Posted on 01/03/2025 11:24:33 PM PST by CFW
The State Department laid to rest the alleged "censorship nerve center" of the federal government last week after Congress refused to reauthorize the interagency Global Engagement Center, known for teaching youth to distrust populism and allegedly squelching American small businesses online.
While it may have a peaceful afterlife – State plans to "realign" GEC staff with other entities that handle purported "foreign information manipulation and interference activities" – GEC also faces an unquenchable fire and undying worm on multiple fronts.
The Functional Government Initiative (FGI) filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Monday against State, with nine exhibits, because it "has produced no records and has failed to assert any claims that responsive records are exempt from production" in response to three FOIA requests whose statutory due dates have passed.
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FGI's first FOIA request Sept. 27 asks for cyberspace bureau records from October 19, 2022 – when the DSA was adopted – to the start of the records search.
It pertains to Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Jennifer Bachus, Special Envoy and Coordinator for Digital Freedom Eileen Donahoe, Ambassador at Large Nathaniel Fick, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Cyberspace Security Liesyl Franz, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy Steve Lang and Director for Strategic Planning and Communications Shawn Powers
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Well now, I'm mighty upset about that.
— Dirty Harry
That quote fits perfectly here.
Slice it up, burn it to a crisp, douse it with acid, and scatter the ashes to the wind. Reassign the ex-employees to janitorial duties; if they don't like that, they can find a better job elsewhere.
Biden’s nefarious State Department’s totaltarian “censorship nerve center” was dumped.
Congress refused to reauthorize the Stalinesque Biden interagency “Global Engagement Center:
Biden’s cockeyed notion to get taxpayers
<><>to brainwash their schoolchildren to distrust populism
<><>using Biden’s electronic fraud-—
<><>to crush American small businesses online.
(While it may have a peaceful afterlife – State plans to “realign” GEC staff)
Sooooooo...., certain FR accounts......
BTTT
The unbridled fascism and propaganda that started in 2008 with the Obama administration and ramped up into light speed replication during the Biden administration is beyond imagination. Especially recently with instant AI detection and response application.
“ State plans to “realign” GEC staff with other entities that handle purported “foreign information manipulation and interference activities””
So the censorship complex lives on. It will take more than defunding one office.
Holy cow! A government program ends?!?!?!!?
This is on Marco Rubio - his first order of business is ensuring that the State Department does not meddle with freedom of speech for American citizens during Trump’s second term. His second order of business is working with Congress to get legislation passed ensuring that no part of the Executive Branch ever again meddles with freedom of speech for American citizens.
Efforts need to include making it once again illegal for U.S. Govt to pass propaganda off inside the USA. Right now it is legal.
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