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Missouri v Biden is a significant civil liberties case challenging government collusion with social media companies to limit free speech. The judge ruled against the Biden Administration's attempt to avoid depositions of high-level officials. Transcripts of FBI Agent Elvis Chan and Anthony Fauci were produced. The judge ordered written interrogatories and discovery, emphasizing that suitable replacements were not available for certain officials. Depositions of Jen Psaki and others were approved. The case has uncovered unprecedented information on censorship. The judge rejected the motion to dismiss and warned of potential trial and further discovery. The 5th circuit placed a temporary stay on the injunction. Amicus briefs were filed by both Democrat and Republican states. Analysis of the 5th circuit decision is ongoing.

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THREAD: Missouri v. Biden To get back up to speed on the case as we have covered it at @UncoverDC, I will provide 3 links for you. I will begin this thread with the latest in the case and if you want more details you can read: 1. https://www.uncoverdc.com/2022/10/23/bombshell-court-order-outlines-proven-government-big-tech-censorship/

Bombshell Court Order Outlines Proven Government/Big Tech Censorship - UncoverDC Americans worried about the government conspiring with social media companies to censor their speech aren’t conspiracy theorists. It’s been proven. Just this past Friday, what appears to be one of the only honest judges left in America ordered several key figures to sit for depositions in a court case brought against the Federal Government by […] uncoverdc.com

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2. https://www.uncoverdc.com/2022/11/03/missouri-v-biden-judge-smacks-down-government-attempt-to-avoid-deposition/

Missouri v. Biden: Judge Smacks Down Government Attempt to Avoid Deposition - UncoverDC The Missouri v. Biden case will go down in history as one of the most important civil liberties cases ever tried in a United States court. uncoverdc.com

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3. https://www.uncoverdc.com/2022/12/05/the-twitter-files-are-peanuts-new-filing-in-missouri-v-biden/

The “Twitter Files” Are Peanuts: New Filing in Missouri v. Biden - UncoverDC With the release of the "Twitter Files" on Friday evening, our ongoing coverage of the Missouri v. Biden case is all the more prescient.... uncoverdc.com

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The Missouri v. Biden case is the most important civil liberties case we have seen in years, and may be the most important ever. The case is brought by Missouri and Louisiana, along with other individual plaintiffs. It asks the court to bar the government from colluding…

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..with social media companies to limit free speech. Recently, the judge entered a ruling on motions before him. The Biden Administration had appealed to a 3 judge panel at the 5th circuit to either bar the lower court from forcing the depositions of high level officials he had..

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..granted, or make them depose less senior officials. The 5th circuit declined to bar the judge from doing anything, instead asking him to revisit the potential of less obstructive means of obtaining the information needed.

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The transcripts of Elvis Chan (FBI Agent who visited Meta about the laptop) and Anthony Fauci were produced from depositions in this case. You can read those here in case you haven’t. Chan: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23379650/elvis-chan-deposition.pdf Fauci: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/61910a2d98732d54b73ef8fc/t/638e558a9eeae74b040688c6/1670272399105/135885afauci112322_full_redacted.pdf

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The judge in LA asked the Plaintiffs to brief him again on whether there were other people who could answer the Plaintiffs questions to prove their case for a temporary injunction, and asked the Defendants to respond. The Plaintiff response is what I was threading last night.

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It is linked above. The defendants told the judge that he should pause all of this while their motion to dismiss the case was on the table. The defendants want all of this discovery and deposition to stop and don’t want to have to answer to anyone. The judge isn’t having it.

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What follows now is a breakdown of his order, filed recently. As an aside, I broke out the Jen Psaki piece of this, even going so far as to read the transcript from HER judge shopping expedition in Virginia court. They really don’t want her deposed.

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As usual, in any filing or order, you get a brief summary of “what is this about and why are we here?” It makes it easy to understand what the parties are arguing at that particular time, and why.

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The judge discusses the criteria he is using to make his decision. The higher court has asked for the lower court to analyze whether the Plaintiffs can get the information from “less intrusive, alternative means” and evaluate again whether all should be paused as they wait..

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..for a ruling on the motion to dismiss in the case. The last brief by the Plaintiffs offered up some alternatives for the people they initially sought. Keep in mind, Psaki is no longer the head of anything.

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This is the judge saying: “I already ruled on this, but we have to do this again because the higher court said so”

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Rob Flaherty: One of the criteria you need to meet to be able to depose high-level government officials is “exceptional circumstances.” Flaherty was recently added to the case after expedited discovery revealed his involvement.

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In their brief, the Plaintiffs argued that the replacement being offered up instead of Flaherty (Slavitt) wouldn’t be sufficient because he didn’t attend all of the meetings Flaherty did. In their brief, the defendants argued “exceptional circumstances” didn’t exist. Bad move.

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The judge orders that no suitable replacement is available for Flaherty, but that they will start with written interrogatory and discovery in the form of document requests. The judge lays out a timeline for this. Understand, this is a very big deal.

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The judge also addresses what will happen if the defendants pull some nonsense in written response, something the Plaintiffs also addressed. This judge ain’t having it.

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This is the warning. “If you don’t respond correctly, Flaherty will be sitting down for a verbal deposition, under oath”

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Jen Easterly: The judge asserts there is no reason to depose Easterly ,and he has gone through why, but also decides that Scully is a suitable replacement. I actually agree, FWIW. They will go to Easterly for anything they can’t get from him, and he was involved EVERYWHERE.

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Also, please note that the judge reaffirms “Cognitive Infrastructure.” We learned earlier in the suit that CISA has designated YOUR THOUGHTS as part of it’s critical infrastructure, and therefore they can regulate that the same way they would regulate other things.

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Vivek Murthy: Murthy was one the Plaintiffs really harped on, but the judge went with his underling. Again, if they don’t get anything from the underling, Waldo, they will go back for Murthy. Waldo is the biggest fish in his office with involvement here.

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Murthy had responded in written form, and defendants argue no deposition is needed from anyone there because his responses were good enough. The judge doesn’t agree with that either, but I am considering this one a loss for now. They really needed Murthy.

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I also need to add here, this judge is basically under the watchful eye of the 5th circuit right now- a higher court. It would’ve been easy for him to just side with the Defendant arguments, not granting any further discovery because of the alleged “harm” it caused the government

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Even with a gazillion other courts breathing down his back, he is doing the right thing. In analyzing the judges decision, I suppose he is thinking that by allowing the depo of a lower official, with options for more later, he is circumventing the 5th circuit stepping in (cont)

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And ruling over him on the pending mandamus (it originates on these deposition appeals.) He is throwing the higher court a bone while also allowing the Plaintiffs all the leverage and leeway they need to make the depositions they want.

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Jen Psaki: This is something. Psaki was originally a dependent, but left the government. Then, the WH said they knew nothing about anything Psaki said and couldn’t return any responsive documents during expedited discovery. The judge ordered her deposed.

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Psaki didn’t like that, so she started fighting it, with the government helping her. However, the government maintained that there is no replacement for Psaki. They are saying no one knows what she was saying and why. That’s their argument.

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Jen Psaki will be deposed. And it is the Biden Administrations fault. READ: https://www.uncoverdc.com/2022/11/28/judge-in-va-takes-rhee-to-task-on-psaki-deposition-in-censorship-case/

Judge in VA Takes Rhee to Task on Psaki Deposition in Censorship Case - UncoverDC Tracy provides commentary and an overview of the State of Missouri vs. Biden Case.  This is a brief update and reading of the deposition. uncoverdc.com

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One of the biggest worries for people on the side of actual justice, is that the courts seem to grant motions to dismiss on cases that really need to be adjudicated, especially when it comes to big-tech and censorship. I think this judge is going to see this case through.

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He basically tells the defendants here that their motion to dismiss is bunk, while scolding them about the time they took to file it and the fact that they asked a higher court to force him to halt discover for a motion to dismiss that HADN’T EVEN BEEN FILED YET:

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He also reminds everyone that this discovery is ONLY so he can rile on the temporary injunction and that since the plaintiffs do have standing, (a central argument of the motion to dismiss,) they may move to trial where MORE deposition and discovery will be necessary.

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I have followed this case since it has filed. It has been unprecedented in what it has uncovered. The @elonmusk Twitter Files, covered by @mtaibbi @bariweiss and @ShellenbergerMD have been icing on a cake for it; most of this will also probably come out in discovery.

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The argument folks always put forth (and the government does as well) is, “Well sure, as the government we were making SUGGESTIONS about censorship, but we weren’t FORCING them to do it” Hogwash. Psaki made statements from the podium threatening anti-trust and also 230 (cont)

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..penalty should social media companies not ban who the government identified. More, in released discovery we learned the “Disinformation Governance Board” was a way for CISA to organize their ALREADY IN MOTION censorship “help desk” <more>

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The highlighting of the Hobbs email was part of this, and came from discovery here. People would send in “tickets” and CISA, in partnership with NGO’s and other Non Profits, used YOUR TAX dollars to run a censorship “help desk.” However, they needed more organization and funding

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The disinformation governance board was a way for them to centralize what they were already doing, and continue to do.

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One more - I neglected the link to the docket. Thank you @bocamarla for reminding me: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63290154/missouri-v-biden/

Missouri v. Biden, 3:22-cv-01213 - CourtListener.com Docket for Missouri v. Biden, 3:22-cv-01213 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information. courtlistener.com

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I’ll add to this whenever I do some new work.

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Thread on released discovery of Rob Flaherty, with a cameo by the office of Jill Biden. Yes, you read that right.

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A thread on filings by the government and the Plaintiffs regarding Flaherty discovery and Psaki depositions:

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Order entered on Psaki- briefing schedule set.

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New- motion to compel discovery from CISA. More employees identified in having participated in censorship.

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Plaintiffs file to amend complaint to be class action:

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Government files notice of terminations and replacements - why is it important? Read:

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Judge GRANTS motion to amend complaint to class action:

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Mega thread before the Missouri v. Biden hearing- still in progress as of 5/23/23:

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Rob Flaherty is no longer working in the Biden admin.

