Posted on 03/14/2025 1:29:34 AM PDT by Libloather
It feels more like two years than two months that the frenetic Trump administration has been in power, and, by extension, the dithering and shambolic Biden administration seems ancient history. But a new study from the Media Research Center (MRC) detailing the widespread censorship of Americans by former President Joe Biden is a sobering reminder of how close we recently came to losing our most basic freedom.
The shocking report exposes no fewer than 57 initiatives by the Biden White House to censor the speech of American citizens. These initiatives spanned an incredible 93 separate government agencies.
The most egregious violations of our freedom of speech took the form of direct action, such as when White House advisor Andy Slavitt pressured Amazon to ban books criticizing the government’s response to COVID, or when the White House and the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease threatened Meta into censoring COVID content.
There were more subtle efforts involving policies and rule-making. The State Department under Secretary Antony Blinken signed an agreement with over 20 nations pledging greater censorship online, and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas tried to establish a censorship operation chillingly named the "Disinformation Governance Board."
To make matters worse, when there were opportunities to silence the American people that the Biden administration couldn’t do in house, they just offered partnerships or grants to non-profit organizations happy to be private, anti-free-speech police.
The MRC report lays out in blistering detail how our tax dollars went to far-left organizations like the Poynter Institute or Newsguard, which produce highly biased, often laughable reports about accuracy in the news to scare advertisers away from conservative news content.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
We Now Have More Proof of How the Biden Admin Tried to Suffocate Free Speech
Townhall.com ^ | 13 March A.D. 2025 | Matt Vespa
Posted on 3/13/2025, 4:08:09 PM by lightman
Joe Biden’s final act of shamelessness was pardoning his entire crime family in the final hours of his presidency. There’s a mountain of corruption that’s yet to be fully revealed. On the weaponization of government front, you’d think the sustained lawfare launched against President Donald Trump from the Department of Justice was evidence enough. Pro-life activists and the January 6 defendants also being ensnared by the Biden DOJ’s extralegal crusade on political dissidents. That’s only the tip of the iceberg.
The Media Research Center found not one, not ten, but 57 anti-free speech and censorship initiatives aimed at chipping away at our First Amendment rights. Some you already know, like how the Biden administration bullied Amazon to remove books critical of the COVID chaos created by the experts. Here are some of the MRC’s findings:
The Department of Justice got an activist judge to ban Big Tech platform X and its owner Elon Musk from notifying users of the government’s surveillance.
The White House and the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease harassed and threatened Meta employees into censoring content critical of Biden’s COVID-19 policies.
Throughout the Biden administration, the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM) had an ongoing partnership with the leftist censorship outfit The Poynter Institute, which manages one of the key entities that directed censorship across Meta platforms.
The study breaks down the issue, who spearheaded it, which institutions it will impact, and how it will infringe on your First Amendment rights.
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<><>The “Framework” for controlling speech, where the Biden State Department authored and Biden Secretary of State Tony Blinken signed a compact with over 20 foreign nations pledging to pressure Big Tech platforms to censor more.
<><>“Track F” of Biden’s National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator, which coordinated (and funded) private research institutions to build artificial intelligence (AI) to target and delete speech the Biden administration viewed as “mis/disinformation.”
<><>Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas’s attempt to create a ministry of truth, named the “Disinformation Governance Board” which would police online speech.
Was thinking about this last night. Know what we are NOT hearing from all this yet? The word “Privacy”.
Lots of discussion about correcting censorship, but absolutely no mention about privacy. Not even in the case they are working against Google. What about the fact that the most dangerous thing coming from Google activity is invasion of private data? It is much worse than the censorship yet it is not even being mentioned. Since Google is Alphabet Inc., and Alphabet Inc. is owned by BlackRock and collaborating with the US intelligence agencies they are not ever planning on giving up one bit of the hidden data collection on us. Not even under Trump’s watch... Privacy issues need to be brought out into the light just as much as the censorship issues.
BlackRock sounds like a TOTALLY EVIL COMPANY!!
Has DOGE frozen any and all monies for this garbage?
Can Congress finally pass legislation preventing this censorship by the social media platforms? Make them act like utilities and not watchdogs?
Zerohissef and his 3rd term minions have been an absolute disaster to this country in ways such as the examples given here could never be imagined in, say, 2007.
Thank you, Lord, for nudging that bullet from DJT and the ones the rest of us have dodged.
“BlackRock sounds like a TOTALLY EVIL COMPANY!!”
Don’t want to go too far off topic... But Larry Fink of BlackRock indirectly rules the world through power of credit and finance. They are the head of the New World Order and agenda for One World Government. And Google is one of their world wide tools to gather private data on their “subjects” and censor.
Everything Google is a hidden spy machine. Android, Chrome Browser, Search Engine, Website “Analytics tools” and 3rd party API connections, Google Earth, Youtube, Etc. Why is this fact not being addressed in suits against Google? Being forced to sell off Chrome Browser does absolutely nothing to prevent continued censorship or privacy violations. All it does is address commercial competition and not the truly important issues.
The reason I mentioned Google in this thread is because there is a direct connection with these government agencies trying to censor and use Google as one of their tools to do this. So they go hand in hand...
How BlackRock Conquered the World (Sep 19, 2023)
https://www.corbettreport.com/blackrock/
Remember when Killary (not a typo) screeched, “I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic, and we should stand up and say, “We are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration!””
Well Biden was making it illegal to question the Dems...
“Autopen Joe” wasn’t doing most of this, but he would have approved if he wasn’t senile...
Thank you... :)
heh......that he would
They are powerful, but arrogance comes before the fall.
He is WEF globalist puke.
Absolutely.
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