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Meet The Shadowy Group That Ran The Federal Government’s Censorship Scheme
thefederalist ^ | 4/19/2023 | margot cleveland

Posted on 04/19/2023 10:53:40 AM PDT by bitt

The biggest concern is what GEC paid Park Advisors to do: fund and coordinate the censorship of Americans’ speech and our supposedly free press.

The State Department’s Global Engagement Center used a cutout corporation headed by a former intelligence officer to fund and promote the blacklisting of conservative media outlets and other censorship endeavors, research by The Federalist reveals.

When Elon Musk gave a group of independent journalists access to internal Twitter communications, the resulting “Twitter Files” quickly revealed the existence of a Censorship-Industrial Complex that included an array of federal agencies colluding with social media companies to censor disfavored speech. One of the many federal players was the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) — but GEC did much more than cajole tech giants to censor viewpoints the government didn’t like.

As The Federalist previously reported, GEC funded the development of censorship tools and used “government employees to act as sales reps pitching the censorship products to Big Tech.” Further investigation into its operations now reveals the government’s GEC used one or more for-profit businesses to lead four separate censorship initiatives with contractors at times engaging in “inherently governmental functions.”

This graphic from GEC provides a simple summary of its Technology Engagement Team (TET) initiatives, but Disinfo Cloud provides the best entry point to understanding GEC’s other activities.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1960; 1984; 20221116; antonyblinken; bigtech; censorship; deepstate; fascism; federalgovernment; freespeech; gec; globalengagement; harveyrubin; jamesrubin; parkadvisors; pindarpress; privacy; rubin; socialmedia; spying; tet; thetwitterfiles; twitter; twitterfiles

1 posted on 04/19/2023 10:53:40 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 04/19/2023 10:53:54 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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To: bitt

also

https://beckernews.com/the-shadowy-group-behind-the-u-s-governments-unconstitutional-censorship-operation-is-finally-exposed-50006/


3 posted on 04/19/2023 10:55:17 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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4 posted on 04/19/2023 11:00:46 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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Why aren’t the administrators of this domestic spying in prison?? There are a number of states where they had minimum contacts and could be charged where you don’t end up with a far left kook jury that will automatically acquit them like in DC.


5 posted on 04/19/2023 11:10:33 AM PDT by laconic
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To: bitt

James Rubin was appointed as Special Envoy and Coordinator of the GEC on November 16, 2022, by Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

James Rubin was born on March 28, 1960, into a Jewish family in New York City,[2][3] and raised in the village of Larchmont, in Westchester County, New York.[4] He is the son of Harvey Rubin, a publisher and President of Pindar Press, and his wife, Judith (née Lowe), who trained students specializing in psychiatry.[5][6]

In 1998, Rubin, who at the time was spokesman for the US State Department, married Christiane Amanpour, Chief International Correspondent for CNN.


6 posted on 04/19/2023 12:06:55 PM PDT by euram (allALL)
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7 posted on 04/19/2023 1:33:52 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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Mz. Malarkey is deeply saddened.


8 posted on 04/19/2023 2:49:47 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: bitt

Freeperdom grows numb to the daily outrages, the open corruption and tyranny that is Washington DC.

But we’ll just keep voting and pretend it matters.

Article V while we can.


9 posted on 04/19/2023 2:55:58 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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The State Department’s Global Engagement Center used a cutout corporation headed by a former intelligence officer to fund and promote the blacklisting of conservative media outlets and other censorship endeavors, research by The Federalist reveals. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>...

THats not enough.

We need their names.

We need their home addeesses.

We need to know where their offices are , each one of them

These PEOPLE are criminals.

And if the FBI will not move to enforce the Constitution , then we as citizens need no permission from ANYONE to enforce the Bill of Rights and the 1st amendment.

We can start by suing them. The State Department has violated the Civil Rights of Americans by committing acts of espionage on The People

NAME THEM.


10 posted on 04/19/2023 6:51:29 PM PDT by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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To: euram
“In 1998, Rubin, who at the time was spokesman for the US State Department, married Christiane Amanpour, Chief International Correspondent for CNN.”

Divorced 5 years ago, that is why he needed the GEC job.

11 posted on 04/19/2023 11:59:02 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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