The Biden administration is spearheading efforts to adopt and enforce global censorship standards against pro-life and pro-family views. The process to develop digital standards to monitor, moderate, and censor speech online is being carried out under the guise of combatting “technology-facilitated gender-based violence,” and is backed by over a dozen countries. The standards would require government and the private sector to proactively censor criticism of gender ideology as a form of “hate speech.” They would also require online platforms and internet providers to enforce feminist orthodoxy through automated algorithms and artificial intelligence, according to what is being dubbed a “safety by design” approach. The idea for such standards was first launched at the Summit for Democracy in 2022 in partnership with Denmark. The State Department initiative, titled “Global Partnership for Action on Gender-Based Online Harassment and Abuse” is geared towards addressing a wide range of conduct, and not just criminal conduct against women. “Some forms of technology-facilitated gender-based violence are criminal; others are not, but are nonetheless harmful,” according to an update on the initiative from the State Department during the Summit for Democracy.

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