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Has Our Government Erased the First Amendment?
American Thinker ^ | 18 Feb, 2024 | Clarice Feldman

Posted on 02/18/2024 4:46:51 AM PST by MtnClimber

The most important thing you will see this week is this interview of Mike Benz by Tucker Carlson: Benz is with the Foundation for Freedom, which tracks government censorship. In this interview he explains how our government rigged elections abroad and has now, through DHS (Department of Homeland Security) and CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), censored online communications, noting that its most substantial censorship involved blocking and limiting any critiques online respecting the government’s responses to COVID-19 and the security of the 2020 election.

It's a well-detailed account that I urge you in the strongest terms to view.

In short form, here’s a summary, but it cannot do this chilling interview complete justice:

THREAD:

@MikeBenzCyber

speaks with

@TuckerCarlson

Mike Benz outlines how the government established a permanent domestic censorship office under the pretext of countering misinformation. and disinformation. Initially considered for the State Department, CIA, and FBI, the censorship office found its home in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), utilizing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). DHS classified elections as critical infrastructure and online misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation as cybersecurity attacks. The original goal of countering Russian disinformation shifted to suppressing domestic dissent and the populist movement led by President Trump. Examining the 2020 election's censorship strategy, Benz details CISA's collaboration with Stanford University, University of Washington, Graphika, and the Atlantic Council through the Election Integrity Partnership. The censorship consortium employed coercive tactics, leveraging its deputized status to pressure tech companies through government threats. A critical element was the seven-month pre-censorship campaign before the 2020 election. The consortium compelled social media companies to introduce a new "delegitimization" violation, targeting content challenging faith in mail-in ballots, early voting, and ballot drop boxes. The overarching goal was narrative control, preventing doubts about a Biden victory...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: civilrights; dissent; firstamendment; freespeech; marxism

1 posted on 02/18/2024 4:46:51 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
preventing doubts about a Biden victory

Attempts to hide the truth, but it only partially worked with low-information people.

2 posted on 02/18/2024 4:47:05 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Unfortunately, low-information people get to vote. Several times in some precincts.


3 posted on 02/18/2024 4:53:13 AM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: MtnClimber

Very enlightening and disturbing interview


4 posted on 02/18/2024 4:59:30 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: MtnClimber

Reread the Declaration of Independence.

Far too much of it is sounding way too familiar.


5 posted on 02/18/2024 5:00:26 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

It is our duty…


6 posted on 02/18/2024 5:02:48 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: ComputerGuy
Unfortunately, low-information people get to vote. Several times in some precincts.

Lots of People that didn’t vote got to voter

Lots of people that shouldn’t have voted got to vote; Illegals, felons, dead people and non-existent people.

7 posted on 02/18/2024 5:23:12 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes, they practically have.


8 posted on 02/18/2024 5:43:36 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: MtnClimber

Nonsense. We American citizens still have absolute freedom to talk about ██████, ████████, or ████████.


9 posted on 02/18/2024 5:51:44 AM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (VOTE BIDEN 2024! Too senile to stand trial but good enough to run the country!)
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To: MtnClimber

big question is... are there any actual laws against violating our rights on a national scale?

by this i mean the specific crime and punishment for violation.

if so, please drop a link


10 posted on 02/18/2024 6:00:16 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: MtnClimber; All

https://tuckercarlson.com/uncensored-the-national-security-state-the-inversion-of-democracy/


11 posted on 02/18/2024 6:12:56 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

“Has Our Government Erased the First Amendment?”

That’s why the Demoncrats invented their “misinformation” aka “Disinformation” propaganda. To shut down anything that may challenge their lies.


12 posted on 02/18/2024 6:28:25 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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“misinformation. and disinformation.”

Two communist terms if ever I’ve heard them.


13 posted on 02/18/2024 6:32:19 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: MtnClimber

The Tucker Benz interview is the most compelling hour I’ve spent in a very long time


14 posted on 02/18/2024 6:34:07 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: MtnClimber

The “government” already repealed the US Constitution with the imposition of the panoply of “civil rights” legislation in the 1870s and 1960s. At least in the 1860s/70s they changed the US Constitution; in the 1960s they just ignored it and the “courts” went along with the scheme because they were 1) cowards and 2) communists.


15 posted on 02/18/2024 6:41:42 AM PST by crusher (GREEN: Globaloney for the Gullible)
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To: MtnClimber

Regardless of the fact that the FBI can be prosecuted for conspiring with Old Twitter for violating Constitutional free speech rights, Twitter’s former owner can be prosecuted at the same time.

Federal courts have upheld the Justice Department’s enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 and it’s protection against race discrimination in privately-owned businesses due to the fact that they represent “public institutions”. Race discrimination by these arena owners is illegal because it represents discrimination by the overall community.

Do you support or oppose this legal precedent?

Twitter owns and runs a “public institution”. Applying the Civil Rights Act’s precedent to the 1st Amendment has not been tested in court. How do you think this Supreme Court would rule? .....Hmmmmm?

Protection against speech discrimination is constitutional. Protection against race discrimination is only legal.


16 posted on 02/18/2024 8:20:32 AM PST by nagant
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1913 was the knife in the throat with the 16th and 17th Amendments.


17 posted on 02/18/2024 8:51:19 AM PST by Go_Raiders (An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur? - Axel Oxenstierna)
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To: MtnClimber

One of the most important interviews on the web. Unfortunately, it is too long for addled brains to handle.


18 posted on 02/18/2024 10:56:12 AM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Go_Raiders

And 19th amendment. Women have no business voting. They are emotionally compromised beings.


19 posted on 02/18/2024 11:13:10 AM PST by DownInFlames (p)
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To: MtnClimber

Good grief!
Feldman’s next question will be: “Did the japs really bomb Pearl Harbor?”


20 posted on 02/18/2024 1:14:35 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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