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The government filed another motion to dismiss based on two SCOTUS rulings. The judge issued a minute entry setting rapid deadlines for reply given the impending decision on the temporary injunction to stop government from colluding with social media companies to censor (including with NGO’s.) In their reply, Plaintiffs were able to enter into the record the weaponization committee report on the weaponization of CISA (read it - link below) Response to motion: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.291.0.pdf Weaponization: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.291.2.pdf

Response (NOT Motions) – #291 in Missouri v. Biden (W.D. La., 3:22-cv-01213) – CourtListener.com RESPONSE to Defendants' Notice of Supplemental Authority Regarding Recent Supreme Court Decisions by Jayanta Bhattacharya, Jill Hines, Jim Hoft, Aaron Kheriaty, Martin Kulldorff, State of Louisiana, State of Missouri re 289 Notice (Other),,,,,, . (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A - Slip Opinion, # 2 Exhibit B - Subcommittee Report)(aty,Sauer, Dean) (Entered: 06/28/2023) courtlistener.com
Exhibit B - Subcommittee Report – #291, Att. #2 in Missouri v. Biden (W.D. La., 3:22-cv-01213) – CourtListener.com RESPONSE to Defendants' Notice of Supplemental Authority Regarding Recent Supreme Court Decisions by Jayanta Bhattacharya, Jill Hines, Jim Hoft, Aaron Kheriaty, Martin Kulldorff, State of Louisiana, State of Missouri re 289 Notice (Other),,,,,, . (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit A - Slip Opinion, # 2 Exhibit B - Subcommittee Report)(aty,Sauer, Dean) (Entered: 06/28/2023) courtlistener.com

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New: Government appeals temporary injunction-

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Thread on ruling for temporary injunction:

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Thread on Motion to Stay injunction:

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Plaintiffs file memorandum in opposition to stay on injunction

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MOTION TO STAY DENIED.

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Memorandum Ruling Denying the motion to stay the temporary injunction

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Appeal of Injunction filed at 5th circuit.

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Appellate court places a stay on the temporary injunction until oral arguments can be heard in an expedited fashion.

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There’s dispute on briefing and discovery schedule between parties:

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Democrat states file amicus brief in favor of censorship:

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7 republican states file briefs in support of temporary injunction.

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Renee DiResta and Alex Stamos file amicus in favor of the government censorship

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Analysis on 5th circuit decision on the Temporary Injunction…

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reSee.it AI Summary
The relationship between social media platforms and government agencies has come under scrutiny in recent times, as highlighted in the US Congress Oversight Committee hearing on TwitterFiles. The private censorship of public discourse has become increasingly aggressive, leading to a fake consensus and the silencing of differing opinions. This raises questions about who should have the power to regulate speech and how to prevent abuse of that power. The Supreme Court is set to decide on the boundaries of this complicated issue, which affects our lives to the core. Meanwhile, Twitter's recent amnesty for suspended accounts, including that of former President Trump, has raised concerns about the platform's motives. On the other hand, Google's search engine is exercising preventive control over content, while Israel's Ministry of Communications has adopted recommendations for regulating social networks with over 500,000 active users. The committee recommends legal responsibility for platform operators in relation to offensive, illegal content, requiring platforms to operate an online hotline for reporting and handling. However, this comes after legislation that harms individual freedoms and privacy in the post-Covid era, highlighting the dangers of discourse rulers. It is important to strike a balance between regulating harmful content and protecting individual freedoms and privacy. The issue of content control is complex and requires careful consideration to ensure that it does not lead to the suppression of free speech. As we await the Supreme Court's decision, it is crucial that we continue to engage in open and honest discourse on this issue.

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🧵 1/ Rulers of Public Discourse: On February 8, former Twitter excts were called to testify before members of the Congress’s Oversight Committee regarding the #TwitterFiles. A review of the hearing and the dramatic recent legal developments of internet governance >

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2/ Before I get to Congress - let's set a frame for this discussion: ‘The Control of Content’- who and how should control the content of the public discourse, should there be such control at all? - this question has been sharpened during the unprecedented Covid censorship >

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3/ In these years, the social networks went through an accelerated process from careful and very reserved control of how positions and opinions are expressed (censorship of incitement and calls for violence) to aggressive and shameless control of the positions themselves >

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4/ eventually creating a centrally coerced truth and false that allowed those in control of the content to determine WHAT is allowed to be said or expressed - leading the public discourse into a fake “consensus”. >

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5/ I have been following this process very closely, first on Facebook - where the censorship rules changed blatantly and quickly, then on Twitter after the unprecedented and unreasonable action of suspending the account of a sitting president - Trump >

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6/ I’ve been researching Internet law in recent years and I followed closely and with great concern the rapid and dramatic changes in the private governance policy of social networks. During the Covid years I noticed a very clear change in their governance policy >

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7/ It became clearer and clearer that the social networks are no longer managed in a way that preserves and protects the liberties of their users from governments and other seekers of this content control - but - >

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8/ Never have I imagined how close and routine their relationship with the government administration was, all for the purpose of monitoring the individual, censoring the discourse into a uniform narrative and using the networks as a GLOBAL and "private" platform - >

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9/ to create a covert global content control that governments were NOT (then) allowed to carry out within the framework of the constitutions and the brakes applied to them to protect basic rights and important democratic principles. So this was a constitutional bypass. >

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10/Simply put: the public sector has let the private corporations be the free "liberator" of democracy- so that we all depend on it for the maintenance of discourse- and thus the liberator can become an effective prison, to be then used- by those government agencies. >

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11/ The complexity of the issue of monitoring/regulating/controlling the discourse has always been around the dilemma - how do we do no harm? How do you do it solely to keep this space as authentic and safe and not to select and filter preferred opinions and silence others, >

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12/ and also - who can actually be the person that will have this enormous power and not abuse it? who will monitor this person against misuse of power? - Do we prefer private governance or public governance? Or maybe non at all? >

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13/ This increased censorship policy on social networks and the absolute abuse of power came into light with the reveal of #TwitterFiles and the public debate that followed (following this also- the recent events that happened in the @Project_Veritas - see attached tweet) >

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14/ Back to the US Congress’s Oversight Committee’s hearing regarding the #TwitterFiles 4 ex Twitter employees, invited to testify: Jim Baker, Vijaya Gadde, Yoel Roth, Anika Collier Navaroli Who are they? >

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15/ Jim Baker- fmr FBI lawyer,served as Twitter Deputy General Counsel Vijaya Gadde- an attorney, former general counsel & Head of legal, policy, and trust at Twitter. Yoel Roth- former Global Head of Trust & Safety at Twitter. Anika Collier Navaroli- Twitter Whistleblower >

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16/ The hearing was titled ”Protecting Speech from Government Interference and Social Media Bias, Part 1: Twitter’s Role in Suppressing the Biden Laptop Story.” It was set up for a discussion on the censorship case of Biden Jr.’s computer, but - >

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17/ Inevitably it dealt with the censorship on Twitter in general, including the censorship of scientists, doctors, politicians - and thus a broader picture of control of content and public discourse was revealed. Let’s review the hearing first >

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18/ Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) argued that the entire discussion is a misuse of public resources, But imagine she was censored for that argument- across all social platforms, is it still a waste of time do discuss the abuse of censorship powers? The hearing begins >

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19/ Here are the claims against former these ex Twitter employees - @RepClayHiggins: Claim #1 Content governance interfered with the 2020 US presidential elections, knowingly and willingly. Higgins announces his intention to collect evidence from them leading to arrests >

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20/ @laurenboebert: Claim #2 - Twitter governance silenced Members of Congress from communicating with their constituents, in this case with “an aggressive visibility filter” (shadow ban) because of one tweet on Hilarity Clinton “Who the hell do you think that you are?” >

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21/ To complete the picture, this is the tweet that got @laurenboebert shadow banned: >

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22/ @RepMTG : Claim #3 - Twitter Content governance censored congress members’s tweets - with critical views on vaccines, masks, etc.- but pedophile accounts were not taken down or censored: >

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23/ @RepJamesComer - Claim #4: Twitter previously lied to Congress. And - “Twitter under the leadership of our witnesses today was a private company the federal government used to accomplish what it constitutionally cannot — limit the free exercise of speech”

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24/ @RepNancyMace : Claim #5 - Twitter Content governance also censored and silenced an important, substantive and professional criticism of government Covid policy - and cost lives: >

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25/ Here @DrJBhattacharya explains how he found out he was "blacklisted" on Twitter from the first day he entered the platform: >

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26/ Freedom of speech is protected under the 1st amendment of the US constitution, so, How could Twitter (and other platforms) do all that and get away with it? Are they really more powerful than everyone else? Who in Twitter has that power? Well, >

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27/ Let’s go back to Jim Baker for a second. Baker claimed in the hearing that he ‘did not act unlawfully or otherwise inappropriately with respect to the Biden laptop’ affair (an affair which the members refer to as criminal interference in the US elections) >

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28/ “I’ve acted in a way consistent with the First Amendment. As a private entity, The First Amendment protects Twitter and its content moderation decision.” Says Baker, a former FBI lawyer, that served as Twitter Deputy General Counsel >

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29/⚖️ This absurd argument of using the freedom of speech amendment to allow private corporations to censor speech- is argued now by NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (which both represent Facebook, Google, Twitter) in recent legal developments. >

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30/ The representative groups say the First Amendment prohibits viewpoint-based laws that restrict websites’ editorial choices. 👉🏻 The federal court wasn’t convinced when ruling in the case of the anti-censorship new Lee in Texas: https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/21/21-51178-CV1.pdf >

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31/ This interesting legal issue arose when two states (Texas, Florida) enacted anti-censorship laws that prevent platforms from filtering content - following the suspension of Trump's Twitter account and other censorship events. This issue was brought to the Supreme Court. >

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32/ Two other cases were recently brought to the Supreme Court the question whether platforms should have a complete immunity from publishers responsibility to published content and/or to censorship of content, as a non-publisher under section 230 to the DCA

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33/ So, on one hand the platform seek constitutional protection as a private editor of speech, and on the other hand - they seek ‘complete immunity from liability’ under Section 230 to the DCA (1996) - as a “non publisher” >

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34/ But it gets worse. The private censor did not act with independent judgment but in coordination and conspiring with government agencies - against citizens. >

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35/ On February 1 - @RepDanBishop explained how government agencies have used Twitter to spy on US citizens. ‘Bad enough if it was just the FBI but it was also intelligence agencies that should be directing their attention abroad’ based on the #TwitterFiles >

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36/ On the February 8 hearing- 🚨 @RepLuna exposes 👉🏻 Jira a private cloud server that used Twitter to secretly communicate with the government >

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37/ “The law allows governments to have complex, multi-faceted relationships with the private sector. When done properly, these interactions can be of interest to the company and the general interest of the public.” Says Baker on the February 8th hearing: >

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38/ Was Twitter really a private company (Dr facto)? It is a vital and complicated question- whether a private company can censor the public discourse in such manner (I’ll get back to that) but can Twitter still argue the private company protection? >

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39/ Let’s go back to Jim Baker - FBI lawyer that served as Twitter Deputy General Counsel - who is he? And is this just anecdotal? >

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40/ Was Baker the only Twitter employee who previously worked for the FBI? - Apparently there were many. Here’s a review: What can we conclude from that? >

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41/ Can there really be a private censor with such power? Can it stay independent as a private entity, free from governments? We saw on the #TwitterFiles that the government agencies used the private sector as a shield from the constitution. Can we stop this from happening? >

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42/ Maybe the problem is the excessive power that those entities (private and public) have when they conspire TOGETHER? Listen to this clip from a follow up discussion on the #TwitterFiles and the dangerous relationship between the private platforms and the administration >

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43/ Can there really be a “Safe & Effective” separation between the private sector power and the public sector power? Listen👇🏻 >

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44/ The SECRET relationship between Twitter executives and the government administration and agencies led to them being high on power >

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45/ “colluded to shape and mold the narrative” @Jim_Jordan >

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46/ #TwitterFiles uncovered that Biden Admin officials colluded with Big Tech companies to silence differing opinions during the pandemic. But also - the dangerous potential in such power and in internet content moderation in general >

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47/ Did those particular people fail or did the whole mechanism fail? Is it possible for the public to find out and judge the content completely on its own? And if not, is there a mechanism less at risk of abuse of power? >

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48/ ⚖️ The U.S. Supreme Court will have to decide soon on the boundaries of this complicated issue that affects our lives to the core. The court recently delayed its decision and asked the Biden administration for its views on the controversial laws in the meantime. >

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49/ If the court takes the cases up, it likely won’t be until the next term, and a decision wouldn’t come until 2024, which coincides with the next presidential election. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-texas-el-paso/news/2023/01/24/supreme-court-delays-decision-on-hearing-texas--florida-social-media-moderation-cases >

Supreme Court delays decision on hearing Texas, Florida social media cases High court requested the Biden administration's views. spectrumlocalnews.com

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50/ 👉🏻 The Supreme Court’s move came as new Twitter owner Elon Musk has granted “amnesty” to many suspended accounts, including Trump’s. Could this be the reason for restoring those accounts? Prevention of a problematic ruling? Or is it simply to make us depend on it again? >

@GalG____ - Gal.G, Adv 🇮🇱

51/ ⚖️ On February 21, 2023 there will be a hearing at the US Supreme Court in the case of the lawsuit filed by the Gonzalez family against Google, which will examine the protections granted to networks under Article 230. https://www.reuters.com/legal/supreme-court-scrutinize-us-protections-social-media-2022-10-03/ >

Supreme Court to scrutinize U.S. protections for social media The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to federal protections for internet and social media companies freeing them of responsibility for content posted by users in a case involving an American student fatally shot in a 2015 rampage by Islamist militants in Paris. reuters.com

@GalG____ - Gal.G, Adv 🇮🇱

52/ 🇩🇪 Meanwhile, in December 2022 - a German court ruled that Twitter should remove offensive tweets •BEFORE• they are reported - That means they have an even greater responsibility, for active censorship > https://t.co/dxQCjjERDB

@GalG____ - Gal.G, Adv 🇮🇱

53/ Another thing is happening at the same time - Google's search engine is exercising ׳preventive control׳ over the contents in advance )like a vaccine 😂) This is how it looks like to cultivate habits of chilling discourse and self-censorship. > https://t.co/Gx9DFwVMBP

@GalG____ - Gal.G, Adv 🇮🇱

54/ 🇮🇱 Last but not least- Israel’s internet governance The Ministry of Communications recently adopts the recommendations of the committee for regulating the social networks operating in Israel. >

@GalG____ - Gal.G, Adv 🇮🇱

55/ The main recommendations of the committee: applying regulation to platforms with over 500,000 active users in Israel (5% of the country's population), determining legal responsibility of the platform operators in relation to clearly offensive illegal content >

@GalG____ - Gal.G, Adv 🇮🇱

56/ requiring the platforms to operate an online HOTLINE for reporting illegal and offensive content and handling In these reports, the duty of transparency and more. >

@GalG____ - Gal.G, Adv 🇮🇱

57/ It would’ve sounded wonderful if it hadn’t come at the end of a tsunami of legislation that seriously harms individual freedoms and especially their privacy, in the post-Covid era, And if we weren't painfully aware now of the dangers of having “discourse rulers”

Saved - February 19, 2023 at 5:03 AM
reSee.it AI Summary
Section 230 is under scrutiny before the Supreme Court. Conservatives want it gutted, claiming Big Tech censors content based on political ideology. However, Section 230 protects free speech and enables online platforms to exist. If it's changed, marginalized groups could lose their voices. Literally every online platform that allows users to post information, share content, and comment relies on Section 230. It's essential to understand its impact.

@VegasVisions - News Views - Retired Hack Reporter ™

1/ 🧵 Democrats need to understand the 26 words that created the internet as we know it - Section 230 before the Supreme Court next week. There’s a reason GQP Sen. Josh Hawley wants it gutted. There’s a reason (D) Sen. @RonWyden wrote it. Let’s break it down. It protects YOU.

@VegasVisions - News Views - Retired Hack Reporter ™

2/ “We're talking about rewriting the legal rules that govern the fundamental architecture of the internet," - @EFF — Conservatives are using the case as a vehicle to rail against "Big Tech" firms & amplify claims ..platforms censor content based on political ideology.” - CBS

@VegasVisions - News Views - Retired Hack Reporter ™

3/ It fact, it does just the opposite of what Hawley claims, who has taken several shots at the First Amendment and free speech, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-section-230-social-media-google-v-gonzalez/

Supreme Court to hear case that could reshape the "fundamental architecture" of the internet The Supreme Court will for the first time consider the scope of Section 230, which provides legal immunity to online companies for content posted by third parties. cbsnews.com

@VegasVisions - News Views - Retired Hack Reporter ™

4/ This is not Elon’s version of free speech. Algorithms are necessary, and so is Section 230. https://reason.com/2023/01/13/googles-brief-to-the-supreme-court-explains-why-we-need-section-230/ via @reason

Google's brief to the Supreme Court explains why we need Section 230 'Gonzalez v. Google' seeks to strip Google of protections from civil liability for third-party content under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. reason.com

@VegasVisions - News Views - Retired Hack Reporter ™

5/ A thread here. 1/3 It does nothing to reign in Big Tech. It leads to censorship of YOU.

@VegasVisions - News Views - Retired Hack Reporter ™

6/ @ACLU “ … it will drive platforms both to censor lawful content & also to feature speech of little interest or value to users, including voter suppression material, disinformation and hate speech, contrary to the goals …”https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-warns-harm-free-speech-online-if-supreme-court-dismantles-section-230

ACLU Warns of Harm to Free Speech Online if Supreme Court Dismantles Section 230 | American Civil Liberties Union aclu.org

@VegasVisions - News Views - Retired Hack Reporter ™

7/ Sen. Ron Wyden’s filed an amicus brief also https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sen-wyden-and-former-rep-cox-urge-supreme-court-to-uphold-precedent-on-section-230

Sen. Wyden and former Rep. Cox Urge Supreme Court To Uphold Precedent on Section 230 | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon wyden.senate.gov

@VegasVisions - News Views - Retired Hack Reporter ™

8/ I wrote this law to protect free speech. Now Trump wants to revoke it. By Ron Wyden for CNN Business Perspectives https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/09/perspectives/ron-wyden-section-230

I wrote this law to protect free speech. Now Trump wants to revoke it | CNN Business Protecting Section 230 is crucial to defending free speech online, especially by those without power and influence, such as the protesters against police violence, writes Ron Wyden, a senator from Oregon. cnn.com

@VegasVisions - News Views - Retired Hack Reporter ™

9/ The impact on online communities could be especially profound for marginalized groups.” - ACLU Like blogging or writing on Patreon, Reddit, substacks, YouTube? Like blogging on LGBTQ, abortion rights, even political speech? Gone if 230 is changed. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/01/30/the-supreme-court-could-change-free-speech-on-the-internet.html

How the Supreme Court could soon change free speech on the internet In 2023, the U.S. justice system, including the Supreme Court, will take on cases that will help determine the bounds of free expression on the internet. cnbc.com

@VegasVisions - News Views - Retired Hack Reporter ™

10/ @EFF Warns Supreme Court That Users’ Speech is at Stake When Increasing Platforms’ Liability https://www.eff.org/press/releases/ff-warns-supreme-court-users-speech-stake-when-increasing-platforms-liability via @eff

EFF Warns Supreme Court That Users’ Speech is at Stake When Increasing Platforms’ Liability SAN FRANCISCO – Increasing online platforms’ liability for hosting their users’ speech would lead to severe censorship that could undermine the very architecture of the free and open internet, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argued to the U.S. Supreme Court in a brief filed Thursday. EFF... eff.org

@VegasVisions - News Views - Retired Hack Reporter ™

11/ The 26 words. See where it says “and user?” https://t.co/csrfDU6SzR

@VegasVisions - News Views - Retired Hack Reporter ™

12/ “Section 230 effects social media, blogs, image sharing, forums and comment sections — any service that enables users to submit content. Literally every online platform that allows users to post information, share content, and comment relies on Section 230. - @EFF

@VegasVisions - News Views - Retired Hack Reporter ™

13/ Another thread 🧵 https://t.co/pCscT1nZgz

@VegasVisions - News Views - Retired Hack Reporter ™

14/ Tim Pool supports is repeal, too. 🧵⬇️ (thread) https://t.co/oAjgjFGw4I

@VegasVisions - News Views - Retired Hack Reporter ™

15/ This conservative won’t be able to talk about God. Platforms are then liable for his speech. He doesn’t understand. https://t.co/vxGZix04bz 1/2 https://t.co/jMvVMBTlyk

@VegasVisions - News Views - Retired Hack Reporter ™

16/ There’s a lot more to add, but that a lot to consume for today. I really want Team Blue to understand this and read it. It will effect everyone if overturned. The 9th Circuit upheld it. Judge Clarence Thomas called it up for review. (End)

Saved - August 4, 2023 at 12:27 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
RFK Jr speaks out against House Democrats' attempt to silence him. Historic Missouri v Biden ruling reveals evidence of government suppressing free speech. The US government plans to monitor and censor citizens' online speech. Trade Commission's retaliation against Twitter highlights Biden admin's violation of the First Amendment. Government's attack on free speech is unprecedented.

@TruthUnitesUs - TruthUnitesUs

RFK Jr finally has his say after House Democrats fail to completely shut him up Heroic opening statements 1st hr vid Historic Missouri v Biden 155 pg injunction ruling pdf evidence: Seismic proof - free speech suppression by govt⚖️ http://ag.state.la.us/Article/13151 https://americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/rfk_jr_finally_has_his_say_after_house_democrats_fail_to_completely_shut_him_up.html

RFK Jr finally has his say after House Democrats fail to completely shut him up Prior to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s testimony yesterday before the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government of the House Judiciary Committee, I thought President Trump had gotten the worst treatment of anyone in public life by th... americanthinker.com

@TruthUnitesUs - TruthUnitesUs

The US Government Is Building A Vast Surveillance & Speech Suppression Web Around Every American Govt is preparing to monitor every word Americans say on the internet & censor citizens who don’t toe party line [funding AI-driven 1st Amendmt violations⚖️ https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/21/grants-reveal-federal-governments-horrific-plans-to-censor-all-americans-speech/

Grants Reveal Feds' Horrific Plans To Censor Americans’ Speech Our government is preparing to monitor every word Americans say on the internet and censor citizens who don’t toe the party line. thefederalist.com

@TruthUnitesUs - TruthUnitesUs

Trade Commission’s Retaliation Against Twitter Is More Proof The Biden Admin Is Violating The First Amendment Court: Govt “blatantly ignored the First Amendment’s right to free speech” to lead “the most massive attack against free speech in U.S. history” https://thefederalist.com/2023/07/18/trade-commissions-retaliation-against-twitter-is-more-proof-the-biden-admin-is-violating-the-first-amendment/

FTC Targeting Of Twitter Proves Biden Is Violating 1st Amendment Biden punishing a censor-gone-rogue like Twitter removes all remaining doubt that the First Amendment is under attack by the government. thefederalist.com
Saved - August 11, 2023 at 2:29 PM
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In a recent federal circuit hearing, evidence was presented showing that Biden violated the First Amendment by demanding social media censorship. The Supreme Court may soon hear the case, potentially leading to a significant free speech victory. The Missouri v Biden lawsuit, which focuses on censorship, is likely headed to the Supreme Court. Judges in the Fifth Circuit court hearing criticized the government's strong-arming of social media companies, describing it as coercive tactics. Attorney John Sauer argued that the government repeatedly violated the First Amendment, citing evidence from the Facebook Files. The court could rule against the Biden administration based on coercion and joint activity between the White House and social media platforms. The Department of Justice's arguments were weak, and the evidence clearly shows the administration's unlawful censorship campaign. Winning in the Supreme Court would be a significant victory for free speech, but the fight for free speech protections will continue globally. A debate on the sexual revolution will be hosted by Bari Weiss, featuring feminist and postfeminist thinkers. The OnPoint supervised drug consumption site in East Harlem operates in violation of the law, but progressive politicians have supported it. US Attorney Damian Williams has announced a crackdown on the site. Similar issues are seen in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. Harm reduction approaches like supervised consumption sites have questionable evidence of saving lives. The North America Recovers coalition aims to halt the spread of state-sanctioned drug dens. Ireland's proposed hate censorship bill is facing opposition, and free speech advocates will gather in Dublin to fight against it. UAP whistleblower David Grusch, who testified about nonhuman spacecraft, suffered from PTSD in the past. The leak of his confidential medical information sparked outrage. Journalist Ken Klippenstein received a tip from someone in the US intelligence community about Grusch's background.

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

The media say Biden didn't violate the First Amendment by demanding social media censorship. But the evidence presented in yesterday's federal circuit hearing plainly shows that he did. If the Supreme Court decides to hear the case, we may soon win a massive free speech victory. https://t.co/oUKDb8nYm6

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Historic Missouri v. Biden Censorship Lawsuit Likely Headed To Supreme Court by @galexybrane Yesterday the Fifth Circuit court heard oral arguments in the Missouri v. Biden case, and the judges did not hold back. One judge suggested the government “strongarms” social media companies and that their meetings had included “veiled and not-so-veiled threats.” Another judge described the exchange between the Biden administration and tech companies as the government saying, “Jump!” and the companies responding, “How high?” “That’s a really nice social media company you got there. It’d be a shame if something happened to it,” the judge said, describing the government’s coercive tactics. Attorney John Sauer, representing Louisiana, masterfully argued that the government had repeatedly violated the First Amendment. He pointed to specific evidence of coercion in the Facebook Files. “You have a really interesting snapshot into what Facebook C-suite is saying,” Sauer explained. “They're emailing Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg and saying things like… ‘Why were we taking out speech about the origins of covid and the lab leak theory?’” The response, Sauer said, was, “Well, we shouldn’t have done it, but we're under pressure from the administration.” He also cited an email from Nick Clegg, Facebook President of Global Affairs, that pointed to “bigger fish to fry with the Administration - data flows, etc.” On Monday, Public reported that these “data flows” referred to leverage the Biden administration had over the company; Facebook needed the White House to negotiate a deal with the European Union. Only through this deal could Facebook maintain access to user data that is crucial for its $1.2 billion annual European business. But Sauer also made it clear that coercion was not the only basis on which the court could rule against the Biden administration. Joint activity between the White House and social media platforms would also be unconstitutional. Sauer compared what the government had done to book burning. “Imagine a scenario where senior White House staffers contact book publishers… and tell them, ‘We want to have a book burning program, and we want to help you implement this program… We want to identify for you the books that we want burned, and by the way, the books that we want burned are the books that criticize the administration and its policies.” Daniel Tenny, the attorney for the Department of Justice, was left nitpicking and misrepresenting the record. In one instance, he denied that Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins had hatched a plan to orchestrate a “takedown” of the Great Barrington Declaration. Why? Because, Tenny said, according to their emails, they actually planned a takedown of “the premises of the Great Barrington Declaration.” Tenny also stated that social media companies had not removed any true content. From the case’s discovery as well as the Facebook Files we know that is far from true. Facebook, against internal research and advice, did remove “often-true content” that might discourage people from getting vaccinated. Facebook’s own emails clearly suggest that the company only did this due to pressure from figures within the Biden Administration. Tenny also claimed that when Rob Flaherty, the White House director of Digital Strategy, dropped the F-bomb in an exchange with Facebook it was not about content moderation. In fact, it was precisely about content moderation and occurred during a conversation about how Instagram was throttling Biden’s account. Ironically, the account couldn’t gain followers because Meta’s algorithm had determined that it was spreading vaccine misinformation. Later, Sauer demolished an earthquake hypothetical that Tenny had introduced to justify state-sponsored censorship. “You can say this earthquake-related speech that's disinformation is false, it's wrong,” Sauer said. “The government can say it's bad, but the government can't say, ‘Social media platforms, you need to take it down.’ Just like a government can't stand at the podium and say, ‘Barnes and Noble, you need to burn the bad books, burn the Communist books, whatever it is.’ They can't say take down speech on the basis of content.” Based on this hearing, the plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden may have a strong chance of winning. Biden’s DOJ simply had no valid arguments to present. The evidence is clear: the administration brazenly engaged in an unlawful censorship campaign and instrumentalized private companies to do its bidding. This total disregard for fundamental civil liberties will be a stain on the Democratic Party for years to come. The Supreme Court will be the supreme victory in the US, but our free speech work won’t be done after we win there. No nation enjoys free speech protections like ours. And so, after we win in the US, you can expect to see us helping our allies abroad achieve similar protections from government strongarming, aka censorship, in their own nations.

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Free Press Hosts Sex Revolution Debate: September 13 Did the sexual revolution liberate women to have it all — work, love, and a family? Or did it overpromise and underdeliver, leaving more and more women childless and unhappy? Friend of Public, Bari Weiss, the founder of The Free Press, is hosting a debate between four of the biggest feminist and post-feminist thinkers in the world: Grimes and Sarah Haider for the revolution side vs. Anna Khachiyan and Louise Perry for the counter-revolution. At the Ace Hotel Theater in Los Angeles at 7pm on September 13. Buy your ticket now! — @shellenberger Dems Turn On Drug Sites The OnPoint supervised drug consumption site in East Harlem, New York, operates as openly and unabashedly as the bodega next door. Addicts file through its front door, bringing their drugs of choice with them. Inside, OnPoint provides them with the private spaces, sterilized equipment, and human oversight they need to get high comfortably and — at least in the view of the site’s supporters — safely. On any given day, you can find NYPD officers standing around on the sidewalk in front of the building, taking no interest in what’s happening inside. But contrary to appearances, OnPoint, which operates two drug use sites in New York, operates in brazen violation of the law. Supervised consumption sites plainly fall under the definition of “drug-involved premises” under a 1986 federal law informally known as the “Crack House Statute,” which then-Senator Joe Biden co-sponsored. OnPoint has been insulated from enforcement only by the support it has succeeded in currying from progressive politicians. Even Mayor Eric Adams, a moderate Democrat, and a former cop, openly supports the service and has called for more. But now, US Attorney Damian Williams has announced a crackdown on the two sites. “My office is prepared to exercise all options — including enforcement — if this situation does not change in short order,” he told the New York Times. Harlem residents have complained about the site for years, largely to no avail. Even though drug addiction plagues neighborhoods throughout New York City, the Greater Harlem Coalition has pointed out that treatment services are concentrated in this single, low-income, majority-non-white neighborhood, turning it into a magnet for drug addicts. For example, the Times article on the US Attorney’s announcement profiles a user “who travels almost every day to East Harlem from Brooklyn so he can inject his drugs under supervision.” The influx of drug users has exacerbated the blight that already plagued the area: dirty needles littering the sidewalks, human feces in playgrounds, open drug use in plain view of school children. Government policies, the Coalition says, have turned Harlem into a sacrifice zone. On the other side of the country in San Francisco, residents have seen the same thing in that city’s sacrifice zone, the Tenderloin. Last year, the city’s public health department quietly opened up its own illegal supervised consumption site, though, unlike OnPoint with its sterile equipment and private cubicles, this one consisted of nothing more than a fenced-off courtyard and some staff members with Narcan and the city tried to prevent the public from finding out about it. Sites like OnPoint and the Tenderloin Center are the cutting edge of the “harm reduction” movement in the United States, which seeks to combat the addiction crisis on American streets not by restricting the supply of dangerous drugs and pushing addicts into recovery but by managing the risks of drug abuse by providing users with sterile narcotics paraphernalia, opioid overdose reversal medication, and controlled environments in which to use. The movement claims to save lives, but the evidence, which I’ve reported on in-depth, is questionable at best. The approach largely amounts to lowering our standards for people in the throes of addiction: instead of insisting on rescuing addicts from their disease, we’re asked to make them comfortable and manage their decline. It’s palliative care for a non-terminal condition. We should expect more. We should expect of drug users the basic personal responsibility that is an inextricable part of human dignity, even if we must compel them to accept it. We should expect our political leaders to ensure minimal public safety, hygiene, and moral decency in our cities and not shame us for wanting it. We should expect the government to treat our poorest neighborhoods with the same respect as our wealthiest and not to turn them into containment zones for the kind of activity the affluent would never tolerate anywhere near their families. Michael and I and two other journalists were the first to expose the San Francisco site and draw attention to the wider issue. Following that political embarrassment, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill to build more such sites throughout California. We co-founded in January of this year North America Recovers, a coalition of mothers seeking to save their homeless children from imminent drug deaths, neighbor activists from Harlem to Seattle angry at the chaos brought by the drug sites, and recovering addicts who understand that intervention, including by the police if need be, is necessary to save lives. As our first campaign, North America Recovers committed to halting the legalization and spread of state-sanctioned drug dens and, in particular, pledged to shut down OnPoint in Harlem. It appears our warnings of the dangers of such sites, outside of a recovery-based addiction care system like they have in the Netherlands, has been heard by the Department of Justice, the Biden White House, or any high-ranking Democratic Party strategist capable of imaging a political attack ad on the issue. Indeed, some of the mothers in the NAR coalition put up just such an ad in San Francisco last year and in Washington DC last spring. Maybe someone in the White House was paying attention. The US Attorney for Manhattan called the situation in Harlem “unacceptable.” He’s absolutely right. We should not accept it, and we shouldn’t let any politician, activist, or media pundit gaslight us into thinking we should. — @lwoodhouse

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Shellenberger To Dublin For Free Speech: September 16 Ireland’s proposed hate censorship bill is shaping up to be the most controversial legislative proposal in recent Irish memory. Nearly three-quarters of the Irish public are against it, yet the Irish Senate may pass it into law as early as September. They won’t pass it without a fight. I’m happy to announce that I’ll join Ireland’s leading free speech advocates on stage in Dublin on Saturday, September 16. The event is co-sponsored by two friends of Public: Free Speech Ireland and Gript, a scrappy news media start-up. Buy your ticket now! — @shellenberger Deep Fake of the Week

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Why We Trust Vets Who Recover From PTSD Journalist Ken Klippenstein on Wednesday reported in the Intercept that UAP whistleblower David Grusch, who told Congress under oath two weeks ago that the US military had recovered nonhuman spacecraft, had suffered PTSD and was suicidal 10 years ago. Supporters of Grusch were outraged that someone within the US government had leaked Grusch’s confidential medical information. During a Twitter Spaces interview, Klippenstein acknowledged that the information came to him from someone in the U.S. intelligence community. But, he added, they just gave him a tip; they didn’t give him Grusch’s files. “You know how people — the intel people — they’re vague,” said Klippenstein. “They’ll be like, ‘Look into his background’ and kind of hinting.” I called Klippenstein to ask about how he got the information. “This person knew this stuff socially,” he said of his source. Please subscribe now to support Public's groundbreaking reporting, our free speech campaign, and to read the rest of the article! https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1690004319498649602?s=20

Saved - September 8, 2023 at 10:04 PM
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X's move to support Californias Content Moderation Legislation is a victory for free speech in the digital age. Forbes labels it as a draconian censorship bill, AB 587. It mandates social media companies to report disinformation, extremism, hate speech, and more to the California Attorney General's Office. Non-compliance can result in fines. The Babylon Bee and Minds have already sued the CA AG over this bill.

@stclairashley - Ashley St. Clair

Anybody who cherishes free speech, especially in the digital age, should be cheering on this move by X. California’s “Content Moderation Legislation” as Forbes calls it, is actually a draconian censorship bill— AB 587. It requires social media companies to give the California Attorney General’s Office regular reports regarding disinformation, misinformation, extremism, radicalization, and “hate speech.” The bill also allows the state to impose fines if companies do not comply with these reporting regulations. The Babylon Bee and Minds led the charge suing the CA AG over this bill earlier this year.

@Forbes - Forbes

Elon Musk’s X Sues California Over Content Moderation Legislation https://go.forbes.com/c/TYEZ

Elon Musk’s X Sues California Over Content Moderation Legislation X argues that a new law requiring it to make its privacy policy public violates the company’s constitutional rights. forbes.com
Saved - September 9, 2023 at 2:34 AM
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@X sues California AB 587, claiming it pressures social media platforms to remove constitutionally-protected content. Lawsuit details: [link].

@GlobalAffairs - Global Government Affairs

Today, @X filed a First Amendment lawsuit against California AB 587. As made clear by both the legislative history and public court submissions from the Attorney General in defending the law, the true intent of AB 587 is to pressure social media platforms to “eliminate” certain constitutionally-protected content viewed by the State as problematic. You can read our filing here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.433955/gov.uscourts.caed.433955.1.0.pdf

Saved - October 3, 2023 at 8:01 PM

@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz

A huge win for free speech in America today.

@tracybeanz - Tracy Beanz

🚨🚨BREAKING: MISSOURI V. BIDEN: The 5th circuit court of appeals has ADDED CISA to the preliminary injunction!

Saved - October 20, 2023 at 11:40 PM

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

🚨 BREAKING: The United States Supreme Court has granted cert in Missouri v. Biden -- the nation's highest court will hear the most important free speech case in American history. I'm proud to have filed this case when I was AG, and will always defend free speech. https://t.co/2MOfLXH8u0

Saved - October 23, 2023 at 9:57 PM

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

The media say the Censorship Industrial Complex is a conspiracy theory, but it's not. It's very real. And now, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the landmark Missouri v. Biden case, which may very well put an end to it. https://t.co/dowSlND9lZ

Saved - October 27, 2023 at 6:18 PM

@AGAndrewBailey - Attorney General Andrew Bailey

It’s been one week since the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear our free speech case, Missouri v. Biden. Here’s an update. https://t.co/0q9qIxtCoj

Video Transcript AI Summary
The United States Supreme Court has granted cert on the Missouri v Biden case, which is considered the most important first amendment suit in the nation's history. Evidence has been uncovered revealing a censorship enterprise by the federal government targeting voices on big tech social media platforms. This violates our right to free speech. The evidence was taken to court, resulting in a nationwide injunction. The injunction has been defended twice at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, with Missouri winning all three rounds. The fight for free speech continues, and it's being likened to heading to the Super Bowl.
Full Transcript
Speaker 0: It's been 1 week since the United States Supreme Court granted cert on the most important first amendment suit in this nation's history. The case is Missouri v Biden. We've uncovered a vast censorship enterprise from the federal government targeting voices on big tech social media platforms for censorship. This violates our first amendment right to free speech. We took that evidence to court, got a nationwide injunction, and defended that injunction twice at the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. The score is Missouri 3, Biden 0 in the fight for free speech, and we're heading to the Super Bowl.
Saved - November 16, 2023 at 9:47 PM

@elonmusk - Elon Musk

We will do whatever it takes to support your right to free speech!

@xDaily - X News Daily

NEWS: 𝕏's lawyers have come to the defense of an Illinois student being threatened with disciplinary action by his university over posts he made on the platform. This is the first known example so far of X paying legal fees to support users' free speech, as promised in August. https://t.co/yFyK9dOwxS

Saved - November 16, 2023 at 10:32 PM
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We filed a brief to reverse the unconstitutional gag order on President Trump, stifling his free speech ahead of the 2024 election. Silencing him on social media and now attempting to silence his right to speak is a blatant weaponization of the justice system. Missouri stands for free speech for all. Read more about our brief.

@AGAndrewBailey - Attorney General Andrew Bailey

🚨BREAKING: We have filed a brief to reverse the unconstitutional gag order against President Trump.   The gag order stifles his ability to speak freely ahead of the 2024 presidential election and denies Americans the right to hear free debate from all presidential candidates.

@AGAndrewBailey - Attorney General Andrew Bailey

President Trump, like so many Americans, has been silenced on social media platforms for daring to be a political opponent of Joe Biden, and now they’re attempting to silence his right to speak at all.

@AGAndrewBailey - Attorney General Andrew Bailey

This blatant weaponization of the criminal justice system is inherently un-American and goes against the very soul of our great nation. I’m proud to stand with President Trump in this new front in the war for free speech.

@AGAndrewBailey - Attorney General Andrew Bailey

Missouri will continue to be a champion for free speech for ALL.

@AGAndrewBailey - Attorney General Andrew Bailey

Read more about our brief here: https://ago.mo.gov/attorney-general-bailey-files-brief-opposing-unconstitutional-gag-order-on-president-donald-trump/

Attorney General Bailey Files Brief Opposing Unconstitutional Gag Order on President Donald Trump | Attorney General Office of Missouri ago.mo.gov
Saved - February 13, 2024 at 4:32 AM
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and media groups The Federalist and The Daily Wire have filed an injunction against the U.S. government to halt a taxpayer-funded program that censors media reports exposing government corruption and attacks on free speech. The lack of mainstream media coverage on this issue is concerning. Paxton vows to continue fighting until the censorship-industrial complex is dismantled. This development aligns with a QAnon post from February 7, 2020, highlighting the control over media and its impact on society.

@TheReal40_Head - 40_Head

MASSIVE NEWS from Texas that seems to have become the victim of the very Biden administration program that Texas is battling against. There is very little mainstream media coverage talking about this! The story appears to have basically been blacklisted. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and co-counsel The New Civil Liberties Alliances, along with two media groups, The Federalist and The Daily Wire, are seeking to halt the censorship-industrial complex; a taxpayer-funded program created to censor the media. Paxton filed an injunction against the U.S. government on February 7th. But nobody seems to know about it! Paxton and his allies are targeting Biden's program that is directed to silence any media reports (or social media posts) that attempt to expose the government's corruption and communist style attacks on Constitutionally protected free speech. “Every last person involved in the illegal conspiracy to use the power of government to trample our First Amendment rights better buckle up, because we are not going to stop until the entire censorship-industrial complex is on the ash heap of history.” And what do you know? It just so happens to parallel a major 4 year delta from February 7th, 2020. "3838 Feb 07, 2020 12:04:23 AM EST Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 Control over the media has kept people in the dark. Control over the media has kept people at heel (behind). Control over the media has kept people focused on falsehoods. Control over the media has kept people in a constant state of fear. Control over the media has divided our Republic into segments: >Race >Religion >Class >Political Affiliation >Gender [weaponized] When a citizenry is divided they have no 'collective' power. When a citizenry has no 'collective' power they can no longer control the levers that govern them [levers of control]. [illusion of democracy] Q" https://dallasexpress.com/national/paxton-files-injunction-to-stop-biden-news-censorship/?fbclid=IwAR1YkWrdSF8M_pbxkPvfL4GFesV5ujQ-TJ3Zgfly0RtLn_ZSle3vNweYtjc_aem_Ae-Pmlg6l7QcX9CBYOQOvIrXRQq1exQTPUxLHin26QBhI5TenGbPGoH116g7RAzkKGw

Paxton seeks order against Biden administration to halt government-funded media censorship Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, along with two media groups, is seeking to halt a taxpayer-funded program allegedly created to censor the media.  dallasexpress.com
Saved - April 5, 2024 at 11:51 PM

@TheBabylonBee - The Babylon Bee

Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon says a lot of things. This time, it's an important message about the battle against censorship.

Video Transcript AI Summary
Elon Musk's stance against censorship on big tech platforms like Twitter is highlighted, emphasizing the importance of free speech and challenging oppressive ideologies like wokeness. The Babylon Bee's refusal to censor themselves, even when faced with suspension, showcases the value of integrity over convenience. Musk's defiance against advertiser boycotts and his commitment to free speech serve as a beacon of inspiration for others to stand up against censorship and support defenders of freedom. Joining the fight for free speech by supporting platforms like the Babylon Bee and X Premium is encouraged to ensure that voices of truth and liberty continue to be heard.
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Speaker 0: Not long ago, Elon Musk bought Twitter, changed his bio to chief twit, and sent me a DM that said, do you want the Babylon Bee restored? There will be no censorship of humor. We've been trying to think of a joke worth 44,000,000,000 ever since. But as resourceful and committed to free speech as he is, Musk is still just one man, and Twitter, now x, is just one platform. Censorship remains the rule on big tech. X is a welcome but rare exception. Just a couple of months ago, I was notified that the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a conservative nonprofit, was permanently suspended by Vimeo for posting a talk I'd given about censorship. Just think about the irony of that for a second. As if they wanted to make my point for me more emphatically than I ever could, they censored my talk about censorship. Why? Hate speech, they said. I was giving a talk about how the bee had been censored unjustly for hate speech, and they censored it for hate speech. We've reached a point where you can't even talk about how they're censoring you without them censoring you. I think Dave Chappell was right when he said, it shouldn't be this dangerous to talk. So what is it exactly that the lovers of censorship want from us? I think the answer is clear. They want acquiescence. They want submission. They want unquestioning conformity. They want us to give up and stop fighting, stop telling jokes, stop telling the truth. They wanna raise the cost of speaking freely so high that we'd rather just keep our mouth shut to avoid all the hassle and penalties. And that would be the easy thing, wouldn't it? Adjust our behavior, fall in line, do our best to play by the rules of wokeness that try to reshape reality itself. It'd certainly be easier than fighting back and risking everything. We'd have no more headaches, no more suspensions, no more disruptions to our revenue streams, and all it would cost us is our integrity. All we'd have to trade for a little peace of mind in a platform is the truth itself and our right to speak it. All we have to do is trade freedom, a thing so profoundly valuable that men have laid down their lives to secure it, for captivity and capitulation. Are you willing to make that trade just to make things easier? We were faced with this choice when Twitter suspended us last year for a joke we made about Rachel Levine, a gender health admiral in the Biden administration. For those who don't remember the details, USA Today had named Rachel Levine their pick for woman of the year. Apparently, they'd run out of real women to choose from. And we looked at that headline, and it felt like a parody already. How are you supposed to satirize something like that? You got a man in a dress picked for woman of the year. It sounds like something straight out of a South Park episode, but that's the burden of being in comedy today. You have to somehow manage to cope with jokes that are funnier than whatever Democrats are doing in real life. It's tough job. So we started pitching ideas back and forth, and one we had was just to mock USA Today's insane choice for woman of the year by just accurately referring to Rachel Levine as a man. The headline we landed on was this. The Babylon Bee's man of the year is Rachel Levine. Our chief editor, Kyle, choked that this one was gonna get us kicked off Twitter. They count on this, by the way. They know that if they can make you afraid of being deplatformed, you'll do their job for them and censor yourself. For every case of hard censorship where they actually take down user content, There are a 1,000 cases of soft censorship where users bite their own tongue knowing they'll be penalized if they speak freely, but we don't do that here. We refuse to censor ourselves. So we took a chance and posted the Rachel Levine joke knowing it might get us in some trouble. Wasn't long, of course, before some trans activists got a hold of it and started mass reporting the tweet. Twitter reviewed it, determined we'd violated the hateful comic policy, which prohibits misgendering, and they sent us a notice to say that we'd been locked out of our account. As these platforms often do, they gave us a choice. Delete the tweet, and you can have your account back. Refuse, and your account will remain locked indefinitely. Now they could have deleted it themselves. That would have been censorship. Sure. But I'd much prefer that to what actually happened. Instead of deleting it themselves, they told us we had to delete it. And not only that, we had to check a box acknowledging that we'd engaged in hateful conduct. That's not just censorship. It's subjugation. So we refused. Within minutes, I responded publicly. We're not deleting anything, I tweeted. If the cost of speaking the truth is the loss of our Twitter account, then so be it. We knew this meant losing access to our millions of followers. We knew it meant being sidelined from the conversation. But we also knew we'd be giving up something even more important if we caved. Almost immediately, people started mocking us and taunting us, saying it was only a matter of time before we deleted the tweet. They couldn't wait to see us betray our own principles just to get back the clicks and engagement we'd given up. I actually found they're wishing we'd show weakness motivational. It made me want to double down. I mean, what could be more fun than disappointing a bunch of leftists? Couple of days later, we got a call from Elon Musk. He wanted to know if we'd actually been suspended, and we explained that we were locked out and had to delete a tweet in order to get our account back. He asked us why that was a problem for us, so we gave our reasons and he respected them. Then he pauses for a moment and he says, maybe I just need to buy Twitter. We thought he was kidding. Apparently, he wasn't. But Musk understands the dangers of censorship. He knows that the freedom to argue and tell jokes is necessary, not just for the entertainment value, but because bad ideas need to be challenged. They need to be refuted and they need to be ridiculed or they'll spread like the mind viruses that they are and ruin everything. Chief among the mind viruses is wokeness. Musk has called it one of the greatest threats to civilization and cited its spread as one of the primary reasons he felt compelled to buy Twitter. I asked him why he thinks wokeness is such a threat, and this was his reply. Wokeness, at its heart, is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It gives mean people an excuse to be cruel while armored in false virtue. That's beautifully put, but more importantly, it's true. And we're seeing this play out with the left's attacks on comedy. Mean people, I like to call them crybullies, wanna take away our freedom to tell jokes, and they're doing it in the name of protecting others from harm, but they aren't actually protecting anyone. All they're doing is shielding their bad ideas from criticism and mockery. Just like Musk said, wokeness is oppressive cruelty designed to crush dissent all under the guise of false virtue. It'll tell you that we're using the cover of satire to push hatred, but that's just projection. In reality, they're using the power of concern for the so called marginalized to be bullies and tyrants who trample all over our freedom. We saw this play out with the recent advertiser boycott of x. Big brands like Disney, Apple, and IBM were withdrawing their ad spend in an effort to twist Musk's arm and get them to do their bidding. They thought they could raise the price of speaking freely so high that even Elon Musk wouldn't be willing to pay it. They were wrong. It turns out there are things that matter more than money to people with integrity. The bullies and tyrants have forgotten that. I'm sure most of you have seen the video where Musk told them not to advertise. Using language I won't repeat here, he told them he didn't want their money if it came with strings attached, strings that infringed on the freedom of both himself and the millions of users he'd just liberated. I don't think people realize how profound it is to see somebody stand up and say, you can't bully me in a silence and force me to do whatever you want by holding money over my head. Free speech is worth more than whatever you might try to take from me. No one's ever stood up to Disney like that before and said no thanks to their mountain of money. It was insane. It was inspirational, and there's an important lesson in it. Musk has shown us the key to winning this fight. We have to stop caring what freedom might cost us. Of course, that's easier said than done. When you're the world's richest man, you can suffer some pretty heavy losses without having to move back in with your parents. But what about the rest of us? I can tell you right now, the Babylon Bee would not have been able to take the stand that we did against Twitter if it hadn't been for the support of our subscribers. That's our safety net. That's what gives us confidence to fight back against big tech without having to fear they'll put us out of business. They can hurt us. Sure. They can reduce our reach and smear us in the media, but they can't shut us down. We have our supporters to thank for that. I hope you'll consider joining the fight by becoming a paid subscriber to the Babylon Bee. But don't just support us. Support defenders of freedom wherever you find them. Subscribe to X Premium to support Elon. Ditch Disney and subscribe to the daily wire. Back anyone bold enough to say what's true even if it comes at a cost, especially if it comes at a cost. They'll be that much more fearless and that much harder to stop if they have a whole army of freedom loving subscribers at their back.

@TheBabylonBee - The Babylon Bee

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reSee.it AI Summary
The upcoming Supreme Court ruling for Murthy v. Missouri (Missouri v. Biden) is crucial due to its potential impact on free speech. It is being described as the worst violation in US history and will have implications for all of us.

@annmforti - Ann Forti

And this is why the upcoming Supreme Court ruling for Murthy v. Missouri (formally Missouri v. Biden) is so critical: “The worst free speech violation in United States history.“ The ruling will affect every single one of us. @NCLAlegal @MarkChangizi @DrJBhattacharya @AaronKheriatyMD @newlouisiana

Video Transcript AI Summary
The government's involvement in big tech censorship is a severe violation of civil liberties. The Biden administration's actions led to a decrease in social media impressions. Cases like Genghis v. HHS and Missouri v. Biden highlight government influence on tech companies to silence certain voices. Experts like Bhattacharya and Kulldorff faced censorship for their views on lockdowns. The government's constant direction to social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to control information is concerning.
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Speaker 0: The government's involvement in big tech censorship is one of the worst civil liberties violations I think this country has ever seen. Speaker 1: When the Biden administration started censoring, you can actually see the impressions fall all the way back down to levels that were even below where I had basically any following. Speaker 2: This was an action of the administrative state rather than the private action of the social media companies. Speaker 0: It's clear first amendment violation, and we have to stop it. Speaker 1: If you start messing with the public square and ensuring or trying to decide what's true and you are undermining the very process, the only process that we have to find truth. Speaker 0: Genghis versus HHS is about the government's involvement in big big tech censorship. While many people believed for a long time that this was, something that the tech companies were doing on their own, it turned out that the Biden voiced them on social media. What they were telling those third parties is we don't want people like voiced them on social media. Speaker 2: What they were telling those third parties is we don't want people like your clients talking. Shut them up. Speaker 0: Missouri versus Biden, is a case brought by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana along with NCLA. 2 of the plaintiffs are Jay Bhattacharya, an epidemiologist at Stanford, and Martin Kulldorff, who was an epidemiologist at Harvard. They wrote a short treatise in October of 2020 called the Great Barrington Declaration, where they issued lockdown, said that lockdowns were doing more harm than good. Speaker 3: What's striking to me is that despite this diverse background, we've come to an agreement about what the science is telling us. This is a science based approach. Speaker 0: There was a concerted effort to shut them down and that effort happened at the behest of the Biden administration. Speaker 2: In between Shangeese and and Missouri v Biden, more information came out about what the government did. It's a constant stream of direction from the government to every single one of these, social media platforms. Speaker 0: Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, we're working with the government to decide who to silence, what kind of post to silence, what kind of information to silence.

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

This is unconstitutional government censorship, full stop. Whether you agree with this speech or not, free speech is free speech and the Biden Admin pressured private companies to censor constitutionally protected speech.

Saved - June 26, 2024 at 2:50 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
The Supreme Court's ruling in the Murthy v. Missouri case allows the Biden Administration to coerce social media companies to censor and shadowban content. Congress needs to take action to uphold the Constitution. This issue will also impact the upcoming election, as it raises questions about the candidates' stance on social media censorship. The court ruled that the plaintiffs lacked standing to sue, which means that the Administration can censor ideas without facing legal challenges. This ruling has implications for free speech in America.

@DrJBhattacharya - Jay Bhattacharya

The Supreme Court just ruled in the Murthy v. Missouri case that the Biden Administration can coerce social media companies to censor and shadowban people and posts it doesn't like. Congress will now need to act to enforce the Constitution since the Sup. Ct. won't.

@DrJBhattacharya - Jay Bhattacharya

This now also becomes a key issue in the upcoming election. Where do the presidential candidates stand on social media censorship? We know where Biden stands since his lawyers argue that he has near monarchical power over social media speech.

@DrJBhattacharya - Jay Bhattacharya

The court ruled that the plaintiffs (Missouri and Louisiana, as well as me and other blacklisted individuals) lacked standing to sue. This means that the Administration can censor ideas & no person will have standing to enforce the 1st Amendment. Free speech in America, for the moment, is dead.

Saved - June 27, 2024 at 3:05 AM

@TulsiGabbard - Tulsi Gabbard 🌺

It’s a sad day for America, as the Supreme Court has just ruled that the government can collude with Big Tech companies to censor free speech. The First Amendment is now dead in the United States. https://t.co/bvLWjfGwcw

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Today, the Supreme Court ruled that individuals lack standing to challenge government pressure on social media companies to censor content. The decision allows government officials to indirectly violate the First Amendment by pressuring platforms to censor certain viewpoints. This ruling essentially renders the First Amendment ineffective, as individuals cannot sue to prevent censorship. The dissenting opinion warned that this decision gives the government a green light to censor free speech. The speaker expressed disappointment in the lack of protection for free speech and highlighted the negative impact on public health and policy.
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Speaker 0: This is a sad day for our country. The Supreme Court just passed a ruling today saying that our government can collude with big tech companies to censor the free speech of Americans. Speaker 1: Recognize that the law allows Facebook, Twitter, and other private companies to moderate content on their platforms. And I support the right of governments to communicate with the public, including to dispute inaccurate information. But government officials have been caught repeatedly pushing social media platforms to censor disfavored users and content. Often, these acts of censorship threaten the legal protection social media companies need to exist, section 230. Speaker 2: So supreme court striking down today a lower court ruling that found the Biden White House and other federal agencies likely violated the first amendment by pressuring social media companies to censor or remove posts and accounts they didn't agree with. Stanford Medical School professor doctor Jay Bhattacharya was part of that lawsuit and learned via the Twitter files that Matt Taibbi and others put out there that his account had been slapped with a, quote, trends blacklist label for daring to counter doctor Fauci and others about what he saw as harmful COVID era lockdowns. Doctor Badacharya joins me now. It's been great to have you with us today, doctor. And, you know, we all followed very closely, your prescriptions during COVID, which were very different than the lockdowns that were instituted all around us. And you sought to get your, great Barrington proclamation out there and the information that you had about the harmful effects of all these lockdowns, and then you got slammed with this trends blacklist that took you down. What is your reaction to this decision by the Supreme Court today, which would not really was not in your favor, clearly? Speaker 3: Yeah. So we lost 6 to 3. The reasoning that the Supreme Court used was that we we lack standing. Speaker 2: Mhmm. Speaker 3: That's a very, very important reasoning set of reasoning because what it says is that in order to in order to for the first amendment to work, you have to be able you have to prove that the government went to the social media companies and said, censor Jay. What it allows then the government to do is to go to social media companies and say, censor the people saying that closing schools harm children. Censor people that say that, there is immunity after COVID recovery. Censored people that say that there are people that were vaccine injured. Right? And then the government can just say do do that, but so they can threaten the social media companies. And, apparently, the supreme court thinks that that is consistent with the American First Amendment. Essentially, in effect, the First Amendment is a dead letter because the supreme court has said that there's no one who who has standing unless they're specifically called out, to stop them from violating the first amendment via proxies, you know, that is via the social media companies. Speaker 2: So Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch were among the dissent, and the majority opinion was written by justice Amy Coney Barrett. And she says what you just said. The plaintiffs rely on allegations of past government censorship as evidence that future censorship is likely, but they fail by and large to link their past social restrictions to the defendant's communications and platforms. I I understand, you know, that that you disagree with that, and I would just remind everybody about the the Twitter back and forth. We can put some of these up. But, with the government and Twitter basically saying, you know, we're concerned about these. We'd like you to take them down, and then the response was, you know, handled. So this weekly meetings that we heard about. What are your concerns about this decision, and do you think it can be rectified in the future? Speaker 3: So the government essentially acted like a like mob bosses. That that's exactly what the what the appeals court said. They was like they likened it to Al Capone threatening the social media company's very existence if they didn't comply at the census orders. They were not acting voluntarily. They were acting under duress by government. The government essentially acted to protect itself from criticism, valid criticism about its own misinformation, and it did it silently behind the screen scenes. The dissent in this was actually quite sensible. Essentially, what it says, this is a green light for the government to censor. And the government will take it that way because it's there's no standing for people to sue and say, look, you're not allowed to censor. The First Amendment no longer has a a a viable presence in the the the courts of this nation under under this ruling. And if if, if you can't use past violations of the first amendment as evidence of potential future violations, what could you use? It doesn't make any sense. The the reasoning of the court here makes literally no sense. It's saying, like, look, they yes. They they did censor me in the past, but who knows if they will in the future? And we shouldn't enjoin them from stopping from essentially abiding by the first amendment in the future. It's a very disheartening day for this country. Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, you, wrote a lot of your thoughts on COVID and the Wall Street Journal and other places, and people got to read them. But when they found their way onto, Twitter and other social media accounts, they were they were slapped with this label. And doctor Fauci says, show me a school that I shut down. I never told a school to shut down. And now we see the the just continuing damage on our children across this country as a result of these these actions, which I know you were very much against. Doctor, thank you. Yeah. Go ahead. Final thought. Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, if we had the first amendment, we would have better policy. First amendment protects the health of this of Americans in a sad day that we don't have that in this country right now. Speaker 0: Mark this day because this day is the death of the first amendment in the United States of America.
Saved - September 4, 2024 at 9:45 PM

