Because they cling to corporate media as their main source of “the news,” many of the most vocal people online don’t realize that the Biden Administration poured billions of tax dollars into censoring and propagandizing Americans. Nor do they know the details. This secret operation was so vast and so ghastly that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded:
[T]he Supreme Court has rarely been faced with a coordinated campaign of this magnitude orchestrated by federal officials that jeopardized a fundamental aspect of American life. Therefore, the district court was correct in its assessment—“unrelenting pressure” from certain government officials likely “had the intended result of suppressing millions of protected free speech postings by American citizens.” We see no error or abuse of discretion in that finding.
Who were the recipients of this tax money? Answer: Numerous government agencies, including DHS and USAID (and many others), who funneled the money out to dozens and dozens of NGO and non-profits with disarmingly patriotic names (e.g., Global Engagement Center and the National Science Foundation) who did the dirty work, often in close coordination with prestigious American universities. They worked in tandem with each other and with the CIA, which continued to make good use of all of its favorite Project Mockingbird techniques to convince you to be someone else. Many of the doubters don’t know CIA history. They don’t know that the CIA has topple dozens of governments Or they assume that the CIA used to be bad but they somehow got to be the good guys when after they displayed animus against Trump.
This censorship-industrial complex (also sometimes referred to as “the Blob”) has convinced you that you were well-informed and that you were thinking your own thoughts. They made sure you only heard one version of every story so that you voted only for the “correct” candidate. They were so good at their jobs that you believed that virus particles couldn’t pour through cloth masks. They made sure that you slurped up every government-approved position and that you deep-down hated those who disagreed with you, including your friends and family members.
They convinced you to happily support every war approved by the Biden White House—perhaps you and your neighbors docilly displayed blue and gold flags on your houses until you recently and silently took them down. These government operatives were incredibly good at concocting a false consensus for virtually every important national issue. They made you hate people who voted differently, even on a single issue, even when you and your former friend had the same positions on most issues. Regarding every big issue of the day, they fucked with your mind by employing the same ruthless efficiency they used to convince you to put those dangerous experimental shots into your children’s arms.
They used every trick in the digital censorship/propaganda book to deprive you of your personal autonomy, as well as your unalienable rights of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. This would include the right to think your own thoughts and arrive at your own opinions without government interference as a result of a gigantic pysop (psychological operation).
At this point, many out there would interject at this point that Trump is no angel on free speech. This is true, as we can see almost daily, which includes his severely flawed White House’s Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. As FIRE has commented, it is an “overreaching government coercion that tries to end-run around the First Amendment to impose an official orthodoxy.” Also, the proposed compact is an attempt to promote conservative ideas, but it is not the government’s job to coerce or prohibit any particular types of speech. That right is for the People to decide for themselves. Here’s another recent example: Trump appointee US Attorney General Pam Biondi recently disclosed her jaw-dropping ignorance of the First Amendment when she argued (a position that she walked back after criticism, including criticism by many conservatives) that the government will prosecute “hate speech.” There are many other examples where Trump has trampled on First Amendment Rights. FIRE has documented many of these. For many more examples, visit FIRE and search for any articles with the word “Trump.” You’ll find plenty of examples.
Now back to Biden’s own propaganda and censorship program. Many people are completely ignorant that the Biden Whitehouse and the Democratic Party intentionally and premeditatedly deprived many tens of millions of their First Amendment Rights to speak and to hear the speech of their fellow Americans. In their ignorance, they have been trained to flare up in anger whenever they hear any claim that Democrats flagrantly and insidiously violated our rights. They become enraged even when they hear anyone questioning any Biden Whitehouse pre-certified position on any issue. After all, sharp-as-a tack Biden was the good guy and Kamala Harris was so incredibly competent that she could be appointed the Democratic nominee, even without a primary. All of this insanity insidiously flew under the radar of most left-leaning people. That’s because the psyop rewired the brains of millions of loyal democrats and because this rewiring was constantly reinforced by “news” outlets that they had trusted for years, outlets who dutifully spun select narratives in order to elect democrats. For many years, this vast government psyop has involved almost sense-making institution in the U.S., including government offices, professional organizations, media outlets and universities.
