Mollie Hemingway Details 'Censorship Scheme... Being Used Against Us Even As We Sit Here Today'

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At Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Mollie Hemingway discussed being a victim of a "censorship scheme."

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00:00Respect you to hope you don't take it that way. We've got a vote and then we'll get back here. Thank you

00:07Miss Hemingway

00:11For freedom of speech to mean anything beyond the theoretical we must actively practice it

00:17President John F Kennedy said people should be entrusted to confront unpleasant facts foreign ideas

00:24Alien philosophies and competitive values

00:26He said a nation afraid to let its people judge truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation afraid of its people

00:35Unfortunately, the right to free speech has been under worse attack in the last decade than at any other point in our nation's history

00:42The tentacles of the censorship industrial complex are choking out freedom of expression

00:47Debate and the right to criticize powerful institutions such as corporate media and the government

00:54Federal and state governments fund and promote censorship and blacklisting technology

00:59They direct big tech companies to censor American speech and debate

01:03Academic institutions such as Stanford and the University of Texas are given large grants not to defend free speech

01:11But to conduct research on so-called disinformation for use by the censorship regime

01:17Non-profit think tanks such as the Aspen Institute host so-called

01:21disinformation seminars to groom journalists to publish

01:25Pro-censorship propaganda and to suppress important stories such as the hunter Biden laptop bombshell

01:33non-profit censorship groups such as the global disinformation index and for-profit censorship businesses such as news guard

01:40Produce widely used censorship tools and blacklists to favor left-wing media while working to silence media that fight

01:48false narratives

01:50Attacking free speech and debate has become a massive industry much of it government-funded and all of it threatening a free

01:58society

01:59my publication the Federalist and I have been targets of the censorship industrial complex in June of

02:052020 a foreign group with the Orwellian name the Center for countering digital hate

02:11engineered an operation to demonetize us

02:14Because we published a critique of corporate media coverage of black lives matter riots

02:20The massive BLM protests were the most expensive of any civil disorder in u.s

02:25History at two billion dollars or more in insurance claims many in the media falsely described the arson

02:32Looting and killings as peaceful or who can forget mostly peaceful in

02:38April 2023 a house subcommittee released a report

02:41Documenting how Stanford colluded with two governmental entities to pressure social media companies into censoring true information

02:49jokes satire political reporting and analysis all of which they claimed was

02:55Disinformation one post flagged for deletion was senator Tom Tillis

02:59Thanking his supporters for propelling him to victory, which they said was inappropriately premature

03:06My colleague Sean Davis and I were victims of this censorship scheme as was the Federalist

03:11One of the censored items was a story about a TV appearance in which I said of the media they lie

03:18They lie they lie and then they lie

03:22Gallup reported in February that my view is held by

03:2670% of Americans who say they don't trust corporate media to report news accurately fairly or fully

03:33Blacklists and censorship tools such as those provided by NewsGuard and the global disinformation index

03:39Routinely rate left-wing news outlets that are no threat to the permanent bureaucracy higher than those that challenge prevailing orthodoxies

03:47Companies use their lists to boycott some publications and reward others with advertising

03:53The Washington Post and New York Times routinely received the highest marks

03:58Those publications won Pulitzer's for their role in the Russia collusion hoax

04:02And we have some participants in that hoax here on this subcommittee

04:06my publication the Federalist exposed that hoax through dogged reporting and

04:11Investigation as we did with the media's vicious lies against justice Brett Kavanaugh

04:16we exposed much of the censorship industrial complex to

04:19Even suing the State Department after discovering its role in promoting and marketing censorship tools that are being used against us

04:26Even as we sit here today

04:29Facing this censorship has been difficult

04:32It would have been easy to fold

04:34But that's exactly what censors want to make it impossible to report the truth about their lies

04:40They know our voice is so powerful and influential that they can't accomplish their goals unless they shut us down

04:47They will not succeed

04:48We will never stop the more they try to shut us down the harder

04:53We're going to work to stay open because it's not about us

04:55It's about whether we will have a civilization where people are allowed to say and think things tyrants don't want us to thank you

Mollie Hemingway Details 'Censorship Scheme... Being Used Against Us Even As We Sit Here Today'

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