Posted on 07/16/2024 10:33:13 AM PDT by John Semmens
The House Judiciary Committee released a report showing how the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) organized corporate cooperation aimed at silencing conservative viewpoints over the Internet by "demonetizing their platforms, podcasts, and news outlets."
GARM's leader and co-founder, Rob Rakowitz emphasized that "our goal is to ensure that vendors don't inadvertently place ads on sites whose content could misinform the public. When we spot an ad on Breitbart, X, or Joe Rogan we contact the company to ask them if they really want ads for their product or service to be seen on these disreputable sites and whether they want their ad fees to sustain the misinformation commonly purveyed by these sites."
Rakowitz brushed aside Republican objections, saying "the Supreme Court already ruled that the government is within its rights to pressure social and other media into censoring content it considers outside the bounds of acceptable opinion. This was despite the Constitution's admonition that the government may not infringe on freedom of speech. Our organization has the legal right to promote our views by bringing economic pressure on those who disagree with us to conform to our wishes."
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