The multinational software company Oracle is cutting ties with the Global Disinformation Index, a State Department-funded group that the Washington Examiner revealed has been secretly blacklisting conservative media outlets.

“After conducting a review, we agree with others in the advertising industry that the services we provide marketers must be in full support of free speech, which is why we are ending our relationship with GDI,” Michael Egbert, vice president for corporate communications at Oracle, said in a statement on Wednesday to the Washington Examiner.

(via Instapundit)

[Would Oracle have done this without the threat of congressional investigations exposing these partnerships and their censorship agendas? Maybe, but I’d rather have the spotlight to shine on the government-industrial censorship complex than try to fight without it. — Ed]