The Highwire with Del Bigtree - WHITE HOUSE “SPEECH POLICE” GETTING SHUT DOWN?

Episode Date: May 22, 2022

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Last week on the show, we covered that DHS Disinformation Governance Board. And during our show, actually, and right when our show was over, up until now, this is Nina Jenkowitz. She's the head of it. This was just kind of thrown on the American public as like a side note, as a side breath during a testimony of Alejandro Mayorkas. He's the head of DHS. And he was recently dressed down, I guess you want to say, by Rand Paul in a congressional hearing And this is what it sounded like. Take a look.

All right. When the cartels spread disinformation with respect to our immigration policies to try to lure vulnerable migrants to our border illegally. I think you've got no idea what disinformation is. And I don't think the government's capable of it. Do you know who the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world is? The U.S. government.

Are you familiar with McNamara, the Pentagon Papers? Are you familiar with George W. Bush and the weapons of mass destruction? or you're familiar with Iran-Contra. I mean, think of all the debates and disputes we've had over the last 50 years in our country. We work them out by debating them. We don't work them out by the government being the arbiter. I don't want you to guard brails. I want you to have nothing to do with speech.

You think we can't determine, you know, speech by traffickers is disinformation. You think the American people are so stupid they need you to tell them what the truth is. You can't even admit what the truth is with the steel dossier. don't trust government to figure out what the truth is. Government is largely disseminating disinformation. So I do have a question, and here's the question. So the Russians, maybe the Russians, maybe some cartels. What about COVID disinformation? Is that in your bailiwick for your disinformation government support? Senator, you would have to give me the details with Okay, here. I have said a million times that cloth masks don't work. You two,

takes me down. They're a private company. I can have that beef with them. What about you? You're going to look at that? I often say that natural immunity from having had the infection is equal to the vaccine or better. You're going to take that down? Well, first of all, those are very specific. Senator, first of all, it's not for us to take it down. And second of all, are you going to put information out there saying that I'm spreading disinformation information? Senator, we are not the public health experts to make those determinations. So public health won't be part of the disinformation governance board. No COVID disinformation. Yes or

no? Senator? Yes or no? Is public health going to be part of your censorship group? If somebody, allow me, because you're presenting hypotheticals that are vague and I just gave you a very specific one on cloth masks. I gave you a very specific one on

immunity from previous infection. I mean, even down to definitions of vague, I mean, who's going to be the arbiter of deciding what vague means and you know what is specific see he's pretty specific uh right love ran paul thank god he's in there i mean just amazing every time he decides to just let it rip i couldn't agree with him more fantastic if there's any homeschoolers out there what he said at the beginning research i ran counter research of weapons and mass destruction and the evidence behind

that gulf of tonkin and all of this stuff this is really flies in the face this disinformation governance board but what also happened was uh a mounting what appears to be a future legal threat if this thing is not disbanded. So 20 attorneys generals from states across America have joined to, here's the headline, 20 attorney generals call for the end of disinformation governance board, cite threat to free speech. And this is the letter out of the office of the attorney general, Jason Meoris. He's from Virginia. This is the letter they say here. Now, you can read the whole letter. I'll read the beginning. Says today, we write you to insist that you we immediately cease taking action that appears designed exclusively for the purpose of suppressing

the exercise of constitutional rights. They go into all the evidence of why and then they finish with this sentence. Unless you turn back now and disband this Orwellian disinformation governance board immediately, the undersigned will have no choice but to consider judicial remedies to protect the rights of their citizens. It doesn't get any clearer than that. You got to ask, though, why weren't all the attorneys generals on board with this? but I guess we'll take 20 if we're going to protect some speech here in this country.

