Posted on 06/12/2024 11:44:15 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
The Supreme Court recently hearing arguments in the case of Murthy v. Missouri has refocused attention on the U.S. Government’s efforts to get social media platforms to suppress alleged COVID-19 ‘misinformation’ and the issue of whether these efforts crossed the ‘line between persuasion and coercion’ and thus constituted Government censorship. But how could the Government’s efforts have not constituted Government censorship when it had a full-fledged “Fighting Covid-19 Disinformation Monitoring Programme” in which all the major online platforms were enrolled and which required them to submit periodic reports outlining, even indeed quantifying, their suppression of what was deemed “false and/or misleading information likely to cause physical harm or impair public health policies”?
The programme covered almost the entire official course of the declared COVID-19 pandemic. It was rolled out in early June 2020, just three months after the WHO’s pandemic declaration, and it was only wound up in summer 2022, after most of the measures adopted in response to the pandemic declaration, including various forms of vaccine passports, had already been withdrawn. The participants in the programme included Twitter, Facebook/Meta, Google/YouTube and Microsoft (as owner of Bing and LinkedIn). An archive of the no fewer than 17 reports which each of them submitted to the government can be seen below.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysceptic.org ...
Well, THAT’S a troubling first for me...
They now worship Joseph Goebbels.
This tripe needs ending real bad, for good.
The people who did it need to be prosecuted and/or fired and banned from all futire federal government employment.
Government agencies have great power of companies due to their regulatory powers.
A company, told to suppress certain opinions, is not going to ask if the agency has the legal or constitutional authority to make the demand.
Well, Musk has, but he’s special.
Reminds me of this guy in mid-twentieth century Italy.
All the vast majority of disinformation the government has wanted to so press has proven to be true. Not just the covid BS they puke out.
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