Free Speech Groups Call on Congress To Block NewsGuard Funding
As many as 36 groups advocating free speech, the Free Speech Alliance, have turned to US Congress with a request to stop any further funding of NewsGuard.
NewsGuard is an outfit that describes itself as countering misinformation on behalf of news consumers, brands and democracies.
That mission also includes (trust) rating system for news sites right in people s browsers.
But members of the Free Speech Alliance, and those supporting it are not buying this pitch, summing up and denouncing NewsGuard instead as an ideologically-motivated internet traffic cop.
And they are warning that taxpayer money should never have been spent on financing it, and its ilk and even less so, that the US authorities should continue to spend taxpayer money on what is described as politically motivated censorship of speech.
And these free speech groups want Congress to make sure the Biden White House is prevented from bankrolling such an organization a particularly sensitive issue given the stage of the election cycle in the country via the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
SCOTUS needs to shut down all this speech policing ASAP. Whether it does or not will tell us a lot about where things are going.