Daily Stormer The Most Censored Publication in History
I don’t think anyone believed that the “Disinformation Governance Board” was going to be about “combatting Russia.”
It seems that they dissolved it because they knew the details of it were going to get leaked too early. Obviously, people were eventually going to figure it out, but they wanted it to be entrenched before anyone figured it out (like NSA bulk data collection).
RT:
The US government planned to use its now-shelved Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) to make social media platforms remove posts the government deemed false, according to leaked documents obtained by opposition lawmakers.
Republican Senators Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Josh Hawley (Missouri) cited the whistleblower files in an open letter to Department of Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas published on Wednesday, in which they pressed for more details on the controversial DGB.
The department “planned to coordinate efforts to leverage ties with social media platforms to enable the removal of user content,” the senators said in a press release, adding that it sought to use Big Tech sites to “enforce its agenda.”
First floated in April, the board was quickly paused after a strong public backlash in which critics likened it to a state-run ‘Ministry of Truth’. The lawmakers said the leaked documents raised “serious concerns” about the initiative.
“The DGB was established to serve as much more than a simple ‘working group’ to ‘develop guidelines, standards, [and] guardrails’ for protecting civil rights and civil liberties,” they wrote. “In fact, DHS documents show that the DGB was designed to be the Department’s central hub, clearinghouse and gatekeeper for Administration policy and response to whatever it happened to decide was ‘disinformation.’”
It’s a tired boomer line at this point, but it’s still true: disinformation is whatever they disagree with.
These people were talking about setting up a secret network to censor everything from vaccination views to opinions on just exactly how hard the Ukraine is winning the war against Russia.
Grassley and Hawley argued that the Biden administration has offered no clear definition of “disinformation,” and that the DHS board had shown serious bias even in its earliest stages, despite assurances it would remain apolitical.
In particular, they pointed to author and ‘Disinformation Fellow’ Nina Jankowicz, chosen to head the DGB, claiming she is “a known trafficker of foreign disinformation and liberal conspiracy theories.”
Jankowicz may have been hired chiefly due to “her relationship with executives at Twitter,” the senators claimed, adding that the leaked documents show the White House planned to “operationalize” connections with social media companies to “implement its public policy goals.”
Draft briefing notes prepared in late April indicate that a senior DHS official, Robert Silvers, planned to meet with Twitter executives to discuss the disinformation board, though it remains unclear whether the scheduled meeting ever took place.
The whole thing seems almost unnecessary, since the social media companies are already staffed by women, Jews and pederasts who already agree with everything the US government says. This is just kind of a final stage to streamline the process.
Remember that when Jen Psaki admitted that the government was working with tech companies to censor people, she said that one thing she wanted to do was make sure that if someone was banned on one platform they were banned on all platforms. The government also has the resources to research the “coded language” that right-wingers have developed to avoid triggering bans. So there would be some benefits to having a government agency that directly manages internet censorship.
People are saying this is illegal, but it actually probably isn’t, according to the precedent that has been established thus far. They are telling us “private companies can censor whoever they want,” so there is no reason “private companies can’t secretly collaborate with the government to censor whoever they want.” If the government was forcing cooperation, that would be illegal, but if the companies were willingly cooperating, I don’t think it would be.
But the whole “law and order” thing is done anyway, so it doesn’t even matter.
This Board isn’t gone. Aside from worries about leaks, I think Nina Jankowicz was a little bit too absurd with the TikTok singing videos and so on. They will just bring this back under a different name while they continue to do the same thing through other means.
In Elon we trust.
