Posted on 11/30/2023 9:49:37 AM PST by Red Badger
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s cybersecurity agency is burying evidence of its prior efforts to encourage the domestic censorship of US citizens online, silently deleting a dystopian video it published in 2021 instructing children to report their own family members to Facebook for “Covid disinformation.”
In August 2022, Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO) published a report that highlighted a particularly troubling cartoon video released by the DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In the cartoon, CISA encourages a young woman to report a family member — her “Uncle Steve” — to Facebook, after he makes a post claiming that “Covid-19 is no worse than the flu.” FFO archived and presented clips from the video below:
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The quiet purge of censorship evidence took place even as the Supreme Court prepares to issue a ruling in Missouri v. Biden, the lawsuit concerning the very activities that the agency now aims to hide from view. It also comes as evidence of DHS’s involvement in the censorship industry mounts: the House Judiciary Committee recently released new evidence proving that the Election Integrity Partnership — the coalition of social media monitoring and mass-reporting outfits that took a leading role in censoring American political speech during the 2020 election — was created at the behest of DHS.
Wayback Machine records now confirm that DHS deleted the video sometime between April 9, 2023 and May 9, 2023, which would have been during the run-up to the Missouri v. Biden trial court ruling on the federal government’s role in online censorship.
In 2022, after FFO spotlighted the shocking video — which was formerly on CISA’s public YouTube channel but now reads “This video is unavailable” — it received wide political and media attention. Tucker Carlson, then host of the most popular cable news in the country, devoted a segment to DHS’s dystopian video, discussing it with then U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters.
“By definition, if you’re trying to separate children from their parents, break apart the family so that you can have more control over the country – that’s the very definition of authoritarianism,” said Carlson.
Following this coverage, a reporter at the Washington Post frequently panned for consistent and biased errors in reporting attempted to discredit FFO’s report, tenuously alleging that the DHS video was not aimed at children, despite its cartoon format and depiction of a young adult or child reporting her family members for “disinformation.”
One glaring issue overlooked by the Washington Post’s coverage was how and why CISA became involved in the censorship of domestic social media “disinformation” in the first place. The agency, after all, was set up in 2018 to deal with the threat of foreign cyberattacks, not domestic speech online.
CISA could have maintained this threat as its sole focus. Instead, it pulled off two “switcheroos” to attain long-arm jurisdiction of social media: first, it switched “cybersecurity” from meaning hacking and malware attempts to disinformation online; second, it switched its focus from foreign to domestic — with one highly influential CISA advisor, Stanford Internet Observatory director Alex Stamos, proposing in summer 2020 that CISA focus 80% of its censorship efforts on domestic rather than foreign “mis/disinfo.”
For the full story on how CISA pulled off these two flagrantly unlawful “switcheroos,” see this FFO report.
As a slew of leaks published in The Intercept last year revealed, DHS was at the center of government collusion with social media platforms to censor American political speech during the 2020 election. In 2020, DHS’s outside election censorship partner network included 120 analysts who monitored social media for “misinformation” in shifts of up to 20 hours, collecting 829 million tweets in a database for “misinformation” analysis, and resulted in 22 million tweets being proposed to be labeled as “misinformation” by the platform. Hundreds of millions of individual Facebook posts, YouTube videos, TikToks, and tweets were also impacted due to policy changes that DHS’s partners, by their own admission, forced on major tech companies through a combination of media and government pressure.
Domestic Threat Actors
If DHS was convinced that combating “misinformation” was part of its remit in defending the homeland against foreign threats, why would it now seek to cover its tracks? Why would it not proudly advertise its efforts to protect Americans from the danger of Uncle Steve’s Covid commentary?
At one time – before its activities were the subject of Congressional investigations and a Supreme Court case – DHS did exactly that.
Since May 1st, 2021, CISA publicly declared on its website that it classified U.S. citizens who post “misinformation” on social media as “domestic threat actors” and therefore a cyber threat to be neutralized by the agency. The phrase “domestic threat actor” had its origins in a 2019 DHS report titled “Combating Targeted Disinformation Campaigns,” which called for a “whole-of-society approach” to overcome the threat.
But the “domestic threat actors” described by DHS in its report were not collaborators with hostile regimes, nor adherents of terrorist sympathizing ideologies. Instead, DHS pointed the finger at social media users who made satirical memes mocking former NFL athlete Colin Kaepernick and his sponsors at Nike. These were the type of people that DHS claimed were part of a “disinformation kill chain” that resulted in undesirable policy positions winning out. Examples cited by the agency included Brexit and opposition to military involvement in Syria.
Critics of corporate wokeness, opponents of reckless military interventions, and supporters of a campaign for increased political sovereignty from a transnational body: these were the people labeled “domestic threat actors” by DHS. And, by 2021, its cybersecurity division, CISA, was loudly boasting about its efforts to censor them.
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Don’t forget that DHS also considers people who fly US flags as potential terrorists.
The left objects to the right using the left’s own tactics against them.
I did Nat See that coming.
This tells me that the deep state is really getting nervous about Trump being re-elected handily next year, and are about to toss big Pharma under the bus in in a desperate attempt to pin the blame for the frankenshot's deadly effects on Trump for Warp Speed.
About 75% of the government needs to be eliminated and about 50% of the remaining employees fired. Let the eliminations of departments begin with the DHS, Dept of Education and Dept of Energy, and let the firings begin with the DOJ and FBI.
About 75% of the government needs to be eliminated and about 50% of the remaining employees fired. Let the eliminations of departments begin with the DHS, Dept of Education and Dept of Energy, and let the firings begin with the DOJ and FBI.
Just another example of how the stinking communist bastards continue to run roughshod over the servile Aamerican serfs...
There are no limits to tyranny...
There is no end in sight!
“Report Family Members For Disinformation”
Maybe the DHS should change their name to the “Stasi”.
“Kill Chain?”
Looks like somebody’s been playing Soldier.
That’s the ‘S’ in DHS
-fJRoberts-
CISA helped Brazil “ fortify” their last election resulting in a commie win.
Spit.
Ironic DHS absorbed the USCG , and recently “ fortefied” the guarding of US and our coast by gutting 10 cutters and 39 small boat stations.
Ironic everything DHS and visa protects turns to commie crap.
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Ironic everything DHS and CISA protects turns to commie crap.
( I disabled my keyboard auto correct but I see the last phone update turned it back on. Spit )
Hey FReepers, what would you do if someone tried to arrest you for “disinformation “?
“Fundamentally change the United States...” - Obozo...........
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