Government Colluded with Big Tech on Election Censorship

....Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, now has evidence that SKDKnickerbocker — a Washington-based communications company that developed the Biden presidential campaign’s vote-by-mail program in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona and Wisconsin (there are those states again) — was involved in the censoring of speech during last year’s election period. As reported in The Epoch Times in a premium story, “the company did this by sharing its ‘Misinformation Daily Briefings’ with California officials, who then passed them on to media giants Facebook, Twitter and Google for dissemination, according to Judicial Watch.”

The process worked like this:

Biden Campaign =====> SKDKnickerbocker =====> California Office of Election Cybersecurity =====> FB, Twitter, Google, etc. =====> Censorship

Fitton said, “These new documents suggest a conspiracy against the First Amendment rights of Americans by the California Secretary of State, the Biden campaign operation, and Big Tech.”

The Big Lie: Big Tech Censorship is “Private”
He added, “These documents blow up the big lie that Big Tech censorship is ‘private’ — as the documents show collusion between a whole group of government officials in multiple states to suppress speech about election controversies.”

A spokesperson for the California Office of Election Cybersecurity described the public-private collaboration this way:

The Office of Election Cybersecurity in the California Secretary of State’s office monitored and tracked social media posts, decided if they were misinformation, stored the posts in an internal database coded by threat level [!], and on 31 different occasions requested posts be removed. In 24 cases, the social media companies agreed and either took posts down or flagged them as misinformation.

At the time that pesky December report came out, this spokesperson said, “We don’t take down posts; that is not our role to play.”

Well, no, they personally don’t take them down. They simply suggest to the big social media companies, who agree with them politically, that they take them down, and then social media does the deed. This spokesperson skillfully used language to put a more refined spin on this:

We alert potential sources of misinformation to the social media companies and we let them make that call based on community standards they created.

“Misinformation” Defined in Today’s Political Climate
But we know how “misinformation” is defined in today’s political climate. It means “conservative speech.” It has almost nothing to do with objective truth....






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This very lengthy article is a great expose of the role of big tech social media colluding with government to censor speech. The left says that only government is constrained by the 1st amendment protection of free speech rights of citizens. They side with corporate oligarchs running near monopolies in saying that a private company can act in these cases as they see fit. The issue here is that a campaign used its ties to government to persuade the companies to censor on behalf of state governments.

 

Thank God for Judicial Watch and their patience in exploring these matters. We have caught government using big tech social media to censor conservative ideas and opinions on its behalf. A clear violation of the 1st amendment. As usual California is in the middle of this swamp.