How much damage did the Biden Whitehouse inflict on the First Amendment rights of Americans? It’s impossible to calculate but it is an order of magnitude more that the ridiculous anti-free-speech actions now being inflicted upon us by Trump.
At this point, curious people will want to see the receipts. Introducing Mike Benz, who recently spent 30 minutes offering dozens of receipts. He names names, he tells you how much tax money was involved and he tells an air-tight story that the battle for free speech is more complex and more corrupt than anything you could have imagined. He also warns that it will not be over any time soon. I’ve listened to dozens of hours of presentations by Benz. I invite you to explore his presentations on X. In his videos, you can see the Biden censorship-industrial complex at work through the government-funded memos, videos and directives by the various government operators, NGO’s and non-profits. You can also listen to Mike’s recent 30-minute talk and/or you can keep scrolling. I have transcribed Mike’s entire talk below:
I was asked to talk to you today about AI censorship and the new machinery of control, but that’s a dark topic, so I want to start with some light and happy news, which is that on the topic of free speech, here in the United States, we are winning. We’re actually winning at warp speed in shocking ways at the federal government level. We’re actually winning at the federal government level in the United States, United States on so many fronts that once seemed impossible, that advocates of censorship are having to come up with new and creative ways to try to stop our momentum. So let me quickly recap the wins from the past nine months. It was announced in February, and it was finally closed on July 1. Just a few months ago, USA ID was formally shut down for folks who’ve only followed that issue in a cursory manner. You’ll appreciate the magnitude of that as we get deeper into this story.
But USAID alone spent 10s of millions of dollars per year for the past seven years funding censorship organizations, censorship technology, the AI censorship technologies that we’ll cover, censorship institutions, censorship centers at universities and that is Gone, Baby Gone. At the State Department, the Global Engagement Center, which was the original gangster of the government censorship world. It was created initially to stop ISIS from spreading terrorist propaganda on Twitter and Facebook, and then after the 2016 election, was repurposed to stop Russian propaganda, which meant Trump supporters or Brexit supporters, or anyone in the transatlantic community who challenged US foreign policy with respect to maximalism around war or around, frankly, any globalist foreign policy agenda. So the Global Engagement Center, which had $60 million in annual funding and over 50 full time positions, is Gone, Baby Gone. It’s done.
There has been a massive reorganization of the US State Department. One hundred and thirty sub agencies are being rolled up, and some of the worst offenders in the censorship space, such as the Bureau of Democracy Rights and Labor. This is the major color revolution cell, which is where the labor comes in. The Rights is accusing your opponents of being an authoritarian and then using human rights predicates to apply US government force. And democracy means we don’t like the election result. This Bureau was highly active in our own elections through essentially taking that democracy predicate to argue that the US presidential election in 2016 was illegitimate and that our democratically elected president is an autocrat. That is being massively restructured. And there’s only good news coming from there.
At the Department of Homeland Security, CISA, the cybersecurity turned cyber censorship agency, which played the lead role in the largest political censorship event at that time, I think, in human history, the censorship of the 2020 election, in which 10s of millions of people had their voices turned down to zero, or almost zero through social media censorship coerced by CISA at the Department of Homeland Security. They are now out of the speech police business.
The National Science Foundation, which is a weirdly star player in all of this. You’ll be hearing from director Bhattacharya later on, why science needs free speech. Well, the National Science Foundation was the biggest domestic money gun to fund censorship organizations and AI censorship technology. During the course of the Biden administration, they expended over $100 million in grants around misinformation, disinformation, Malinformation, infodemics, information literacy, digital literacy, you name it. It became the science of censorship, and now there is a hard ban at the National Science Foundation on any grant that so much as mentions the word misinformation in it. That money has been cut, and the difference it has made on the ground is huge and immediate.
