Cyber Policy Center in 2023 was caught covering up and lying about its work with DHS demanding that social media platforms take down election and Covid information
When Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center announced last year that its donor Frank McCourt was cutting funding to the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), many of us thought it meant that the Center was getting out of the censorship game. After all, the Twitter Files and an investigation by Rep. Jim Jordan, who is now Chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, revealed that SIO was at the heart of the Censorship Industrial Complex’s work censoring Americans on elections and COVID, which it did on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security’s “Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). “While SIO still had other sources of funding,” reported a blogger last year, “the McCourt funding decision was seen by some at SIO as a clear signal that Stanford had soured on its commitment to their work.”
But yesterday, we revealed that the Cyber Policy Center is back in the censorship business and in a big way. Last month, it hosted a strategy session with representatives of the governments of the EU, UK, Australia, and Brazil to coordinate global censorship. The strategy session was secret and only discovered thanks to a whistleblower who provided Jordan’s investigators with the agenda. The funder of that gathering was none other than Frank McCourt through his “Project Liberty Institute.”
Many Americans concerned over the weaponization of government for censorship and lawfare over the last 10 years are frustrated by the lack of prosecutions and convictions of the main actors, particularly the heads of intelligence agencies, who apparently got away with what they did. We have expressed our concern about the apparent lack of any significant reforms at the CIA.
EXCLUSIVE: Obama-Linked Stanford Center Held Secret Meeting With Foreign Governments To Plot Global Internet Censorship
Top EU, UK, Brazil, and Australian officials met in September with US censorship advocates to combine and coordinate efforts
In the spring of 2022, former President Barack Obama gave a major policy address at Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center, where he laid out a sweeping proposal for government censorship of social media platforms through the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act. Six days later, President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security announced that it had created a “Disinformation Governance Board” to serve as an Orwellian Ministry of Truth with the clear goal of controlling the information Americans could access online.
At the heart of Obama’s vision for Internet censorship was legislation that would have authorized the US government’s National Science Foundation to authorize and fund supposedly independent NGOs to censor the Internet. The DHS and Stanford Internet Observatory, which was part of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, pioneered this censorship-by-proxy strategy as a way to get around the First Amendment in 2020 with posts raising concerns about the 2020 elections and in 2021 with “narratives” expressing concern about the Covid vaccine.
