{"id":64972,"date":"2023-02-08T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64972"},"modified":"2023-02-08T19:19:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T00:19:00","slug":"congress-is-set-to-expose-what-may-be-the-largest-censorship-system-in-u-s-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64972","title":{"rendered":"Congress is Set to Expose What May be the Largest Censorship System in U.S. History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Congress is Set to Expose What May be the Largest Censorship System in U.S. History<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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\"\"<\/a>Below is my\u00a0column in the Hill<\/a>\u00a0on the first hearings this week to be held by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. It could be one of the most consequential investigations for free speech in decades if it pulls back the curtain on government censorship programs. After the historic release of the Twitter Files by Elon Musk, questions remain on any similar coordination with other social media companies with federal agencies like the FBI to target views considered \u201cdisinformation\u201d or \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here is the column:<\/span><\/p>\n

This coming week a new House select subcommittee will\u00a0hold its first hearing<\/a>\u00a0on the FBI and the possible \u201cweaponization\u201d of government agencies. A variety of such controversies have contributed to plunging public trust in government and the FBI in particular.<\/p>\n

The role of the FBI in prior scandals will remain a point of heated debate in Congress. However,\u00a0members\u00a0of both parties\u00a0should be able to agree on the need\u00a0to investigate one of the most serious allegations: Censorship by surrogate.<\/p>\n

Many of the allegations of FBI bias are worthy of investigation. Some of those allegations are problems of personnel who can be removed. But a far more menacing problem has emerged in recent months with the release of information from Twitter.<\/p>\n

The \u201cTwitter files<\/a>\u201d revealed an FBI operation to monitor and censor social media content \u2014 an effort so overwhelming and intrusive that Twitter staff at one point complained internally that \u201cthey are probing & pushing everywhere<\/a>.\u201d The reports have indicated that dozens of FBI employees worked on the identification and removal of material on a wide range of subjects and that Twitter largely carried out their requests.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n

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Congress is Set to Expose What May be the Largest Censorship System in U.S. History Below is my\u00a0column in the Hill\u00a0on the first hearings this week to be held by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. It could be one of the most consequential investigations for free speech in decades if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,301,28781,827,1796,25677],"class_list":["post-64972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-fbi","tag-jonathan-turley","tag-united-states","tag-us-congress","tag-us-federal-bureau-of-investigation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64973,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64972\/revisions\/64973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}