A Canadian "time traveler from a not-too-distant future" has a warning for the U.S. Congress: The "gradual suffocation of free expression … is draped in a cloak of niceness, inclusivity and justice," and America should fear treading the road of its "polite" northern neighbor.
Rupa Subramanya, a journalist for The Free Press, testified before a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee's Weaponization of the Federal Government Subcommittee on Thursday to mark a year since the debut of the Twitter Files.
The series, based on material shared with select journalists by new platform owner Elon Musk, reviewed the alternatively cooperative and adversarial discussions between federal officials and the company now known as X on which narratives to suppress.
"Our niceness made us susceptible to the new authoritarianism" promulgated by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, said Subramanya. Her media startup, founded by former New York Times opinion editor Bari Weiss, was profiled by The Wall Street Journal on Thursday.