Judge Bars Biden Officials, Agencies From Contacting Social Media Companies

[Brian4Liberty]

"Orwellian Ministry Of Truth" Busted - Judge Bars Biden Officials, Agencies From Contacting Social Media Companies
BY TYLER DURDEN

In an order fittingly issued on Independence Day, a federal judge in Louisiana has forbidden multiple federal agencies and named officials from having any contact with social media companies with the intent to moderate content.

The preliminary injunction arises from a suit filed by the states of Missouri and Louisiana, along with individuals that include two leading critics of the Covid-19 lockdown regime -- Harvard's Martin Kulldorff and Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya -- and Jim Hoft, who owns the right-wing website Gateway Pundit.

“If the allegations made by plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history,” wrote US District Judge Terry A. Doughty. “The plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits in establishing that the government has used its power to silence the opposition.”

The dozens of people and agencies bound by the injunction include President Biden, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control, the Treasury Department, State Department, the US Election Assistance Commission, the FBI and entire Justice Department, and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Bhattacharya and Kulldorff, who are among the originators of the Great Barrington Declaration that denounced the lockdown regime, have been victims of social media censorship. For example, the pair says their censorship-triggering statements included assertions that "thinking everyone must be vaccinated is scientifically flawed," questioning the value of masks, and stating that natural immunity is stronger than vaccine immunity.

While the case is dominated by Covid-19 censorship, it also encompasses the Justice Department's efforts to suppress reporting about Hunter Biden's "laptop from hell" in the run-up to the 2020 election. Doughty gave credence to that accusation.
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The accusation that the social media platforms and government were acting in concert is substantiated by the communication and bureaucracy that surrounded the endeavor. "Many emails between the White House and social-media companies referred to themselves as 'partners.' Twitter even sent the White House a 'Partner Support Portal' for expedited review of the White House’s requests," wrote Doughty, a 2017 Trump nominee.

A long list of agencies and people are now barred from contacting social media platforms with “the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech.”
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More: https://www.zerohedge.com/political...ls-agencies-contacting-social-media-companies

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1676678333260771328

 

[Occam's Banana]

The Cathedral is coping and seething:

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1676562524928368640

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1676606472493441025

https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1676677162718449695

 

[jmdrake]

Watch: CNN, MSNBC FREAK OUT Over Biden Admin’s LOSS of Social Media Censorship Powers

 

[AngryCanadian]

https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1676678333260771328

The White House has no right being in businesses of censorship.

What they want is clear censorship of information.

 

[tod evans]

I can't sit and listen to any of those talking heads....

Reigning in government is never a bad thing.

 

[Occam's Banana]

Establishment Dems Outraged as Court Bans Biden & FBI From Coercing Big Tech Censorship; NYT Defends Illegal Domestic Surveillance | SYSTEM UPDATE #110
"The court ruling banning the FBI and other Biden officials from pressuring Big Tech to censor political speech is massive. We'll analyze this ruling and its importance, as well as establishment anger over it:" -- Glenn Greenwald
https://rumble.com/v2ybni6-system-update-show-110.html

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[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1679960280770412547

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[Occam's Banana]

THREAD: GOP lawmakers introduce bill allowing federal officials to be sued for censorship

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/LibertyLockPod/status/1700451837994733932

U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals order (PDF file): https://nclalegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Doc.-238-1-Fifth-Circuit-Opinion.pdf

Appeals court upholds ruling prohibiting government officials from communicating with social media companies
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...als-court-upholds-missouri-v-biden-injunction
Rachel Schilke | 08 September 2023

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court's ruling that prohibits numerous federal government officials from contacting social media companies.

The appeals court in New Orleans upheld a decision in Missouri v. Biden that came down from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana in July.

The district judge had placed a preliminary injunction in July prohibiting the defendants, including President Joe Biden, United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, and former chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci, from contacting social media companies over content it believes to be misinformation.

"The Fifth Circuit has upheld the district court’s order in our free speech case, Missouri v. Biden, enjoining the White House, Surgeon General, CDC, & FBI from violating the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans," Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey posted on X on Friday.

https://twitter.com/AGAndrewBailey/status/1700288426367385794

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Missouri v. Biden was originally filed by Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) when he was attorney general of Missouri. The lawsuit alleges that the federal government is influencing social media companies to violate First Amendment free speech rights held by a platform's users.

Bailey, who was appointed to the position in 2023, said in mid-August that the lawsuit could alter the marketplace of social media companies.

“I think we’ve got to build a wall of separation between tech and state,” Bailey said. “That’s the very purpose of this lawsuit. The wall of separation is needed now more than ever as we move into an election cycle.”

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