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“我们正处于媒体信任危机之中，因为许多传统媒体为了维持左倾立场而撒谎。举一个最近的例子，传统媒体告诉我们拜登总统一切安好。几年来，任何质疑他健康和精神状况的人都被指责为散布低劣虚假的信息。然而，拜登总统在数亿人面前的舞台上彻底崩溃了。
“因此，我们可以理解为什么美国人，至少非民主党的美国人，不信任媒体。问题不在于为什么传统媒体失去了美国人的信任。我们知道答案。问题在于，尽管失去了信任，传统媒体在广告市场中的份额却在增加。答案很简单。事实上，民主党立法者、白宫、传统媒体、广告商和伪装成客观的品牌安全检验组织之间，形成了一个非正式的施压系统。这个系统确保广告资金只流向左翼媒体。
“让我解释一下这是如何运作的。当一个保守派竞争者出现时，传统媒体和他们的政治盟友会急于将这些竞争者描绘成危险的。比如，《纽约时报》的评论员卡拉·斯威舍告诉YouTube负责人，我在Daily Wire的视频是引导孩子们（包括她自己的儿子）观看新纳粹内容的‘入门级毒品’。无视我是犹太人的事实（那顶犹太帽）。
“民主党当选官员也采用同样的说辞。2017年，参议员黛安·范士丹告诉Facebook、谷歌和推特的律师，‘你们创建了这些平台，现在它们被滥用了，你们必须采取行动，否则我们会采取行动。’社交媒体公司对这种激励机制，包括威胁，做出了反应。他们通过采用左翼信息安全组织（如全球负责任媒体联盟，GARM）的标准来回应。GARM所谓的品牌安全标准是，广告商和平台可以用来确定哪些内容适合广告的客观标准。
“实际上，GARM就像一个机器。其成员占美国广告支出的90%，几乎达到一万亿美元。换句话说，如果你不能从GARM那里获得广告资金，几乎不可能经营基于广告的业务。如果你不遵循他们偏好的政治旋律，比如卡拉·斯威舍和黛安·范士丹所支持的那些，你就会被视为不安全品牌。你的业务将受到抑制。我们在Daily Wire亲身经历了这一点。2017年，在范士丹参议员威胁要让政府干预社交媒体平台后，Daily Wire YouTube频道在两年内遭遇处罚的内容增加了1000%。自2021年以来，在民主党官员进一步对社交媒体公司施压后，我个人的Facebook页面的曝光率下降了80%以上。
“再看看乔·罗根。当乔说他在感染COVID后服用了伊维菌素时，白宫新闻秘书珍·普萨基施压Spotify采取行动，声称‘我们希望每个平台都能更多地指出虚假信息，同时提升准确的信息。’Spotify照做了。Spotify当然与GARM合作。
“那么GARM使用的品牌安全标准是什么？这些标准从不可争辩的事情开始，例如防止分发儿童性虐待材料或阻止恐怖主义。但GARM不仅仅限制在犯罪、虐待或危险内容。他们的标准还包括限制仇恨言论、骚扰、虚假信息，或者我个人最喜欢的，‘对有争议的敏感社会问题的无礼、不负责任和有害的处理’。这些标准在理论上是高度主观的，在实践中则完全是党派性的。例如，去年Daily Wire的主持人马特·沃尔什在YouTube（GARM成员）上被完全封掉了广告收入功能。原因？所谓的‘性别误认’，即认为男性不是女性的立场。显而易见的事实，现在却违反了GARM的审查标准。
“被GARM盯上的公司，比如Daily Wire、布赖特巴特、福克斯新闻和许多其他公司，覆盖了数亿人，他们的意见和信仰早已被确立为美国保守派思想的主流。GARM及其成员对这些人的信仰毫无尊重。他们希望将这些信仰边缘化或压制。是时候在国会为第一修正案站出来了。
“国会可以通过两种方式做到这一点。首先，国会必须调查审查机器（如GARM）与行政机构之间的非正式甚至正式协作。Daily Wire已经对国务院提起联邦诉讼，指控其进行此类安排。其次，国会自身必须停止违反言论自由原则的行为。两周前，在Murthy诉密苏里案的反对意见中，阿利托大法官谴责了他所谓的‘对言论自由的复杂且具有威胁性的政府运动’。
“即使我现在面对的这个国会委员会，一些成员也正参与这种运动。当希夫议员谈到针对社交媒体公司的行动，声称必须‘拉进这个企业责任时代，因为它们对虚假信息太过容忍’时，他知道自己在做什么。他正在参与一场复杂的、具有威胁性的反对言论自由的运动。当贾亚帕尔议员指责社交媒体将美国置于民主危机的边缘，并呼吁它们打击她们认为的仇恨团体时，她也知道自己在做什么。她正在参与一场复杂的、具有威胁性的反对言论自由的运动。当汉克·约翰逊议员说‘我们需要宪法修正案，允许立法机关控制所谓的公司言论自由权利’时，他也知道自己在做什么。
“我们都知道这些政府官员，这个房间里的一些人在做什么。你们在利用政府行动的隐性威胁，迫使私营公司压制你们不喜欢的观点。第一修正案不是为民选官员提供变通办法而设计的。它是针对国会的，针对你们的。当你们对私营公司施压，要求其审查言论时，你们就是在放弃你们的基本职责。这个房间里的一些人多年来一直在这样做。我们非传统媒体一直感受着这种影响。以宪法和民主的名义，这应该停止。”
Watch Ben Shapiro Tear into Censorship Cartel in Fiery Congressional Testimony
“We're in the midst of a trust crisis in the world of media, which is because so many in the legacy media have lied in order to preserve left-leaning narratives. To take just the most recent example, we were told by the legacy media that President Biden was just fine. For years, anyone who questioned his health and mental fitness was trafficking in cheap fakes. And then President Biden went out and engaged in a full-scale mental collapse on stage in front of hundreds of millions of people.
