By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-04 07:37:40 | Updated at 2025-01-06 10:26:42
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Feds' disbanded 'censorship nerve center' faces hellish afterlife amid lawsuits, Hill probes
Just the News ^ | 1/3/25 | Greg Piper
Posted on 01/03/2025 11:24:33 PM PST by CFW
The State Department laid to rest the alleged "censorship nerve center" of the federal government last week after Congress refused to reauthorize the interagency Global Engagement Center, known for teaching youth to distrust populism and allegedly squelching American small businesses online.
While it may have a peaceful afterlife – State plans to "realign" GEC staff with other entities that handle purported "foreign information manipulation and interference activities" – GEC also faces an unquenchable fire and undying worm on multiple fronts.
The Functional Government Initiative (FGI) filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Monday against State, with nine exhibits, because it "has produced no records and has failed to assert any claims that responsive records are exempt from production" in response to three FOIA requests whose statutory due dates have passed.
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FGI's first FOIA request Sept. 27 asks for cyberspace bureau records from October 19, 2022 – when the DSA was adopted – to the start of the records search.
It pertains to Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Jennifer Bachus, Special Envoy and Coordinator for Digital Freedom Eileen Donahoe, Ambassador at Large Nathaniel Fick, Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Cyberspace Security Liesyl Franz, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy Steve Lang and Director for Strategic Planning and Communications Shawn Powers
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: censorship; firstamendment; gec; government
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The Global Engagement Center may be shut down, but I'm sure these people are being spread throughout government agencies to continue censoring information.
1 posted on 01/03/2025 11:24:33 PM PST by CFW
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