Foundation For Freedom Online

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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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: https://t.co/pxwKDcrt0M

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🚨Report 🚨 USAID Internal Documents Reveal Government Plot To Promote Censorship Initiatives
https://t.co/dJQNDrT4ss

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🚨Report 🚨 Congressionally-Chartered Nonprofit’s Disinformation Dashboard Used to Track Hunter Biden Laptop Story
https://t.co/A1c741E2Q9

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🚨Report 🚨 ‘Trusted Messengers:’ Volunteer Censors Trained to Control Your Community’s Speech
https://t.co/a3gujAO9BJ

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🚨Report 🚨 ‘Civic Listening’: Political Informants and Citizen Spies, Rebranded
https://t.co/2DFiyAbaBt

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🚨Report 🚨 NewsGuard Founder Called For Open Borders. Now, NewsGuard Censors News Sites Critiquing Open Borders.
https://t.co/07hcMiuce0

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🚨 Elon Musk’s Top 10 Free Speech Moments in 2023 🗣️📢
https://t.co/qva3lyQ3M7

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🚨Kate Starbird: ‘Freedom of Speech’ Should Not Be Centered Because A ‘Level Playing Field’ For Ideas Is ‘Tilted In Favor Of Misinformation’
https://t.co/iPqD1pSt8x

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🚨 Gov’t-Funded Stanford Censors Taunted Elon Musk ‘Bought Himself Into A Hellish Existence,’ Raised Tesla As Vulnerability For Free Speech Twitter
https://t.co/9ns1EkKewb

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New report 🚨

DHS Scrubs YouTube Channel of Infamous Censorship Video Encouraging People To Report Family Members For “Disinformation”
https://t.co/MxQdS5tT6t

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Google Jigsaw’s Plan to Vaccinate Your Mind

A deep dive on the mechanics of so-called "prebunking" and its development to control how people perceive narratives in the news
https://t.co/7KEfn3PFWg

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Catch up on our recent reports on the censorship industry:

DHS-Born ‘Election Integrity Partnership’ Worked to Censor Images of Ballot Counting Patterns in 2020
https://t.co/pPFMMfNbF8

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Welp, I can announce the deed has been done:

My first Amicus brief with the Supreme Court of the United States

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'Disinformation' tracker accused of censorship holds ties to UK government: 'Dark arts'

Read more from @gekaminsky:

https://t.co/kf1kRiD37O

[Kyle Seraphin @KyleSeraphin]

Mike Benz Returns | Ep 134 | LIVE https://t.co/AIiCOsFLpA

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"This seems like a patent attempt to launder in a fake ‘safety’ smokescreen to bring back policies long-hated by users, but long-demanded by advertiser boycott groups"

More from @MikeBenzCyber in the @DailyCaller

https://t.co/xgxoz3PjXI

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My take on the disconcerting mounting evidence of a new censorship architecture being set up w/in X, for @DailyCaller

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"CISA should be sensitive to domestic distinctions, but can't focus too heavily on such limitations."

Censor “disinfo purveyors before they're attributed to a domestic or foreign threat”

These FOIAs by @FunctionalGov show why DHS moved to private texts:
https://t.co/9rBi75fUFD

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A proposal in a Stanford University journal proposes creating ratings for news source trustworthiness.

The ratings would be used to apply a scarlet letter to reporting coming from censorship officials' disfavored outlets.
https://t.co/mjcnA5D5OK

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"GDI's sole purpose of existence is to Bankrupt Your Business, if you are in the news media business and you publish a regime-critical editorial line," said Mike Benz

Read more from @gekaminsky in the @dcexaminer https://t.co/XKC49ZCKPO

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The “Other” January 6

How the CIA and DHS threw a 1-2 punch on January 6, 2017 to kick in the door for spooks to start censoring US elections