The Censorship Cartel: How Biden and Big Tech Colluded to Silence Americans

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Posted on 12/22/2024 5:13:43 AM PST by MtnClimber

Thomas Jefferson once warned, “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” His caution echoes with alarming clarity today, as the Biden administration consolidates federal power to suppress dissent, silence debate, and tighten its grip on institutions meant to serve the people. Jefferson's warning serves not as a relic of the past but as a prescient reminder for a nation now grappling with unprecedented encroachments on freedom. Indeed, when government moves beyond its foundational task of safeguarding life, liberty, and property, it inevitably devolves into a tool of power wielded against its own people. Under the Biden administration, the United States has witnessed the coalescence of federal power, Big Tech oligarchs, and unelected bureaucrats into a singular force—one aimed not at defending liberty, but at suppressing dissent, silencing free speech, and intimidating political opponents. The result? A regime of censorship and retaliation that echoes the most cautionary passages of Orwell’s 1984. In Orwell’s dystopia, truth is manipulated, speech is policed, and dissent is punished—a reality we now see emerging as federal agencies pressure private platforms to suppress narratives inconvenient to their agenda. The parallels are chilling: like Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, today’s government-sanctioned censors disguise control as protection, ensuring only the ‘correct’ information reaches the public.

From the unmasking of coordinated censorship efforts between Big Tech and federal agencies to revelations of retaliation against whistleblowers, Congress’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government has peeled back the curtain on abuses that demand a reckoning. The findings are damning: Mark Zuckerberg admitted to bowing to White House pressure to silence Americans; whistleblowers were harassed, purged, and financially strangled for exposing the FBI's abuses; and federal law enforcement meddled in an election by suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story weeks before votes were cast.

The dissolution of entities like the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), the exposure of “censorship industrial complexes”, and tangible policy changes across federal agencies are hard-won victories—but they are only a start. This essay reveals just a tiny slice of the Biden administration’s weaponization of government, the historic fight to defend the First Amendment, and the urgent need to dismantle this machinery before it devours the last vestiges of American freedom.

Big Tech Censorship and White House Coercion

In August 2024, under scrutiny from the Judiciary Committee, Mark Zuckerberg admitted that Facebook had been “pressured” by the Biden White House to censor Americans. This was not mere nudging; it was coercion, pure and simple. From 2021 onward, White House officials repeatedly leaned on social media companies to suppress speech that questioned COVID policies, vaccine mandates, and other government narratives. True information, inconvenient for the administration’s image, was swept off platforms under the guise of combating “misinformation”—a term that has morphed into a cudgel for ideological conformity.

The Select Subcommittee’s investigation laid bare this sordid collaboration. Documents show federal agencies worked with groups like the Stanford Internet Observatory’s Election Integrity Partnership, created “at the request” of the Department of Homeland Security. These entities acted as intermediaries, flagging content for censorship under the Orwellian rubric of combating “disinformation.” In other words, private corporations were deputized as thought police—censoring speech while federal agencies retained plausible deniability.

This was no trifling infringement. Justice Alito’s dissent in Murthy v. Missouri underscored the significance of this censorship, declaring it a brazen violation of the First Amendment. Alito warned that when the government uses private intermediaries to suppress speech, it effectively bypasses constitutional safeguards, transforming Big Tech into an instrument of state power. Such coercion, he argued, cannot be tolerated without unraveling the very fabric of free expression in America. The fruits of this labor? Millions of Americans denied access to information crucial to public discourse, all to shield a flailing administration.

Whistleblowers: Patriots Under Siege

If the coercion of Big Tech represents a war against free speech, the retaliation against whistleblowers exposes the depths of corruption within federal law enforcement. Brave FBI agents who stepped forward to reveal abuses of power faced retaliatory measures befitting a third-world regime: suspensions without pay, revoked security clearances, and financial ruin. One agent testified to being suspended merely for questioning the FBI’s targeting of parents protesting at school board meetings—a clear abuse of law enforcement power.

The Subcommittee’s work forced the FBI to reinstate at least one whistleblower’s security clearance, an admission of guilt by the Bureau. Yet the broader pattern of purging dissent—compounded by the abuse of security clearances to silence conservative agents—paints a grim portrait of an agency corrupted by political bias. As Cicero once wrote, “The more laws, the less justice.” Nowhere is this truer than within the modern FBI, where layers of policies and protocols have been weaponized not to enforce justice, but to suppress dissent. Whistleblowers who dared to expose corruption—whether in school board surveillance or political targeting—found themselves ensnared by the very bureaucracy they sought to hold accountable. Cicero’s warning rings through the centuries: when the law becomes a tool for power rather than protection, justice is not served but sacrificed. The FBI’s culture of retaliation reveals a weaponized justice system, enforcing political orthodoxy rather than equal justice under the law.

Policy Changes and the Fall of GARM

The Subcommittee’s investigations achieved tangible victories for free speech. Chief among them was the dissolution of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM)—a group ostensibly designed to combat “harmful content” but functionally acting as a central node in the censorship industrial complex. GARM worked in lockstep with Big Tech platforms, labeling disfavored opinions as “harmful” and thereby reducing their reach or visibility.

The Subcommittee’s findings shone a harsh light on these operations, leading to GARM’s quiet collapse. Additionally, the Justice Department revised internal policies, curtailing its ability to target parents and religious Americans, while the IRS ended its practice of unannounced visits to taxpayers’ homes—an intimidation tactic that has no place in a free society.

Election Interference and the 51 Intel Officials Perhaps the most damning revelation of all is the role of federal agencies in tilting the 2020 presidential election. In October 2020, the New York Post published a story revealing Hunter Biden’s corrupt foreign dealings—information verified as authentic by the FBI months earlier. Yet social media platforms censored the story within hours, citing fears of “Russian disinformation.”

Why? Because the FBI had spent months conditioning Big Tech to expect a Russian hack-and-leak operation involving Hunter Biden. Emails and testimony reveal the FBI’s deliberate effort to “prebunk” the story—a euphemism for planting doubt about truths inconvenient to the Biden campaign.

The Subcommittee also revealed that Biden campaign officials orchestrated a public statement signed by 51 former intelligence officials dismissing the laptop story as Russian disinformation. This coordinated effort misled the American public weeks before they cast their votes. The ramifications are staggering: federal law enforcement and the intelligence community interfered in a U.S. election, subverting democracy to protect one candidate.

Conclusion

Ronald Reagan once warned that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. Jefferson’s caution about liberty yielding to government power stands as the foundation of this truth. When we permit the unchecked growth of authority, freedom does not simply erode; it is seized, inch by inch, until the citizenry becomes subservient to the state. Reagan and Jefferson, separated by centuries, remind us that vigilance is eternal, for liberty’s survival depends on those willing to defend it against encroaching tyranny. The weaponization of the federal government under the Biden-Harris regime proves that even in a republic founded on liberty, authoritarian instincts lurk in the shadows, waiting for opportunity.

From Facebook censorship to FBI retaliation, from dismantling whistleblowers to suppressing the truth before an election, the Subcommittee’s findings illuminate a federal government unmoored from its constitutional role. This moment demands vigilance. Dismantling the censorship industrial complex, protecting whistleblowers, and restoring free speech are not partisan aims; they are the urgent tasks of all who value liberty.

We must remember, as Jefferson did, that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. The time has come to withdraw that consent from those who would weaponize our institutions against us. The fight for freedom—for unbridled speech, for justice untainted by bias—is far from over. But let the work of this Subcommittee stand as a clarion call: liberty must be defended, and its enemies exposed.

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1 posted on 12/22/2024 5:13:43 AM PST by MtnClimber

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