Posted on 04/28/2021 7:06:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Forget about those claims that Big Tech has every right to censor political information on their platforms because they are private firms. That’s not true when these companies operate as “state actors” working in collusion with or at the command of government entities.
Judicial Watch once again has uncovered stunning proof of malfeasance through lawsuits based on freedom of information laws. (I donate to Judicial Watch because of the bang-for-the-buck they provide, and I urge readers to consider donating, too; click here to do so.)
Judicial Watch announced today that it received 540 pages and a supplemental four pages of documents from the office of the Secretary of State of California revealing how state officials pressured social media companies (Twitter, Facebook, Google (YouTube)) to censor posts about the 2020 election. Included in these documents were “misinformation briefings” emails that were compiled by communications firm SKDK, that lists Biden for President as their top client of 2020. The documents show how the state agency successfully pressured YouTube to censor a Judicial Watch video concerning the vote by mail and a Judicial Watch lawsuit settlement about California voter roll clean up.
The records were obtained in response to Judicial Watch’s California Public Records Act (CPRA) requests to the Office of the California Secretary of State for records related to the Office of Election Cybersecurity’s database of social media posts; communications with social media companies; and other social media related records regarding the 2020 elections.
Judicial Watch was alerted to the abuse by a post late last year in CalMatters – that proved to be true, according to the uncovered documents:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“It’s a Private Company, they can do what they like!”
No doubt ‘grabem’ will initiate an investigation first thing this morning. Or not. Probably not.
There are also campaign finance laws. Things like this are required to be enumerated, hard dollars, soft dollars and in-kind donations.
Just have to have the right lawyer and good plausible deniability ;)
So collusion like they accused Trump of who never did collude with anyone but the American people.
Gosh, what a surprise. Why, it's almost as if the entire cyberthug 'community' is nothing but a criminal partisan conspiracy, and all of them should be fed feedfirst into a wood chipper.
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