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The Disinformation Governance Board Is Now Officially Dead, But the Enemies of Free Speech Will Keep Trying

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There should have been a victory parade and a nationwide celebration of the freedom of expression, but the great day came with no fanfare at all: the Department of Homeland Security has announced that its sinister little exercise in Orwellianism, the Disinformation Governance Board, as of Wednesday is officially and definitively dead. You may have thought this cynical attempt to criminalize dissent from the Left’s agenda had died long ago, but actually in mid-May the DHS only “paused” the Disinformation Governance Board, and there was every reason to believe that once the controversy had died down and Americans’ attention was elsewhere, it would be revived in some form or another. And make no mistake: that’s still true. It isn’t as if the Biden administration has suddenly discovered a new admiration for the freedom of speech.

The DHS announcement of the demise of the Ministry of Truth contained the seeds for its future revival, for it begins by reminding us of the alleged “threat” that “disinformation” poses to “the homeland,” that is, the embarrassment and irritation that news that isn’t approved by the political and media elites causes to those very same elites when it gets out to a large segment of the public: “The Department welcomes the recommendations of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, which has concluded that countering disinformation that threatens the homeland, and providing the public with accurate information in response, is critical to fulfilling the Department’s missions. We thank the Subcommittee for its work, which required extensive fact gathering and analysis over a short period of time.”

Right after claiming that “disinformation” is a big threat, the DHS announces that “Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas has terminated the Disinformation Governance Board and rescinded its charter effective today, August 24, 2022.” Well, that’s great, but if disinformation is such a big threat, then why are you deep-sixing your anti-disinformation apparatus, Mr. Secretary? No explanation is included in the announcement, which continues: “With the HSAC recommendations as a guide, the Department will continue to address threat streams that undermine the security of our country consistent with the law, while upholding the privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties of the American people and promoting transparency in our work.”

So what the DHS statement amounts to is an affirmation that America faces a very big threat from “disinformation,” and it’s the government’s job to save us from this “disinformation” by informing us of what is true and what isn’t and presumably to censor the alleged disinformation in some way. But then the statement announces that the board that DHS set up for precisely that purpose is being terminated and then goes on to say that DHS will keep working against alleged threats to “the homeland.” So in three terse paragraphs, we have two declarations that DHS must fight threats, and one statement that a principal means to fight these threats is being terminated.

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Comments

  1. DHS should be disbanded ,the one of many agencies in the federal government that has become an arm of the democratic party that target people or organizations that do not follow the official party line .Censoring speech is the first step to total control of the average citizen..

  2. this entity known as dhs, was created shortly after the attack by mozlums from saudi arabia and a few other mozlum countries. None of the plane hijacking murderers were citizens of the U.S..

    Now, the so-called “department of **homeland** security” wants to make sure that American citizens don’t hear or read anything that is contrary to what the government says. If the government tells a big whopper of a lie, the same government wants to make sure there is no Truth heard or read that reveals what the government has said is a big whopping lie.

    they announce that the “disinformation” board is now defunct. I find that difficult to believe. Perhaps it is just another big whopper of a lie. Perhaps the “disinformation” board is just putting out “disinformation” as it was designed to do.

    and all of the foreign mozlums…and home-grown ones too…can skate because the “board” will make sure that the dhs is focused on silencing ordinary citizens, and not those intent on ruining lives.

    • So tonight we find out that per the county sheriff’s department border crossers are being picked up in back of a church across the street from us. The cars and trucks coming and going in the middle of the night have the neighborhood alarmed, to say the least.

      As far as I am concerned, the term “Homeland Security” is a total oxymoron. ?

      • I also read that the border “wall” of shipping containers is being mocked and criticized. It seems the Native Americans who have their tribal land there are unhappy and refuse to have a wall on their land. Guess they wish to be overrun. Regular American citizens are not welcome, but illegals….

        Perhaps a wall could be built around the tribal land and join up on either side with regular land. That way they would all be walled in, not on their land and they would be open to mexico without hindrance. Like a three sided box.

  4. Speaking of free speech, are all our comments from now on gonna await moderation w/ this new WordPress login system? Someone’s gonna be pretty busy! ?

  5. As Dick Morris noted, they’ll crack down on free speech using those 87,000 new IRS agents. Agent comes to your hose and says, “Hey, Mr Smith, I’m w/ the IRS and we noticed that you didn’t report your tips as income in your 1040 this year. The punishment for this is 36 months in jail. But we know what a law abiding citizen you otherwise are, and don’t wanna do that to you. But you need to stop putting out all those Trump signs, that draws attention to you. There, have a nice day”

    They can use techniques like this, skirt any GOP run Congress (like Lois Lerner did) and viola! They don’t need no stinkin’ “Disinformation Governance Board”

    Incidentally, is it just me who’s noticed that it’s Leftist entities that have fallen in love w/ the relatively recent term ‘Governance’?

  6. Evidently, the UN is going to take up where the US is pretending to leave off….

    “On August 1st, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced the beginning of a new campaign — #ThinkBeforeSharing. Intended to help counter and stop the spread of what it claims is harmful disinformation and conspiracy theories online.”
    “A new campaign helps you learn how to identify, debunk, react to and report on conspiracy theories to prevent their spread. Check out the infographics and social media pack below and help spread the word that facts matter and no one is to blame. Thinking critically and being informed about conspiracy theories is key to challenging them.

    This UNESCO campaign is implemented jointly with the European Commission, Twitter and the World Jewish Congress.”

    https://thewashingtonstandard.com/un-declares-war-on-conspiracy-theories-heres-several-that-turned-out-to-be-actual-conspiracies/

  7. The Disinformation Governance Board Is Now Officially Dead, But the Enemies of Free Speech Will Keep Trying
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    They’ll be back, just using different agency names. This was too Orwellian–too many people actually noticed this.

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