Daily Stormer The Most Censored Publication in History
You are aware, dear reader, that I am ever the pessimist.
I would never have expected the Twitter Files to result in a judge issuing an injunction against Biden.
I assume it will be quickly overruled by some other judge, but it is nonetheless quite a heavy blow to the authority of the Democrat Party to act with total impunity.
In theory, this also changes the entire way that internet speech is viewed. We’d been hearing a libertarian argument from the Democrats for years and years – they claimed that mega corporations are protected from any kind of political regulation (while small cake shops are forced to make anal cakes at the point of a gun).
Apparently, conservative legal institutions are no longer willing to tolerate this privatization of the First Amendment.
A federal judge restricted Biden administration officials and agencies from communicating with social media companies on content moderation in a preliminary injunction Tuesday.
The decision in an ongoing lawsuit from Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, who allege the Biden administration’s efforts to encourage social media companies to crack down on COVID disinformation and other matters is “sprawling federal ‘Censorship Enterprise,'” could have major First Amendment implications.
The attorneys general in court filings accuse the Biden administration of “the most egregious violations of the First Amendment in the history of the United States of America” through its communications with companies including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
That’s simply a fact.
No one can think of anything that even begins to compare to this.
Although he has yet to produce a final ruling in the case, U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty in Louisiana said in the injunction Tuesday the attorneys general “have produced evidence of a massive effort by Defendants, from the White House to federal agencies, to suppress speech based on its content.”
The Trump-appointed judge consequently blocked certain officials from calling, emailing, sending letters or text or meeting with social media firms “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” online.
Officials affected by this ruling include Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, along with Department of Justice and FBI employees.
“During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterized by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth,” Doughty wrote.
Doughty said the evidence produced thus far depicts an “almost dystopian” scenario.
“This targeted suppression of conservative ideas is a perfect example of viewpoint discrimination of political speech,” he said. “American citizens have the right to engage in free debate about the significant issues affecting the country.”
A White House official said in a statement to media the DOJ is reviewing the injunction and will evaluate its options.
The craziest thing I’ve read today was the New York Times article on this story. It is hardcore psycho. The New York Times is psycho about everything now, and completely shameless, but seeing the arguments for this censorship by the Biden Administration argued – in the context of a supposed news story – came across as total satire of Orwellian state media.
The “disinformation” narrative is just so weak, as it necessarily demands that the believer accept that everyone in America is a little child who can’t make their own decisions and must therefore have what they see and hear curated for them by the state. To believe something this nutty, you also have to be willing to believe that it is impossible for someone making that argument to have anything other than the purest of intentions. Basically, the only people who would believe this “disinformation” narrative are people who are comfortable being talked to by the New York Times as if they are little babies.
The average Times reader may be happy to hear that the government is protecting them from having their minds warped by the lies of random people on the internet, and may be concerned that a judge is saying they will have to decide for themselves what is real and what isn’t. But that sort of mindset still, after all this, does not represent the average American.
I would be surprised if you could get even 15% support for these “disinformation” government censorship programs.
It is possible that something could change before the next election, and they wouldn’t be able to bury the evidence of fraud like they did in 2020. I did not expect it this soon, but it really does look like the Democrat grip is slipping.
Good on Elon for blowing this whole thing open.
