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The speaker testified about the censorship industrial complex, revealing that it is worse than previously thought. Internal files from the Cyber Threat Intelligence League showed military contractors working to censor and use psychological operations against Americans. While some argue that social media platforms have the right to censor content, the First Amendment prohibits the government from abridging freedom of speech. Evidence suggests that the government encouraged private entities to engage in censorship. The Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) played a central role, along with other government agencies. CISA created the Election Integrity Partnership, which urged platforms to censor posts, resulting in a 75% response rate. CISA and the White House also demanded censorship of COVID-related content. The speaker calls for defunding and dismantling these organizations, or implementing significant oversight to prevent future censorship. They also suggest making liability protections contingent on transparent moderation and public reporting of censorship requests.

Recently, internal files from the Cyber Threat Intelligence League were released, revealing that US and UK military contractors were involved in censoring and using psychological operations and disinformation tactics against the American people. While some argue that social media platforms have the right to remove content that violates their terms of service, it is important to note that the government cannot encourage or promote actions that infringe upon freedom of speech. The whistleblower behind these files claims that the leader of the CTIL was present at the Obama White House in 2017, receiving instructions to counter disinformation and prevent a repeat of the events in 2016.

The speaker discusses the issue of censorship in the United States and how it is eroding freedom of speech. They explain that censorship is now being justified under the guise of fighting disinformation and misinformation, and that even factual and truthful statements can be labeled as disinformation and censored. The speaker highlights the role of the government in directing these censorship efforts, particularly in relation to the military industrial complex and the defense industry. They also discuss the censorship of the 2020 election and the manipulation of public opinion through coordinated efforts between government agencies and mainstream media. The speaker warns that platforms like X, which currently offer more freedom of speech, are under pressure and may face increased censorship in the future.

The most alarming thing was the organized communication between the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and tech companies, involving flagging content in large numbers. Four federal judges have ruled that this violates the First Amendment. Former FBI officials within Twitter and other groups worked to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, despite it not violating Twitter's terms of service. The FBI and CIA had their own internal groups within Twitter. The Aspen Institute held a workshop to discourage coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story. Content moderators at social media platforms have too much power in determining what Americans can say and see. This collusion between unelected bureaucrats and tech companies is inappropriate and a form of election interference. The censorship organizations tend to have a biased leaning.

Michael Shellenberger's CTIL files reveal a trove of documents exposing the involvement of governments in censorship. The documents describe the activities of the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL), an anti-disinformation group that worked closely with the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and military contractors. The whistleblower's documents reveal the genesis of modern digital censorship programs, partnerships with intelligence agencies and civil society organizations, and the use of offensive techniques like sock puppet accounts. The documents also show that CTIL aimed to become part of the federal government and had connections with FBI and CISA employees. The documents provide a comprehensive picture of the birth of the censorship industrial complex.

The speaker announced a plan to dismantle what they described as a "left-wing censorship regime" and reclaim free speech for all Americans. They claimed that a "sinister group" is suppressing vital information. The plan includes: signing an executive order banning federal departments from colluding to censor speech; banning federal money for labeling domestic speech as misinformation; and firing bureaucrats engaged in censorship. The Department of Justice would investigate and prosecute those involved in online censorship for potential violations of various laws. House Republicans are urged to send preservation letters to prevent destruction of evidence. The speaker would ask Congress to revise Section 230, requiring platforms to meet neutrality, transparency, fairness, and nondiscrimination standards to qualify for immunity. The federal government should stop funding nonprofits and academic programs supporting censorship. Universities engaged in censorship activities should lose federal funding. New laws should enact criminal penalties for bureaucrats partnering with private entities to circumvent the Constitution. A seven-year cooling-off period should exist before former intelligence officials can work for companies with vast user data. Congress should pass a digital bill of rights, including digital due process, the right to be informed of content removal, and the right to appeal. Users over 18 should have the right to opt out of content moderation.

CIA and FBI whistleblowers warn of dangerous compromises, including allegations that a CIA team was paid to alter its assessment of COVID-19 origins, violating the COVID Origins Act. The administration is accused of redacting information and withholding the names of scientists who fell ill at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It's claimed the government has abused its power across multiple agencies, including the FBI, by hyping domestic violent extremism cases and the DHS, by creating a disinformation governance board. A "deep trust alliance" with ties to security and intelligence agencies allegedly attempted to control the narrative of reality. The administration, from the White House to various agencies, is accused of colluding with social media companies to censor specific accounts and speech, a violation of the First Amendment. Social media platforms complied, acting as tools of the government. Facebook allegedly censored information about COVID vaccine side effects at the White House's insistence, even when it increased vaccine hesitancy. There are concerns about expanding the definition of "harm" to justify censorship, which endangers free speech.

