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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan Demands Stanford Turn Over Documents Relating To Foreign Censorship Scheme

Cyber Policy Center in 2023 was caught covering up and lying about its work with DHS demanding that social media platforms take down election and Covid information

When Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center announced last year that its donor Frank McCourt was cutting funding to the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), many of us thought it meant that the Center was getting out of the censorship game. ...

But yesterday, we revealed that the Cyber Policy Center is back in the censorship business and in a big way. Last month, it hosted a strategy session with representatives of the governments of the EU, UK, Australia, and Brazil to coordinate global censorship. The strategy session was secret and only discovered thanks to a whistleblower who provided Jordan’s investigators with the agenda. ...

The keynote speaker at this event was Julie Inman-Grant, the Australian eSafety Commissioner, who has explicitly argued that governments have the authority to demand and enforce global takedowns of content.”

Inman-Grant was a keynote speaker at the Stanford meeting and is the creator and head of a global government censorship network, which aims to leverage global economic power of her allies to force US tech firms to comply, including in the U.S.