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Pro-Censorship Democrats Whitewash the Federal Government\u2019s Iron Fist\"\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

by Jim Bovard<\/a><\/span> | Mar 13, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government held a hearing last Thursday on the Twitter Files<\/span><\/a>. Elon Musk purchased Twitter last October and was aghast to learn how the feds had previously domineered his new company. \u201cTwitter is both a social media company and a crime scene<\/span><\/a>,\u201d he tweeted on December 10. Musk chose a handful of journalists to go through Twitter\u2019s records and expose how the feds domineered the company.<\/p>\n

Prior to Thursday\u2019s hearing, the Twitter Files revealed that the U.S. State Department had directly pressured Twitter to cancel almost 300,000 accounts<\/span><\/a> (including those of journalists and foreign diplomats). In June 2021, a State Department contractor sent Twitter a list of \u201caround 40k Twitter accounts that our researchers suspect are engaging in inauthentic behavior\u2026and Hindu nationalism more broadly.\u201d But the list was full of hapless Americans<\/span><\/a> with no ties to India or its politics. The State Department sent Twitter a list of 5,500 names<\/span><\/a> believed to be \u201cChinese\u2026accounts\u201d engaged in \u201cstate-backed coordinated manipulation.\u201d<\/span><\/a> The list was so sloppy that it \u201cincluded multiple Western government accounts and at least three CNN employees based abroad,\u201d according to a Twitter internal analysis. One Twitter executive ridiculed the presumption that \u201cIf you retweet a news source linked to Russia, you become Russia-linked.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FBI perpetually browbeat Twitter to suppress accounts, including Twitter parody accounts that only idiots or federal agents would not recognize as humor.<\/strong> Taibbi wrote, \u201cThe master-canine quality of the FBI\u2019s relationship to Twitter comes through in this November 2022 email, in which \u2018FBI San Francisco is notifying you\u2019 it wants action on four accounts.\u201d In a March 2022 meeting with top Twitter executives, FBI agent Laura Dehmlow \u201cwarned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government.\u201d Dehmlow had a task force of 80 agents to curb \u201csubversive data utilized to drive a wedge between the populace and the government.\u201d Her team continually pounded Twitter headquarters with tweets and individuals they wanted suppressed.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s COVID policymakers were some of the most brazen censors of social media. The Biden White House browbeat Twitter into canceling the accounts of Alex Berenson<\/span><\/a> and many other lockdown critics. A lawsuit is exposing how the Biden White House sought total suppression of any content on social media that raised doubts on the efficacy of the COVID vaccine. Twitter Files added new logs to the bonfire on the morning of the hearing with revelations of a federal contractor pressuring social media companies to suppress \u201cstories of true vaccine<\/span><\/a> side effects\u201d and \u201ctrue posts which could fuel [vaccine] hesitancy.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/b>Americans\u2019 freedom of speech is increasingly targeted by a vast, federally funded Censorship-Industrial-Complex. The feds and their contractors are going on ever-more wild goose chases <\/span><\/a>to suppress any views the Washington establishment disapproves.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Twitter Files reporters Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger were the witnesses at last week\u2019s hearing. Though both are bestselling authors with long records of excellent reporting, they were treated as shameless grifters who basely smeared noble federal agencies.<\/p>\n

In lieu of refuting the Twitter Files, congressional Democrats sought to destroy Taibbi and Shellenberger. The witnesses labored under the misconception that congressional hearings seek to reveal facts. Instead, Democratic members viewed them as sacrifices on the altar of\u00a0 <\/span>boundless federal prerogatives. Democratic members continually cut off the witnesses, signaling that their role was to shut up and take a whupping.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ranking Democrat on the committee, Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands), derided Taibbi and Shellenberger as \u201cso-called journalists\u201d and claimed they \u201cpose a direct threat<\/span><\/a> to people who oppose them.\u201d Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FLA) vilified Taibbi: \u201cElon Musk spoon-fed you his cherry-picked information, which\u2026generates another right-wing conspiracy<\/span><\/a> theory.\u201d She accused Taibbi of unfairly profiting from his work because he now has more Twitter followers and Substack subscribers. She concluded by casting Taibbi\u2019s character into the abyss: \u201cHypocrisy is the hangover of an <\/span><\/a>addiction to attention.\u201d (Wasserman Schultz was named the \u201cmost unethical politician<\/span><\/a>\u201d in Congress in 2017 by the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust.)<\/p>\n

