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1 month ago | 
brownstone.org | Andrew Lowenthal
Over the past three weeks, anyone interested in free speech (or not) has been on the receiving end of a non-consensual firehouse of flood-the-zone information warfare. Every man and his DOGE has chimed in, capturing via screenshot a score of Osama bin Laden of censorship hideouts – “It’s USAID!” “It’s NED!” “It’s NIH”!USAID in particular has been made responsible for everything, from funding chemtrails in Naples to biting your own cheek.
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1 month ago | 
dailytelegraph.co.nz | Andrew Lowenthal
Last week, DOGE dismantled USAID demolition derby-style. The cheers and roars echoed as fragments of the agency splintered across the internet. However most of the scandalous grants that magnetised the attention of X users didn’t come as the result of any DOGE files, but from USASpending.gov, a government website publishing government grants and contracts online.
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1 month ago | 
brownstone.org | Andrew Lowenthal
Last week, DOGE dismantled USAID’s demolition derby-style. The cheers and roars echoed as fragments of the agency splintered across the internet. However most of the scandalous grants that magnetised the attention of X users didn’t come as the result of any DOGE files, but from USASpending.gov, a government website publishing government grants and contracts online.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
brownstone.org | Andrew Lowenthal
“Gradually, then suddenly,” Hemingway’s bankruptcy quote can just as easily be applied to politics. If you had told me six months ago that a motley crew of free speech advocates would deal a thumping blow to the censorship leviathan I would have been deeply sceptical. I had thought the Twitter Files would be the blow, but it turns out that was just a softening-up affair.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
unherd.com | Andrew Lowenthal
AustraliaCensorshipCovidFree SpeechrestofworldSociety In what might be a world first, the Australian parliament has just dealt a death blow to counter-disinformation legislation that threatened to fundamentally reshape the country’s free speech landscape.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
nypost.com | Jay Bhattacharya |Andrew Lowenthal
These academics served as a front for the government's censorship policy, essentially laundering it in the name of science. Shutterstock Censorship in the digital age does not look like old-fashioned book burning.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
dailytelegraph.co.nz | Andrew Lowenthal
This week Australia’s Labor Party reintroduced its misinformation and disinformation bill. I did a deep dive into the bill last May. Among its many flaws, the biggest is its very origins. As Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said in Parliament on September 12, “This bill seeks to strengthen the voluntary code by providing a regulatory backstop.” That code was co-written by First Draft, participants in the Aspen Institute’s coordinated effort to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
brownstone.org | Andrew Lowenthal
This week Australia’s Labor Party reintroduced its misinformation and disinformation bill. I did a deep dive into the bill last May. Among its many flaws, the biggest is its very origins. As Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said in Parliament on September 12, “This bill seeks to strengthen the voluntary code by providing a regulatory backstop.” That code was co-written by First Draft, participants in the Aspen Institute’s coordinated effort to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
dailysceptic.org | Andrew Lowenthal
This week, Australia’s Labor Party reintroduced its misinformation and disinformation bill. I did a deep dive into the bill last May. Among its many flaws, the biggest is its very origins. As Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said in Parliament on September 12th, “This bill seeks to strengthen the voluntary code by providing a regulatory backstop.” That code was co-written by First Draft, participants in the Aspen Institute’s coordinated effort to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
dailysceptic.org | Andrew Lowenthal
On August 27th, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued a statement confirming what the Twitter Files, Murthy vs Missouri, and many others had long claimed – that the Biden administration aggressively pushed to censor First Amendment-protected speech on social media, in particular relating to COVID-19 and the Hunter Biden laptop. In the case of Covid, Zuckerberg writes that the Biden White House “repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including “humour and satire”.