At the Pentagon, the Pentagon censorship programs have been folded up, including the Minerva Initiative, the psychological warfare Research Center, which began to delve into the field of social media censorship to influence hearts and minds. That has been shut down by Secretary Pete Hegseth and more 10s of millions of censorship grants have been cut from the NIH/HHS.
This administration is putting their money where their mouth is. It’s not just talk. JD Vance famously gave his remarks in Munich and Paris to talk to the international community about the threats to American speech that come from foreign governments. We’re talking a fair amount about that.
But there was a day one executive order on free speech which made all these executive branch changes possible. The State Department passed a visa ban on foreign government officials who were implicated in the censorship of American speech, which they have enforced, especially in the case of the Brazil censorship judiciary, which has gone totally rogue. Those visa plans are in place.
The Canadian digital platform tax was halted because of the Trump tariff threats. Currently, as we speak, trade deals between the US and EU are solved because of the EU’s Digital Censorship Act. It’s Technically called the Digital Services Act, but you should not dignify it with that name. It is the Digital Censorship Act, and it factors very heavily into their attempt to revive the AI censorship Death Star we’ll cover later in this.
But this is an important thing to note, as this deal is being negotiated. It’d be very easy for the Trump administration to please donors and partners in the business community by simply striking a trade deal, because it makes everyone a lot of money. The fact that they have put it on the line and effectively halted those trade deals purely on free speech grounds is something that I think should be commended. And frankly, given the threat from that regulatory monstrosity that we’ll cover, I actually think it deserves its own place in a history book. Frankly, what the White House is doing on free speech diplomacy.
In addition to that, free speech diplomacy toolkit by this Admin includes even things like targeted sanctions, as we saw, the Magnitsky Act be applied for the first time on free speech grounds against the tyrant judge in Brazil right now, Alexandre de Moraes.
None of this seemed possible just a few short years ago, and I’ll just give one anecdote, although I’m sure everyone in the room has felt this and the size of the Juggernaut, and remembers that feeling from essentially 2018 to late 2022 where this seemed totally impossible to take on it all, let alone all these wins in such a short time.
But I think it’s best encapsulated by the Biden administration’s White House Information integrity Task Force, which I’m just going to assume that almost nobody in the room is familiar with, even though it was on whitehouse.gov.
Information integrity is a term that they moved to after the disinformation governance board disaster toxified the word disinformation. But information integrity means that the world of information can be chunked into two categories, high integrity and low integrity. High integrity information gets white listed. Low information integrity news or sources or websites get blacklisted. It’s that simple, but because nobody knows what that means, they get away with it. It’s a rose by any other name.
Well, the White House information integrity interagency task force had 26 different federal government agencies who all participated and contributed to a common White House run centrally coordinated government censorship apparatus. Just to rattle off a few names, let me know if any of these sound familiar for the participating agencies in these this 26 government censorship, interagency working group: the Central Intelligence Agency, USAID, the State Department, the Pentagon, DARPA, NIH and HHS, ODNI. We’ll be hearing from the directors of ODNI and NIH after this on whitehouse.gov they openly called in this task force to promote beefing up Europe’s censorship laws, while the White House was simultaneously working with the UK digital ministry to mutually take out each other’s political opponents on either side of the pond. Essentially, the US State Department, under President Biden, would fund organizations in London to take out Brexit supporters, and the UK Foreign Office would fund American universities and NGOs and for profit censorship mercenary firms to take out enemies of the Biden administration. This was the US-UK special relationship truly revealed,
in the words of the White House, the goal of this 26 government agency task force was to, quote, mobilize governments, policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs, businesses, individuals, communities, nonprofit organizations, libraries, museums, educational institutions and foreign partners to combat disinformation online. I’m hard pressed to think of a category, you know, the game, animal, plant, mineral. I don’t know that anything that doesn’t fall under that definition of who they mobilized in this whole of society effort to do so.
