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TikTok ban bill could lead to broader surveillance and censorship by the U.S. government

a month ago -

The bill, which was passed by the House of Representatives on Wednesday, would prohibit the TikTok video sharing app from appearing in American app stores unless ByteDance, its parent company, divests it. This is because as a Chinese company, ByteDance is beholden to the Chinese Communist Party and is required to share data with them upon request. There have long been fears that the CCP will use the app to access people’s personal data and use algorithms to show individuals videos ...

House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan wants government budget deal to include ban on federal funding of censorship activities

September 21, 2023 -

Jordan's demand comes as House Republicans and the GOP leadership are once again at odds over supplemental spending bills.

"We want certain language on these appropriation bills," said Jordan during an appearance on the "Just The News, No Noise" television program. "When we get to those that says, you know, no money can be used to censor Americans, if it's that kind of language, no money can be used to develop a disinformation governance board at the Department of ...

Deep state censorship exposed

November 08, 2023 -

(Article republished from RWMaloneMD.Substack.com)

In that report, the committee laid out the role of the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP) and other astroturf organizations contracted (that means paid for) by the Department of Homeland Security to censor Americans.

Representative Jim Jordan on his Twitter account also provided the receipts how the Election Integrity Partnership was founded, by attaching a letter from the Atlantic Council advising a “sync-up” ...

Biden sanctions Iranian tech company for censorship while pushing domestic censorship on U.S. citizens

June 12, 2023 -

Aravan Cloud and its co-founders Pouya Pirhosseinloo and Farhad Fatemi, as well as the company's United Arab Emirates-based affiliate, have all been sanctioned "for their roles in facilitating the Iranian regime's censorship of the Internet in Iran," announced the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

"The United States is committed to holding accountable those who seek to undermine freedom of expression and suppress dissent, and to call out regimes who deny their ...

From censorship to criminalizing dissent

February 21, 2024 -

(Article by Jeffrey A. Tucker republished from TheEpochTimes.com)Like all Western nations, criticism of the mRNA platform has already been subjected to vast social media censorship. Even given this, there has been a major and global consumer turn against these shots. People aren’t convinced that they are necessary, safe, or effective. Still, government imposed mandates for everyone, billions of people worldwide. It was a form of conscription that has driven a deep divide ...

Censorship wounds worse than words

July 06, 2023 -

(Article by Peter Berkowitz republished from RealClearPolitics.com)

The deeper concern is the determination on the part of journalists, professors and university administrators, K-12 educators, government bureaucrats, high-tech titans and social-media moguls, entertainment-industry movers and shakers, and corporate executives – a preponderance of what was once called “the establishment” – to silence dissent from progressive orthodoxy through law and popular opprobrium. ...

Hawaii knife ban is unconstitutional

August 10, 2023 -

(Article by Dean Weingarten republished from Ammoland.com)

In 1999, Hawaii enacted a categorical ban on possessing, carrying, and using butterfly knives or “balisongs.” The knives had been legal to possess before that time. In 2020, the ban on butterfly knives was challenged in court. The District Court upheld the ban. The ban was appealed to the Ninth Circuit. On August 7, 2023, the three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the District ...

The censorship hegemon must be stopped

June 13, 2023 -

(Article by Aaron Kheriaty republished from TabletMag.com)

Prior government censorship cases typically involved a state actor unconstitutionally meddling with one publisher, one author, one or two books, a single article. But as we intend to prove in court, the federal government has censored hundreds of thousands of Americans, violating the law on tens of millions of occasions in the last several years. This unprecedented breach was made possible by the wholly novel reach ...

California “Skittles ban” prompts call to ban other CANCER-CAUSING food additives already BANNED in Europe

October 24, 2023 -

Governor Gavin Newsom signed the "Skittles ban" on Oct. 7.

Despite the name, the Skittles ban doesn't ban the candy called Skittles. Instead, it bans the use of four very common food additives that have been linked to health problems like kidney, thyroid and gastrointestinal cancer, and mood disorders.

These four ingredients are brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben and red dye No. 3.

Some products that use these ingredients include: ...

Documents offer glimpse inside Censorship Industrial Complex

August 31, 2023 -

(Article by Pete McGinnis republished from RealClearWire.com)

But the censorship industrial complex builds algorithms, not bombers. The players aren’t Raytheon and Boeing, but social media companies, tech startups, and universities and their institutes. The foes to be dominated are American citizens whose opinions diverge from government narratives on issues ranging from COVID-19 responses to electoral fraud to transgenderism.

When first exposed a few months ago, ...

