Commentary
Recently I testified before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability for a vital hearing titled “Censorship Laundering: How the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Enables the Silencing of Dissent.”
That hearing centered on the role of DHS sub-agency CISA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in censoring the speech of Americans—directly and by proxy—first on election integrity, then on COVID-19, and now on seemingly every contentious issue.
As I noted in my opening remarks:
“Overwhelming evidence suggests federal agencies, top White House officials, and lawmakers, colluding with Big Tech, and often government-coordinated and -funded ‘counter-disinformation’ groups, have imposed a mass public-private censorship regime on the American people….