It's amazing. Anytime you want to be depressed, just think of, you know, all these draconian measures, all this insanity, all the Ministry of Truth in these Orwellian style as they're putting it dictates. It is waking up this country. I mean, even politicians and Attorney General's who I normally say, we can't really put too much space to stock in them. Even they, it's just gone too far. So it is pretty spectacular to war.

watch, you know, real conversations and important lines in the sand being drawn. And even, even commissioners like this one at the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, he was on Fox News recently to give his two cents. And, you know, it was really interesting because being, you know, part of a government apparatus, I know the FCC is like to say it's an independent part of it, but I wasn't expecting this. Take a look. Sometimes the threats to our liberty come dressed up in sheep's clothing, but this wolf comes as a wolf. This is Orwellian. It's un-American. It's unconstitutional. The very best time to shut this down was before the DHS ever announced it. The second best time is right now. This type

of board was always going to be a dumpster fire, but the particular director that they chose to run it is just throwing more gas on it. But the thing to remember, as much as a lightning rod as this board and the director herself are, there's a broader game at foot. If you look back just in February, DHS put out a terrorism bulletin that swept in free speech as among the things that they considered a threat to the domestic homeland. You have Jen Saki from the White House podium saying they are coordinating with big tech to take down posts, flagging posts for them. So there's a broader effort of foot that we can't lose sight of either. I love it. Anytime it's called a dumpster fire. You got to know it's a good thing. Well, we're pushing back here pretty, we're starting to

really mount pushback against speech censorship. But in the European Union, we reported last week on an act that was passed is going to be coming to effect mid to end of summer to police free speech on big tech, Twitter, YouTube, things like that. But they just released a draft of something they want, kind of like the next phase of what they want. And it's very interesting. Here's the headline, if anybody wants to read about it. New EU rules would require chat apps to scan private messages for what? For child abuse? It says here that they'll do things. called detection orders. Detection orders would be issued by individual EU nations and the commission claims these would be, quote, targeted in specific to reduce privacy infringements. However, the

regulation is not clear about how these orders would be targeted, whether they would be limited to individuals or groups, for example, or applied to a much broader category. And looking at this beyond the headline, we have a professor at Johns Hopkins. He teaches and researches a cryptography. His name's Matthew Green. Cryptography is basically techniques and concepts to secure information and communication in this digital world we live in. And here's the tweet. He looked at this thing, and here's what he had to say about it.

He said, this document is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen. It is proposing a new mass surveillance system that would read private messages, not to detect CSAM, but to detect, quote, grooming. Read for yourself. He also called this thing the most sophisticated mass surveillance machinery ever deployed outside of China and the USSR. And understand once this thing, if it ever gets up and running in the EU, it will allow all governments kind of a plug-in-play system,

even from the political level and the messaging level, to get this thing in every country. So this is really what they would call beachhead. The whole world has to fight this in the EU because it cannot metastasize throughout the rest of the world. This thing is terrifying. It's basically using AI to scan everyone's message. in search for context of how people talk.

So if the AI searches and finds some take something out of context or images out of context, memes out of context, what happens then? Well, we know we're going to probably as we as suggested here in the United States, there was people would be possibly a domestic terrorist. People would possibly be brought up for child abuse or grooming or God knows what would happen. So this is very interesting time in our in our world of communication that we're living in right now. And let's not get caught off guard here. This is how you do it.

When you want to take away people's rights, you don't say we want to monitor you for questioning whether COVID is real or not or whether it came from a laboratory. They're going to tell you something that they want everyone, that everyone could agree on. We simply want to look at text that they're trying to stop, you know, to try and root out child abuse. Well, who wants to see child abuse? Nobody does. But this is what they do. They pick a topic where we all just sign our lives away.

Well, I'm not abusing my children. I don't believe in human trafficking. Just go ahead and monitor my text because you won't find them here, but that's it. Then you've opened the door. Now what's the next thing? It always is that slippery slope and then we slide down to where we're at now, where, you know, deciding whether or not you can wear them, breed the air that is on your face is legal or not, or should you be turning in your neighbors?

All of this is their dream. So don't fall for the extreme example they use to get you to sign up. In the end, once you're signed up, there's no signing out. And this is, we have to be so aware of every single decision we're making right now, what we're agreeing to.