It’s no accident that the Censorship-Industrial Complex emerged after President Trump’s first election, nor that its primary targets have been anti-establishment voices, sources, and the platforms circulating their speech.
The most disturbing aspect of the censorship regime is that the federal government was its primary funder and driver – with the Biden administration enacting 57 censorship initiatives across 90 federal agencies at cost of several hundred million dollars.
The second most disturbing aspect of the censorship regime is that the feds fostered the growth of a network of non-governmental accomplices, using them as cutouts to launder censorship in a conspiracy to skirt the First Amendment.
Overwhelming evidence indicates the feds have deputized academic institutions, think-tanks, NGOs, “fact-checkers,” risk-raters, and for-profits as plainclothes speech police.
This “vast censorship enterprise” is vertically integrated.
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Investigative Issues: RCI's Weingarten Testifies Before Congress on the Censorship-Industrial Complex
