Federal Judge Blocks Biden Officials From Contacting Social Media Companies: Report | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Ryan Saavedra.

    A federal judge issued an injunction on Tuesday that bans numerous top Biden administration officials and agencies from communicating and meeting with social media companies.

    The injunction came in response to a lawsuit brought by two Republican attorneys general who "produced evidence of a massive effort by Defendants, from the White House to federal agencies, to suppress speech based on its content," said U.S. Judge Terry A. Doughty.

    Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), who filed the lawsuit against the lawsuit while he was still serving as Missouri's attorney general, responded to the news by calling it a "Big win for the First Amendment on this Independence Day."

    "White House officials, CDC & others are stopped cold. We need to continue the fight to take down the Vast Censorship Enterprise," he said. "Their view of 'misinformation' isn't an excuse to censor. This is the most important free speech case in a generation. Freedom is on the march."

    The lawsuit, filed by Missouri and Louisiana, accused the Biden administration of pushing social media companies to censor content related to the coronavirus pandemic. The states said in the lawsuit that the Biden administration's actions were "the most egregious violations of the First Amendment in the history of the United States of America."

    The judge, a Trump nominee, did allow for some exceptions for Biden officials to have contact with social media companies, including informing them of posts involving "criminal activity or criminal conspiracies," "national security threats, extortion, or other threats," and crimes related to U.S. elections.

poll#147

Do you consider Election Integrity an issue of some real importance, or just another conspiracy theory interfering with Democratic Socialist political hegemony?

  No, complete access to everyone voting, even in a willy nilly manner, is more important than getting it right by limiting access to those that would commit Voter Fraud.

  Yes, the most inalienable right of real citizens of this Democratic Republic is the Right to Vote, and that right shall remain sacrosanct for perpetuity.

  Again, I don't vote and I don't care.

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poll#128

Where do you stand on the wanton censorship by Big Tech Platforms, while retaining their Section 230 carveout indemnifying them for Slander /Defamation lawsuits and Copyright infringements?

  Big Tech Platforms have the right to Censor all speech providing they voluntarily relinquish their Section 230 Carveout.

  Big Tech Platforms DO NOT have the right to Censor any speech, while retaining multiple indemnifications by virtue of the Section 230 Carveout.

  I know nothing of this 230 talk, but "I do love me some social media".

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