ARDERN, HARRIS, SISTERS UNDER THE SKIN, SAY NO MORE

"Free speech is a weapon of war" - Jacinda Ardern now enjoys a very lucrative celeb speaking circuit

This morning an online jailbird veteran posted, “Universities must teach young people to think. Not WHAT to think, but just to THINK. Please tell Auckland University what YOU THINK of their woke, socialist ideology.” The comment was immediately deleted.

The issue today was Waipapa Taumata Rau ("the Māori name gifted to the University of Auckland" ... Completion is required to progress into your second year of study.") In 2021 it was the Covid-19 j^b so dear to the heart of PM Jacinda Ardern, now thought to be earning six figures per event by some of the world’s biggest companies for the privilege of hearing her say "free speech is a weapon of war, and censorship is necessary to protect free speech".

Ardern and US Vice-President Kamala Harris are sisters under the skin. Harris insists that free online expression is a “privilege” and that censorship is necessary to defend “our democracy”. X owner Elon Musk isn’t mincing words about the threat Harris poses to free speech. “The attacks this year on free speech are unprecedented in the 21st century,” he posted Friday, after Brazil blocked X "to protect democracy". Musk warned that “It will happen in America too if Kamala/Walz gain power.”

Dear reader, please bear with the deletions (for obvious reasons) in the following story. We could have adopted ex-broadcaster Lindsay Perigo's expression, "Faecesbook" but oh dear, some sensitive soul might have found that offensive. And as it wasn't possible to delete every allusion to "Faecesbook", it might be useful, dear reader, to copy and paste the following item for posterity. 

 

Nobody knows what it means but Harris says it a lot

 

On Wednesday, America First Legal (AFL) revealed documents that shed new light on the collaborative efforts between F......k and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic used to censor free speech.

The documents, obtained through litigation against the CDC, expose detailed onboarding materials used to train CDC employees on a specially designed F......k portal aimed at curbing what they labeled "Covid & Vaccine Misinformation."

Via AFL:

These documents reveal how F......k, on the heels of extreme pressure from the Biden-Harris White House (including from Rob Flaherty, a current senior Harris Campaign staffer) to remove specific posts, responded:

• F......k created a new “end-to-end workflow” so that government officials could submit links for removal from Facebook;
• F......k only gave access to the portal to approved government and law enforcement personnel;
• The new portal dramatically increased the efficiency of the censorship machine by allowing up to twenty links at a time to be referred for censoring;
• By moving from email chains to a F......k-hosted portal, the new system also made it harder for organizations like AFL to provide oversight to individual censorship requests;
• Each censorship request automatically generated a ticket number so that the government could track if F......k complied with its censorship demands;  
• The documents further show how F......k explained precisely what content it would remove and what it needed from the CDC in order to censor certain narratives within the bounds of its “community standards.” 

 

The documents also highlight the United Kingdom's role in shaping the Biden-Harris Administration's approach to online censorship. Additionally, Mark Zuckerberg's admission that F......k only engaged in censorship after extreme pressure from the Biden-Harris White House underscores the external pressures leading to F......k's mass censorship.

 

More via AFL:

Part A: Censorship Made Easy

The documents expose an onboarding presentation given by F......k employees to CDC staff on May 19, 2021. F......k trained CDC staff on how to use the platform’s  “Government Reporting System.” This came in response to profanity-laden demands from senior Biden–Harris White House officials exposed by the House Judiciary Committee. As their “End-to-end workflow” described, if “Government requests,” then “F......k processes.”

 

 

These slides show how closely the Biden-Harris Administration’s CDC and Big Tech coordinated to censor speech they disagreed with. The onboarding included a “government user experience” demo. As part of the “End–to–end workflow,” F......k streamlined the process to make it easy for the government to censor the American people.

 

Step 1 – Access to Account

First, F......k granted “Access to CRS.” These slides showed CDC employees how to sign up, register, and login to the new portal.

 

 

Only “government-issued or law enforcement email address[es]” were allowed to use this system.

 

Step 2 – Submit Posts with Links 

Prior to F......k creating the portal, the CDC had been sending spreadsheets over email with links for F......k to remove, but with this portal, post reporting would be standardized and fed into one system. Additionally, moving the censorship requests to a F......k-hosted portal created a loophole in government recordkeeping requirements. Using this system permits government actors to evade federal law requiring meticulous keeping of federal records, thereby preventing the public from using existing tools like FOIA to see what the government is doing behind the scenes. 

 

At this point, CDC employees could select their “Reason for reporting.” These included “COVID Misinformation,” “Vaccine Discouragement,” and “COVID Vaccine Misinformation.”

 

 

F......k’s system allowed users from “authorized government agencies” to refer up to twenty links at a time for F......k to remove across its platforms. Users could also submit additional comments. 

 

 

Step 3 – Confirmation and Job Reference Number  

The third step for the new portal was called “Final landing page: transparency,” where users would get a confirmation message, a ticket or reference number, and be able to access the “Help Center.” 

 

 

The confirmation message read that “you should receive a response shortly,” which reaffirms the initial promise on the first slide: “Government requests … F......k processes.”

 

Part B: Insights into F......k’s Community Standards 

The briefing also included a summary of F......k’s “Community Standards.” They stated that they only removed information deemed “false” by  “public health authorities.” Despite the many, many, examples of these “authorities” later being proven wrong, all it took was a government determination by the Biden-Harris administration for F......k to begin censoring the American people’s speech.

 

 

 

F......k’s policy was to censor statements that made “false claims about masks” (now shown to have been nearly useless), which discouraged “social distancing” (now known to have been fabricated by Dr. Anthony Fauci). If an individual was a “repeat offender” of the government’s ever-shifting determinations on “misinformation,” their account’s reach would be reduced or removed from their site altogether. 

 

F......k bragged that since the beginning of the Pandemic, which began only a year before the presentation, they had removed more than “16 million pieces of content.” 

Remember — F......k’s policy was only to remove posts if the government had declared something to be false. 

 

 

The Constitution prohibits the government from censoring the American people, but F......k and other social media companies went out of their way to make it easy for the Biden–Harris administration to “flag” posts for censoring. With a custom portal allowing the government to submit up to twenty links at a time, the Biden-Harris Administration and F......k worked together to violate the First Amendment rights of countless Americans. 

 

Statement from Gene Hamilton, America First Legal Executive Director:

“These documents show–definitively–the architecture behind the systems that political appointees and governmental bureaucrats used to unconstitutionally censor the free speech of Americans online. The right to speak–to even question authority–is so fundamental to our national identity, yet in the name of a public health crisis, Biden Administration officials worked with major companies to silence dissent. The American people need to review these documents and understand just how far our leaders in Washington went to violate the First Amendment to our Constitution,” said Gene Hamilton.

See the full slide deck here.

 

 

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