{"id":100419,"date":"2022-11-14T21:42:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T21:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/?p=100419"},"modified":"2022-11-14T21:42:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T21:42:02","slug":"illegal-collusion-between-government-and-big-tech-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/illegal-collusion-between-government-and-big-tech-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal collusion between government and big tech exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a September 1, 2022, article, the Post Millennial <\/em>reveals how federal officials in the Biden administration have held secret censorship meetings with social media companies to suppress Americans\u2019 First Amendment rights to free speech, and to ban or deplatform those who share unauthorized views about covid and vaccines.<\/p>\n

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The evidence for this comes out of a lawsuit brought by the New Civil Liberties Alliance and the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana (Eric Schmitt and Jeff Landry) against President Biden, filed in May 2022.<\/p>\n

During the discovery process, the plaintiffs sought to identify \u201call meetings with any social media platform relating to content modulation and\/or misinformation<\/em>,\u201d which is how we now know that such illegal meetings did, in fact, take place.<\/p>\n

Illegal collusion to suppress free speech<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monthly, a Unified Strategies Group (USG) meeting took place \u2013 and may still be taking place \u2013 between a wide variety of government agencies and Big Tech companies, during which topics to be censored and suppressed were\/are discussed.<\/p>\n

Censored topics included stories involving covid jab refusal, especially those involving military refusals and consequences thereof, criticism against covid restrictions and their effects on mental health, posts talking about testing positive for covid after getting the jab, personal stories of covid jab side effects, including menstrual irregularities, and worries about vaccine passports becoming mandatory.<\/p>\n

According to the New Civil Liberties Alliance: \u201c\u2026 scores of federal officials \u2026 have secretly communicated with social-media platforms to censor and suppress private speech federal officials disfavor. This unlawful enterprise has been wildly successful.<\/em><\/p>\n

Under the First Amendment, the federal government may not police private speech nor pick winners and losers in the marketplace of ideas. But that is precisely what the government has done<\/em> \u2013 and is still doing \u2013 on a massive scale not previously divulged.<\/em><\/p>\n

Multiple agencies\u2019 communications demonstrate that the federal government has exerted tremendous pressure on social-media companies<\/em> \u2013 pressure to which companies have repeatedly bowed \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Communications show these federal officials are fully aware that the pressure they exert is an effective and necessary way to induce social-media platforms to increase censorship. The head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency even griped about the need to overcome social-media companies\u2019 \u2018hesitation\u2019 to work with the government \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

This unlawful government interference violates the fundamental right of free speech for all Americans, whether or not they are on social media. More discovery is needed to uncover the full extent of this regime<\/em> \u2013 i.e., the identities of other White House and agency officials involved and the nature and content of their communications with social-media companies.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

Jenin Younes, litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance added: \u201cIf there was ever any doubt the federal government was behind censorship of Americans who dared to dissent from official covid messaging, that doubt has been erased. The shocking extent of the government\u2019s involvement in silencing Americans, through coercing social-media companies, has now been revealed<\/em> \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Federal agencies involved in free speech suppression<\/strong><\/p>\n

Documents obtained so far have identified more than 50 federal employees across 15 federal agencies, who participated in these censorship meetings or otherwise engaged in illegal censorship activities. This includes officials from:<\/p>\n

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Emails from a strategic communications and marketing firm called Reingold also reveals that outside consultants were hired to manage the government\u2019s collusion with social media to censor Americans. For example, Reingold set up a \u201cpartner support portal<\/em>\u201d for the CDC so that CDC officials could link emails to the portal for easier flagging of content it wanted censored by social media companies linked to the portal.<\/p>\n

Big tech companies involved in government censorship<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the private industry side, notable tech participants in the censorship meetings include:<\/p>\n

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While some social media companies may have \u201chesitated<\/em>\u201d to censor on the government\u2019s behalf at times, Facebook was certainly an eager beaver from the get-go. As early as February 2020, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in contact with the State Department, offering its services to help \u201ccontrol information and misinformation related to coronavirus<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden administration\u2019s \u2018executive privilege\u2019 denied<\/strong><\/p>\n

As you might expect, the White House has not cooperated with discovery and have fought to keep communications secret \u2013 especially with regard to Dr. Anthony Fauci\u2019s correspondence \u2013 claiming all White House communications as \u201cprivileged<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, executive privilege does NOT apply to external communications, so the plaintiffs called on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana to \u201coverrule the government defendants\u2019 objections and order them to supply this highly relevant, responsive and probative information immediately<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

September 7, 2022, Judge Terry Doughty did just that. The Biden administration\u2019s claim of executive privilege was rejected and Doughty ordered the White House to hand over any and all relevant records. That included correspondence to and from Fauci, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and many others. According to the judge\u2019s order, they had three weeks to comply.<\/p>\n

Examples of illegal government censorship<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Twitter, Missouri AG Schmitt has shared a long list of examples of government censorship, including one document in which Clarke Humphrey, Covid-19 response digital director at the White House, asked Facebook to take down the Instagram account \u201canthonyfauciofficial<\/em>,\u201d a parody account dedicated to making fun of Fauci. Facebook complied.<\/p>\n

Schmitt also shared emails between a senior Facebook official and the surgeon general, stating, \u201cI know our teams met today to better understand the scope of what the White House expects from us on misinformation going forward<\/em>.\u201d This email came on the heels of the surgeon general\u2019s July 2021 \u201cmisinformation health advisory<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The CDC also coordinated with Facebook, providing them with talking points to debunk various claims, including the claim that spike protein in the Covid shots is dangerous and cytotoxic. In a July 28, 2021, email, a CDC official provided Facebook with the following counter-narrative, taken straight from the \u201cHow mRNA Vaccines Work<\/em>\u201d section on the CDC website:<\/p>\n

\u201cMessenger mRNA [sic] vaccines work by teaching our cells to create a harmless spike protein<\/strong><\/em> \u2026\u201d (Emphasis in the original.)<\/p>\n

Fast-forward to mid-June 2022, and the CDC was suddenly less sure about the harmlessness of the spike protein. Up until then, the words \u201charmless spike protein<\/em>\u201d had always been bolded, but in this June revision, they removed the bolding, along with an entire section in which they\u2019d previously claimed that mRNA was rapidly broken down and spike protein did not last more than a few weeks in the body. Clearly, the truth was catching up to them and certain lies were getting too risky to hold on to.<\/p>\n

CISA also reached out to Google, Meta (Facebook\u2019s parent company), Microsoft and Twitter for help, shortly after the DHS\u2019s Disinformation Governance Board was announced. Fortunately, public outcry put an end to this Orwellian Ministry of Truth before it got started.<\/p>\n

When censorship becomes election interference<\/strong><\/p>\n