Shortly after the hearing, Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-TX) tweeted that \u201cRepublicans have launched a dangerous political circus that\u2019s sole purpose is to inject extremist politics <\/span><\/a>into our justice system\u201d and promised to fight \u201coutright conspiracy theories.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Rep. Garcia was the Know Nothing Poster Child at the hearing.<\/strong> She pounded Taibbi on whether he disclosed the information in that morning\u2019s Twitter Files to Twitter before publishing. He was mystified by her questions: he had posted a series of tweets. Garcia couldn\u2019t<\/span><\/a> comprehend that tweeting is the same as simultaneously publishing on Twitter. She interrogated Taibbi: \u201cYou posted on your umm I guess it\u2019s kind of like a web page. I don\u2019t quite understand <\/span><\/a>what Substack is.\u201d Where do the Democrats find these wizards?<\/p>\n

Democrats continually sought to expose ulterior motives that didn\u2019t exist. Rep. Garcia asked Shellenberger how he joined the Twitter Files project. He said his friend Bari Weiss had asked him. \u201cSo this friend works for Twitter?\u201d Garcia asked. Shellenberger said no, she is a journalist. Garcia continued, \u201cSo you work in concert with her\u2026You\u2019re in this as a threesome<\/span><\/a>?\u201d There is no menage a trois<\/i>\u2014several other writers are reporting the dirt in the Twitter Files.<\/p>\n

The prevailing Democratic beliefs were epitomized by Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX), a former Obama administration official who condemned the hearing even before it started. Appearing on MSNBC a week earlier, he declared, \u201cThis is the tinfoil hat committee<\/span><\/a>\u2026They have nothing because there is no there there. They are trying to prove something that has not really happened. That is why it has been a dud.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the hearing, Allred was smug, condescending, and righteous. He used part of his five minutes of the hearing to showcase a deranged tweet by Kanye West that supposedly proved Uncle Sam must micro-manage social media. He repeatedly cut off Taibbi\u2019s attempts to respond and lectured him\u2014and all Americans\u2014about their duty to think well of their federal masters. He declared, \u201cIt should be a bipartisan goal to ensure that Americans and only Americans determine the outcome of our elections, not fear mongering<\/span><\/a>.\u201d So maybe Allred missed Biden\u2019s raving Philadelphia speech last September with a background inspired by V for Vendetta<\/em> and Leni Riefenstahl?<\/p>\n

Allred was the ultimate Deep State shill at the hearing.<\/strong> He tut-tutted the witnesses: \u201cIt\u2019s possible, if you take off the tinfoil hat, there\u2019s not a vast conspiracy. Or that ordinary folks and national security agencies responsible for our security are trying to find a way to make sure that our online talk doesn\u2019t get folks hurt or our democracy undermined.\u201d He concluded, \u201cThe very rights that you think they are undermining, they may be trying to protect.\u201d Allred did not introduce any evidence to support that notion.<\/p>\n

Kowtowing by congressional Democrats thrilled Biden supporters. MSNBC highlighted their report on the showdown: \u201cWeaponization of government hearings backfire<\/span><\/a> on GOP.\u201d Similarly, The Majority Report with Sam Seder<\/em> crowed, \u201cMatt Taibbi\u2019s Lack Of Journalistic Integrity<\/span><\/a> Exposed During Twitter Hearings.\u201d<\/p>\n

