Part_of You

2023-03-12 21:48:36

My Statement to Congress

In testimony to the House Judiciary Committee about the Twitter Files, a few words about why state-funded "anti-disinformation" and free speech can't coexist
Matt #Taibbi
Mar 9 2023

#TwitterFiles

...The original promise of the Internet was that it might democratize the exchange of information globally. A free internet would overwhelm all attempts to control information flow, its very existence a threat to anti-democratic forms of government everywhere.

What we found in the Files was a sweeping effort to reverse that promise, and use machine learning and other tools to turn the internet into an instrument of censorship and social control. Unfortunately, our own government appears to be playing a lead role.
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https://www.racket.news/p/my-statement-to-congress
Censorship-Industrial Complex
#twitter #disinformation