The Disinformation Governance Board is an Attack on the Freedom of Speech in America
President Biden’s decision to create the Orwellian “Disinformation Governance Board” is the first official step in the reformation of the freedom of speech in America. The new mantra of the left is that free speech threatens democracy.1 Over the past decade, the federal government has relied more and more on private actors to monitor, censor, and control the American people. For example, during the pandemic, the CDC paid Saudi-backed SafeGraph to track millions of phones to determine which Americans were violating Covid-19 lockdown orders.2 Congress has pressured Twitter, Facebook, and Google to step up their suppression of speech on their platforms threatening to ‘crackdown’ on the big tech companies if they don’t.3 The FBI has even been able to secretly monitor the communications and movement of journalists working on negative stories about the president and his family by issuing secret orders to Microsoft, AT&T, and Uber - unlimited monitoring that lasted more than a year without having to notify their targets.4 Constitutional rights are clearly under attack in America.
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