None of the congressional Democrats responded to the hard facts exposed by the Twitter Files. Instead, they are relied on a simple standard for absolution. The feds are innocent until and unless they confess their crimes. And if that happens, any technical legal violations will be \u201cwater under the bridge\u201d and no reason not to boost the budgets of those federal agencies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Republicans offered plenty of fresh evidence of federal meddling endangering both freedom of speech and public health. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) recapped how his tweets on how natural immunity provided better protection against COVID than vaccines were suppressed. Massie declared, \u201cThis truth was toxic<\/span><\/a> to a narrative Pfizer was spreading that Biden wanted out there so he could force the mandates\u201d on everybody\u2014including those who had natural immunity after having COVID.<\/p>\n

But according to the Democrats, federal agencies and contractors were merely making polite requests to make certain people and ideas vanish from the Internet.<\/strong> The fact that President Biden in July 2021 publicly accused social media companies of murdering people<\/span><\/a> by not suppressing criticisms of COVID policy was irrelevant. Likewise, the Biden White House\u2019s brazen threats of antitrust investigations against social media companies that failed to suppress <\/span><\/a>\u201cdisinformation\u201d didn\u2019t count.<\/p>\n

Congressional Democrats championed the National Lampoon<\/em> definition of Censorship: Unless there is a photo of an FBI agent holding a gun to the head of a Twitter employee, the feds did nothing wrong<\/strong>. But Team Biden is getting closer and closer to pulling the gun out in public. Vice President Kamala Harris responded to the Twitter Files by announcing that she \u201cwould require\u201d social media companies to submit to Biden administration disinformation edicts to \u201cprotect democracy.\u201d But \u201cdisinformation\u201d is often simply the lag time between the pronouncement and the debunking of government falsehoods.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the biggest \u201clag time\u201d is Americans learning how the feds are suppressing freedom of speech.<\/strong> The Twitter Files were not disclosed by the federal agencies that sought to veto Americans\u2019 thoughts. The Biden White House efforts to suppress heretical thoughts on COVID are being exposed by lawsuits by savvy attorneys, including the case by the state attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri and the New Civil Liberties Alliance. (Their latest \u201cfindings of fact<\/b><\/span><\/a>\u201d are jolting). The last few years (okay, the last century) have proven the folly of waiting for federal agencies to voluntarily disclose their crimes. <\/b><\/p>\n

Democrats\u2019 absolution of federal censorship is not solely a problem for the First Amendment. They will use the same dishonest standards to absolve federal violations of any constitutional right. The Founding Fathers intended Congress to be a check on the abuse of power by the executive branch. But that vision of representative government is now as archaic as balancing the federal budget.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most of the mainstream media has ignored the evidence of federal censorship that the Twitter Files and lawsuits have exposed. This is the same template the Washington establishment has used to shroud its crimes for decades. The FBI sending in military tanks to demolish the Branch Davidians\u2019 home, ending with 80 dead men, women, children, was irrelevant because David Koresh allegedly abused children. George W. Bush lying the nation into war against Iraq was irrelevant because Saddam Hussein was a bad man. The National Security Agency\u2019s crime sprees against Americans were irrelevant because Edward Snowden was supposedly a traitor. If Biden drags America into World War III against Russia, all subsequent carnage will be irrelevant because Putin is a bad man.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Will the feds succeed in shutting down Twitter Files? Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sounded the alarm over the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s letter to Twitter demanding information on any journalist<\/span><\/a> involved in the Twitter Files project. Does the FTC now consider exposing federal abuses to be an Unfair Trade Practice by the media? Musk denounced the federal demand as \u201ca shameful case of weaponization of a government agency for political purposes<\/span><\/a> and suppression of the truth!\u201d<\/p>\n

Disguising the federal iron fist in a velvet glove is a crime against the Bill of Rights. Perhaps it is time for the Democratic Party to formally rechristen itself as the Leviathan Anti-Defamation League.<\/strong> Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) offered the best lesson from the hearing: \u201cSunshine is the best disinfectant<\/span><\/a> and\u2026our federal government need to be fumigated.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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