The feds new censorship program

 Just the News:

Feds adapting AI used to silence ISIS to combat American dissent on vaccines, elections

The federal government, working hand-in-hand with universities, private companies and Big Tech, is funneling millions of dollars in taxpayer money to fund an AI censorship program to be used on American citizens.

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded several million dollars in grants recently to universities and private firms to develop tools eerily similar to those developed in 2011 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in its Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program.
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"One of the most disturbing aspects of the Convergence Accelerator Track F domestic censorship projects is how similar they are to military-grade social media network censorship and monitoring tools developed by the Pentagon for the counterinsurgency and counterterrorism contexts abroad," reads the report.

"DARPA's been funding an AI network using the science of social media mapping dating back to at least 2011-2012, during the Arab Spring abroad and during the Occupy Wall Street movement here at home," Benz told Just The News. "They then bolstered it during the time of ISIS to identify homegrown ISIS threats in 2014-2015."

The new version of this technology, he added, is openly targeting two groups: Those wary of potential adverse effects from the COVID-19 vaccine and those skeptical of recent U.S. election results.

"The terrifying thing is, as all of this played out, it was redirected inward during 2016 — domestic populism was treated as a foreign national security threat," Benz said.

"What you've seen is a grafting on of these concepts of mis- and disinformation that were escalated to such high intensity levels in the news over the past several years being converted into a tangible, formal government program to fund and accelerate the science of censorship," he said.
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I am starting to see something similar used to censor blog posts.   It has become almost a daily occurrence from Google lately sometimes from posts years ago.  It does appear to be connected to an AI-type computer censorship program.  

See, also:

European official warns Musk era of 'Wild West' for free speech is over: 'There will be sanctions'

Euronews Next reported that Europe is pushing legislation that will force online platforms to remove 'disinformation'

And:

 How George Soros funds ‘fact checkers’ to silence dissent

And:

 Stepping out into freedom

The FBI and other left-leaning entities have left us in our own Truman Show

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