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In a landmark ruling that all Americans should cheer for, a federal court in Louisiana recently upheld the First Amendment’s right to speak without government censorship. Judge Terry Doughty said Missouri v. Biden “includes perhaps the most massive attack on free speech in American history.”
Judge Doughty has barred numerous federal agencies, including the FBI, Justice Department, Homeland Security Department, and many individuals within the executive branch, such as White House Press Secretary Carine Jeanpierre, from communicating with or meeting with the United States. issued a temporary restraining order. : “[S]Any social media company whose purpose is to encourage, encourage, pressure, or induce in any way to remove, remove, suppress, or reduce any content posted on any social media platform, including protected free speech. ”
The injunction bars federal officials from working with outside groups, such as the Stanford Internet Observatory, to induce social media companies to suppress or remove “protected free speech.” It also prevents the government from “notifying social media companies to monitor (“BOLO”) posts containing protected free speech.”
Missouri and Louisiana, along with five plaintiffs, including Jim Hoft, who runs Gateway Pandit, and two infectious disease epidemiologists, have challenged allegations of collusion between the Biden administration and social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. I filed. They argued that the regime suppressed dissenting voices and controlled discourse on many issues, including elections. Effectiveness of masks and new coronavirus vaccines, and leaked theory of the new coronavirus laboratory. The story of Hunter Biden’s laptop. A parody targeting the defendant. There are also negative posts about the economy and President Joe Biden.
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The court’s decision makes it easier than ever for governments to suppress dissent on many issues, the disagreements they seek to justify, thanks to advances in technology. It emphasizes the importance of defending the First Amendment right to free speech and freedom of expression. By labeling it “misinformation”. That is exactly what the CCP government has become an expert on.
Judge Doughty’s 155-page opinion contained page after page of large meetings, emails and other interactions between government officials who abused and threatened social media executives to censor and close their accounts. detailed for each. Platforms like Facebook actually provided government officials with reports on how they enforced government-mandated censorship.
The FBI’s continued claim that it was only concerned with foreign “disinformation” is squarely contradicted by the evidence in this case. Judge Doty concluded that “the FBI made no attempt to distinguish between U.S. and foreign disinformation coverage of the election.” and censor views, opinions, and claims (foreign or domestic) that disagree with or criticize their (and government’s) political, social, or medical views. It is clear from the facts that he was only interested in Orthodoxy on multiple issues.
They engage in viewpoint discrimination, a direct and blatant violation of the First Amendment, and, according to Mr. Doughty, “substantially all of the repressed freedom of speech is a form of ‘conservative’ speech.” I was free.” While the First Amendment generally applies only to governments and not private entities such as Twitter and Facebook, these social media platforms have essentially become government agents. Through them, the government “exercised coercion or made serious incentives to private parties to choose.” [to censor] must be considered governmental. ”
As a result, “millions of protected free speech posts by American citizens” were suppressed. Mr. Doughty concludes that the “substantial evidence” of large-scale and widespread coercive action by the government “drafts an almost dystopian scenario,” in which “the U.S. government is Orwellian ‘truth’.” The ministry “seems to play a role similar to that” or perhaps plays a similar role. to the Imperial Ministry of Enlightenment and Propaganda.
The fact that the Biden administration has appealed this decision should infuriate the American public. Injunctions against the government apply only to speech protected by the First Amendment. Doughty specifically makes exceptions for many other communications between governments and social media platforms, such as criminal activity and conspiracies. Threats to national security and public safety. Criminal activity that suppresses votes or provides illegal election funds. cyberattacks; and foreign attempts to influence elections.
But the Biden administration should reverse this injunction to promote “responsible behavior for the protection of public health, safety and security,” namely to continue censoring the public posts and opinions of the American public. claims.
We need to reaffirm the sordid history of free speech violations by the federal government, especially the FBI. The FBI launched a nefarious campaign against Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders, including illegal wiretapping and tipping. why?
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Because the FBI has identified them as radicals whose activities and misinformation pose a security threat, and J. Edgar Hoover has labeled Dr. King as “the most notorious liar in the country.” This is because I attached
Given that history, would anyone doubt that had the internet and social media platforms existed in the early 1960s, the FBI would have coerced them in its campaign against the civil rights movement? Is it the same way the Biden administration tried to thwart those who opposed him on current affairs?
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The government bureaucracy and the Biden administration cannot be trusted and the courts should maintain this injunction. The administration has chosen to defend an unconstitutional practice that reflects an Orwellian dystopia of censoring legitimate speech in the name of “public health, safety and security.”
But only when they judge the “truth”. It is the road to tyranny.
Abby Kerr is a member of Heritage’s Young Leaders Program.
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