In a congressional hearing, Michael Schellenberger and Matt Taibbi revealed details about the Cyber Threats Intelligence League (CTIL), a powerful organization involved in censoring free speech. They presented evidence of a censorship industrial complex, involving government agencies, contractors, and big tech platforms, that censors ordinary Americans and elected officials for holding disfavored views. The CTIL files exposed US and UK military contractors working to censor and conduct psychological operations against the American people. They also discussed the violation of the First Amendment by government agencies and the need for defunding and dismantling these organizations involved in censorship. The hearing highlighted the dangers of government-sponsored censorship and the importance of protecting free speech.

The defining characteristic of the United States is freedom of speech, guaranteed by the First Amendment. However, this fundamental right is rapidly eroding due to censorship disguised as combating disinformation and malinformation. This censorship, directed by the US government, is not limited to the private sector. Mike Benz, an expert on this issue, explains how the foreign policy establishment and defense contractors manipulate this. Internet freedom, initially used for supporting dissident groups globally, has become a tool for censorship since 2014. NATO now views controlling media as crucial for political influence, targeting even domestic groups. This shift accelerated after the 2016 election, with Russiagate providing cover for domestic censorship. The 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic saw massive censorship, with government agencies and private entities working together to suppress dissenting voices. This system uses AI-powered tools to identify and remove content deemed harmful to "democratic institutions," effectively creating military rule disguised as democracy. The fight to preserve free speech is now centered on platforms like X (formerly Twitter), which are facing immense pressure from both governmental and international entities.

The State Department is dismantling a censorship bureaucracy that began addressing online radicalization by groups like Al Qaeda and ISIS. This entity, formerly known as the Global Engagement Center, expanded its scope to include foreign interference in elections and eventually targeted American political voices, labeling them as disinformation. According to the speaker, the center's director equated Trump's speech to that of foreign terrorists. The center allegedly funneled State Department funds to third-party groups that targeted individuals and organizations, which led to deplatforming and reduced visibility on social media. The speaker claims that this amounted to a government-run entity silencing political speech in America. Despite being renamed and moved, the State Department is now dismantling the center, redirecting $50 million to promote free speech. They plan an accountability project to document instances where the center was used against American political voices to prevent future misuse.

The censorship industrial complex persists in Europe, Australia, Britain, and Brazil, pushing for digital identification linked to social media. I faced a criminal investigation in Brazil after publishing the Twitter files. The European Commission is using the Digital Services Act to pressure platforms like X and Facebook to censor speech, threatening massive fines for non-compliance. Despite some victories for free speech, global elites see online censorship as crucial for global governance. NATO, the European Commission, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, the UN, WHO, WEF, and various US agencies have all advocated for censorship. US deep state agencies have been manipulating global news for two decades, using counterterrorism tactics against Americans post-2016. I urge Congress to defund the censorship industrial complex and investigate its funding, including through shell organizations. Congress should also protect American social media users from censorship demands by Europe, Britain, and Brazil.

America's exceptionalism stems from its free speech, enshrined in the First Amendment. However, this fundamental right is rapidly eroding due to censorship disguised as combating disinformation and malinformation. This censorship, directed by the US government, isn't about truth but about silencing inconvenient voices. Mike Benz, an expert on this, reveals how the military-industrial complex and foreign policy establishment weaponized internet freedom, initially using it for regime change, then turning it inward to control narratives and elections. This involved using social media companies and government-funded organizations to censor dissent, framing it as a national security threat. This has fundamentally altered American governance, potentially leading to military rule. The future of free platforms like X is precarious, facing pressure from the US government and the EU's Digital Services Act.

