‘Department Of Homeland Censorship’: How DHS Seized Power Over Online Speech

Foundation for Freedom Online ^

[Pollard]

Over the next several months, FFO will be releasing a series of revelations about domestic censorship operations being run out of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). We have spent the past 16 weeks mapping virtually every element of DHS partnerships and operations connected to Internet censorship, and our findings tally to a government scandal so bizarre, and so disturbing, that its full story can only be told through an ongoing series.

As a preview, in the clip below (source), you can watch a taxpayer-funded DHS video, instructing children to report their own family members to Facebook for “disinformation” if they challenge US government narratives on Covid-19:

Below, you can sit stage-side at a taxpayer-funded DHS “disinformation” event, featuring a DHS keynote speaker in charge of a formal DHS “disinformation” partnership. The speaker will explain how, for months ahead of the 2020 US Presidential election, her academia-NGO group worked closely with DHS to squash social media narratives that were in the process of “going viral” to stop them from influencing “mainstream” opinions about the election.

As this speaker describes, her group reported 639 social media posts directly to DHS’s “cyber mission control”, giving them privileged access to social media censorship teams via a special relationship with senior DHS officials. 72% of those 639 posts were reported to DHS, and then on to Big Tech censors, because targeted citizens were “casting doubt on the integrity of the election outcome”, via criticism of things like the viability of drop boxes and mail-in ballots.

DHS coordinated censorship at both ends, connecting the social media monitors who reported posts to the social media platforms who banned those posts. The US government, in effect, censored the ability to “cast doubt” on the US government.

[DarthVader]

You’re right it’s been around for awhile but now it’s canceled permanently like a few other things have been.

[Mlheureux]

Time to dump DHS. It has become the toilet scum of a deep state toilet.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Power over what’s disseminated isn’t power over what everyone knows. Obama knew he was despised even by his own party and media hacks. That’s why he is so bitter.

[jimwatx]

DHS is another agency that should be abolished.

[Jacquerie]

When all is said and done, we’ll just keep voting and pretend it matters.

[cgbg]

The problem of government disinformation goes back to the Cold War days.

The claim that government can publish lies “just to influence foreign hostile governments” with zero blowback to the American public was absurd then and is insane now.

Censorship then became necessary to protect the existing disinformation.

This was totally predictable and was of course predicted by books like Orwell’s “1984”.

[Pollard]

Operation Mockingbird. This time it has full government approval.

[SuperLuminal]

George Bush knew what he was doing...

Nothing would stand in his desire to reunite Mexico with all its lost territories...

Defacto invasion was the key...

It is working...
Just have to make sure the serfs are effectively chained up and silenced...
DHS leads the way...