We now know that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been VERY involved in suppressing conservative speech on social media platforms for years now. And that there were FBI agents embedded at Twitter and presumably Facebook and the others as well.
In fact there was a line item budgeting for FBI oversight of speech. Again, that pesky First Amendment didn’t even slow them down. Government regulation of free speech? Yup. That’s what they do now.
But there’s an opportunity cost involved in the FBI oversight of what you post on social media. They are neglecting their real job — keeping America safe and catching criminals.
Case in point:
Report: Times Square New Year’s Eve Attacker Was ‘Known Wolf’ Whose Family Notified Authorities https://t.co/aCXv8Qokkl
— williammccarthy (@williammccarthy) January 3, 2023
This thug, turned in by his parents after being radicalized and known to the FBI, was still out in public and had the opportunity to attack and badly injure three revelers in Times Square on New Year’s Eve — with an unregistered (?) machete.
I have no idea why, if he was on a terrorist watch list, he wasn’t — well — watched.
Oh yeah. The FBI has better things to do with their time.