in World News Hemingway To Dem: You Play Dumb About The Censorship-Industrial Complex Because It Works For Your Party
By: Jordan Boyd
Federalist Editor-In-Chief Mollie Hemingway schooled a Democrat Senator on Tuesday when he tried to play dumb in a Senate hearing about the censorship-industrial complex and its partisan targeting of publications like The Federalist.
Not long into the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution’s hearing about the vast network of organizations seeking to silence conservative and dissenting voices, Ranking Member Peter Welch of Vermont asked Hemingway to elaborate on her opinion that there was “coercive power that was used to infringe on the work that you do.”
“Yes, because the censorship-industrial complex — it involves government funding at the federal and state level, working with NGOs, whether they’re for-profit or nonprofit,” Hemingway noted.
In an attempt to feign ignorance about the effects of government-sponsored silencing, which have been widely reported and ruled on over the last five years, Welch asked Mollie to define the “industrial-censorship complex” because it “is an abstract term.”
“It doesn’t mean a lot to me. It conveys a lot of meaning, obviously, to many people here, but it has to get down to something very concrete, as to what the government did,” Welch said. “If it’s an NGO, your view, I think the chairman’s view too, is that that NGO is hand in glove with the government.”
Hemingway began to explain how the federal government has financially partnered with shadowy nongovernmental organizations to do its censorship dirty work, such as “flag items” so that “for-profit Big Tech companies will then remove the content.”