Shellenberger: The Government Funding Someone Else To Censor Information Is Still A First Amendment Violation | Video | RealClearPolitics
Michael Shellenberger, who testified at the “Twitter Files” hearing last month, talked to Joe Rogan about working on the project and what they found about how intelligence agencies infiltrated social media companies. Watch the full interview here on Spotify.
“What you’re looking at is the apparatus that was created by the war on terror over the last 20 years starting after 9/11,” Shellenberger said about the censorship bureaucracy that has appeared recently, and the social ecosystem that supports it. “Aspen is funded by the U.S. government, Stanford is funded by the U.S. government… We’re talking about U.S. government-funded organizations.”
“They created something called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency within the Department of Homeland Security to supposedly protect the media environment from foreign influence. They created something called the foreign influence task force within the FBI to basically start policing domestic speech on those platforms. They start organizing all the different social media companies to participate in these meetings.”
This should be a huge scandal but it’s only half a scandal.