EXPOSED: Secret Government Effort To Regulate Your Mind

One of the big questions that those of us involved in exposing the secret U.S. government censorship effort have been asking ourselves over the last few months is: did the people involved know that they were breaking the law?

That question appears to have been answered with a resounding yes by the House Judiciary Committee. Yesterday it released its report, "The Weaponization of CISA: How a 'Cybersecurity' Agency Colluded with Big Tech and 'Disinformation' Partners to Censor Americans,” on government censorship.

“It’s only a matter of time,” wrote a former assistant general counsel for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in an email to a colleague, “before someone realizes we exist and starts asking about our work.”

The “we” in that sentence refers to the network of government agencies and nongovernmental organizations that we and others have dubbed the Censorship Industrial Complex. That Complex includes the University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public.

Its leader, Kate Starbird, responded to the former CIA official, Susan Spaulding, by saying, "Yes. I agree. We have a couple of pretty obvious vulnerabilities."

via public.substack.com

As one of our commentators often says, "Machine gunners!" I'm not ready to go there yet, but surely it is a deep concern that there does seem to be a "weaponization" of some government organizations and non-governmental organizations to shape and control public opinion along the lines of a particular narrative, which would be awful enough, but when you include the peculiar and dreadful nature of that narrative -- well, it's no good at all. At least we've got the First Amendment and a few heroic journalists on our side. That should be enough, right?