The defenders of censorship now admit everything

July 07, 2023 -

(Article by Jeffrey A. Tucker republished from TheEpochTimes.com)

And they are furious that a federal judge in Louisiana has called them out, issuing an injunction to stop all contacts between government agencies and social media companies. They are livid about this because they had come to believe that the First Amendment was a dead letter already.

What do we mean by all these plural pronouns? The “them” and “they” in this case consist of the unelected bureaucrats ...

Two California school districts ban LGBTQ+ flags

September 19, 2023 -

In both the Sunol Glen School District and the Temecula Valley Unified School District, a newly adopted policy bans the display of all flags, including the rainbow flag, a symbol of the LGBTQ+ movement. The only flags allowed for display are the flags of California and the United States.

Sunol is part of northern California's Bay Area and has a population of under 1,000 while Temecula is in southern California.

These decisions were reached during separate board ...

Tor introduces WebTunnel feature to help curb censorship

a month ago -

(Article by Ken Macon republished from ReclaimTheNet.org)

Functionally, WebTunnel allows Tor network connections to stay hidden in open sight by appearing indistinguishable from regular HTTPS traffic, an essential camouflage in countries with strict internet regulations.

Tor bridges serve as unlisted relays in the public Tor directory, enabling user connections to remain concealed, especially from autocratic regimes intent on internet censorship.

Even though ...

National Intelligence director SUED over social media censorship

November 01, 2023 -

The lawsuit, identified as Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence, follows an ignored Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made in May.

The lawsuit highlights the ongoing struggle against censorship and an enduring defense of free speech.Watchdog demands records and communications from the NCTC and FMIC

The goal of the Judicial Watch lawsuit is to demand "records and communications" from the National Counterterrorism Center ...

CCP-linked TikTok now dabbling in CLIMATE CENSORSHIP

October 25, 2023 -

Writing for the New American magazine, freelance journalist James Murphy expounded on this phenomenon. His story centered on Evita Duffy-Alfonso, staff writer for the Federalist and co-founder of the Chicago Thinker. Duffy-Alfonso, the daughter of former Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI), found herself on the receiving end of TikTok's censorship because of a video she posted.

Duffy-Alfonso posted a video asking users how will they "resist the push to restrict freedom of movement....

Direct government censorship of the Internet is here

September 03, 2023 -

(Article republished from TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com)

Of course mainstream news outlets such as the Washington Post are attempting to put a positive spin on this new law.  We are being told that it will “safeguard” us from “illegal content” and “disinformation”…Doesn’t that sound wonderful?

When this new law was first approved, NPR admitted that it will enable European governments to “take down a wide range of content”…In addition to “illegal content” ...

COVID censorship KILLED people, Wall Street Journal admits

July 12, 2023 -

In tandem with the federal government, social media companies like Twitter and Facebook blocked key information about lockdowns, face masks and the "vaccines" that, had more people been able to access said information, far fewer people would have succumbed to death.

It turns out that the so-called "virus" killed very few, if any, people. It was everything else that was responsible, from the fear and hysteria to the forced social isolation to having to wear a piece of cloth ...

Zuckerberg’s Meta releases new censorship unit for upcoming elections

2 months ago -

(Article by M Winger republished from WLTReport.com)

Meta, previously Facebook, claims it wants to protect the elections from ‘misinformation’.

And what do liberals use as an excuse to enforce censorship of wrongthought?

That it’s for our safety, that harm, violence and ‘potential threats’ is imminent without the censorship.

‘Our democracy’ is teetering over certain doom and destruction unless we force people to shut up! they claim.

Oh the irony ...

Google launches censorship measures to rig EU Parliamentary elections

2 months ago -

According to Reuters, France, Poland and Germany accused Russia last week of putting together an elaborate network of websites to spread pro-Russian propaganda. Because of this, Europe's Digital Services Act, which had been fully in effect the previous week, required large online platforms and search engines to do more to "address illegal content and risks to public security."

Meanwhile, Jigsaw, a unit within the Big Tech firm that explores "threats to open societies," plans ...

State Department threatens to OBSTRUCT House committee’s censorship investigation

February 23, 2024 -

The DOS issued this threat in a Feb. 14 letter to Rep. Roger Williams (R-TX), chairman of the House Committee on Small Business (SBC). The letter, signed by DOS Assistant Secretary of State for Legal Affairs Naz Durakoglu, expressed "deep concern regarding certain information … publicly released by the [SBC] without prior consultation" with the State Department.

Durakoglu referenced a June 2023 letter the SBC sent to Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the Global ...