White House Banned From Meeting Social Media Executives After “Massive” Effort to Censor Covid Jab Dissent
Joe Biden’s officials have been temporarily banned from meeting with social media company executives due to what the judge agreed appeared to be a “massive” effort to censor dissent on Covid vaccines. The Telegraph has more.
A judge backed claims that the U.S. President’s administration, including the White House, had engaged in a “massive” attempt to stop Americans questioning the efficacy of vaccines online.
The injunction came after it was revealed last month that U.K. ministers set up a Counter-Disinformation Unit, which was used to target lockdown critics and those questioning the mass vaccination of children.
The U.K. Government used an artificial intelligence firm to monitor social media sites and flag opposition to vaccine passports.
Prosecutors in the Republican states of Louisiana and Missouri brought the case and accused the federal Government of being involved in a “censorship enterprise“.
They claimed that the Biden administration violated the First Amendment by trying to block social media users exercising their right to free speech.
Thousands of communications between Government officials and technology companies during the pandemic have been collected and presented in the court case, which is known as Missouri v. Biden.
Judge Terry Doughty, who was appointed during the Donald Trump administration, issued an injunction which stops Mr. Biden’s officials talking to social media companies about “protected speech”.
In his ruling, the judge banned Government departments from contacting social 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”.
A final ruling in the case has yet to be made by the judge.
In the injunction, he said that the Attorneys General from Louisiana and Missouri had “produced evidence of a massive effort by defendants, from the White House to federal agencies, to suppress speech based on its content”.
Social media and other technology companies have in the past communicated regularly with the Government, including during elections and in the pandemic.
In his injunction, the judge said there could still be communication if the Government needed to issue warnings about a national security or criminal threat.
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The three kletter agencies will ignore this and it will be business as usual.
They don’t need to “make contact” – they are already on the inside.
Got to preserve the charade though, eh?
Absolutely.. safe and effective.. can’t have too many ‘died suddenly’ types cluttering the airwaves-morgues-streets..
If you can get past the ridiculous first sentence ( a lie I’ve seen debunked multiple times now ) this is quite an interesting article. It’s like they are trying their best to minimize the ill-effects of the jabs ( everything’s ”rare”, *much* rarer than if you’d got Covid ) whilst simultaneously conceding that there are some. Probably because the amount of vaxxed patients presenting to medics with health problems are now too great to sweep under the carpet so they reluctantly decided to study them. And god forbid they should give the ”anti-vaxxers” any more ammo! Yes, ”Long Vax” is now a thing; ”Another apparent complication, a debilitating suite of symptoms that resembles Long Covid, has been more elusive, its link to vaccination unclear and its diagnostic features ill-defined. But in recent months, what some call Long Vax has gained wider acceptance among doctors and scientists, and some are now working to better understand and treat its symptoms. “You see one or two patients and you wonder if it’s a coincidence,” says Anne Louise Oaklander, a neurologist and researcher at Harvard Medical School. “But by the time you’ve seen 10, 20,” she continues, trailing off. “Where there’s smoke, there’s… Read more »
The limited hangout I have heard is ‘It was only the AZ,but there is no increased risk with Pfizer and Moderna.’
Then I tell them about what I have seen personally, and that is criticised as anecdotal. Finally I agree and tell them to look at national data on incidences and ask if they have even asked about a potential link.
You’re in Australia aren’t you? So you’re presumably familiar with this Permanent Canberra and ACMA? This is off the charts censorship and spells an absolute nightmare for regular people! They *really* have got zero tolerance for sceptical people with dissenting views asking uncomfortable questions haven’t they? And that should make everybody’s alarm bells go off. This is a really good article about it and censorship more generally; ”Permanent Canberra is right now building a digital cage “for your safety”. They want to change the law so tech corporations censor you on behalf of the government’s broadcast regulator Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), which will set the rules. Ever had a strike on YouTube or a FaceBook suspension? You’ll be safe from ever having a “misinformed” thought again. The proposed legal changes will give ACMA sweeping powers to bring digital platform providers under their censorship framework. They will outsource censorship to the digital platforms so the government can dishonestly pretend that it is not the one ordering the censoring. It’s decentralised censorship. The Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023 will do this by enforcing “digital platform standards” and “industry codes” on “misinformation and disinformation” with fines. ACMA will get… Read more »
Interesting experience at a national medical meeting this week. For the last 2 years I have been regarded as the wild eyed lunatic regarding vaccine complications I have seen in clinics. This year nobody has criticised me and many have admitted seeing rises in new potential vaccine complications.
The tide is very slowly turning.
Good for you to stand tall, takes courage.
I get the bug eyed look when I tell people that viruses for the smallpox, HIV, polio and some other diseases don’t exist. But billions in profits for guv and pharma do exist, when they provide the quackcinations for the phantom viruses…the sheeple simply don’t get any of it. Jenner and Pasteur were both typical 19th c. quacks.
Interesting to see that a couple of states are taking the President to court over the issue. However if occurred to me that it could be that it’s the corporate entities that are pulling Biden and his club along, not the other way round.
That said, the legal battle between different governmental legs reminded me that there has recently been a case between a group of local authorities and the Mayor of London over the expanded ULEZ scheme. No judgment yet (I don’t think), so we’ll see how that works out. Using judges in an attempt to resolve political differences looks like becoming fashionable.
You waste your time responding to such crap which is the point. They measure everything. I would just be a bit more advised and considered when you decide what to respond to.
This is barely a “covid” issue – it is a Free Speech issue.
I definitely do not share the political or moral leanings of many in Big Tech but I will always defend their right to remove any content or user from their platforms they wish because property rights must be respected. The RIGHT to Free Speech itself, however, can only be curtailed by government and it is becoming impossible to deny that government is the force (with universities providing the “intellectual” justification) for throttling Free Speech. This could end up being the most important Free Speech development in living memory.