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Posted on 10/31/2022 10:45:05 AM PDT by RandFan
THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY is quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech it considers dangerous, an investigation by The Intercept has found. Years of internal DHS memos, emails, and documents — obtained via leaks and an ongoing lawsuit, as well as public documents — illustrate an expansive effort by the agency to influence tech platforms.
The work, much of which remains unknown to the American public, came into clearer view earlier this year when DHS announced a new “Disinformation Governance Board”: a panel designed to police misinformation (false information spread unintentionally), disinformation (false information spread intentionally), and malinformation (factual information shared, typically out of context, with harmful intent) that allegedly threatens U.S. interests. While the board was widely ridiculed, immediately scaled back, and then shut down within a few months, other initiatives are underway as DHS pivots to monitoring social media now that its original mandate — the war on terror — has been wound down.
Behind closed doors, and through pressure on private platforms, the U.S. government has used its power to try to shape online discourse. According to meeting minutes and other records appended to a lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican who is also running for Senate, discussions have ranged from the scale and scope of government intervention in online discourse to the mechanics of streamlining takedown requests for false or intentionally misleading information.
“Platforms have got to get comfortable with gov’t. It’s really interesting how hesitant they remain,” Microsoft executive Matt Masterson, a former DHS official, texted Jen Easterly, a DHS director, in February.
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Ministry of Truth
“Authority is vested in those to whom in applies.”
Department of Homeland Insecurity, more like it. Thanks, W.
When can we shut down DC? Its existence is an existential threat to the Union.
Originally, W did not want another department, but he then caved.
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Nations hostile to US➡️Soros/Clintons/Obama/Bidens➡️Democrat Party➡️Govt employees
Government employees think they are helping themselves and the Democrat party when in reality they are helping nations hostile to The United States to weaken and destroy the United States which will cost them dearly.
Anyone guilty of not supporting aid of trillions of dollars to Ukraine forever will be found guilty of “disinformation” and “harmful information”.
Even Stevie Wonder could have seen this coming.
They’re coming for FR.
“In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government.”
This statement speaks for itself, no comment necessary.
95% of the posts here would qualify as “subversive” using these guidelines.
He probably caved to Cheney, who ran that administration
That’s the plan!
No subsequent tyrannical nation implementing thought control has ever come close to the current global environment and its thought control technologies...
Particularly in the communist-controlled United States...
Discord surprises me a little but just a little. 99% of techies are lefties. In case anyone if wondering about Verizon Media; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verizon_Media That link now forwards to Yahoo Inc wiki page which lists all sorts of buyouts of various tech companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Inc._(2017%E2%80%93present)
They had the legislation ready to go they just needed an incident to lead the gullible American people into giving up their freedom.
Absolutely they’re coming for FR. I expect to go to a reeducation camp for things I’ve said here, if they don’t just kill me.
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