The U.S. director of national intelligence declassified a secretive Biden administration plan to suppress free speech.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard announced April 16, “As promised, I have declassified the Biden Administration’s Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism.” While America First Legal litigation previously exposed a declassified version of the plan, the classified version offered more specific information on the federal government’s plans to work with academia and tech companies to crush free speech.
The goal of the plan was to bring together both government and non-government entities to address “disinformation, relate[d] to the domestic terrorism threat.” The plan included coordinated efforts with Big Tech companies, involvement from agencies including the FBI and Department of Homeland Security, as well as foreign governments.
Biden’s censorship implementation plan explicitly describes efforts to “[s]hare with relevant technology and other private-industry companies… on a consistent basis, relevant information on DT [domestic terrorism]-related and associated transnational terrorist online content in order to foster these relationships.”
The plan further prescribed “addressing terrorist content online with partner governments similarly committed to freedom of expression.” This phrasing is contradictory since the apparent purpose of the initiative was to coordinate the suppression of certain content.
The U.S. government was also to work with multiple international bodies, including the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Coordination Compact entities. The Biden administration also promised to comply with the Christchurch Call to Eliminate Terrorist and Violent Extremist Content Online, a New Zealand and French government initiative to censor to restrict content on AI and social media.
The plan additionally stated that the federal government would “[implement] evidence-based digital literacy programming to combat online disinformation and DT recruitment and narratives.” MRC has uncovered similar digital literacy efforts detailed in a recent report exposing the Biden administration’s 57 censorship initiatives.
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