Posted on 07/17/2023 2:15:46 PM PDT by PoliticallyShort
On Independence Day, Federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty issued a preliminary injunction in Missouri v. Biden that blocks the White House and numerous federal agencies from communicating with social media companies for “the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech.” The Government filed a Notice of Appeal, and requested a stay on enforcement of the injunction until its appeal is decided. Doughty denied the stay, though he nominally clarified the injunction’s scope. The Government then filed for an emergency stay with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. That motion is pending.
The howls of despair from the Biden Administration and its allies on the Left mark an inflection point on whether the United States remains the bastion of free speech, or transitions to a European model that restricts speech to that which the elites consider acceptable.
The Louisiana and Missouri attorneys general, and health-care professionals, filed a complaint offering compelling evidence that the Biden administration is orchestrating a government-wide enterprise to censor, demonetize, and suppress criticism of political views which it disagrees on such as Covid-19, elections, the Hunter Biden laptop, climate change, and the economy, among others.
In a fact-intensive ruling, Doughty found that it is likely the plaintiffs will establish that dozens of federal officials, as well as the White House, Justice Department, State Department, Department of Health and Human Services, FBI, Surgeon General, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ("CDC”), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (“NIAID”), Census Bureau, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency within DHS, and other federal agencies had coerced, significantly encouraged and jointly participated with social media companies to suppress free speech by American citizens, and to compel publication of their preferred narrative.
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If the lefties hate America so bad, they’re free to leave anytime.
I never thought I’d see the day that the US government would openly argue that government suppression of free speech is their right. 1984 has arrived.
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Indeed it has!
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