Defeat for biden and Victory for Free Speech

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   Readmikenowposted 9 months ago

   This is one step closer to having a fair presidential election process.
   
   A federal court just handed Biden's Ministry of Truth a big defeat
   Government bureaucracies and the Biden administration cannot be trusted
   
   In a landmark decision that should have all Americans cheering, a Louisiana federal court recently upheld their First Amendment right to speak without being censored by the government. Judge Terry Doughty said the case, Missouri v. Biden, "arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history."
   
   Judge Doughty issued a preliminary injunction forbidding numerous federal agencies, including the FBI, the Justice Department, and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as many individuals within the executive branch like White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, from communicating or meeting with: "[S]ocial-media companies for the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech posted on social-media platforms."
   
   The injunction bans the feds from working with outside groups such as the Stanford Internet Observatory that induce social-media companies to suppress and delete "protected free speech." And it even prevents the government from "notifying social-media companies to Be on The Lookout (‘BOLO’) for postings containing protected free speech."
   
   udge Doughty’s 155-page opinion has page after page after page detailing the extensive meetings, emails, and other communications between government officials badgering and threatening social-media executives to censor and close accounts. Platforms like Facebook were actually providing their government handlers with reports on how they were carrying out the government’s directed censorship.
   
   The FBI’s continued claim that it was only concerned with "disinformation" by foreign countries is directly contradicted by the evidence in the case. Judge Doughty concluded that the "FBI made no attempt to distinguish whether those reports of election disinformation were American or foreign." And it is obvious from the facts that the many government officials and agencies involved were only concerned with censoring any views, opinions, and claims – foreign or domestic – that disagreed with, or criticized their (and the government’s) political, social, and medical orthodoxy on multiple issues.
   
   They were engaging in viewpoint discrimination, a direct and blatant violation of the First Amendment, and according to Doughty, "virtually all of the free speech suppressed was ‘conservative’ free speech." While the First Amendment normally only applies to the government and not private parties like Twitter and Facebook, these social-media platforms essentially became agents of the government. Through them, the government used its "coercive power or exercised such significant encouragement that the private parties’ choice [to censor] must be deemed to be that of the government."
   
   https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/federal … big-defeat

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      Sharlee01posted 9 months agoin reply to this

      It has my cheering!  One more shovel of mud was thrown out of the swampy White House. We have a lot to do to clean out all the mud this administration has tried to bury our freedoms under. 
      
      So So pleased to see free speech alive and well...

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      Sharlee01posted 9 months agoin reply to this

      This is wonderful for Americans that value free speech.   One more shovel of mud to uncover what this administration has dumped on our Constitution.

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   Kathleen Cochranposted 9 months ago

   FOX News is a discredited source. Please provide another.

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      Readmikenowposted 9 months agoin reply to this

      No more discredited than NPR and Politico.

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         Kathleen Cochranposted 9 months agoin reply to this

         How much have those media outlets had to pay in defamation suits?

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            Readmikenowposted 9 months agoin reply to this

            That is not a definition of being discredited.
            
            Paying a lawsuit to not go forward is a business decision.
            
            The New York Times has been sued for defamation many times, yet liberals still think it is a publication.  They have paid millions to avoid going to court in defamation suits, that includes major networks like NBC and more.

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   Kathleen Cochranposted 9 months ago

   https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/1 … y-00106431

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      Sharlee01posted 9 months agoin reply to this

      Kathleen ---
      
      All of your articles are dated, and Mike has added the current judgment made on July 19, 2023
      
      July 19 --    "Judge Doughty issued a preliminary injunction forbidding numerous federal agencies, including the FBI, the Justice Department, and the Department of Homeland Security, as well as many individuals within the executive branch like White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, from communicating or meeting with: "[S]ocial-media companies for the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech posted on social-media platforms."

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   Kathleen Cochranposted 9 months ago

   https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/j … -companies

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   Kathleen Cochranposted 9 months ago

   https://www.npr.org/2023/07/15/11879233 … -companies

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      Readmikenowposted 9 months agoin reply to this

      So what?
      
      It's temporary and I hope it goes to the Supreme Court where it will be upheld.

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   abwilliamsposted 9 months ago

   I am among the many victims of this travesty. It has been beyond frustrating that so many Americans have ignored this or figured it was okay, because it was "free speech" that they didn't personally agree with!! To think that your right to speak freely is safe because someone else's is infringed...is asinine!

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   Readmikenowposted 9 months ago

   Why would anyone have a problem with this decision?
   
   It prevents the federal government from controlling and influencing the media.
   
   Are democrats so desperate to avoid the truth they have to control the media to avoid it?
   
   The FBI and DOJ are blatantly guilty of tampering with elections.
   
   Do democrats not understand how having the government unable to control and influence the media is a bad thing in a free society?

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