Whistleblower makes trove of new documents available to Public and Racket, showing the birth of the Censorship Industrial Complex in reaction to Brexit and Trump election in 2016
censorship efforts "against Americans" have to be done using private partners because the government doesn't have the "legal authority."
Governments do many illegal things without authority these days. They simply don't care and are not afraid of its citizens. Besides, the separation between corporations and businesses is becoming very blurry.
The sum total of the documents is a clear picture of a highly coordinated and sophisticated effort by the US and UK governments to build a domestic censorship effort and influence operations similar to the ones they have used in foreign countries.
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