Benjamin Weingarten: Congress’ 1,500-page spending bill hides a sneaky reprieve for federal censors
'...But like other parts of the fed-led censorship apparatus, the interagency entity underwent civil rights-eviscerating mission creep, expanding its mandate to suppress the speech of Americans guilty of wrongthink.
The evidence of this emerged in Daily Wire v. State Department, whose plaintiffs allege that the GEC’s funding, promoting and marketing of internet “risk-raters” Global Disinformation Index and NewsGuard amounted to First Amendment-violating censorship-by-proxy.
These groups aim to purge purported mis- and disinformation by threatening the business models of outlets that publish news and views they deem illegitimate.
They do so by starving those outlets of vital ad revenue, placing them on de facto blacklists that companies use in determining where not to advertise, to protect “brand safety.”...'
Reference: nypost.com
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