Posted on 07/04/2023 1:15:47 PM PDT by CFW
A federal judge has made a historic ruling by partially granting an injunction that blocks various Biden administration officials and government agencies like the Justice Department and the FBI from working with big tech firms to censor posts on social media.
The injunction came in response to a censorship-by-proxy lawsuit brought by attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, who have accused Biden administration officials and various government agencies of pressuring social media companies to suspend accounts or take down posts.
The judge, Terry A. Doughty, wrote in the July 4 judgment (pdf) that various government agencies, including the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are prohibited from taking a range of actions with regards to social media companies.
Specifically, the agencies and their staff members are prohibited from meeting or contacting by phone, email, text message or “engaging in any communication of any kind with social-media companies urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner for removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech,” per the injunction.
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Winning.
The Biden admin will just get someone from some other government entity not on the list to do it.
Appropriate timing indeed for the release of this ruling.
Exactly... Until they find another judge who authorizes the conduct due to a new “emergency”.
The day that these criminal alphabet agencies comply with this ruling is the day that Hunter stops doing Coke in the White House.
A Trump appointee. 😀
Happy Independence Day!
Here is a link to the judge’s order.
Wow. That’s huge.
Yes, a much shorter & sweeter ruling by the judge would’ve been NO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY, or person on behalf of such an agency may etc., etc...
Good! I hope through this court case we get more direction action than we are seeing from the Republicans in Congress about this matter
While this is good news, they will just do it under the table.
“Yes, a much shorter & sweeter ruling by the judge would’ve been NO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY, or person on behalf of such an agency may etc., etc...”
Read the Order at the link in my post #8. The judge covers quite a bit of ground in his list of who is enjoined from directing anyone to censor speech.
Whoa, this is a big deal!! The government cannot get private entities to commit acts that the government is Constitutionally prohibited from doing. It’s only common sense, but the Left figures if they can get away with it, they will.
“Whoa, this is a big deal!! The government cannot get private entities to commit acts that the government is Constitutionally prohibited from doing. It’s only common sense, but the Left figures if they can get away with it, they will.”
Yes, they will try to work around it but this Judge seems to be about fed up with their actions and their excuses. I don’t think he is above sanctions should they disobey his injunction. The Plaintiffs themselves may not care, but crooked or not, no attorney wants to be referred by a Judge to a State Bar disciplinary Board to answer why they did not impress upon their clients the need to obey the judges Order. The judge was very specific in the injunction.
I did. No person employed by a gov’t agency, or even an NGO, should be able to censor anyone else on any social media. Tolerating that is to throw away our 1st Amendment. I’m glad people are fighting back.
This is great! I hope it holds up on appeal.
Wonderful!! However, the National Security loophole allows Biden to claim mis-into is a threat to Democracy.
No doubt the fed is already shopping for a friendly appellate arrangement
"Doughty's nomination was confirmed on March 6, 2018 by a 98–0 vote. Doughty was rated "well qualified" by the American Bar Association."
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