Protecting digital liberties. Telling the story of online censorship. Fighting to win back the Golden Age of the Internet. Posts by @MikeBenzCyber.
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DHS's cyber agency CISA scrubbed its website last week to purge all reference to domestic censorship.
CISA deleted 2 years worth of confessions to getting platforms to stop "domestic disinfo" by US citizens.
The "before" and "after" is here:
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🚨Report 🚨 USAID Internal Documents Reveal Government Plot To Promote Censorship Initiatives
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🚨Report 🚨 Congressionally-Chartered Nonprofit’s Disinformation Dashboard Used to Track Hunter Biden Laptop Story
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🚨Report 🚨 ‘Trusted Messengers:’ Volunteer Censors Trained to Control Your Community’s Speech
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🚨Report 🚨 ‘Civic Listening’: Political Informants and Citizen Spies, Rebranded
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🚨Report 🚨 NewsGuard Founder Called For Open Borders. Now, NewsGuard Censors News Sites Critiquing Open Borders.
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🚨 Elon Musk’s Top 10 Free Speech Moments in 2023 🗣️📢
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🚨Kate Starbird: ‘Freedom of Speech’ Should Not Be Centered Because A ‘Level Playing Field’ For Ideas Is ‘Tilted In Favor Of Misinformation’
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🚨 Gov’t-Funded Stanford Censors Taunted Elon Musk ‘Bought Himself Into A Hellish Existence,’ Raised Tesla As Vulnerability For Free Speech Twitter
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New report 🚨
DHS Scrubs YouTube Channel of Infamous Censorship Video Encouraging People To Report Family Members For “Disinformation”
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Google Jigsaw’s Plan to Vaccinate Your Mind
A deep dive on the mechanics of so-called "prebunking" and its development to control how people perceive narratives in the news
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Catch up on our recent reports on the censorship industry:
DHS-Born ‘Election Integrity Partnership’ Worked to Censor Images of Ballot Counting Patterns in 2020
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Foundation For Freedom Online retweeted
Welp, I can announce the deed has been done:
My first Amicus brief with the Supreme Court of the United States
'Disinformation' tracker accused of censorship holds ties to UK government: 'Dark arts'
Read more from @gekaminsky:
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"This seems like a patent attempt to launder in a fake ‘safety’ smokescreen to bring back policies long-hated by users, but long-demanded by advertiser boycott groups"
More from @MikeBenzCyber in the @DailyCaller
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My take on the disconcerting mounting evidence of a new censorship architecture being set up w/in X, for @DailyCaller
‘Potentially Monstrous’: Musk’s X May Be On The Verge Of Enforcing Censorship Similar To His Predecessors, Experts Say via @DailyCaller dailycaller.com/2023/09/02/p…
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"CISA should be sensitive to domestic distinctions, but can't focus too heavily on such limitations."
Censor “disinfo purveyors before they're attributed to a domestic or foreign threat”
These FOIAs by @FunctionalGov show why DHS moved to private texts:
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A proposal in a Stanford University journal proposes creating ratings for news source trustworthiness.
The ratings would be used to apply a scarlet letter to reporting coming from censorship officials' disfavored outlets.
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"GDI's sole purpose of existence is to Bankrupt Your Business, if you are in the news media business and you publish a regime-critical editorial line," said Mike Benz
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