I should note, as we are getting disclosures from this administration around things like russiagate, around the JFK files. We just saw release of Epstein files and the like. It bears repeating that the fact that, for example, the Central Intelligence Agency participated in a globe spanning effort to control speech on social media harkens back to the kind of disclosures that were made during the time of the Church Committee around other speech police efforts by our intelligence agencies such as Operation Mockingbird and task forces from the early 1990s and these need declassification as well.
This was co chaired this White House information integrity task force did not just have the CIA directly participating in it, but it was actually co chaired by the chief of mission capabilities of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. So that is ODNI was spearheading the 26 government agencies all the way down to the FDA participating in this. So what is the intelligence community doing running that? And the transparency, again, is necessary. It was also co chaired by the Assistant Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, OSTP and the program director at the National Science. Foundation.
So you had intelligence ODNI, you had the White House politicals at the Office of Science and Technology, and you had the National Science Foundation.
You’ll notice the word science is doing a lot of work here. The field of research and development for the god button speech control technologies was, and still is framed to an unsuspecting public as ordinary course science research, and who are we to stand in the way of science? Now, fortunately, almost the entire edifice constructed by the Biden administration has been torn down in just nine months, agency by agency, program by program, grant by grant.
But there are two major caveats to all this winning. The first is the clock maker’s dilemma. When a clock maker makes a clock, even if you stop the clock maker, the clock keeps ticking. And if the clock maker has made a whole lot of clocks, these things all have a life of their own. Even when you shut down the program that, for example, gave the seed funding to those NGOs or for profit companies or university centers. They are now up and running institutions unto themselves. So simply cutting the funding of who gave them their start or who gave them a big bump or were critical parts of their funding or supply chain, so to speak, does not solve the problem they are now–it helps the problem, at least stems the bleeding, but the Blob created a gobsmacking amount of clocks, and not just in the United States, but in foreign jurisdictions such as Europe, Brazil, actually dozens of countries around the world. There are about 85 countries that are listed by USAID as having had disinformation work done and funding technology firms to scan the Internet for speech in order to apply AI pre-censorship.
The second caveat is that the battle is moved upstream, and I sort of think of this as a thumbie war analogy. We’re winning the battle as it was being fought from 2018 to 2022. The censorship proponents were winning, and then the Free Speech proponents are winning at this level that we were fighting it, but they have now moved the battle upstream and introduced the pinky finger, and now there’s the question of, can we have a pinky finger to stop this? And let me explain what I mean by this.
Actually, let norm Eisen explain what we mean by this. For folks who don’t know, Norm Eisen was the legal hatchet man behind the Trump impeachments, the indictments, everything from the Associated 65 project to go after people’s lawyers, to get everyone disbarred. Kind of the lawfair quarterback. He called in his 2025 democracy playbook in January, when Trump was first taking office, he had his seven pillars to retake democracy in the United States. Pillar six was defeat disinformation. And what he called for was for censorship proponents to partner with the EU and Brazil and other like-minded in power governments, because progress on content moderation at the US federal government level had stalled.
If you remember our disinformation governance board chief Nina Jankovic. What did she do after leaving DHS after that board was terminated? Went straight to London, registered as a foreign agent for the British Crown effectively, and then worked at a USAID-funded London-0based censorship shop called the Center for Information Resilience, so that you can be psychologically inoculated against misinformation online. So this, again, is this pipeline where it started as this DHS thing, and they simply had the same job, effectively, in many ways, the same field simply funded by USAID instead of DHS.
I’m going to read a quote now which I think should be ingrained in everyone’s memory. This is from September 2023 about a year after Elon Musk’s acquisition of X and the termination of the trust and safety teams, and the reforms that were done to allow accounts back on, to allow President Trump back on, to remove many of the AI filters that had gone into what was constraining your ability to talk about public health or climate or gender issues or any sort of political matter at all.
