How Microsoft Helped Build The Censorship Industry

Foundation For Freedom Online ^ | January 27, 2025 | by Allum Bokhari

[Openurmind]

Microsoft aims to smoothly transition from one presidential administration to the next. The company recently secured a major win in DC, receiving the official blessing of the President in a $500 billion AI investment partnership between SoftBank, Oracle, and Microsoft’s OpenAI. But as official policy turns against online censorship, the tech giant may have to confront its track record of deep involvement in the suppression of Americans’ online speech.

Newly uncovered evidence now shows that Microsoft served as the tip of the spear in the private sector in censorship-industrial complex – the coordinated effort between corporations, government agencies, NGOs and academics to restrict American speech.

Microsoft not only participated but actively funded and partnered with several key initiatives aimed at controlling online content, including the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP), and the DHS-born Election Integrity Partnership to which it belongs.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Musk should have been included in anything AI-related.

Next-generation AI controlled by evil people is very dangerous.

[RayChuang88]

They're going after the people and/or companies who were complicit in the online censorship business after this infamous dinner meeting by President Obama in February 2011:

If I were any of the Big Tech companies I'd start lawyering up right now.

[wildcard_redneck]

I think Microsoft and a lot of tech Titan companies will find themselves in court over their trampling of Americans’ God-given rights.

[nopardons]

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