By Harold Pease, Ph. D.
Tyrannies love censorship because it is very difficult for the people to know what is left out of the story and thus they are so much more easily conditioned and controlled. That is why inhibiting free speech is forbidden in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
Under Joe Biden the federal government has been working with different companies to censor the people, thus targeting millions of Americans for their political speech by “directly contracting with private 3rd parties that flag their viewpoints for alleged misinformation.” And we know that “consortiums were set up with many different companies” and universities to do this, in the presidential election of 2020 and now in 2022 (X22 Reports [hereafter not cited], Ep. 2889b, October 2, 2022, 17:10).
One such consortium is the powerful Election Integrity Partnership comprised of the following four private entities: (1) Stanford Internet Observatory, (2) The University of Washington, Center for an Informed Public, (3) The Atlantic Council Digital Forensic Search Lab and (4) Social Media Analysts from Graphica. They “set up a contour-like service in 2020 to allow federal agencies like Homeland Cyber Security Infrastructure Security Agency (CSISA) and State Global engagement centers to file tickets requesting the online story links in social media posts be censored or flagged by Big Tech” (Ep. 2888b, Sept. 30, 2022, 35:00). They boasted of a 35% success rate getting tech platforms to label, remove or restrict content.” One success was the tagging of the Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation, since proved not so, which, had it not been censored, likely would have cost Biden the election.
In its 2020 election On Action Report “the consortium boasted that it flagged more than 4,800 URL, shared nearly 22 million times on Twitter alone. Their staff worked twelve 24 hour shifts from Sept-to mid-November 2020 with monitoring intensively.” It successfully shut down the truth and they intend to do the same in 2022. Kate Starbird said, “We’re getting the band back together (with several improvements) for the midterms—-working with a range of collaborators to address rumors, misinformation, and disinformation around election processes and procedures” (Ep. 2888b, Sept. 30, 2022, 37:33).
One notable complainant, Congressional candidate Robby Starbuck, claims the Election Integrity Partnership is designed to censor Biden opponents. He says, “I was censored while I ran for Congress. Biden’s regime paid EIP groups $12 million plus! ” He continued, “The simplest way to explain how the EIP works is to compare it to the CIA and DOD who use contractors to fight battles they don’t want to be seen fighting in an official capacity…[while] acting as a Ministry of Truth.”
Robby Starbuck continues, “DHS, the State Department, the DNC, Common Cause and the NAACP would file tickets with the EIP on posts or people they wanted censored. The EIP did the dirty work of going to Big Tech,… as their messenger to demand Big Tech take action on the posts or people flagged by the United States Government or the DNC and their report shows Big Tech delivered for them.” Essentially, the “EIP created … an ‘enemies list;’ of select groups they branded as misinformation in need of censorship. I was one of them and have the distinction of being the only one who was running for Congress while the EIP worked to censor us on behalf of the government.”
The “enemies list” was titled, “Actors and Networks Repeat Superspreaders of Election Misinformation.” It Included President Trump, Charlie Kirk, Tom Fitten, Praying Medic, Eric Trump,—virtually whose who in the conservative world: (Ep. 2892b, October 5, 2022, 20:49).
Another notable in the tyranny of censorship is George Soros. He funds groups that also urge “the heads of major Big Tech platforms, to step up their censorship—just before the 2022 midterm elections. The Soros funded Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights spearheaded an Oct. 13, open letter signed by 11 other liberal groups clambering for Big Tech to take immediate steps to curb the spread of voting disinformation in the midterms and future elections and to help prevent the undermining of our democracy.” The letter was addressed to Facebook, Google, Twitter, YouTube, and Tic Toe. “The Soros Funded group included NAACP, Legal Defense and Education Fund, $17,614,500; Center for American Progress, $5,320,000; Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights $5,170,000; Asian Americans Advancing Justice—AAAJ, $1,260,000; Center for Democracy and Technocracy, $736,000; Unidos US $200,000; and Common Cause $25,000” (Ep. 2899b, October 14, 2022, 14:45).
Twitter too has decided to intervene in the 2022 election as they did in the 2020 election. They have announced their intention to “take action against misleading claims about the voting process, misleading content intended to intimidate or dissuade people from participating in the election, or misleading claims that may undermine public confidence in elections outcomes.” Translated anything that they object to. “The last time they decided to be the arbitrator of ‘misleading claims’ they blocked any coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop, saying it was disinformation” and punished those who shared information otherwise. Twitter seriously meddled in the 2020 election (Ep. 2848b, August 12, 2022, 8:20).
And there exists regular cheating as in Colorado who recently mailed 30,000 Voter Registration notices to non-citizens to manipulate the coming election, When confronted the Secretary of State called it an accident (EP. 2896, October 11, 2022, 44:00).
But will the Deep State cheat enough to stop the red wave. No! The good will VOTE tyranny out but to do so each need to vote and pray as though everything depends upon them!!!! It does.
Dr. Harold Pease is a syndicated columnist and an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Column # 684. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www. www.LibertyUnderFire.org.