{"id":68371,"date":"2024-05-24T18:39:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T23:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68371"},"modified":"2024-05-24T18:39:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T23:39:38","slug":"twitter-files-fuel-massies-fight-against-government-funded-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68371","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Files Fuel Massie\u2019s Fight Against Government-Funded Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twitter Files Fuel Massie\u2019s Fight Against Government-Funded Censorship<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Congressman Thomas Massie has announced HR 8519, legislation aimed at ending the practice of spending taxpayer money to fund various censorship and \u201cdisinformation\u201d research programs.<\/p>\n

A press release said that Elon Musk\u2019s acquisition of Twitter, and the subsequent publishing of the\u00a0Twitter Files<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a batch of internal documents showing how the government and this social platform colluded in the previous period \u2013 played a pivotal role in opening the public\u2019s eyes to the realities of the situation.<\/p>\n

We obtained a copy of the bill for you\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ever since the 2016 elections and after those in 2020, speaking about what the Twitter Files revealed about online censorship, its methods, and levels, would have been discredited as \u201cmisinformation\u201d or a \u201cconspiracy theory.\u201d<\/p>\n

And one of the things revealed is that the US federal government had informally enlisted not only tech companies but also universities to do this, many say, unlawful work.<\/p>\n

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Unless it came as a result of pressure, like any work, it had to be paid for, and Massie now wants to make sure that kind of funding is banned going forward.<\/p>\n

In this effort, the Republican senator had the backing of only his party colleagues, with over a dozen of them originally co-sponsoring HR 8519. Since it is blatantly unconstitutional for the money to change hands in any direct way, the bill aims to stop \u201cthe workaround\u201d: the government using taxpayer money to further its political goals via various \u201cdisinformation\u201d research grants.<\/p>\n

Those would typically go to groups or networks made up of \u201cselect\u201d universities and researchers. Moreover, HR 8519 seeks to prevent the government from bankrolling \u201cspecific programs within the National Science Foundation\u201d which have been identified by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, which Massie is a member of.<\/p>\n

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Twitter Files Fuel Massie\u2019s Fight Against Government-Funded Censorship Congressman Thomas Massie has announced HR 8519, legislation aimed at ending the practice of spending taxpayer money to fund various censorship and \u201cdisinformation\u201d research programs. A press release said that Elon Musk\u2019s acquisition of Twitter, and the subsequent publishing of the\u00a0Twitter Files\u00a0\u2013 a batch of internal documents […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[120,33879,33851,33878,1169,33536,1796],"class_list":["post-68371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-censorship","tag-didi-rankovic","tag-online-censorship","tag-reclaim-the-net","tag-social-media","tag-twitter-files","tag-us-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68371","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=68371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68372,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68371\/revisions\/68372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}