One of the latest explorations of censorship comes from The Intercept who revealed
internal Department of Homeland Security documents that confirm their
plans to continue censoring opinions about COVID-19, “racial justice,”
and US support for Ukraine going forward. Their documents effectively
show that the government agencies work to control American public
discourse online.
One of their major revelations is that tech
companies – including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Wikipedia,
Microsoft and LinkedIn – met with the FBI and other government agencies
every month, before and since the 2020 election to talk about this.
Facebook even set up a special portal for “takedowns” that requires a
law enforcement email to access.
One of the authors of The Intercept report, Lee Fang, tweeted the following on Monday,
Facebook
and Twitter created special portals for the government to rapidly
request takedowns of content. The portals, along with NGO partners used
to censor a wide range of content, including obvious parody accounts and
content disagreeing w gov pandemic policy. pic.twitter.com/Jth0WUfXAI— Lee Fang (@lhfang) October 31, 2022
The
recent COVID pandemic is a great example of how this partnership was
likely in place. During the pandemic, any science showing that natural
immunity to COVID-19 was quite robust was subjected to this type of
censorship. Scientists and scientific papers were met with “fact checks”
or content removals on emerging and evolving topics that were not
actually false. If their findings did not align with Big Government,
they were shut down....<<<Read More>>>....
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