{"id":1720879,"date":"2022-11-02T07:18:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T11:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720879"},"modified":"2022-11-02T07:20:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T11:20:17","slug":"big-tech-isnt-a-victim-in-the-biden-regimes-speech-crackdown-its-an-eager-collaborator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/big-tech-isnt-a-victim-in-the-biden-regimes-speech-crackdown-its-an-eager-collaborator\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech Isn\u2019t A Victim In The Biden Regime\u2019s Speech Crackdown, It\u2019s An Eager Collaborator"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbig-tech-isnt-a-victim-in-the-biden-regimes-speech-crackdown-its-an-eager-collaborator%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1720879&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A trove of documents obtained in part from a lawsuit filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt \u2014 written up this week by Ken Klippenstein and Lee Fang <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/10\/31\/social-media-disinformation-dhs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at The Intercept<\/a> \u2014 provides further proof that the government works hand in glove with the world\u2019s biggest tech companies to remove, manage, curate, and otherwise censor what Americans can see and say online.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t a surprise. Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/07\/19\/biden-administration-admits-to-helping-control-what-youre-allowed-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said as much<\/a> from the White House podium in July of 2021. Other <a href=\"https:\/\/aflegal.org\/afl-lawsuit-reveals-damning-cdc-documents-proving-government-collusion-with-big-tech-to-censor-free-speech-and-promote-biden-administration-propaganda-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">documents<\/a> obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests have added tangible evidence to her claim. But what makes this recent revelation significant is the extent to which the tech companies have been involved in developing government protocols, responding to government requests, and otherwise managing the cozy system by which the government uses the technology companies to police speech.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook (which owns Instagram), for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/10\/31\/social-media-disinformation-dhs\/\">set up<\/a> \u201ca formalized process for government officials to directly flag content on \u2026 and request that it be throttled or suppressed through a special Facebook portal that requires a government or law enforcement email to use.\u201d Prior to the 2020 election, major tech companies ranging from Facebook to LinkedIn, Discord, and Verizon Media met monthly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, among others, to discuss handling what they considered to be election misinformation. The platforms generated reports and \u201ctimely responses,\u201d including the removal of reported misinformation,\u201d at the request of the government.<\/p>\n<p>Tech executives, including the former Twitter head of legal, policy, trust, and safety, Vijaya Gadde, served on government advisory committees and drafted a report to the DHS sub-agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, urging it to be more far-reaching in its efforts to shape the \u201cinformation ecosystem\u201d \u2014 that is, to be more aggressive in controlling the nature of what was said online as it related to \u201ckey democratic institutions, such as the courts, or by other sectors such as the financial system, or public health measures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, this isn\u2019t the government \u201cbullying\u201d or coercing the tech companies to do what they want. It\u2019s a partnership between the federal government and the world\u2019s biggest speech platforms to control the public conversation about the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the war in Ukraine, Covid-19, elections, and whatever else the Biden administration, in collaboration with Twitter, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Wikipedia, among others, decides is \u201cappropriate\u201d for the public to see.<\/p>\n<p>The ramifications here are clear. When the government seeks to control or influence speech through willing private companies, the constitutional protections afforded to Americans become moot. \u201cIt is axiomatic,\u201d law professor Jonathan Turley told The Intercept, \u201cthat the government cannot do indirectly what it is prohibited from doing directly. If government officials are directing or facilitating such censorship, it raises serious First Amendment questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But for the government to so successfully subvert its constitutional restrictions requires two things: compliant tech executives and platforms powerful enough to actually control the discourse. The internecine debate on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A self-government cannot survive the two-pronged assault from the government and tech companies working together to suppress disfavored speech and control the public narrative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":573,"featured_media":1720882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1720882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}