The censoring functions in the name of "fighting disinformaiton" just carried on without the name.
It now turns out that while they got rid of the board name, DHS continued the censoring functions of controlling the narrative and flow of information on social media sites, just without a "Disinformation Board".
The Intercept: Truth Cops Leaked Documents Outline DHS Plans to Police Disinformation.
Even without the board, DHS and agencies continued to work to shape the narrative and remove information they did not like form social media.
So much so that Twitter and Facebook gave the government special access to remove posts they found objectionable.
Among other things, Hunter Biden's laptop anyone?
So, The Biden Administration was using social media sites as their agents, with government agents themselves flagging and censoring content they did not like and requested the sites to remove.
This is at most likely, if not de facto and de jure absolutely, given what is being revealed about this program so far, to be a major ongoing First Amendment violation by these government agencies in censoring speech.
Remember when the Left and Democrats were in favor of free speech and against government censorship? Good times.
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Well...Hopefully, Mr. Musk will "Just Say NO!" (As far as I'm concerned, he can add a few expletives to that statement if he so desires.)
The problem that I see with DHS doing anything, is that they will just make the claim that they did it for "national security" and think that it makes it all OK. The renewed Patriot Act of a few years ago went even further than the first obscenely civil rights infringing law.
juvat: Yes, Musk may just change things, which is why the left is pitching a fit over his taking over Twitter.
pigpen51: Possibly, but that they;re doing it after they claimed they weren't and especially as its treading on core free speech may just get people interested in reigning these rogue agencies in a tad.
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