In the military appropriations bill this year, 104 Republicans voted to keep a raise for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency ( CISA ), which has been referred to as the “nerve center” of the government’s censorship activities, the same day the U.S. Supreme Court approved the Biden regime’s censorship of Americans via social media.
Rep. Andrew Clyde of Georgia, a Republican, proposed an amendment to the 2025 Department of Defense Appropriations Act that would maintain CISA’s money at its 2024 level, effectively lowering the bill’s budgeted number by a little over 2 percentage.
The latest budget regulations provides$ 2, 437, 285, 000 to CISA. The article would include — on Page 43, range 11 of the budget bill — struck” the initial dollar amount and place$ 2, 379, 485, 000″.
Clyde criticized CISA for its repression practices in a speech on the House floor, claiming that the organization does not require more funding to support illegal operations.
“CISA’s inflated budget and the company’s increased weaponization vision to officers free conversation has gone on simultaneously”, Clyde said. CISA has used tax dollars to judge Americans and criticize speech that they find objectionable because of incredible funding increases.
Clyde continued,” Flatfunding CISA for FY 25 is basically putting them on realize… to get their interest and stop the weaponization of this organization,” Clyde continued.
However, 104 Republican politicians helped Democrats voting down the act.
The Supreme Court affirmed its 6-3 selection in Murthy v. Missouri decision, which allowed the Biden presidency to remain cooperating with Big Tech to restrict free speech. In the months leading up to the 2024 election, the presidency can then carry on these efforts.
According to Clyde’s office, the Free Speech Defense Act was just reintroduced, which had, among other things, withdraw federal funding for any “entities that distinguish — or assist the classification of — speech as misinformation or disinformation, as well as for entities that clear or instruct the censorship of protected speech.” That would include CISA.
The original version of the bill was submitted in December of 2022, but 109 Democrats rejected it in September of this year.
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CISA’s Story of Repression
CISA was established in order to safeguard” the Nation’s crucial infrastructure from physical and virtual risks” at the beginning. However, it has actually been working with Big Tech companies to stifle free speech that it does n’t like, despite the fact that it is accurate.
CISA also punishes Americans for what it calls “malinformation”, that is, accurate information the company says is “based on reality, but used out of context to reassure, harm, or manipulate”. As CISA Director Jen Easterly explained it, the company wants to secure the government’s” mental system”.
In 2020, CISA chose to identify as “disinformation” and flag for repression social media posts revealing issues related to uncontrolled mail- in election. Internally, however, CISA was aware ahead of the 2020 election of the risks associated with unsupervised mail- in voting, as documents obtained by America First Legal show. By October 2020, the organization had even created a six-point list outlining the dangers associated with the extensive mail-in voting process. Additionally, internal communications revealed that CISA was aware of “major challenges” with absentee voting, such as “high numbers of improperly completed ballots.”
However, CISA worked with consulting firm Deloitte and requested that they notify them of” Vote By Mail” trend related to social media and flag those posts for “CISA‘s awareness and attention,” according to AFL.
What’s In Store Ahead Of November?
CISA now has permission to continue its censorship operations thanks to illogical Republicans in Congress and a Supreme Court ruling opposing speech.
Meanwhile, Pennsylvania, a key battleground state where the 2020 election was marred by administration issues, has partnered with CISA in what it describes as an attempt to “mitigate threats to the election process” and” combat misinformation”. The Pennsylvania Department of State revealed to The Federalist that the Keystone State would collaborate with CISA to “open communication channels and share intelligence with the various government agencies.”
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan launched an inquiry into the state’s coordination with CISA following The Federalist’s reporting.
The Federalist’s election correspondent, Brianna Lyman.
