House Republicans have introduced legislation to cut off the taxpayer spigot to promotion and facilitation of censorship abroad, whether advocacy by private entities or U.S. law enforcement cooperation with foreign governments to promote censorship of content that would be legal in the U.S.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., on Monday introduced the No Funding or Enforcement of Censorship Abroad Act (HR 9850) with House Weaponization Subcommittee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. Maria Salazar, R-Fla.
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The bill, if passed by Congress and signed into law, would prohibit U.S. law enforcement from helping foreign censorship directives against U.S.-based internet companies.
“The Biden-Harris Administration has weaponized U.S. foreign assistance programs and other means to promote censorship in Brazil and crack down on free speech that would be protected under our U.S. Constitution here at home,” said Smith, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Global Human Rights Subcommittee, in a press release.
Smith cited a recent report by Civilization Works, founded by Twitter Files journalist Michael Shellenberger, that found several U.S. entities “directly and indirectly” involved in what it calls Brazil’s censorship-industrial complex, including the White House, Congress, FBI, National Endowment for Democracy, National Science Foundation, State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development. […]
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