Posted on 02/21/2023 6:43:46 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
There’s a movement brewing to shut down conservative websites that offer views and information contradicting left-wing orthodoxy.
Investigative reporter Gabe Kaminsky did an excellent job of uncovering how activist organizations, some partnered with the State Department, work to blacklist and defund conservative media. His ongoing series at the Washington Examiner is worth reading and explains how this is part of a larger effort to effectively shut down conservative media publications.
It’s predictable—yet nevertheless disturbing—stuff.
“Major ad companies are increasingly seeking guidance from purportedly ‘nonpartisan’ groups claiming to be detecting and fighting online ‘disinformation.’” Kaminsky wrote. “These same ‘disinformation’ monitors are compiling secret website blacklists and feeding them to ad companies, with the aim of defunding and shutting down disfavored speech, according to sources familiar with the situation, public memos, and emails obtained by the Washington Examiner.”
In one report, Kaminsky explained how the State Department bankrolled one of those nonprofits:
"The Global Disinformation Index, a British organization with two affiliated U.S. nonprofit groups, is feeding blacklists to ad companies with the intent of defunding and shutting down websites peddling alleged ‘disinformation.’
"This same ‘disinformation’ group has received $330,000 from two State Department-backed entities linked to the highest levels of government, raising concerns from First Amendment lawyers and members of Congress."
The Daily Signal was on the Global Disinformation Index’s villain list, as was almost every significant right-of-center website. By contrast, the list of “low-risk” websites GDI identified were all left-leaning—including NPR, HuffPost, and BuzzFeed News.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
PING!
This is what fascists do.
If you have rational arguments there is no need to “Shut down” anything.
Name names. Make them famous. Let them break their necks looking over both shoulders.
“Brewing”!?!?!
Heck it was first brewed years ago, widely drunk, and refilled, rebrewed and re-drunk many times since then.
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