[tomder55]

2020 saw social media go all in for the deep state being their point on information censorship . As an example ; Meta -Fakebook scored a KO for Quid Pro Joe by suppressing information about Hunter Biden's laptop story in the NY Post

A judge in a lawsuit about election interference equated the deep state approach to strong arming social media with how the Mafia operates .

“In these movies that we see with the mob … they don’t say and spell out things, but they have these ongoing relationships,” said Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod, a George W. Bush appointee. “They never actually say ‘go do this or else you’re going to have this consequence.’ But everybody just knows.”
“I’m certainly not equating the federal government with anybody in illegal organized crime but there are certain relationships that people know things without always saying the ‘or else,'”

Judge In Censorship Case Compares Biden Admin’s Relationship With Big Tech To The Mob | The Daily Caller

That is almost certainly a naive comment . I believe the likes of Zuckerberg were willing participants in the censorship Oh publicly he says it was wrong .
Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan Facebook was wrong to ban The Post's Hunter Biden laptop story (nypost.com)


But inside Meta ;it is understood they did not go far enough .
And not only that ;they plan on taking their model global .

““Social media platforms need to learn from past mistakes to be able to address them better this year,” she said, acknowledging that since 2020 “we’ve seen an advance in Meta using more tools to address election-related issues.”“Between the U.S. election [in 2020] to the Brazilian election [in 2022], Meta had not done enough to address the potential misuse of its platforms through coordinated campaigns, people organizing, or using bots on the platforms to convey a message to destabilize a country, to create a lack of trust or confidence on electoral processes,”
How Ready Is Meta for the Biggest Election Year in History? | WIRED

She mentioned election-specific initiatives” (aka censorship) that Meta has tested out in different countries " like “working with electoral authorities, adding labels to posts that are related to elections, directing people to reliable information, prohibiting paid advertisement when it calls into question the legitimacy of elections, and implementing WhatsApp forward limits”

They are already hard at work . JFK Jr's campaign is a threat to Quid ......so.................
Facebook and Instagram Remove Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Nonprofit for Misinformation - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

[tomder55]

Ben Weingarten ;one of the compilers of the Twitter files ;has a chilling prediction of the future under what he calls the "Censorship - Industrial complex". He argues that the regime has entrenched and that even if SCOTUS intervenes in 'Murthy v. Missouri' it may be too late .

Stated simply, the case showed the feds working directly and through partners with social media companies to get them to take down, algorithmically suppress, and/or discredit with corrective pop-up notes speech or speakers they disapproved of at the level of millions of posts. This often included core political speech — speech germane to real-time policy debates regarding election laws and public health policies.
The Biden administration would codify this effort via its first-of-its-kind National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism. The strategy elevates combatting Wrongthink on a raft of issues to the level of a homeland security imperative.
It suggests that “anti-government or anti-authority extremists” pose a dire threat to the homeland and summons a whole-of-society effort to combat such extremism, including through “accelerating work to contend with an information environment that challenges healthy democratic discourse” and, working to “counter the influence and impact of dangerous conspiracy theories” that it claims lead to terrorist violence.
To confront “long-term contributors to domestic terrorism,” the administration calls for “enhancing faith in government and addressing the extreme polarization, fueled by a crisis of disinformation and misinformation often channeled through social media platforms.”

Censorship in the Group Quota Regime (tomklingenstein.com)

Our highest court could hamper the ability of Biden White House officials and unelected bureaucrats to direct the censorship-industrial complex by prohibiting them from deputizing the likes of Facebook, YouTube, and X/Twitter as government speech police. But make no mistake, the complex will persist.

[tomder55]

also listen to this discussion between Matt Taibi and Glen Greenwald.

Taibbi: Government's Online Censorship Regime Has Expanded From Counter-Terrorism To Counter-Populism | Video | RealClearPolitics

[jlisenbe]

And that doesn't address the equally serious practice of public universities actively preventing conservative speakers such as Ben Shapiro from speaking on campus,