The UK Government’s Global Reach in Crushing Free Speech, By Richard Miller (London)

 Sally Beck, a UK journalist, has given an insightful account of how Britain spearheaded the global drive to crush free speech. In her opinion it kicked into gear with the Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU), set up in 2019 and directed in March 2020 to combat the spread of "false coronavirus information online." The CDU set out to produce government-wide censorship through social media, all to protect the Covid plandemic agenda. The program of suppression was so successful that the US wanted to be let in on the censorship action, so then a team from the CDU worked with the Biden administration in August 2021 to put into place the US censorship system. This led to the creation of the US National Security and Online Information Team (NSOIT), which set out to do the same thing as CDU, mainly through an impact upon social media.

This established the groundwork for the present ongoing movement to censor the internet. New legislation is being seen across the West, including Australia to bring social media under globalist control. While most of social media is controlled now, the little bit of free speech on Elon Musk's X alarms these elites, since there is no tolerance at all for any thought which is contrary to their agenda. All those who dissent must be smashed.

That is what we are up against now.

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"BRITAIN was once the envy of the world for our legal right to free speech. However, the tide has turned, and the government's Counter Disinformation Unit (CDU), set up in 2019 and instructed in March 2020 to combat the spread of 'false coronavirus information online', has helped the United States establish a dedicated team to crush what it sees as dissent.

In the name of 'misinformation' and 'disinformation', the CDU focused on coercing social media giants to execute 'government-wide censorship efforts'. It has now exported its blueprint to the US, despite the fact that America's prized First Amendment specifically protects citizens' right to express themselves freely.

Documents obtained under freedom of information (FOI) by the sovereignty organisation America First Legal (AFL), show that in August 2021 the Biden White House hosted a team from the CDU. They taught the Biden-Harris National Security Council (NSC), an interagency policy committee (IPC), everything they knew about silencing government critics on social media.

Now rebranded the National Security and Online Information Team (NSOIT), the CDU taught the Biden-Harris administration how to:

Establish a dedicated unit to lead government-wide censorship efforts;

Enact legislation for the government to regulate the misinformation and disinformation policies of tech companies and punish them if they refused to comply with the government's censorship demands;

Create and maintain partnerships with companies to flag disfavoured content;

Use foreign policy apparatus to co-ordinate the shared agenda between aligned governments and multilateral institutions such as the United Nations;

Leverage control over social media to 'counter disinformation' and promote leftist dogma.

The CDU came under the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and was run by civil servant Sarah Connolly. (The NSOIT operates within the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.) They used a 155-page PowerPoint presentation to explain to the US how they had instructed British social media to censor users posting content they deemed harmful. They shared their censorship playbook and advised the US to create a dedicated hub to lead government censorship efforts, backed with legislation to enable them to coerce social media companies. The result was, and still is, an all-out assault on free speech, done in the name of our 'safety'.

The CDU taught White House teams how to bully social media platforms to ensure government censorship demands were not ignored. A duty-of-care principle was established in the UK in 1932, and it is this anti-harm legislation the British government used to demand censorship of social media content, since reinforced by the Online Safety Act passed in October 2023.

Presidential candidate Kamala Harris said in 2019 that their Department of Justice (DOJ) should punish social media companies that allowed 'disinformation' and 'misinformation'. The problem is that there is often no clear consensus amongst academics, scientists and healthcare professionals as to what these terms mean precisely. Lobbyists for global companies such as Big Pharma can tell government anything they like without presenting solid evidence. Blindly following government doctrine means that respected citizens can be silenced for simply asking legitimate questions.

Thankfully, social media bosses are fighting back. Elon Musk, who owns X (formerly Twitter), reinstated many accounts which were deleted under the previous management including those of Donald Trump, vaccine injury campaigner Dr Naomi Wolf, psychologist Professor Jordan Peterson, Alex Berenson, the US independent journalist and writer and TCW editor Kathy Gyngell.

Last month Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologised for censoring users of his Meta platforms which include Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Threads. He admitted that the Biden administration was 'wrong' to demand that Facebook censor what the government considered to be 'covid misinformation'.

In a letter to Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, he said that Meta would fight any future attempts at censorship. He wrote that the White House 'repeatedly pressured our teams to censor certain Covid-19 content, including humour and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree'. He said the pressure was wrong and that he regretted he did not speak up.

Had social media not censored concerns – Facebook famously deleted accounts with thousands of vaccine-injured sharing their experiences – awareness of covid vaccine harms could have been addressed before many more were injured. The Hunter Biden laptop story and anti-climate change opinion are two other subjects on governments' censorship radar.

Censorship violates Article 10 of the UK's 1998 Human Rights Act. It states: 'Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.'

Gene Hamilton, America First Legal executive director, said that 'these records show that the Biden-Harris regime apparently engaged with representatives from the United Kingdom on ways to more effectively censor the speech of Americans across the country. The Biden-Harris Administration's desire to silence speech and control what information Americans are able to obtain is so extreme, so pervasive, and so over-the-top that they are willing to listen to foreign governments explain ways to better violate core constitutional rights of the American people.'"