A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Biden administration likely violated the First Amendment by pressuring social-media platforms to censor posts about Covid-19 and elections.
The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling says that the White House likely “coerced the platforms to make their moderation decisions by way of intimidating messages and threats of adverse consequences.” The panel of three judges found that the administration “significantly encouraged the platforms’ decisions by commandeering their decision-making processes, both in violation of the First Amendment.”
A lower court previously placed restrictions on the Biden administration’s communications with social-media platforms; those restrictions applied to a number of government agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services, the State Department, Homeland Security, and the U.S. Census Bureau.
After temporarily blocking the order, the Fifth Circuit judges have now modified the order to apply only to the White House, the surgeon general, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the FBI.
Plus, a blow by blow from Tracy Beanz: I want to stop for a second (again) and go over how monumental this actually is. This is the first time ever that a normal “user” or American has submitted evidence of social media censorship and had their concerns ADDRESSED at all by a COURT OF LAW.
A COUP.. When protecting public health also secures you power.. Of course half of the population and the MSM are going to support it..
The new rule book.. We get to vote on the totalitarian tactics?.. But not policy anymore.. Free to wear an armband but not free to dissent..
My daughter CHOOSES to wear a mask to please the authority figures in her life?.. The second half of that sentence is never talked about while the first half is proudly proclaimed.. Its sad what we have become..
That politicians must not ask or pressure private companies to censor opinions has long been established in the U.S. courts. Yet in the last few years we’ve seen that blatantly violated, often on camera during house hearings,
The Deep State disagrees
You’re spreading disinformation. There is no Deep State
– signed: Your benevolent government.
I did a semester at Deep State, but I dropped out, too much pressure. I needed a bath escape!
(((The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling says that the White House likely “coerced the platforms to make their moderation decisions by way of intimidating messages and threats of adverse consequences.”)))
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Anyone notice what’s missing from this statement? They left out the part about the Federal Govt. actually funding some of the illegal actions with taxpayer dollars. The FBI paid Twitter (for example) over $3 Million. So, yeah, intimidating messages and threats. But, overlooking outright COMPENSATION is not an oversight on the Court’s part. The concept of what is a threat or intimidating is much, much easier to mitigate. Factual financial documentation and balance sheets, on the other hand…not so much. Kabuki Theater.
Yet we are told by the Government & KM this so called vaccine is (safe)
If it is, why force the MSN and others to only see it their way. What are they afraid of?
Notice how they dropped the so called horse-de-wormed lie.
Will we ever get a serious audit into all the cash politicians are sliding into their secret bank accounts. The honest ones are quickly submarine by the parties and shit rises to the top. Zero trust in any of them.
Welcome to adulthood.
The special powers side door was always there.. Only to be used in a case of emergency.. Like Trump winning a second term.. Come now, John?..
Star chamber then organic.. Spread the manure and watch the self interest grow.. 10 000 reasons and opinions why we are in charge now.. Of course all information needs to be tightly controlled.. All supporters richly rewarded.. All decenters silenced..
Emergency powers that require censorship?.. The only answer that could give support to such things is politics.. Because if we really were under threat we would all be knocking down doors for the shots and mandates.. What type of pandemic breaks along political lines?..
I wonder what strategy they’ll use to do an end run around this ruling. Not unlike New Mexico’s Governor denying lawful carry in Albuquerque citing “public health” which in her mind trumps the Constitution. Worked so well with Covid so what the hell, let’s give it a whirl.
Expect a court challenge with that one as well.
Tommy Douglas is not dead enough, as Kate would say. As soon as public health became nationalized, and “free”, the government forced the private sector and eventually convinced the public that they have “the right” to impose health edicts for erring sheeple taxpayers to follow.
It started with smoking bans, which I think most readers, even here, actually believe all the very long-term Marxist propaganda, and it continues today for almost every illness thought to be caused by human behaviour, or even bats.
Oops … the new term for people who know zip all about statistics in health research is “linked to”, which means a correlation, often based on a small population that can not really be generalized to “Canadians think …” Do you actually think that a sample of 1000 Canadians done by even big name firms, who know better, reflects our true views.
If you do not eat kale or broccoli often and ride a bike to work for show in the snow like Chrystia Freeland, you will be forever guilty and doomed to a state of public health disgrace. Fat people and certain others are exempted by fiat, however.
God Bless the AG’s of Missouri and Louisiana. If not for them, none of this would have come to light. And God DAMN this government and Deep State for even conceiving a thing so viscous and unconstitutional as “misinformation”. Utter rubbish. Everything … EVERYTHING … spoken or written is INFORMATION. And only TIME and analysis sorts out the real truth. And every man is FREE to draw their own conclusions. And look how time and analysis has reversed nearly everything squashed as “misinformation”
How the majority of the public went along with this is very depressing. I guess if your political opponents and people you disagree with are getting censored … then it’s OK. That is a leftist mentality. They really HATE debate and a free exchange of ideas. Their beliefs don’t stand up to scrutiny,so their only remedy is to silence the opposition. Yeah … Fascism. Totalitarianism.