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\"\"<\/a>New York Post, December 1, 2023<\/h3>\n

More nails in the coffin of Biden’s censorship regime<\/a><\/h1>\n
James Bovard<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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With each passing month, we are getting closer to the Custer\u2019s Last Stand for federal censors. But will free speech triumph in time to prevent the feds from secretly rigging the 2024 presidential election?<\/strong><\/p>\n

At a House Weaponization Subcommittee hearing Thursday, Twitter Files reporters Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger returned to reveal the latest censorious outrages.<\/p>\n

When Taibbi first testified before the committee in March, congressional Democrats denounced him as a \u201cso-called journalist,\u201d a hypocrite, a profiteer and Twitter owner Elon Musk\u2019s lackey.<\/p>\n

Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett, the ranking Democrat, threatened Taibbi with perjury charges and a five-year prison sentence after she claimed he had made a minor misstatement in his testimony.<\/p>\n

The Federal Trade Commission demanded, as The Post noted<\/a>, \u201call internal communications by, from or about Musk \u2014 and telling him to name reporters he\u2019s shared info with\u201d \u2014 as if exposing White House misconduct were a federal crime.<\/p>\n

But Team Biden was not so lucky in court.<\/p>\n

On July 4, federal Judge Terry Doughty, ruling in Missouri v. Biden, condemned the Biden administration for potentially \u201cthe most massive attack against free speech in United States history.\u201d<\/p>\n

A federal appeals court ratified that verdict in September, slamming the White House and federal agencies for actions \u201csuppressing millions of protected free speech postings by American citizens\u201d \u2014 especially conservatives.<\/p>\n

Federal agencies pirouetted as a \u201cMinistry of Truth,\u201d according to federal judges who have castigated Biden censorship abuses. How far did the censorship go?<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the House subcommittee posted online a spreadsheet listing thousands of specific targets of federal contractors. There was pervasive suppression of any complaints about election fraud before the 2020 election, thereby subverting Americans\u2019 awareness of problems with mail-in ballots and polling booths.<\/p>\n

Nothing was too petty to suppress. One of the issues flagged for targeting<\/a> was \u201cTikTok trend to raise middle fingers to vaccine.\u201d So federal censors were obliged to counterpunch any obscene hand gesture in the world?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shellenberger testified that the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its nonprofit partners had targeted political jokes, hyperbole and specific viewpoints for social-media companies to suppress.<\/p>\n

He also stressed that \u201ccognitive security\u201d is a key goal for disinformation researchers. This parallels federal agencies\u2019 interventions to protect \u201ccognitive infrastructure.\u201d And the most important cognitive fix is to train Americans to never doubt Uncle Sam<\/strong>.\u00a0 Shellenberger urged Congress to abolish CISA.<\/p>\n

But congressional Democrats Thursday had a two-word refutation of all the censorship abuses: DONALD TRUMP! The specter of Trump\u2019s re-election miraculously expunges all Biden sins.<\/strong> Plaskett also pointed out that any purported censorship was irrelevant compared with the Internal Revenue Service\u2019s high rate of audits of people of color.<\/p>\n

New York Rep. Dan Goldman, the supposed knockout champion on the Democratic side, uncorked the wackiest censorship refutation. <\/a>\u00a0In October 2020, the FBI and other agencies colluded with social-media companies to suppress the New York Post story on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop. Goldman astounded the audience on Capitol Hill by insisting that laptop was a fake<\/a> \u2014 despite it being validated by the FBI even before The Post expos\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Congressional investigators and journalists are hot on the trail for more outrages. The House Judiciary Committee issued subpoenas Thursday for former Biden White House staffers Andrew Slavitt and Rob Flaherty, two key censorship policymakers. Whistleblowers are also dishing more dirt than almost anyone expected to find behind closed doors.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court will hear Missouri v. Biden, potentially the biggest First Amendment ruling since the 1971 Pentagon Papers case. But federal censors and federal censorship contractors could enjoy free rein until (and perhaps after) the court settles the matter.<\/p>\n

The federal appeals court issued an injunction prohibiting federal officials from acting \u201cto coerce or significantly encourage social-media companies to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce, including through altering their algorithms, posted social-media content containing protected free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the Supreme Court issued a stay on that injunction, tacitly trusting officials to voluntarily restrain themselves. Justice Samuel Alito vehemently dissented, warning it could be seen as \u201cgiving the Government a green light to use heavy-handed tactics to skew the presentation of views\u201d on social media, which \u201cincreasingly dominates the dissemination of news.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will the federal war on disinformation again become a war on democracy? Nullifying freedom of speech turns citizens into political pawns who can be sacrificed as their rulers please. Unless Congress and the Supreme Court have the gumption to end the federal censorship regime, the First Amendment should be replaced by a simple disclaimer: \u201cFor Your Own Good.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Bovard is author of the forthcoming \u201cLast Rights: The Death of American Liberty.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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