Protecting digital liberties. Telling the story of online censorship. Fighting to win back the Golden Age of the Internet. Posts by @MikeBenzCyber.
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Dec 16, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Our director @MikeBenzCyber reacts to the censorship policy proposals put forward by Donald Trump today:
2. The only policy prescriptions that work are ones that target censorship as an industry:
Dec 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is a major story whose revelations may ultimately be bigger than what has been revealed so far in the Twitter Files:
justthenews.com/government/fed…2. Censorship insiders have been circling the wagons to stop transparency requests for censorship communications between DHS and mercenary universities like Kate Starbird’s UW disinfo lab.
Dec 5, 2022 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
TWITTER FILES 1.0 THREAD: A comprehensive breakdown of the first release 👇
Twitter's election censorship operation is far more extensive than yet reported. Here's how it works:
2. The first thing to understand is that the Censorship Industry has been constructed using a "Whole-Of-Society" model.
That means censorship is coordinated through the government, the private sector (tech platforms), and civil society (academia, NGOs) working together:
Nov 29, 2022 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
THREAD: Biden's National Science Foundation spent $40 million on "misinformation" and "disinformation" grants to US colleges & universities so academics could get paid to help censor social media.
Big follow-ups this week. Highlights below:👇
2. Here's a shocking fact: 42 different US colleges and universities all got US taxpayer dollars for the job of censoring US taxpayers.
This is all since the start of 2021. In less than 2 years, the gov't has funded a sprawling constellation of censorship labs:
Nov 18, 2022 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
NEW: Leaked State Dept memo obtained by America First Legal reveals US gov't is producing VIDEO GAMES with taxpayer dollars for “psychological vaccination against fake news.”
Their plan is to stop populism on social media. Full report here:
foundationforfreedomonline.com/11-17-22.html2. The leaked memo shows the US gov't tapping into the virality of Buzzfeed-style cat videos to program young people's political opinions through a new video game called "Cat Park":
Nov 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It is highly disconcerting that the founder of CISA (the federal agency in charge of both election security and election censorship) appeared with current Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer earlier this year to mutually promote Internet censorship
The people in charge of administering elections should never be in charge of silencing citizen discourse about elections.
DHS censorship machine targeted 22 million tweets, used 120 speech flaggers, scrubbed 15 platforms, and throttled dozens of "emerging election narratives" using a chat app.
#DHSLeaks was just the tip of an iceberg. Full report here:
foundationforfreedomonline.com/11-9-22.html2. Here is a highly disturbing fact that is not widely to the American public: The same DHS cyber agency in charge of securing elections is also in charge of censoring elections.
Aug 29, 2022 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
DHS has already created a US Ministry Of Truth. Only it’s not the Disinformation Governance Board — it’s something far more entrenched and disturbing.
We will break down highlights in this thread. See full report here:
foundationforfreedomonline.com/dhs-domestic-c…2. Parents: Your taxes pay for DHS to tell your kids to report you to Facebook for “disinformation” if you dispute gov't Covid statistics:
