America First Legal exposes foreign collusion to censor Americans’ free speech

In case you missed it, on Friday, America First Legal published a thread to X detailing the report on foreign collusion to censor free speech in the United States.
 
America First Legal wrote: "EXCLUSIVE — FOREIGN COLLUSION TO CENSOR AMERICAN SPEECH: New docs from litigation against the CDC reveal the Biden-Harris White House hosted the "Counter Disinformation Unit" from the U.K. gov’t in 2021 to learn about their recommendations to censor speech."

As a part of the NSC’s regular interagency meetings on censoring COVID-related speech in the United States, the White House hosted the Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) from the U.K. government in 2021 to learn about their most effective censorship techniques.

The group continued, "This meeting was attended by high-level staff from: White House, NSC, CIA, FBI, State Department, Treasury Department of Defense, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, USAID, Global Media Office of the Director of National Intelligence, as well as high-ranking officers in the Army, Navy, and Air Force."

"At this meeting, the CDU outlined how they have been censoring the British public, and these documents expose how left-wing authoritarian governments across the globe are working together to attack free speech."
  • During the censorship meeting, the Biden-Harris NSC invited the British government to share its censorship playbook. They recommended: Creating a dedicated hub to lead government-wide censorship efforts
  • Passing legislation to enable the government to coerce social media companies
  • Enlisting the Department of State to partner with foreign allies and multilateral institutions to coordinate the global censorship agenda

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"A centralized hub to lead government-wide censorship efforts:   The Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU) is a British “cross-departmental” body that coordinates censorship programs across the whole of the British government. They “support formulation of a coordinated Government response” to the “threat” of misinformation (anything the government deems false).
 

CONTINUED: "The CDU coordinates the British censorship program with private companies such as social media platforms and non-profits. The CDU includes components of the U.K.’s foreign policy apparatus, domestic and foreign intelligence services, and individuals working directly for the Prime Minister in the Cabinet Office’s National Security Unit."
 
"Our separate litigation previously uncovered that the Biden-Harris Admin convened similar public-private censorship partnerships in the U.S. well into 2024."

The group then linked their previous report for the readers to review: 
 
"Around election time, the CDU stood up a “Central Election Cell” to kick censorship efforts into overdrive."
 

"During the U.S. 2022 Midterm elections, the Biden-Harris Administration similarly set up a National Election Command Post within the FBI."
 

"Enacting censorship laws In the meeting, the CDU shared how their proposal would allow them to directly coerce social media platforms to ensure that the government’s censorship demands were followed. By creating a new duty of care, the proposed legislation empowers a British regulatory agency to demand the censorship of content that the U.K. government deems harmful."

"The U.K. Online Safety Act came into force in October of 2023 and is the basis under which U.K. law enforcement officials have threatened to extradite and jail U.S. citizens."
 

"The law parallels recently resurfaced comments made by then Senator Kamala Harris in 2019, which called for the DOJ to punish social media companies that allowed “disinformation” and “misinformation.”'
 
One of [their] separate investigations confirmed that the Biden-Harris White House solicited policy recommendations from the British-based Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)—the group behind the U.K. Online Safety Act—and adopted commitments to hold companies accountable through DOJ prosecutions and FTC enforcement actions for allowing “online harassment” on their platforms."
 
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