Upcoming Podcast: What Should I Ask State Department's Sarah Rogers?
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Hey guys,
I started a podcast New Year’s Eve with my interview with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya. As promised, I’m gonna announce upcoming guests here, and let subscribers suggest questions I should ask in the comments.
My next guest is gonna be Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Sarah Rogers, one of America’s diplomats who made a big splash right before Christmas, when the State Department announced that five individuals who have led efforts to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints would be barred from entering the United States and deported if they were already in the country.
In a thread on X, Ms. Rogers posted the names of all 5 individuals, explaining why action was being taken against them. Citing reporting by myself and Matt Taibbi, she noted that one of these individuals is British political operative Imran Ahmed who runs the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH).
Under Secretary Rogers spent several weeks in Europe last month meeting her European counterparts and explaing to them that the censorship in Europe was coming to an end. Here’s an interview she gave to England’s GB News on the UK’s Online Safety Act, which censors British citizens and threatens to censor Americans as well.
The first person to testify in favor of this British law was Imran Ahmed of CCDH. The MP who pushed the law through the British Parliament is Damian Collins, who was on the board of CCDH.
I’m going to be asking Under Secretry Rogers about her trip to Europe and her interaction with European diplomats on censorship. I’m also speaking with her about First Amendment lawsuits she dealt with while in private practice. You can find her bio at State Department, here.
There was a flood of anger when the State Department took action. For example, European diplomat, Thierry Breton called the ban against him a McCarthy witch hunt. I pointed out that he had interferred in U.S. election by threatening Elon Musk with legal action if he hosted Donald Trump on X.
For all subscribers, please put any questions you would like for me to pose to Rogers, in the comments. For everyone else, please subscribe to my new DisInformation Chronicle Youtube page where I’m hosting the Podcast.
I would like to know, from Ms. Rogers, the status of the USAID money and its programs that got tucked into the State Department by Sec Rubio. I thought that the US was funding censorship in the US and abroad through USAID. And is there anything that can be done legally to Samantha Powers when she was at USAID abusing her power? How about legal action against CCDH? Is it possible to get Keir Starmer to understand how misguided he is about censorship and the free flow of information? Thanks Paul.
The censorship of credentialed doctors in the last 5 years has been scary. Doctor’s trying to get their findings of what they’ve discovered in these mRNA shots into medical journals have had their paper’s retracted or with the latest paper by Dr. Charlotte Kuperwasser and Dr. Wafik S El0Deiry a cyber attack which took it down. Dr. Phillip Buckhaults has been harassed along with many others including Jay Bhattacharyia for speaking out about shut downs particularly schools. Who has had this immense amount of power to keep information away from the public?