“So we can see why Americans, at least Americans who are not Democrats, do not trust the media. The question isn't really why the legacy media have lost Americans' trust. We know that answer. The question is why, despite that loss of trust, the legacy media continue to gain share in the advertising market. And the answer is simple. There is, in fact, an informal pressure system created by Democratic legislators, this White House, legacy media, advertisers, and pseudo-objective brand safety organizations. That system guarantees that advertising dollars flow only to left-wing media brands.
“Let me explain how this works. When a conservative competitor to the legacy media arises, members of that legacy media and their political allies rush to paint such competitors as dangerous. The commentator Kara Swisher of the New York Times, for example, told the head of YouTube that my videos at Daily Wire were a gateway drug that would lead children, including her own teenage son, to watch neo-Nazi content. Nevermind the yarmulke.
“Elected Democrats pick up that same messaging. In 2017, Senator Dianne Feinstein told lawyers at Facebook, Google, and Twitter, ‘You created these platforms and now they’re being misused, and you have to be the ones to do something about it, or we will.’ Social media companies react to incentive structures, including threats. They have responded by adopting the standards of third-party, left-wing informational safety groups like the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, or GARM. GARM purportedly sets brand safety standards, objective standards by which advertisers and platforms can supposedly determine just what sort of content ought to be deemed safe for advertising.
“In reality, GARM acts as a cartel. Its members account for 90% of ad spending in the United States, almost a trillion dollars. In other words, if you're not getting ad dollars from GARM members, it's nearly impossible to run an ad-based business. And if you're not following their preferred political narratives, the ones that Kara Swisher and Dianne Feinstein would follow, you will not be deemed brand safe. Your business will be throttled. We at Daily Wire have experienced this firsthand. In 2017, after Senator Feinstein made her threats to bring the weight of government down on social media platforms, the Daily Wire YouTube channel saw a 1000% increase in content enforcements over a two-year period. Since 2021, after Democrat officials further turned up the heat on social media companies, my personal Facebook page has seen an over 80% drop in impressions.
“Or take Joe Rogan. When Joe said that he had taken Ivermectin after getting COVID, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki pressured Spotify to take action, stating, ‘We want every platform to be doing more to call out missing disinformation while also uplifting accurate information.’ Spotify complied. Spotify, of course, works with GARM.
