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   https://nypost.com/2022/12/18/democrats-scramble-to-save-censorship/   
      
   Adam Schiff popped up on CNN’s “State of The Union” show Sunday morning to   
   issue barely veiled threats to Elon Musk for trying to restore free speech   
   on Twitter.   
      
   Ostensibly, the lame-duck chairman of the House Intelligence Committee   
   joined Jake Tapper to crow about expected charges against Donald Trump on   
   Monday from his January 6 star chamber.   
      
   But Schiff moved on to complain about the “big problem right now with   
   social media companies and their failure to moderate content and the   
   explosion of hate on Twitter, the banning of journalists on Twitter.”   
      
   Then he suggested ominously that Twitter and social media companies may   
   not continue to enjoy “immunity from responsibility and liability.”   
      
   In other words, keep policing free speech as an arm of the federal   
   government or watch your business go up in smoke.   
      
   Schiff is a calculated propagandist, who lies under oath as easily as   
   breathing, and knowingly peddles misinformation to Congress and to media   
   outlets like CNN and MSNBC, whose gullible hosts keep bringing him back on   
   their shows to mislead their audiences.   
      
   In the dying days of his powerful reign as overseer of the nation’s   
   intelligence agencies, abusing his access to the nation’s secrets,   
   Schiff’s final assignment is to preserve the censorship regime his side of   
   politics entrenched across Big Tech.   
      
   ‘Cascading failure’   
   On Tuesday, he and three other Dems he roped in wrote a menacing letter   
   “as part of our ongoing oversight efforts” to Nick Clegg, president of   
   global affairs at Meta (Facebook’s new name), warning that, if the company   
   went down Twitter’s path of free speech, the consequences would be dire.   
   “Dangerous and unfounded election denial content” must be kept off the   
   platform.   
      
   It was what law professor ­Jonathan Turley characterized as a “hold-the-   
   line warning … meant to stop a cascading failure in the once   
   insurmountable wall of social-media censorship.”   
      
   “If Facebook were to restore free-speech protections, the control over   
   social media could evaporate.”   
      
   The powerful are panicking, and so they should. Their secrets are leaking.   
      
   Ever since Musk authorized a group of independent journalists to release   
   the Twitter Files three weeks ago, a steady drip of damning evidence has   
   emerged, showing collusion between Twitter and the federal government,   
   including the FBI, to censor Americans and suppress dissent, in violation   
   of the First Amendment.   
      
   In particular we have seen how the FBI, in weekly meetings with Twitter,   
   pre-bunked The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story on Oct. 14, 2020,   
   persuading Twitter to suppress the story and lock down our account for   
   more than two weeks.   
      
   As journalist Matt Taibbi wrote in Twitter Files part 6, Twitter was   
   acting as a “subsidiary” of the FBI, in a relationship he described as   
   “master-canine.”   
      
   At least 80 FBI agents were engaged full-time in flagging and analyzing   
   user content, demanding user location information and requesting that   
   Twitter take action against mainly “low-follower accounts belonging to   
   ordinary Americans” — including ones that just cracked jokes.   
      
   FBI-Twitter communications were “constant and pervasive,” wrote Taibbi.   
   “Instead of chasing child sex predators or terrorists, the FBI has agents   
   — lots of them — analyzing and mass-flagging social media posts. Not as   
   part of any criminal investigation, but as a permanent, end-in-itself   
   surveillance operation. People should not be okay with this.”   
      
   Sunday night, in a supplemental dump, Taibbi revealed more communications   
   showing the FBI was “acting as conduit for the Intelligence Community.”   
      
   Half the public is still in the dark about this egregious assault on our   
   liberties since, for some bizarre reason, the left-wing media seems to   
   support censorship and wants to censor mention of it.   
      
   But at some point, the land of the free and home of the brave will rebel.   
      
   The next Twitter Files dump promised as early as Monday, from independent   
   journalist Michael Shellenberger, is another chink in the wall of social-   
   media censorship.   
      
   He will reveal that on the evening of Oct. 13, 2020, the night before The   
   Post’s Hunter Biden Laptop story was published — and censored — the FBI   
   sent documents to Twitter through a special one-way channel at 9:22 p.m.   
   ET.   
      
   Just over 2¹/2 hours earlier, Hunter Biden’s lawyer George Mesires, after   
   a request from The Post for comment, had called Delaware computer repair   
   shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac and asked for the laptop back.   
      
   In Mac Isaac’s book, “American Injustice,” he writes that the phone call   
   came in at 6:50 p.m. ET and Mesires said, “My client dropped off some   
   equipment, maybe a laptop, in 2017, and we’re checking to see if you’re   
   still in possession of it.”   
      
   Mac Isaac asked the caller to send him an email to confirm who he was.   
      
   Eight minutes later, an email arrived from Mesires using his official   
   Faegre Drinker Biddle and Reath law firm address.   
      
   “John Paul: Thank you for speaking with me tonight. As I indicated, I am a   
   lawyer for Hunter Biden and I appreciate you reviewing your records on   
   this matter. Thank you,” the email said.   
      
   Shellenberger does not know what was in the documents the FBI sent to   
   Twitter later that night, and they may well have been unrelated. But it is   
   an interesting coincidence, and the FBI has broken trust with the public   
   to such an extent that we now fear the worst.   
      
   Shellenberger also has discovered multiple conversations relating to the   
   2020 election between the FBI and Twitter’s deputy general counsel James   
   Baker, the FBI’s former top lawyer who showed up at Twitter   
   serendipitously five months before the 2020 election, seemingly to act as   
   gatekeeper for any information that might damage Joe Biden’s election   
   prospects.   
      
   Someone’s watching   
   FBI agent-turned-hero whistleblower Steve Friend is disgusted by the   
   revelations so far.   
      
   He was suspended without pay this year after objecting to his bosses about   
   the manipulation of FBI case-file management to falsely inflate the threat   
   of domestic terrorism, and what he saw as persecution of political   
   opponents of the Biden administration.   
      
   “The Twitter Files have exposed how big tech and big government are   
   coequal branches of a hydra hellbent on infringing on seizing power and   
   control at the expense of Americans’ civil rights and bodily autonomy,” he   
   said.   
      
   You can bet that the censorship regime we see unravelling at Twitter also   
   exists across Big Tech. In his deposition for the Missouri First Amendment   
   lawsuit against the Biden administration, FBI San Francisco agent Elvis   
   Chan, who set up meetings with Big Tech, named seven platforms: “The   
      
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