Congress Must Dismantle Government-Led Disinformation-Industrial Complex

Why should Americans pay a single cent more for our own subjugation?

(@MikeBenzCyber)

Taxpayer Dollars Must Not Fund the Government-Led Censorship Regime

We Americans have been paying the feds to silence ourselves and interfere in our own elections, under a government-led Disinformation-Industrial Complex that has been brought into clear view through the yeoman efforts of a single billionaire entrepreneur, journalists, and activists, red state attorneys' general, and the House Judiciary Committee's Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.

Perhaps because of this exposure, one of the federal agencies most integral to this byzantine censorship regime has been covering up its tracks.

Yet during a recent hearing of the House Appropriations Committee's Homeland Security subcommittee with the leader of said agency, the agency's scandalous behavior was not a core focus of the discussion.

One subcommittee member largely led the questioning touching on CISA's speech policing. Every member should have.

There was little indication appropriators intended to leverage the power of the purse to compel the agency to cease its censorship efforts—that is, to defund the censorship regime, and perhaps to to dismantle it outright.

If Republicans are committed to combatting the ongoing assault against the core of our First Amendment—political speech—which could worsen as the 2024 election approaches, it is incumbent upon them to take a significantly more aggressive posture in defense of our liberties.

I unpack this argument in a new piece at Newsweek, which you can read in full here.