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Foundation For Freedom Online
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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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    Foundation For Freedom Online
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    Mar 7, 2023
    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: Report: foundationforfreedomonline.com/wp-content/upl…
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    Foundation For Freedom Online
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    Nov 10, 2022
    DHS censorship machine targeted 22 million tweets, used 120 speech flaggers, scrubbed 15 platforms, and throttled dozens of "emerging election narratives" using a chat app. #DHSLeaks was just the tip of an iceberg. Full report here:
    DHS Censorship Agency Had Strange First Mission: Banning Speech That Casts Doubt On ‘Red Mirage,...
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    Foundation For Freedom Online
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    Nov 2, 2022
    Major reports dropping soon. #DHSLeaks barely scratched the surface of how extraordinary this DHS censorship scandal is. Strap in.
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    Nov 2, 2022
    Musk Twitter teams with US spy service avatars who interfered in 2020 election. Read Mike Benz @FFO_Freedom for details.
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    Foundation For Freedom Online
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    Nov 10, 2022
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    2. Here is a highly disturbing fact that is not widely to the American public: The same DHS cyber agency in charge of securing elections is also in charge of censoring elections.
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    Foundation For Freedom Online
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    Nov 18, 2022
    NEW: Leaked State Dept memo obtained by America First Legal reveals US gov't is producing VIDEO GAMES with taxpayer dollars for “psychological vaccination against fake news.” Their plan is to stop populism on social media. Full report here: foundationforfreedomonline.com/11-17-22.html
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    Foundation For Freedom Online
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    Mar 14, 2024
    🚨Report 🚨 USAID Internal Documents Reveal Government Plot To Promote Censorship Initiatives
    USAID Internal Documents Reveal Government Plot To Promote Censorship Initiatives - Foundation for...
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    Foundation For Freedom Online
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    Nov 10, 2022
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    5. But CISA had a problem. It's called the First Amendment. The US government is not allowed to sandblast millions of voters off the civilian Internet because of their speech about elections. CISA needed private sector partners to do dirty work. And that's where EIP stepped in:
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    Foundation For Freedom Online
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    Nov 10, 2022
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    4. In the summer of 2020, CISA pulled off a trick. By classifying "election misinformation" as threat to "election security," its police powers extended from the tech side of elections to anyone simply *talking* about elections.
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    Nov 10, 2022
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    3. CISA has kept a very low profile by appearing to the outside world as just a boring cybersecurity bureau. A place where even the professional hackers are tasked with humdrum IT maintenance jobs.
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    Nov 10, 2022
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    6. CISA "lacked the funding and the legal authorizations" to do grand-scale censorship and get away with it. So CISA partnered with EIP, who "filled the gap of the things that the government could not do themselves."
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    Nov 10, 2022
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    8. CISA -- your federal government -- is not just partnering with a few zealous individuals. The scale here is institutional. For the 2020 election alone, EIP had 120 people staffed on taking down lawful US citizen speech about an in-process US election:
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    Foundation For Freedom Online
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    Nov 10, 2022
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    7. EIP bills itself euphemistically as a "disinfo research” collective, but it's important to understand EIP does more than “research”: they manually flag posts, throttle narratives, and pressure platforms at every level. That is active censorship, not passive research:
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    Foundation For Freedom Online
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    Nov 10, 2022
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    9. This clip, one week after the 2020 election, shows EIP openly plotting ways to coerce tech platforms to censor additional topics beyond elections. EIP cited their power cards as "huge regulatory pressure" from government insiders and ginning up bad press:
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    Foundation For Freedom Online
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    Nov 10, 2022
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    14. All of EIP's top targets of election censorship, during a hotly contested ongoing election, belonged to the exact same side of the political aisle. CISA gave them absolute power to censor, so they censored absolutely: