Posted on 10/02/2022 10:00:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Election Integrity Partnership was formed in the final days of the 2020 election “as a non-partisan coalition to empower the research community, election officials, government agencies, civil society organizations, social media platforms, and others to defend our elections against those who seek to undermine them by exploiting weaknesses in the online information environment.”
Those “weaknesses” are websites that don’t toe the company line on a variety of issues like “attempts to suppress voting, reduce participation, confuse voters, or delegitimize election results without evidence.” Question an election, and the EIP reports you to social media companies. The organization bragged they were able to have 35% of the content they flagged removed.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the State Department, and liberal groups such as the Democratic National Committee, also flagged purported misinformation through the consortium.
“No news organization should be subjected to an enemies/censorship list for reporting newsworthy facts” Just the News Editor in Chief John Solomon said in a statement. “It’s even more egregious that this censorship machinery was prodded, aided and sanctioned by the federal government.”
The way the system worked was the partnership “set up a ticket system where a user, such as someone from the State Department, would attach a warning label to certain accounts they deemed were spreading misinformation,” according to Human Events. Those users who had been ticketed could be referred to social media companies to be censored.
Jim Hoft, the publisher of Gateway Pundit, asks, “How is this any different from what happens in Communist Party-controlled China?” The answer is, not much different at all. The Chinese Communists rely on some non-governmental entities to do much of the leg work in censoring the public.
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More freedom of the de-pressed.
But those 60s and 70s hippies celebrate their new dictatorship.
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