I first heard the term “censorship-industrial complex” on April 15, 2025.
That’s when I got the tip that a small office in the U.S. State Department, which focused on monitoring and countering foreign disinformation from the likes of Russia, Iran, and China, was facing imminent shutdown—the next...
我第一次听到"审查工业复合体"这个词是在2025年4月15日。
当时我得到线索,美国国务院一个 focused on 监控和打击来自俄罗斯、伊朗和中国等国的外国虚假信息的小办公室面临 imminent 关闭——就在第二天。
原因?R/FIMI, as the office was called,被指控在所谓的审查工业复合体中 serving as 该部门的核心枢纽——一个 sprawling constellation 的政府机构、学术界、公民社会团体和大型科技平台, allegedly conspiring 以打击虚假信息为名压制保守派和民粹主义在线言论。
我在4月16日上午10:30左右 broke 这个故事(并在随后的几周 broke 更多),但对我来说,这只是深入报道一个从右翼互联网边缘 moved into 主流的理念的 rabbit hole 的开始, championed and spread by 一个资金充足的保守派媒体平台和非营利组织网络, finally as 特朗普政府大部分国内和外交政策背后的一种 prevailing 逻辑。
但这不仅仅是一个政策故事。关于审查的理念 weaponization 也影响了全球数十亿在线获取信息或相互互动的人——也就是说,我们所有人。
更多关于这一叙事对互联网意味着什么,请阅读我的故事。
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The “censorship-industrial complex” is an idea that a network of government, tech, and research groups is collaborating to suppress conservative online speech. This was fodder for the right-wing information sphere for years—then it began making its way int...