Funding and Influence in the Censorship Industry

A prominent organization in the censorship industry receives annual funding from the Department of Defense, the State Department, and CIA cutouts like the National Endowment for Democracy and the Atlantic Council. In January 2017, they pressured European governments to pass censorship laws, resulting in Germany passing Netz DG in August 2017. This law imposed heavy fines on social media platforms for leaving up posts identified as hate speech for over 48 hours, leading to the rise of automated censorship using AI technologies created by DARPA.