Mike Benz

This should not be on the civilian class to carry this torch.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee, the House Intelligence Committee, frankly, needs to understand this because this is soft power.

A lot of this is State Department, USAID, but I have no doubt, I don't have a security clearance, I can't prove this, but I know the CIA cut out outlets who are all doing this, and I know that they have...

purview to coordinate with the IC.

But a lot of this is control over the information environment.

It is this counter disinformation work that is bread and butter of the CIA.

House Intelligence should have ongoing investigations into the role of this blowback on American free speech, on American platforms.

House Appropriations needs to get involved.

The fact is, is the censorship industry would be shut down in a day.

if the hundreds of millions of dollars in government funding subsidizing this, the government funding from the Pentagon, the government funding from the National Science Foundation, the government funding from DHS, the government funding from the Justice Department, the government funding from the State Department, the government funding from USAID, and about a dozen others collectively are providing hundreds of millions of dollars to subsidize a censorship mercenary army.

And if you don't have those mercenaries, you don't have those operations, which means you don't have that censorship.

The American people are subsidizing their silence.

And this goes away the moment our Congress or a court, should the Supreme Court case go up, and all this is adequately explained to nine justices,

that so much of what we're seeing is really not ideological.

It's just, it's operational.

And it's operated through money.

Because since, this is why I always call it the censorship industry.

It is a censorship industrial complex.

That's true, and you can understand it as such.

Or just call it the whole society.