{"id":1218,"date":"2023-02-13T10:54:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T15:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2023-02-13T10:54:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T15:54:23","slug":"how-taxpayer-money-was-used-to-silence-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=1218","title":{"rendered":"How taxpayer money was used to silence speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-23.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-1219\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-23.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-23.png 730w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-23-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-23-293x191.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/image-23-390x254.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>(Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a simple question: how much American taxpayer money is being spent to silence, censor, and blacklist opinions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Legacy media reporting on the House Oversight Committee&#8217;s initial look into the actions of Twitter during the 2020 elections focused mostly on questions surrounding Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop. The committee&#8217;s investigative reports, however, ought to hone in on the most disturbing aspect of this story: social media giants were routinely directed and coerced into censoring and silencing American citizens by entities funded by those same taxpayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/thespectator.com\/topic\/how-taxpayer-money-was-used-to-silence-speech\/\">https:\/\/thespectator.com\/topic\/how-taxpayer-money-was-used-to-silence-speech\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a simple question: how much American taxpayer money is being spent to silence, censor, and blacklist opinions? Legacy media reporting on the House Oversight Committee&#8217;s initial look into the actions of Twitter during the 2020 elections focused mostly on questions surrounding Hunter Biden&#8217;s laptop. The committee&#8217;s investigative reports, however, ought to hone in on the most disturbing aspect of this story: social media giants were routinely directed and coerced into censoring and silencing American citizens by entities funded by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-threat-to-america"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}