Massive news from the courts today, folks:
Yeah, we've been waiting a long time for this one, and considering our government's cozying up to social media companies over the past decade or so, it's plain to see that this ruling was inevitable.
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked key Biden administration agencies and officials from meeting and communicating with social media companies about "protected speech," in an extraordinary preliminary injunction in an ongoing case that could have profound effects on the First Amendment.
The injunction came in response to a lawsuit brought by Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, who allege that government officials went too far in their efforts to encourage social media companies to address posts that they worried could contribute to vaccine hesitancy during the pandemic or upend elections.
The Donald Trump-appointed judge's move could undo years of efforts to enhance coordination between the government and social media companies.
A huge win for the people, and, more importantly, a huge L for government censorship. Remember, Biden officials have attempted to start their own "misinformation" board and maintained close ties with execs at companies like Facebook and Twitter to censor posts they didn't like. This is not supposed to happen in a free country, but it has been happening for years.
Here's just a few of our headlines on the matter:
- The US government paid Twitter millions of dollars so it could censor information. For real.
- Twitter worked with the Pentagon to conduct an online PsyOp campaign
- In case you missed it: The White House emailed Facebook to ask the company to censor Tucker Carlson because he voiced independent thoughts about the vax
- The Twitter Files on Covid just dropped and HOO BOY were the "conspiracy theorists" right
- FBI Director Wray: "The level of collaboration between the private sector and the government, especially the FBI, has made significant strides."
- Biden's IRS goons dropped by Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi's house while he was testifying before Congress ... I wonder why?
- House report shows US government is demanding names of journalists who worked on the "Twitter Files," which revealed unconstitutional collusion between government and Big Tech
Don't forget to jot this down as another dub for our favorite president, because without sound judges none of this would be happening.
As of today, senior Biden officials -- including all employees of the FBI, DOJ, DHS, the State Dept. and the WH Press Secretary -- are legally banned from doing the following in order to induce or persuade Big Tech platforms to censor Americans.
So there will be no more of this corporate-government alignment on censorship, and we will all live in a freer country as a result.
"The injunction is strikingly broad and clearly intended to chill any kind of contact between government actors and social media platforms," said Evelyn Douek, an assistant professor at Stanford Law School…
The judge, Terry A. Doughty, has yet to make a final ruling in the case, but in issuing the injunction, he signaled he is likely to side with the Republican attorneys general and find that the Biden administration ran afoul of the First Amendment. He wrote that the attorneys general "have produced evidence of a massive effort by Defendants, from the White House to federal agencies, to suppress speech based on its content."
Honestly, this is great to see, I don't care who's in the Oval Office.
