to be about.

Her censorship work (that’s what “digital literacy” and “misinformation research” are) is funded by NSF and DHS —- YOUR tax dollars:

14. Cynthia Miller-Idriss apparently doesn’t think ordinary citizens are able to determine what’s true — good thing her career is deciding those truths for the unwashed masses:

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/10/31…

15. Cynthia Miller-Idriss’s funding from DHS for violence prevention is ironic given that is the exact same DHS program office that we broke this week was targeting “Middle-Aged Pro Life Advocates” & “Old High School Friends” becoming “Budding Conspiracy Theorists”:

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