More nails in the coffin of Biden’s censorship regime

With each passing month, we are getting closer to the Custer’s Last Stand for federal censors.

But will free speech triumph in time to prevent the feds from secretly rigging the 2024 presidential election?

At a House Weaponization Subcommittee hearing Thursday, Twitter Files reporters Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger returned to reveal the latest censorious outrages.

When Taibbi first testified before the committee in March, congressional Democrats denounced him as a “so-called journalist,” a hypocrite, a profiteer and Twitter owner Elon Musk’s lackey.

Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett, the ranking Democrat, threatened Taibbi with perjury charges and a five-year prison sentence after she claimed he had made a minor misstatement in his testimony.

The Federal Trade Commission demanded, as The Post noted, “all internal communications by, from or about Musk — and telling him to name reporters he’s shared info with” — as if exposing White House misconduct were a federal crime.

But Team Biden was not so lucky in court.

On July 4, federal Judge Terry Doughty, ruling in Missouri v. Biden, condemned the Biden administration for potentially “the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.”

A federal appeals court ratified that verdict in September, slamming the White House and federal agencies for actions “suppressing millions of protected free speech postings by American citizens” — especially conservatives.

Federal agencies pirouetted as a “Ministry of Truth,” according to federal judges who have castigated Biden censorship abuses.

How far did the censorship go?

On Tuesday, the House subcommittee posted online a spreadsheet listing thousands of specific targets of federal contractors.

There was pervasive suppression of any complaints about election fraud before the 2020 election, thereby subverting Americans’ awareness of problems with mail-in ballots and polling booths.

Nothing was too petty to suppress.

One of the issues flagged for targeting was “TikTok trend to raise middle fingers to vaccine.”

So federal censors were obliged to counterpunch any obscene hand gesture in the world?

Shellenberger testified that the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and its nonprofit partners had targeted political jokes, hyperbole and specific viewpoints for social-media companies to suppress.

He also stressed that “cognitive security” is a key goal for disinformation researchers. This parallels federal agencies’ interventions to protect “cognitive infrastructure.”

And the most important cognitive fix is to train Americans to never doubt Uncle Sam.

Shellenberger urged Congress to abolish CISA.

But congressional Democrats Thursday had a two-word refutation of all the censorship abuses: DONALD TRUMP!

The specter of Trump’s re-election miraculously expunges all Biden sins.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/more-nails-in-the-coffin-of-biden-s-censorship-regime/ar-AA1kOo6E

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