Whistleblower Docs Reveal Deep State Desire to Deputize Big Tech as Speech Police
'Paused' Disinfo Board apparently was operational and domestic-focused at minimum at the outset--contrary to DHS claims
Documents Show DHS Wants to Deputize Big Tech as Speech Police
New whistleblower documents obtained by Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) demonstrate the danger posed by the "paused"—but by no means shuttered—Disinformation Governance Board (DGB), and the regime from which it springs.
Perhaps most significantly, they reveal the intent of the Deep State to deputize Big Tech as America's unofficial domestic speech police, violating the First Amendment by proxy.
The documents also illustrate the duplicity of those who minimized the DGB's scope and ambition, raising questions about what else our national security apparatus is doing in pursuit of its war on wrongthink.
I break down the story in a new piece at Newsweek.
Fascism is not a right-wing phenomenon. Conservatives seek small government. Fascists promote huge, omnipotent government. They could not be more opposite.
Fascism promotes large government, which makes it a Leftist movement.
Fascism uses large government to implement its agenda through state-approved corporate actors. The only difference between Fascism and Communism/Socialism is that Fascism allows private ownership (by large, state-approved and politically-compliant corporations), while Communists/Socialists strive for state control of the means of production. They both lead to the same totalitarian end, but use different means to get there.
All totalitarians are Leftist because they all require large, intrusive government and despise individual civil liberties.
For the National Socialist German Workers Party (the NSDAP), also known as the Nazis, the state-approved corporate actors were firms like Krupp, Siemens, IG Farben, and Deutsche Bank, etc.; while today the Left does their work through Google, Facebook, Apple and Bank of America, etc., promoting Leftism. The end goal is complete state control of every aspect of the lives of the population of individuals.
Where is Antifa (which is a term coined in the 1930s, purportedly standing for "Antifascist," for the communist opponents of the NSDAP in Weimar-era Germany) in all this?