“So what are the brand safety standards that GARM uses? The standards begin with inarguable things that we've heard from the other witnesses, like preventing the distribution of child sexual abuse material or stopping terrorism. But GARM doesn't draw the line at what is criminal, abusive, or dangerous. Their standards also include restrictions on hate speech, harassment, misinformation, or, my personal favorite, insensitive, irresponsible, and harmful treatment of debated, sensitive social issues. Those criteria are highly subjective in theory, and they are purely partisan in practice. For example, last year, Daily Wire host Matt Walsh was fully demonetized on YouTube, a GARM member. Why? For quote-unquote misgendering, which to GARM is to say that men are not women. Perfectly obvious facts now run afoul of GARM's censorship standards.
“Companies targeted by GARM, like the Daily Wire, Breitbart, Fox News, and so many others, reach hundreds of millions of people with opinions and beliefs long established as within the mainstream of American conservative thought. GARM and its members have no respect for the beliefs of those people. They would like them marginalized or squashed. It's time to stand up for the First Amendment in this Congress.
“Congress can do so in two ways. First, Congress must investigate the informal and perhaps formal arrangements between censorship cartels like GARM and executive branch agencies. The Daily Wire has already filed a federal lawsuit against the State Department for allegedly doing just this. Second, Congress can itself stop engaging in violation of free speech principles. Two weeks ago, writing a dissent in Murthy versus Missouri, Justice Alito condemned what he called sophisticated and coercive government campaigns against free speech.
“Members of this committee have engaged in precisely such campaigns. When Congressman Schiff speaks about targeting social media companies that must be, quote, ‘pulled and dragged into this era of corporate responsibility because they are too tolerant of misinformation,’ he knows what he is doing. He is participating in a sophisticated, coercive campaign against free speech. When Congresswoman Jayapal blames social media for placing America at the precipice of a democratic crisis and calls on them to target what they deem hate groups, she also knows what she is doing. She is participating in a sophisticated, coercive campaign against free speech. When Congressman Hank Johnson says, quote, ‘We need a constitutional amendment to allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations,’ he also knows what he is doing.
“We all know what these government actors, what some people in this room are doing. You're using the tacit threat of government action to compel private companies to throttle viewpoints you don't particularly like. The First Amendment was not designed to enable workarounds by elected officials. It was directed at Congress, at you. And you're abdicating your fundamental duty when you exert pressure on private companies to censor speech. Some in this room have been doing just that for years. We in the non-legacy media have been feeling the effects. In the name of the Constitution and the name of democracy, this should stop.”
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我叫Cash Chen。目前，我正在寻求纽约市皇后区以及长岛地区公立高中历史教师social studies的教职。
我为兼受东西文化熏陶而自豪。我出生在上海，自幼对中国文化与历史培养了深厚兴趣。十几岁时，我移民到美国，开启了人生的新篇章。适应一个新国家及文化对我来说很有挑战，而这也是促使智识成长的动力。
在上高中的时候，我第一次接触到宪政原则和西方政治思想，而为此着迷。此经历开启了我日后学术旅程。此后，我得到哈佛大学的录取，四年后获得政治学本科学位。在那四年里，我深入研究了西方政治思想的经典，从柏拉图的《理想国》和亚里士多德的《政治学》到美国建国之父的《联邦党人文集》。这些文本构成了我世界观的基石，并确立了我对宪法精神的忠诚与敬仰。
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在我的学术旅程中，我始终致力于推进跨文化理解。对于母国丰富的文化遗产，我也一直努力学习，因此时常阅览中国经典以汲取人生智慧。我坚信，对于华裔美国人来说，需要在现代生活中传承母国传统文化与审美。
近年来我越来越明白，我的使命在于公立学校教育领域。作为一名教育工作者，我希望在历史知识之外还向学生传授独立思考的习惯。另外，我的多元文化背景使我对不同的文化视角有细致同情理解，也使我能够与移民背景学生展开真切深刻的交流，激发他们的思考。就历史教育而言，我的一个重要目标是培养学生对宪政原则和美国建国的敬意。
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