{"id":18380,"date":"2023-06-07T22:55:16","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T02:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=18380"},"modified":"2023-06-08T13:51:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T17:51:33","slug":"n-y-post-washington-throws-a-pity-party-for-federal-censors-finally-being-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/07\/n-y-post-washington-throws-a-pity-party-for-federal-censors-finally-being-investigated\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. Post: Washington throws a pity party for federal censors finally being investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post, June 8, 2023<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline headline--single\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/07\/washington-throws-a-pity-party-for-federal-censors-finally-being-investigated\/\">Washington throws a pity party for federal censors finally being <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/JPB-NY-Post-Censor-6-8-23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18384\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/JPB-NY-Post-Censor-6-8-23-443x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/JPB-NY-Post-Censor-6-8-23-443x800.jpg 443w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/JPB-NY-Post-Censor-6-8-23-567x1024.jpg 567w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/JPB-NY-Post-Censor-6-8-23-83x150.jpg 83w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/JPB-NY-Post-Censor-6-8-23.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/07\/washington-throws-a-pity-party-for-federal-censors-finally-being-investigated\/\">investigated<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>by James Bovard<\/p>\n<p>Democracy Dies in Darkness\u201d is the pious masthead motto The Washington Post adopted in the Trump era. But in the Biden era, the Post sees censorship as the salvation of self-government.<\/p>\n<p>Censorship requires secrecy to work its magic, though. Folks get ornery about wearing a government blindfold, the same way malcontents yelped about wearing face masks. Republican congressmen and activist groups are shamelessly yanking at the curtain hiding the censorship-industrial complex.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Post readers were invited Tuesday to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2023\/06\/06\/disinformation-researchers-congress-jim-jordan\/\">1,700-word pity party<\/a> for federal censorship contractors. Federal agencies have launched crusades in recent years to suppress \u201cdisinformation\u201d on the Internet. They mostly rely on \u201ccensorship by surrogate\u201d because the First Amendment\u2019s freedom-of-speech provision makes it legally dicey to directly muzzle Americans.<\/p>\n<p>And fearing legal trouble from the feds if they didn\u2019t cooperate, social-media companies kowtowed to the surrogates.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2020 election season, contractors composing the Election Integrity Project filed endless objections to Americans\u2019 online posts with social-media firms.<\/p>\n<p>The project spurred crackdowns that affected \u201cmillions of individual Facebook posts, YouTube videos, TikToks, and tweets\u201d thanks to \u201chuge regulatory pressure from government,\u201d according to former State Department official Mike Benz.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--related-post\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading widget-heading widget-heading--underline\"><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t censorship \u2014 it was simply \u201ccontent removals,\u201d The Washington Post says. The paper portrays Republicans and legal activists as troublemakers for seeking the specific charges on wrongthink social-media posts a Stanford University contractor filed with Twitter and other companies. Stanford is refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena for that data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Disinformation\u201d is often simply the lag time between the pronouncement and the debunking of government falsehoods. The WaPo lauded contractors for targeting \u201cconspiracy theories about coronavirus vaccines.\u201d But perhaps millions of tweets and other posts were suppressed for \u201cdisinformation\u201d for claiming vaccines fail to prevent COVID transmission \u2014 a supposedly heinous lie that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/04\/14\/the-corrupted-science-behind-bidens-covid-vax-mandates\/\">turned out to be true<\/a> after the federal coverup collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Nor does the Post mention that a federal contractor pressured social-media companies to suppress \u201cstories of true vaccine side effects\u201d and \u201ctrue posts which could fuel [vaccine] hesitancy,\u201d as Matt Taibbi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1633830108321677315\">revealed<\/a> in the Twitter Files.<\/p>\n<p>The paper wailed about critics uncorking a \u201cdeluge of bad information about disinformation researchers.\u201d One professor lamented that \u201cthere\u2019s a lot of bad actors who are using freedom of information requests to harass academics working at public universities.\u201d But there is no \u201cDoing God\u2019s work\u201d exemption for the Freedom of Information Act.<\/p>\n<p>Federal agencies have stonewalled FOIA requests, but the Twitter Files, lawsuits and targeting federal grant recipients have begun to expose the sordid machinations.<\/p>\n<p>The article treats fears of federal censorship as a deranged conspiracy theory. But the paper has almost completely ignored recent revelations the State Department pressured Twitter to suspend more than <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/03\/02\/how-the-feds-spend-74m-a-year-to-try-to-censor-americans\/\">300,000 accounts<\/a> (often on ludicrous pretexts) and the Biden White House pressured Facebook to <a href=\"https:\/\/public.substack.com\/p\/under-white-house-pressure-facebook\">suppress any posts<\/a> critical of COVID vaccines. And what about the FBI\u2019s strong-arm tactics to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election?<\/p>\n<p>Does the paper fear that the right people will no longer be able to censor? When Elon Musk bought Twitter and announced plans to restore some banned accounts, Washington Post diva Taylor Lorenz howled that Musk was \u201copening the gates of hell.\u201d Lorenz did not disclose that she had filed a \u201cnear constant stream of complaints, asking Twitter to take down and suspend accounts,\u201d as Paul Thacker <a href=\"https:\/\/disinformationchronicle.substack.com\/p\/twitter-files-twitter-provided-privileged?utm_source=profile&amp;utm_medium=reader2\">reported<\/a> last month for the Twitter Files. Lorenz even swayed Twitter to suspend the account of Stanford professor (and sometime New York Post contributor) Jay Bhattacharya.<\/p>\n<p>But <strong>the mainstream media have less interest in exposing federal censorship than a 1920s Mississippi sheriff had in solving a Klan lynching.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fixating on the supposedly bad motives of Republicans absolves the government and all its tools. As long as federal marshals don\u2019t handcuff the CEOs of social-media companies, censorship apologists can pretend no threats were used. Instead, the controversy becomes another Washington morality play in which the government is always the good guy.<\/p>\n<p>The media are as mesmerized by the Disinformation Peril as they were by Russiagate, the grand delusion of the Trump era. Pundits know disinformation is a grave peril because the government tells them so \u2014 making it a Beltway Revealed Truth.<\/p>\n<p>As Tuesday\u2019s article warned, \u201cDisinformation is rising ahead of the 2024 election.\u201d <strong>But the hysteria over disinformation tacitly presumes nobody ever lied before the invention of the Internet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Will The Washington Post propose to formally replace the First Amendment with a simple censorship-friendly disclaimer: \u201cFor your own good\u201d?<\/strong> Unfortunately, any such revision would be done clandestinely, and Americans wouldn\u2019t learn about the alteration until long after the next election.<\/p>\n<p><em>James Bovard is the author of 10 books and a Brownstone Institute fellow.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post, June 8, 2023 Washington throws a pity party for federal censors finally being investigated by James Bovard Democracy Dies in Darkness\u201d is the pious masthead motto The Washington Post adopted in the Trump era. 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