Adam Schiff popped up on CNN's "State of The Union" show Sunday morning to issue barely veiled threats to Elon Musk for trying to restore free speech on Twitter.
He suggested ominously that Twitter and social media companies may not continue to enjoy "immunity from responsibility and liability."
In other words, keep policing free speech as an arm of the federal government or watch your business go up in smoke.
Schiff is a calculated propagandist, who lies under oath as easily as breathing, and knowingly peddles misinformation to Congress and to media outlets like CNN and MSNBC, whose gullible hosts keep bringing him back on their shows to mislead their audiences.
In the dying days of his powerful reign as overseer of the nation's intelligence agencies, abusing his access to the nation's secrets, Schiff's final assignment is to preserve the censorship regime his side of politics entrenched across Big Tech.
On Tuesday, he and three other Dems he roped in wrote a menacing letter "as part of our ongoing oversight efforts" to Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta (Facebook's new name), warning that, if the company went down Twitter's path of free speech, the consequences would be dire. "Dangerous and unfounded election denial content" must be kept off the platform.
It was what law professor Jonathan Turley characterized as a "hold-the-line warning ... meant to stop a cascading failure in the once insurmountable wall of social-media censorship."
"If Facebook were to restore free-speech protections, the control over social media could evaporate."
The powerful are panicking, and so they should. Their secrets are leaking.
Ever since Musk authorized a group of independent journalists to release the Twitter Files three weeks ago, a steady drip of damning evidence has emerged, showing collusion between Twitter and the federal government, including the FBI, to censor Americans and suppress dissent, in violation of the First Amendment.
As journalist Matt Taibbi wrote in Twitter Files part 6, Twitter was acting as a "subsidiary" of the FBI, in a relationship he described as "master-canine."
At least 80 FBI agents were engaged full-time in flagging and analyzing user content, demanding user location information and requesting that Twitter take action against mainly "low-follower accounts belonging to ordinary Americans" — including ones that just cracked jokes.
FBI-Twitter communications were "constant and pervasive," wrote Taibbi. "Instead of chasing child sex predators or terrorists, the FBI has agents — lots of them — analyzing and mass-flagging social media posts. Not as part of any criminal investigation, but as a permanent, end-in-itself surveillance operation. People should not be okay with this."
Half the public is still in the dark about this egregious assault on our liberties since, for some bizarre reason, the left-wing media seems to support censorship and wants to censor mention of it.
But at some point, the land of the free and home of the brave will rebel.
The next Twitter Files dump promised as early as Monday, from independent journalist Michael Shellenberger, is another chink in the wall of social-media censorship.
