“EXPOSED: America’s Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex”
“U.S. government officials, agencies, and contractors are violating the First Amendment
Michael Shellenberger”
“Friends —
Over the last three months, a small group of independent journalists, including Leighton and I, have, thanks to the Twitter Files, exposed the ways in which social media platforms have, under pressure from U.S. government agencies, censored ordinary Americans and spread disinformation… I will testify before Congress and reveal the existence of a secret censorship-industrial complex in the United States.”
“Our findings are shocking. A highly-organized network of U.S. government agencies and government contractors has been creating blacklists and pressuring social media companies to censor.., often without them knowing it.”
“..we now understand the ways in which this complex simultaneously spreads disinformation and demands censorship.”
“I believe that any reasonable person reading our report, no matter their politics, will be horrified by what is taking place and demand an end to it.
With our testimony, we are calling on Congress to defund and dismantle the censorship-industrial complex immediately.
Democracy depends on freedom of speech. Both are under attack.
Michael”
Source: https://public.substack.com/p/exposed-americas-secret-censorship