Posted on 06/09/2022 3:51:11 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Associated Press reported yesterday that GOP Senators Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and Josh Hawley (Missouri) are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security provide them with specifics on how it planned to coordinate its Disinformation Governance Board with social media companies to remove user content after a whistleblower provided them with key documents about the board.
In an open letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Senators Grassley and Hawley wrote that DHS must "provide additional clarity regarding its policies and procedures for identifying (mis-, dis- or mal-information), as well as its efforts to ‘operationalize’ public-private partnerships and the steps it is taking to ensure it does not infringe on the constitutional rights of American citizens."
The public learned about the Disinformation Governance Board when Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified about its existence in April.
Observers were troubled by the appointment of Nina Jankowicz as the head of the board. Jankowicz has an abominable relationship with the truth. Back in 2020, she dismissed news about Hunter Biden's infamous laptop as "Russian disinformation." She was an advocate of the discredited Steele dossier that was funded by the Clinton campaign that was the source of the Russian Collusion hoax. She is also a blatant partisan with a history of embracing and spreading disinformation to undermine political opponents.
Observers were also concerned that Mayorkas wasn’t explicit about the powers of the Disinformation Governance Board?
Was the board meant to be a supervisory body that would order social media firms to add disclaimers or warnings about ‘disinformation’ and de-platform frequent peddlers of ‘disinformation’?
Was the board empowered to act on the ground and direct law enforcement to conduct arrests and searches?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
First Amendment, theoretically, protects us from government censorship.
But this means nothing if government decides to work with corporations and help the corporations censor citizens.
We need to end corporate censorship. The whole concept of “hate speech” needs to go out the window. No more “blocking”.
Maybe a couple of well aimed letters will send the fear of the Lord into the DOJ?
Strongly Worded Letters! That’ll get those Fascist’s attention!
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Grassley is in on it. He’s one of them.
No worries. Michael Chertof and Jamie Gorelick are retooling the program
This is simple to fix. Just refuse to pass a budget or CR for the department. But RINOs have no guts for the “hard work” of doing just zilch and sitting on it. Your lobbyist will probably cut off your bar tab.
I didn’t know the Homeland Security could just form a committee or actually a new agency just on a whim that has no oversight. I guess we really are in a socialist country now.
He’s in on it, alright - constantly exposing this stuff to the light of day is a sure sign of that.
Perhaps you could name some of the heroic things my Senior Senator has accomplished? When I spoke to him about the 2020 Election, his response was, “The 2020 Election was the fairest and most transparent election that I know of!”
just breaking:
fbi arrested gop gov candidate ryan kellie (?)
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