This is a quote from the former head of toxic conversations at Twitter 1.0 in a panel with four other folks, two of whom worked with, shall I say, traditional CIA front entities like the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where Bill Burns was the head and the Atlanta Council and others with seven CIA directors on its board. And what she told them is, in September 2023 if it weren’t for Europe right now, I think I would feel pretty defeated and despondent in this moment. It has certainly become much more difficult for outside researchers to actually engage directly with people at the platforms, because there are simply fewer of them.
Now this word researcher gets back to this idea of science. They’re not doing censorship work. They’re simply studying the “science of disinformation”. And along the way, yeah, we may be flagging everyone we don’t like. We may be pressuring companies to adopt our machine learning, 10s of millions of tweet fed AI censorship model, in order to create this filter. So you can’t talk about climate change or abortion or gender issues or whatnot, but it’s all again, folded under this concept of researcher. But every time you hear that, just switch the word operative and you’ll understand what they’re actually saying. So she says it’s become much more difficult for outside. Researchers to actually engage with the platforms, but we spent literally years building up relationships with good folks at all these platforms. We spent literally years building up these relationships. This is exactly what you suspected, I suspect, and for the most part, they’re gone. It’s really, really difficult to know who to reach out to and who to work with, because no at X was taking their call, and Mark Zuckerberg had already begun a free speech turn on Facebook and Instagram.
She then says, if it weren’t for the European Union and the Digital Services Act, that’s the digital censorship act, I don’t know that we’d have much hope of rectifying that situation at all. This is two years ago. All five people on this panel are American. They’re working at American organizations. And she’s saying, if it weren’t for the European Union and a foreign body’s international censorship laws, I don’t know that we’d have much hope of rectifying that situation at all. But given the sorts of requirements for sharing disinformation risk assessments and sharing data with researchers, again, operatives, that means internal data on the platforms with outside censorship operatives, I do think we still have some options for leverage to continue the work that we’ve been doing, and hopefully ultimately that leads to a sort of restaffing of some of these positions as the digital censorship act, she says, digital services act, begins to come into force and platforms feel the real force of actual enforcement action.
So these are American censors turned censors in exile who are preening for an overseas censorship regulatory regime to get them their old censorship jobs back in the United States, because if X or Facebook or Instagram or YouTube wants to keep their 550 million customer market in the EU, they need to give up all their internal data to these outside groups, and they need to hire all these people back as part of disinformation compliance to make sure that they don’t get fined into oblivion by the European Union, by the UK through its online harms act, by the new regulatory regime in Brazil around this.
What I’m trying to convey here is this is something that the tech platforms themselves cannot take on by themselves. It requires the heavy hand of the White House, of the State Department. We’ll get to the solutions towards the end, but you’ll notice a common theme.
We’re going to turn to the AI side of this and how, for example, things like the EU digital censorship act turn this AI censorship Death Star back on. And a quick road map, we’re going to cover real world examples of AI censorship in action and its impact. We’re going to cover a framework for understanding its history and evolution and then solutions on stopping the current crisis point.
So you’ll notice a common theme in the agencies that I described at the start of this, where we’re winning. I mentioned things like the State Department, the intelligence services, the Pentagon, USAID and the like. These are all national security related agencies. So either diplomacy, defense development, or intelligence, and even the participating agencies that are not directly in the national security state have a tremendous amount of tangential, overlapping national security aspects to them.
For example, public health is very closely tied with the military. The military provides an incredible proportion of funds to the medical establishment. If you remember, even Public Health Administration, Operation warp speed, predominantly the money went to the Pentagon. Tony Fauci got his start the NIAID and the military nexus to the medical establishment.
But while it’s daunting enough to confront the national security state with all of its six ways from Sunday to get at you on philosophical grounds. It’s another thing entirely to confront it on operational, technological grounds.
