How six members of the Disinformation Dozen and 25 organizations are fighting back against censorship in the US

I’ve written before about the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), a censorship group formed at the highest level of the UK government to censor British citizens, and which was then expanded to the US to censor Americans. Its tentacles may have reached much further, but this is what we know. Below is an earlier piece of mine about the CCDH:

The two principals, Imran Ahmed and Morgan McSweeney are both in trouble. The organization’s finances are under investigation. Ahmed faces deportation from the US and McSweeney lost his job as chief of staff for former UK PM Keir Starmer.

But the organization is still doing what it always did best: hide behind a moralistic campaign to go after political enemies in the dirtiest ways possible. They tried to stop Elon Musk from buying Twitter. They are still after Musk, under the guise of protecting children:

Funny how they ignore all other media in their campaign to protect children.

This horrible censorship organization even admits proudly that its campaigning brought about the awful “Online Safety Act” in the UK.

CCDH created the false narrative that 12 people (the Disinformation Dozen, which included RFK, Jr. ) were responsible for 2/3 of the online anti-vax content on the internet, and it succeeded in getting all their platforms banned or shadowbanned in the US in 2021:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/17/covid-misinformation-conspiracy-theories-ccdh-report

It later turned out this was a fabrication, and the twelve’s combined internet reach accounted for less than 1% of antivax talk online. But the damage was done.

Now Sayer-Ji, one of the twelve, is fighting back, along with 5 other members of the Disinformation Dozen, after their legal case was recently thrown out on shaky procedural grounds. The campaign is called Restore the First (Amendment).

For all the details, see Sayer-Ji’s Substack:

Sayer Ji’s Substack
Introducing Restore the First: What We Built After the Courthouse Closed
The court never heard the evidence, so we made the record public: twenty-five partner organizations and outlets, six programs, more than fifty bills tracked, a twenty-case lawfare docket, and the three things Congress must do about it. Launched on Constitution Day, in Washington…
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IPAK-EDU is grateful to Meryl’s CHAOS letter (Critical Health Analysis and OpinionS) as this piece was originally published there and is included in this news feed with mutual agreement. Read More

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