Zuckerberg’s admission of a pressure campaign lays bare the truth: the government colluded with Big Tech to violate Americans’ First Amendment right and the Supreme Court squandered an opportunity to right a wrong.
“We’ve reached a point where it’s just too many mistakes and too much censorship,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a video released Tuesday. He also acknowledged the unavoidable: “The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point toward once again prioritizing speech,” so Meta would “restore free expression on our platforms.”
Kennedy contends that Biden “is the first candidate in history, the first president in history that has used the federal agencies to censor political speech or censor his opponent.”
The case, Murthy v. Missouri, asks the justices to consider what a district court judge referenced as the Biden administration’s “Orwellian” efforts to suppress speech online.
Lawyers are being forced to defend their livelihoods before bar associations and ethics boards — not for obvious misconduct, but after opposing Democrats.
Google Maps removed directions to a Washington, D.C., pro-life pregnancy center and instead offered searchers options that included a local Planned Parenthood abortion clinic.
“NewsGuard is clearly in the business of censoring the truth,” noted Dr. Joseph Mercola, a gadfly voice whose website was ranked as misinformation by NewsGuard after it published reports about Covid-19’s potential origin from a lab in Wuhan, China.
‘More speech is being censored and suppressed by government actions than has ever been the case in the past,’ constitutional attorney Andrew Grossman says.
In his 155-page opinion, Judge Doughty wrote: ‘The US government seems to have assumed a role similar to that of an Orwellian “Ministry of Truth”. Viewpoint discrimination is an especially egregious form of content discrimination.’
In the memorandum accompanying his ruling, he stated that the plaintiffs were ‘likely to succeed on the merits in establishing the government used its power to silence the opposition’.
In each of the four letters Cruz, the ranking member of the CST committee, cited each of the platforms’ use of proprietary algorithms that determine what kind of content does and does not make it to a user’s social media feed.
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