A Democrat senator with an anti-free speech ax to grind is once again attempting to trigger Big tech-government collusion just before the 2024 elections.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) insisted that President Joe Biden’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) coordinate more with social media platforms to crush alleged election “disinformation,” in a Sept. 26 letter to CISA director Jen Easterly. CISA was one of the notorious federal agencies exposed by the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit as working with tech companies on censoring free speech. Warner claimed now is “an opportune moment to ramp up such collaborations” with Big Tech. Big Brother approves.
Warner wrote at length whining about alleged “disinformation,” including AI-generated Joe Biden messages and supposed Russian influence campaigns. His censorship aims became particularly clear as he urged First Amendment-violating coordination. “Within the vein of collaborative efforts, I also encourage CISA to work closely with all relevant parties, including academics and researchers, state and local officials, and private sector entities (such as technology companies and social media platforms) in an effort to increase information sharing,” he wrote.
He continued to hammer the proposal of increased government pressure to silence Americans. “I strongly encourage the agency to again coordinate efforts with platforms to combat election disinformation,” he pontificated. “In an election cycle where threats persistently grow but some platforms are dedicating fewer resources towards election integrity and content moderation efforts.”
Warner even suggested CISA should be the middle-man for “facilitating communication between election offices and platforms,” allowing a triumvirate of Big Tech-government-election official censors targeting supposed “misleading information,” especially AI content.
Warner has a track record not only of urging for government-tech censorship collusion, but also of falsely labeling users as Russian “disinformation” spreaders. For instance, in 2017, he aggressively urged tech companies like Twitter to censor alleged Russian disinformation, and lawmaker pressure ultimately contributed to Americans being wrongly censored as supposed Russian-affiliated users, according to the Twitter Files.
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