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The House Judiciary Committee and Select Subcommittee on Weaponization of the Federal Government released a report accusing the Critical Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Agency (CISA) of colluding with big tech and “disinformation” partners to censor conservative Americans. CISA is responsible for federal cybersecurity and, according to Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten, is the “linchpin in the federal government’s efforts to police speech.” He argues we risk losing our rights to free speech if government agencies like CISA persist in labeling social media posts as misinformation.
The Weaponization Committee report lays out the story we’ve been at pains to tell about how a DHS sub-agency tasked with cybersecurity and infrastructure security went from targeting foreign adversary information operations to treating domestic wrong-thinkers as the adversary — taking an interest in Americans’ tweets and Facebook posts running afoul of elite opinion on election integrity or COVID-19 mitigation measures as essentially mini-digital terrorist attacks, and coordinating and colluding with the national security state, social media companies, and anti-disinformation think tanks and research NGOs, who also colluded with and coordinated with social media companies to purge the content.
All of this came as the Biden administration and like-minded legislators themselves hectored and threatened by law and regulation the social media companies to moderate content they didn’t like.
