Judge rules White House pressured social networks to “suppress free speech”
Judge rules White House pressured social networks to “suppress free speech”
Missouri and Louisiana sued Biden over attempts to limit COVID misinformation.
A federal judge yesterday ordered the Biden administration to halt a wide range of communications with social media companies, siding with Missouri and Louisiana in a lawsuit that alleges Biden and his administration violated the First Amendment by colluding with social networks "to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content."
This is about attempts to stop folks from spreading provably wrong info online that's killing people. It's like protecting the free speech of someone yelling "fire" in a crowded theater.
The headline is also overstated. Its a preliminary injunction and of course its from a Trump nominee.
But Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump nominee at US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, granted the plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction imposing limits on the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
But if the government can pressure platforms to remove provably false information that is actively killing people, it will have a chilling effect on my constitutional freedom to lie to people. Won't somebody please think of the grifters and anti-sciencers?
Was it antiscience to say covid originated in a lab in China?
Was it antiscience to say 2 weeks to flatten the curve was BS?
Was it antiscience to say cloth masks were ineffective?
Was it antiscience to question the long term efficacy of a drug that was not studied for the long term?
Was it antiscience to question the long term side effects of a drug that was not studied for the long term?
At one point or another every one of those questions was considered antiscience and is now begrudgingly accepted by the experts.