Speaker 0: I began my journey into chronicling the censorship industrial complex. Speaker 1: Some of the most terrifying conversations I've had with some of my dear friends who work inside CIA, and their jobs is to go to other countries, get involved in elections, protests that will help overthrow a regime. It's no secret at this point. The CIA has been doing that for years, for decades. But the most terrifying conversations I've had are the ones where they would look to me and say, my god. Like, the twenty twenty election? We're doing to our people what we do to others. Speaker 2: CIA, the other intelligence agencies were exposed with projects like Operation Mockingbird. Speaker 0: The State Department, USAID, the Central Intelligence Agency went from free speech diplomacy to promoting censorship. Speaker 2: They created, purchased, controlled assets at the New York Times, the Washington Post, all of these top down media structures that used to control the information that Americans got. Speaker 3: I pulled into the driveway, opened up my garage door, these two gentlemen come out of a blue sedan with government license plates. And they came up to me and said, you're mister Solomon? And I said, yes. And they said, you're at the tip of a very large and dangerous iceberg. Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. The the FBI sent agents over to my home to serve a subpoena. They're questioning me about my tweets. How is that not chilling? Speaker 2: Our whole page on Facebook for the world Seventh day Adventist World Church was removed. Speaker 5: The level of censorship that we experienced from publishing this documentary was beyond anything I could have imagined, and we really didn't even understand why. Speaker 3: We are going to win back the White House. The Russian collusion started broken '16. That's where the big lie first erupted. Speaker 6: Russian operatives used social media to rile up the American electorate and boost the candidacy of Donald Trump. Speaker 0: That's why they went after Trump with the Russia gate and with the FBI probes and with the CIA impeachments and things like that. Speaker 3: My FBI sources told me there's nothing there. And I kept wondering to myself, how could it be that something that's not true be taken so seriously and be portrayed as true? Speaker 7: How do you expand sort of top down control in this society? How do we flip? How do we invert America? Speaker 6: The evidence that the Supreme Court recounts is bone chilling. The federal government would call a private media company and say, cancel this speaker or take down this post. Speaker 3: I mean, just think about this. A sitting president of The United States had his Twitter and Facebook accounts frozen. Our founding fathers could not possibly have imagined that. Is there a chance that this documentary will be censored? Speaker 1: I think there's a huge chance this documentary gets censored. Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's interesting when you look at so many of the big censorship cases in The United States involving COVID, Hunter Biden's laptop. They all go back to a common thread. What is that thread? National security. Speaker 0: Google Jigsaw produced world's first AI censorship product. Things the model were trained on, support for Donald Trump, Brexit referendum that the State Department tried very desperately to stop. These are all these sort Speaker 5: of component pieces of what you called the censorship industrial complex. Speaker 3: Censorship Industrial Complex. Censorship Speaker 2: Industrial Complex. Speaker 7: Censorship Industrial Complex. Censorship Industrial Complex. Speaker 1: I've long felt that it was a bubbling god complex.

The speaker discusses how the US Department of Defense censored Americans during the 2020 election cycle. They explain that a group within the Atlantic Council and the foreign policy establishment pushed for a permanent domestic censorship government office to counter misinformation and disinformation. This office was eventually established within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through an obscure cybersecurity agency called CISA. The speaker details how this agency, with the combined powers of the CIA and FBI, classified online misinformation as a cybersecurity attack on democracy. They further explain how Stanford University, the University of Washington, Graphica, and the Atlantic Council, all Pentagon-associated institutions, were involved in a coordinated mass censorship campaign to pre-censor any disputes about the legitimacy of mail-in ballots. This campaign involved pressuring tech companies to adopt new terms of service speech violation bans. The speaker suggests that this censorship operation was orchestrated to ensure the perceived legitimacy of a Biden victory in the case of a red mirage blue shift event. They also mention the connection between this operation and the impeachment of Trump in late 2019.

The speaker asks about the communication between government agencies and social media platforms. They mention email traffic and censorship activities that were not public. The speaker also discusses how the CDC had a partnership with Twitter, allowing them privileged access to flag misinformation. They mention the Virality Project, which is a collaboration between private entities and the government to surveil and censor social media. The speaker shares their personal experience of having their tweets censored and expresses concern about the violation of the First Amendment. They mention a court case that supports the idea that liking, commenting, and sharing are protected by the First Amendment. The speaker finds it appalling that the executive branch violated the First Amendment.

This hearing examines the Department of Homeland Security's role in censoring American voices through supposedly independent organizations. While protecting election infrastructure from foreign disinformation was the initial goal, it expanded to include countering domestic misinformation. The government created NGOs, like the Election Integrity Project, to do what it couldn't do directly. CISA acted as a switchboard to flag and notify social media platforms of misinformation, resulting in millions of tweets categorized as such. The same tools were used to censor COVID-19 narratives, some of which were later proven true. Concerns arise about DHS overreaching its jurisdiction and expanding censorship to various topics. The hearing questions the failure of leadership within DHS and the potential threat to civil liberties.

The Twitter files reveal that the federal government, including intelligence agencies like the FBI, used Twitter to censor Americans' speech. Twitter was closely connected to the FBI before Elon Musk took over. Documents show that Twitter engaged in information sharing with the intelligence community, and multiple agencies were involved. The FBI pressured Twitter to act on election-related tweets in 2020 and 2022, resulting in content censorship. Twitter executives restricted accounts, censored speech conflicting with the official narrative, and used internal tools to control and manipulate information. This should concern every member of Congress and American citizen, as it goes against the principle of free speech. Government and media fact checkers often make mistakes, so important debates should not be suppressed.

