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Obama s Censorship Office Goes Bankrupt | RealClearPolitics

The Global Engagement Center, an office housed within the State Department and aiming to thwart disinformation and misinformation, has been forced by Congress to close up shop. It s no mystery why; the taxpayer-backed GEC violated its mandate to work only overseas and devolved into a partisan enabler of speech suppression in the United States.

Here s how.

via www.realclearpolitics.com

They were sort of like the UN with respect to climate change, if climate change is really a thing. They couldn’t stop it, but they could do immense harm trying. Fortunately, Taibbi and Trump stopped them before they destroyed that darn First Amendment, saving us however many decades or centuries of tyranny, which may still get for other reasons.