Exposing feds’ ‘weaponization’ against Americans under way with House hearing

Taxpayers are ‘unwittingly financing’ a ‘censorship industrial complex’

Americans are losing, at least in part, their freedom of speech because of the vast “censorship industrial complex” that has developed under an agenda that has been adopted by leftists and Democrats in Washington.

The comments come from independent journalists who spoke with the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.

Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger were two of the reporters that were given access to the “Twitter Files,” evidence from inside the social media company that documented how certain ideas, and certain people, were suppressed based on the agenda of the Washington Deep State.

They appeared before the committee, and recalled President Dwight Eisenhower’s warning of a surging military complex that would one day “endanger our liberties.”

Only their concern was the growing government efforts, in concert with vested interests in the private sector, to “monitor online speech to squelch disfavored views,” according to a report from the Washington Times.

“Today, American taxpayers are unwittingly financing the growth and power of a censorship industrial complex run by America’s scientific and technological elite, which endangers our liberties and democracy,” Shellenberger explained. “The Twitter Files, state attorneys, general lawsuits and investigative reporters have revealed a large and growing network of government agencies, academic institutions and nongovernmental organizations that are actively censoring American citizens, often without their knowledge, on a range of issues.”

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