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President Rock looks a little like a potato and has about the same intelligence but that's ok.
Posted on 07/23/2022 6:24:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Details in a case filed in a federal district court suggest government-directed censorship on social media and the most comprehensive interference in a domestic election in the history of the nation.
We’ve heard it a thousand times: “The First Amendment doesn’t apply to private social media platforms.” That statement, however, presumes the private company’s independence from government action. But what if the social media platform defers censorship decisions to the government itself? Can the government circumvent free speech protections by using a cut-out to censor citizen speech critical of its policies or preferred political candidates?
An explosive case filed in the Federal District Court of the Western District of Louisiana may shine a light on the federal government’s role in Big Tech censorship.
On July 12, U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty (appointed by President Trump in 2017) granted permission for plaintiffs to conduct discovery into whether federal agencies violated the First Amendment rights of Americans by allegedly directing social media platforms to censor disfavored viewpoints and content. These topics include, “Speech about the lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origin, speech about the efficiency of masks and COVID-19 lockdowns, and speech about election integrity and security of voting by mail.” More importantly, these agencies stand accused of working with social media companies to suppress, “The Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 Presidential election.” If true, the government-directed censorship constitutes the most comprehensive interference in a domestic election in the history of the nation.
According to plaintiffs, the alleged government-sponsored tech censorship is ongoing. Plaintiffs filed a “Motion for Preliminary Injunction,” requesting an order prohibiting government defendants from, “taking steps to . . . encourage, pressure . . . any social-media company or platform to censor, suppress,” etc., “.
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The government has already been caught working with tech companies to censor criticism.
“We’ve heard it a thousand times: “The First Amendment doesn’t apply to private social media platforms.””
Rand Paul was such an IDIOT when he essentially said the same after being booted from Twitter (or one of the platforms). He had NO CLUE how censorship is done these days...perhaps now he’s learning.
Is the Pope pagan? Of course the government is directing it.
Gee, I don’t know.
Is Rachel Levine a man?
Does Lia Thomas have a penis?
Is Joe Biden a corrupt, demented, senile old liar?
Is the Government Directing Big Tech Censorship?
Does a dog bark, does the sun shine, is it dark at night?
Any fool knows the answer to that question.
Of course, the woke employees of these massive propaganda machines (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) don’t need a bunch of direction to do this, either.
It is like the telephone company censoring what you say in a conversation — isn’t it?
Barr is behind so much evil.
Wait a minute here... so Joe Biden really did spill the beans before the election? And he didn’t just mis-speak?
Well, well, well.... someone owes ol’ Sarcazmo an apology XD XD.
yes
Look, it's president Rock
President Rock looks a little like a potato and has about the same intelligence but that's ok.
We need to make it happen folks "ULTRA MAGA 2024" Then honest patriotic "ELECTED" Americans need to dig deep into this corrupt two-tiered filth that's been embedded in our government!
...AND we need to honestly get back to our Constitutional rights!
Does government run BigTech or does BigTech run government? Dunno, both seem a wholly owned subsidiary of Commie China.
.../Republicans. Because let's face it, the collection of narcissistic sociopaths running our government has barely a nodding acquaintance with the Constitution, regardless of what capital letter appears after their names.
There is no Red Team - just a few individuals brave enough to speak out from time to time.
NO. To direct indicates "they are forced to censure and propagandize." They are not forced. The media is WILLINGLY COMPLICENT in this. They are partners in a cabal of deceit.
Gobbels looking up from hell must be thinking, "if I had their media in 1939 we would have won the war!"
I thought it was pretty obvious.
Do bears...... oh never mind
Is Big Tech Directing Government?
Who’s picking the banjo, here?
Directing yes, but also learning from and financing. Why is google also in the cell phone business and mapping business. Why does musk have electric cars and rockets. Why does Spacex send up all those communication satellites as well as send rockets to the space station. These are government objectives that are not big tech as much as they are government objectives that big tech people have taken over. Government has people within those businesses, thousands of people. And they are using those businesses to expand the government objectives even though the businesses themselves spend a decade not making money. Government supports them in a way that they end up with a monopoly. Amazon was allowed to break taxing laws and pricing laws. Google and FB were allowed to break privacy laws. SpaceX is allowed to break huge amount of laws regarding satellites and rockets. These companies would not exist if not for a special/illegal relationship with the US government.
Is there really any thinking person not aware of the collision and cronyism between the state and the tech companies who even mettle in elections for their benefit? 🤪
Collusion
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