Let me first illustrate kind of the power of AI censorship and why that is the frontier right now. The title of this talk was AI censorship and the new machinery of control. But it’s worth noting, this machinery is not new. I’m not going to be talking for the next several minutes here about any hypothetical future singularity threat around AI. This is already here. Already been here, and it’s permanently changed the fabric of how you can speak to your fellow citizens online
Before 2016, 0% of political speech, or any text based speech on the internet, on social media, was policed through AI filters. 0%. AI filters did exist for things like spam, to measure essentially bot type amplification, and for things like child pornography, where you had law enforcement requirements and techniques like near duplicate hashing were used so that there was essentially a database that would be updated to make sure that no one could post that information. It would be preempted because it would appear similar to something else in a database.
But speech was not–0% again. Everything on social media pre 2016 that was flagged or taken down was done through human content moderators. It was all reactive. Someone had. To flag a post, then it had to go through this review process at a trusted Trust and Safety Team before it was taken down.
With the advent of the 2016 election, everything changed, because Donald Trump won on the basis of social media, because Nigel Farage’s successful. Brexit referendum won on the basis of social media because, frankly, the CIA lost an election in Philippines that also went the same way in terms of social media. A populist wave spread across the world, from Spain to Italy to the UK to France to Germany to the US to Brazil to India to the Philippines, where, one by one, every election where a populist was winning or had won or was on the verge of winning was winning because of social media.
In those countries, the candidate that the State Department wanted to win would get favorable media coverage, and they’d still lose the election. And it was because they determined empirically it was because of free speech online, which was where folks would congregate.
And so what happened at that time was a switch was flipped. What was happening silently in the background before 2016 was several years of technological development by the US military, the US intelligence services, the US State Department and USAID to take the relatively new phenomenon of social media speech in a big data way and use it for the purposes of knob upturning and down-turning Voices online. And this was done through a technique called natural language processing, which essentially ingests huge amounts of tweets for Facebook posts or transcriptions of YouTube videos, and I’m talking huge, 10s, hundreds of millions of these, and then uses a model based on keywords, slogans, hashtags, sentiment analysis, and these models are fine-tuned in order to target a narrative or a dialect or a way of speaking, a linguistic pattern, to identify wrong speakers and wrong speech so that they can be re-censored, so they can be censored at scale. This solves the problem that they were having at the time, that there were not enough human moderators to take out all the categories of speech that they wanted.
Now, this was originally developed by DARPA to stop ISIS in the run-up to boots on the ground in Syria, when ISIS was said to be promoting terrorists on Twitter and Facebook. There was a military, perceived military need to develop technology to see how ISIS propagandists spread their message online, what kind of prefixes, suffixes, the particular language. And then DARPA provided the funding to create this technology so that social media companies would be told by the Global Engagement Center, rest in peace, to shut that down.
But in 2016 they used the excuse of Russian disinformation to take that same anti-ISIS AI censorship technology to turn it against the Trump movement in the United States, the Brexit movement in the UK, the AfD movement in Germany, the Polish PIS party, the National run National Assembly in France. Basically all of NATO’s enemies were effectively targeted as if they were foreign terrorists.
And just to cover the scale of this, the 2020, election, I mentioned that DHS played the lead role in censoring that. But how was that done? Why was it that you couldn’t question mail-in ballots or early voting drop boxes or questions with potential election machine insecurities? Well, DHS partnered with this group, the election integrity project. They labeled 22 million tweets as being mis or disinformation incidents part of misinformation narratives. They did not manually review 22 million tweets for that. What they did is they ingested 859 million tweets during the election cycle and then used a essentially proprietary machine-learning model to simply take all the keywords associated with the Trump movement, things like stop the steal, or things like ballot harvesting, or terms like illegitimate. They’d get assigned a weighting in the filters and then fine-tuned over time. There were military contractors like Miter who developed what was called the squint software for election officials to use AI censorship to pre-flag this, and the result was the mass censorship of an entire election.