To protect social media companies from government pressure to censor content, an incoming administration could issue an executive order on day one. This order would prohibit government grants and contracts to any private company or nonprofit involved in domestic disinformation. This approach addresses the issue of government-funded censorship, allowing for the elimination of grants and contracts that support censorship activities. Currently, there are tens of thousands of individuals in the U.S. whose livelihoods depend on censorship work, a field that emerged in response to the 2016 election.

As a CIA analyst, the so-called whistleblower in the White House used evidence created by the USAID-funded OCCRP, for the impeachment of President Trump. USAID has a broad strategy for information control that includes censorship and controlling investigative journalism worldwide. Agencies that participated in violations of the First Amendment, like CISA, should face consequences. Cybersecurity is important, but shouldn't be undermined by censorship. It is borderline treason when organizations meant to protect our country undermine our own government. Weaponizing DHS, FBI, and CISA is treasonous if used for regime change activities against the American people. We developed these tactics abroad, and now they're being used against us, which is shocking and unresolved.

The speaker testified about the censorship industrial complex, revealing that it is worse than previously thought. Internal files from the Cyber Threat Intelligence League showed military contractors working to censor and use psychological operations against Americans. While social media platforms have the right to censor content, the government is prohibited by the First Amendment from abridging freedom of speech. Evidence suggests that the government encouraged private entities to engage in censorship. The Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) played a central role, along with other federal agencies. CISA created the Election Integrity Partnership, which urged platforms to censor posts, resulting in a 75% response rate. CISA and the White House also demanded censorship of COVID-related content. The speaker calls for defunding and dismantling these organizations, or implementing significant oversight to prevent future censorship. They also propose changes to section 230 liability protections and transparency in censorship requests.

The Twitter files reveal that the federal government, including intelligence agencies like the FBI, used Twitter to censor Americans' speech. Twitter was heavily influenced by the FBI before Elon Musk took over. Documents show that Twitter engaged in information sharing with the intelligence community, and multiple agencies were involved. The FBI pressured Twitter to act on election-related tweets in 2022 and 2020, resulting in content censorship. Twitter executives restricted accounts, censored speech conflicting with the desired narrative, and used internal tools to control and manipulate information. This should concern every member of Congress and American citizen, as it goes against the constitutional principle of free speech. Government and media fact checkers often make mistakes, so important debates should not be suppressed.

The speaker discusses the erosion of freedom of speech in the United States due to censorship. They explain that censorship is now being justified as a means to combat disinformation and misinformation, but it is being used to silence individuals and control the narrative. The speaker highlights the role of the military industrial complex and defense contractors in this censorship, particularly in the context of global conflicts. They also discuss how the government, including the US government, is involved in directing these censorship efforts. The speaker emphasizes the need for awareness and understanding of how censorship operates in order to protect freedom of speech.

The Twitter files reveal significant government coordination with social media companies to suppress dissent, undermining First Amendment rights. During a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett criticized journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger, accusing them of promoting a biased narrative. Shellenberger responded, highlighting the emergence of a censorship industrial complex involving government agencies like the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, which is using taxpayer funds to censor information under the guise of combating disinformation. He emphasized that this practice is illegal and a violation of free speech rights. Shellenberger called for dismantling this censorship system to protect democracy.

The speaker claims censorship and disinformation efforts are at another level, referencing a Department of Homeland Security initiative to destroy reputations, deplatform, and de-bank individuals. They assert global control of social media platforms is at risk from governments and the "deep state," jeopardizing free speech and democracy worldwide, specifically mentioning Australia, Brazil, Ireland, Scotland, Europe, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Britain, Canada, and the United States. They criticize Orwellian justifications like "countering disinformation" used to mask censorship, advocating for fighting misinformation with accurate information, not government-backed censorship. The speaker alleges Facebook was "captured" years ago and expresses concern over government-favored fact-checkers dictating censorship. They state there is a push for total control over platforms like X. The speaker also criticizes "media literacy" programs as brainwashing that replaces critical thinking with obedience and authoritarianism. They cite a military contractor handbook advocating information warfare tactics, including those used in the Arab Spring, now being deployed domestically. They suggest these efforts aim to program people before stories emerge, suppressing dissenting voices and undermining Western enlightenment values.

The Twitter files reveal that the federal government, including intelligence agencies like the FBI, used Twitter to censor Americans' speech. Twitter was closely connected to the FBI before Elon Musk took over. Documents show that Twitter engaged in information sharing with multiple intelligence agencies. The FBI pressured Twitter to censor election-related tweets in 2020 and 2022. Twitter executives restricted accounts and censored speech that went against the preferred narrative. This should concern every member of Congress and American citizen because it goes against the principle of free speech. Government and media fact checkers often make mistakes, so relying on them as arbiters of truth is not reliable. Government should not suppress important debates in public discourse.