As The Gateway Pundit beforehand reported, the Biden regime focused each Facebook and Twitter over content material they didn’t approve of.
Now, it seems the censorship ways the Biden regime employed prolonged to Amazon as effectively. Furthermore, we all know the one that led the cost for the Regime.
Rep. Jim Jordan dropped an explosive thread Monday on X detailing the nice lengths the Regime employed to strain Amazon to cease promoting books they hated. Their prime focus was studying materials important of the COVID-19 shot.
Whereas Amazon was initially skeptical of the Regime’s bullying ways, they in the end bent the knee.
THE AMAZON FILES – “feeling strain from the White Home”
Inner docs subpoenaed by @JudiciaryGOP & @Weaponization point out that @amazon bowed all the way down to Biden White Home strain to censor BOOKS.
Thread:
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024
By no means-before-released inner emails subpoenaed by @JudiciaryGOP reveal that the Biden White Home pressured Amazon to censor books that expressed views the White Home didn’t approve of.
“Is the [Biden] Admin asking us to take away books”? pic.twitter.com/ZsAN9BZAcX
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024
And who was the purpose man for this bullying tactic? Biden’s former White Home Senior Advisor for the COVID-19 Response, Andy Slavitt. He began issues off by sending off an electronic mail on March 2, 2021 demanding a dialog over supposed “disinformation” on Amazon’s web site.
On March 2, 2021, Slavitt fired off an electronic mail demanding to know who he and his White Home colleagues might speak to on the firm about “the excessive ranges of propaganda and misinformation and disinformation of [sic] Amazon?” pic.twitter.com/aWSMp3aSOc
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024
All it took had been a couple of easy searches on hot-button points equivalent to vaccines to find out there was “disinformation” based on Jordan. No precise rigorous technique was employed.
How did the Biden White Home conclude that there was “propaganda and misinformation” in books bought in Amazon’s bookstore?
The White Home ran key phrase searches for controversial subjects, equivalent to “vaccine,” and emailed Amazon when it didn’t like how the search outcomes appeared: pic.twitter.com/FmVYPJQR6n
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024
Amazon needed to carry off on censorship to flee criticism from the right-wing media and never make issues so apparent to the American public. Naturally, the Regime was impatient and displeased.
Initially, Amazon determined to carry off on “doing a handbook intervention” to censor books.
Why? Not out of any dedication to free speech, however as a result of doing so could be “too seen” to the American public and prone to spur criticism from conservative media. pic.twitter.com/166wXiPsha
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024
Why was the Biden White Home so upset with Amazon?
As a result of Amazon believed “retailers are completely different than social media communities” & supplied their “prospects with entry to a wide range of viewpoints.”
For the Biden Admin, letting People suppose for themselves was unacceptable. pic.twitter.com/tKjBTesZoU
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024
Amazon then met with the White Home on March 9, 2021 to find out whether or not they needed the corporate to ban or censor books. Jordan revealed the rationale Amazon agreed to the assembly to start with was as a result of they had been “feeling strain from the White Home.”
Per week later, on March 9, 2021, Amazon met with the White Home.
Inner Amazon paperwork reveal Amazon’s “prime speaking factors” going into the assembly.
One of many key questions was whether or not the Biden White Home needed books banned or simply buried deep within the search outcomes: pic.twitter.com/wnWj9eCyJf
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024
What was the aim of this assembly with the Biden White Home?
To see if “the Admin is asking us to take away books, or are they extra involved about search outcomes/order (or each)?” pic.twitter.com/I8qd3WCeY4
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024
Why did Amazon conform to take this assembly? As a result of they had been “feeling strain from the White Home” pic.twitter.com/n7Xe0D5lhH
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024
The Regime’s bullying efforts paid off. Amazon, ON THE SAME DAY because the assembly, enabled a “Do Not Promote” for books that questioned the effectiveness of the COVID-19 shot. Furthermore, the corporate additionally checked out different methods to cut back readers’ potential to find the studying supplies.
After the White Home spent per week berating Amazon, what did the net bookstore do?
Beginning March 9—the identical day as its assembly with the White Home—Amazon enabled “Do Not Promote” for books that expressed the view that vaccines weren’t efficient. pic.twitter.com/8YEXjAL8BD
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024
And that wasn’t all. Amazon additionally thought-about different methods “to cut back the visibility” of sure books that the Biden White Home disliked. pic.twitter.com/q9JC1LYb5m
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 5, 2024
This new data offers better depth for the case in opposition to the censorship regime, which is at the moment on the ropes thanks largely to a ruling in Fifth Circuit Court docket of Appeals on Missouri vs. Biden. The Court docket found that the federal authorities had engaged in an unlimited marketing campaign of censorship in opposition to People.
The Supreme Court docket just lately announced that it’ll hear oral arguments within the case on March 18. TGP Writer Jim Hoft is the lead Plaintiff.