Now, why was this not here in 2024 Well, this was because the AI censorship super-weapon was temporarily de-powered in the United States. When Elon Musk changed the rate limit, if folks remember, in the, believe, the summer of 2023 so that you could only ingest a limited number of posts per day. You could only ingest, I think it was something up to 5000 or 10,000 posts per day. You simply could not ingest the AI fast enough to be able to create a model in time to sensor in real time.
In addition to that, they changed the pricing. They made the API for X go from just a few $1,000 a month to hundreds of 1000s of dollars a month, something that only enterprise clients like Google or Microsoft could afford to pay so all of these little USAID funded, Pentagon funded on a government grant that’s paying for staff and overhead, could not afford to create their AI censorship super weapon. They still needed it to do their work, but they could not access it or afford it anymore.
Places like Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg SHUT DOWN. Crowd Tangle. The AI censorship basis, or being able to get all the proprietary data from Facebook.
But I bring this up in part because, as we speak today, the House Judiciary Committee is having a hearing on European censorship. This EU digital censorship act compels that data to be given up to vetted researchers, outside operatives, so that they can put the power back into this thing that has been killed here, effectively in the United States. So they want to rev this back up so we’re back under 2020 conditions.
I should note that NATO itself, there are very serious concerns, however you feel, about NATO, with continuing NATO funding at the appropriate level, without conditions. The NATO 2030 concept called for, quote, 24/7 disinformation monitoring systems driven by artificial intelligence in order to protect the political aspect of NATO’s operations and make sure that they don’t fall out of funding favor.
The UK. There’s a lot going on in the UK right now, in the censorship front. Just yesterday, a very famous median Graham Linehan was arrested flying back from Arizona to the UK for three tweets that he made, which were just jokes about gender identity effectively. He was met by five armed security guards the moment he landed in Heathrow airport after flying from the United States.
The UK has over 30 arrests per day for online social media, speech. The Times reported 12,000 arrests per year the UK is now averaging for political speech on X and Facebook. This is being pre-flagged through AI censorship dashboards such as Hate Lab. Hate lab started off from 2013 to 2015 doing the same sort of counter insurgency, counter terrorism work, working with the UK Foreign Office and associated government institutions in the UK. But then, when the Brexit referendum happened in 2016 in tandem with their US censorship partners, they pivoted to going after the Brexit movement and created a hate speech dashboard. It is a real time 24/7 early warning radar system, so that every member of the Metropolitan Police Department in London gets a real time feed across the Internet of every tweet that you post, every Facebook post. It has a confidence level, a toxicity score associated with it.
They were funded by the US Justice Department, by the way, I should note in part, because of what I’m trying to describe to you, which is this nexus between our clock-makers and the clocks that are now ticking abroad. Unfortunately, our own government is responsible for countless arrests happening right now in the UK because of this AI censorship story.
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Last thing is just solutions on where to go from here. So number one: total transparency and declassification from this administration. The USAID files have to made, be made completely public. Every aspect of the Pentagon’s the Global Engagement Center files have to be made public.
A message needs to be sent that if you are in this line of business, censoring people’s God-given and First Amendment protected free speech rights in this country, everything that you do as a part of this government that infringes on those rights will be made public one day. So be careful about doing this in the next administration, because it will be your turn in the sunlight, and every email you send, every analyst memo you write, will be read by 10s of millions of people, with potential penalties to follow.
Number two is free speech, diplomacy amped up to 11. Trade aid, arms sanctions, retaliatory regulatory regimes against EU member states for enforcement of the DSA, as well as even potentially taking the legacy function that still survives at USAID to fund free speech organizations rather than censorship ones.
Third is a full review and cuts to foreign universities and NGOs, especially those in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Sheffield, Cardiff King’s College, London school, back. Fourth for the condition NATO funding until they get rid of the AI censorship work that they’re doing and all the social cohesion funds.