@elonmusk - Elon Musk

Congrats to the 𝕏 legal team for defending freedom of speech, the bedrock of democracy!

@xDaily - X Daily News

NEWS: In lawsuit brought by X Corp, the Ninth Circuit rules that California's law requiring large social media companies to submit reports to the AG about their content-moderation policies and practices likely violates the First Amendment https://t.co/jolvhtJLE7

Saved - September 18, 2024 at 1:05 PM

@AGAndrewBailey - Attorney General Andrew Bailey

🚨BREAKING: We are moving to obtain merits discovery in Missouri v. Biden to DISMANTLE the Biden-Harris censorship regime once and for all. This lawsuit is for every American who has been censored by our own government. The fight for free speech is just beginning. https://t.co/IuUSvizxZl

Saved - January 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
reSee.it AI Summary
I share the journey of the Babylon Bee, a satire comedy website, as we navigate the complexities of free speech online. Our unexpected clash with Twitter over a joke drew significant attention, even from Elon Musk, highlighting the challenges of censorship in the digital age. This experience is captured in a new documentary by Palladium Pictures, showcasing our role in the evolving landscape of social media and the ongoing debate surrounding satire and free expression.

@RCPolitics - RealClearPolitics

The Bird and the Bee: Satire, Social Media, and Censorship How does a satire comedy website find itself on the front lines of the debate over free speech online? Seth Dillon and his team at the Babylon Bee tell the story of how they unwittingly found themselves at war with Twitter over a joke, eventually garnering the attention of Elon Musk and ushering in a new era for the social media company—in a new documentary from the Palladium Pictures Film Incubator. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/11/21/the_bird_and_the_bee_satire_social_media_and_censorship.html

Video Transcript AI Summary
We produce around 6 to 8 articles daily, focusing on trending stories. The jury in Donald Trump's hush money case is still deliberating. Babylon Bee, a conservative parody site, has gained significant traction, often reaching more people than The Onion. However, social media platforms have restricted our reach, especially since the 2020 election, impacting our traffic and engagement. We faced censorship for a tweet about Rachel Levine, leading to a Twitter suspension. After Elon Musk acquired Twitter, he offered to restore our account, promising no censorship of humor. Despite challenges, we aim to continue making people laugh while defending free speech and challenging mainstream narratives. Our goal remains to poke fun at absurdities in society.
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Speaker 0: We write anywhere between, you know, 6 8 articles a day. I think I'm going on all the news sites left, right, and center. What are the big stories? What are the big conversations? Speaker 1: So my job is to make sure that all the funny jokes make it on to the site and all the non funny jokes get brutally murdered every morning. Speaker 2: Day 1 of deliberations ended today without a verdict in Donald Trump's hush money case. Speaker 0: These sketches are hilarious. Speaker 1: The jury passed, I think, two notes to the judge yesterday. And you're like, oh, what did the note say? It's like, we need to watch all 14 seasons of The Apprentice. You're fired. Speaker 0: It's a conservative parody site, the Babble on Speaker 3: The funniest parody comedy now is Babylon Bee. Bee is a Christian satire. Speaker 1: Know who's such the biggest Christians at the time? Speaker 4: Babylon Bee reaches more people than the onion. Speaker 5: All nonessential businesses will have to close, and Governor just gave a pretty good recap of what that means. Speaker 6: What you're seeing behind me is one of multiple locations that have been burning in Kenosha, Wisconsin over the course of Speaker 1: the You know, we didn't actually believe in the modern day gift of prophecy until we started writing articles, and they started coming true. Speaker 5: Nobody has done more for Christianity than I have. Speaker 6: The leader of the free world got duped by the Babylon Bee. The Babylon Bee Speaker 4: is hugely successful, so, of course, big tech is trying to censor it. Speaker 7: Our first witness today is Seth Dillon, the CEO of Babylon Bee. Speaker 8: Could Speaker 7: you hopefully, the mic's working there on your end. Speaker 4: Do I have to try? There we go. Speaker 6: Got it. I'm being censored. Yeah. Speaker 1: I'm ready whenever you are. Let's talk about how we're never doing a documentary again. Yeah. Speaker 0: He's kind of the pretty face that makes us look good out there. Speaker 4: Thank you for having me on your show and giving me a platform from which to misinform your millions of viewers, harmfully and maliciously. I really appreciate it. We're a comedy site, but we've gone beyond just making jokes, telling jokes on the Internet to, like, defending our right to tell jokes on the Internet. Speaker 6: Back in the day, you could legitimately go viral on Facebook. Our content would go so viral that it would crash servers. Speaker 4: It would have 100 of shares within minutes and then thousands of shares and then tens of thousands of shares, and that would just drive ridiculous amounts of traffic through to the website, which could then be monetized. We were lucky enough to kind of exist at this time where that was naturally allowed to happen. The change really started with Facebook responding to allegations that they were responsible essentially for Donald Trump getting elected in 2016. Speaker 9: Facebook has come under fire recently for its role in last year's election. Speaker 10: During the last presidential election, they did absolutely nothing, and they created a catastrophe. Speaker 9: Reports have surfaced showing the social networking site was a breeding ground for misinformation. Speaker 1: The tone turned into Babylon Bee is muddying the waters of fake news and misinformation in order to spread harmful lies about the left. Speaker 4: The New York Times put it in print that we traffic in misinformation under the guise of satire. That's just false. Facebook, and Twitter, and YouTube, and all these other platforms look to these guys, these media outlets, as authoritative sources. Speaker 1: You noticed a really sharp traffic drop off on Facebook, right, like, on the day of the 2020 election. They were really concerned about fake news after 2016, and they were gonna throw all the levers and switches when it hit the 2020 election. Speaker 10: The most important thing that they have to do is to change the algorithm, change what goes into it, change how it works. Speaker 6: Yeah. So Facebook and YouTube and any other social media platform, you'll see something similar. Our reach is just simply being squashed despite the fact that our audience is growing. 2023 was down 20% from 2022. 2024 is down 60% from 2023. It's insane. I mean, it's like it's like our our business is completely drying up on Facebook. Like, there's no way to drive traffic to our website. Speaker 1: We saw that, a post on Twitter would get 1,000 and thousands of retweets, and on Facebook, it'd get 20 shares, you know, 30 shares. It was like, well, Twitter's kinda where it's at now in terms of just being part of the conversation. Speaker 4: There was this shift where the line of attack from, you know, the social platforms and the media really, went from, okay, maybe they're really trying to do humor, but humor can be a vehicle for hatred. At the time, Twitter's mission statement was to provide a platform for free expression without barriers. And then you go to the terms of service, and you find all the barriers. Speaker 6: Gender ideology, misgendering, not using Speaker 4: some of these pronouns, dead naming. Like, these were the hot button topics every year. USA Today does something where they highlight a handful of women this this honor of being named woman of the year. And one of their picks was Rachel Levine as this transgender health admiral in the Biden administration, a male person who had transitioned to being, you know, a woman and identified as Rachel Speaker 11: Levine. In terms of the changes that we see in our society, in our culture, I think that women are those change makers. Speaker 0: The Rachel Levine tweet was was more mischief than than like a joke. It made our writers laugh for kind of how, audacious it was because you just weren't supposed to do that. And and Speaker 1: it was kind of a running bit for us. Speaker 0: Every year we make Trump our Christian of the year. I wrote it. I posted it. And I'll never forget Kyle Mann calling me and saying, bro, I think you're gonna get us kicked off at Twitter. And me thinking, I wonder if I should run that by Seth. Speaker 3: Twitter's written policies prohibit misgendering. Full stop. And the Babylon Bee, in the name of satire, misgendered admiral Rachel Levine. Speaker 4: The shares started going up, the likes started to go up, Speaker 6: and then pause. All of a sudden, nobody can log in to the Twitter account anymore. We can't post anything. It's like, what's going on? Speaker 3: We landed on the side of enforcing our rules as written. Speaker 4: I screenshotted the notice that we got from Twitter, and I sent it. And I said, guys, you know, we've got a choice to make. They want us to delete this tweet. And the way they presented it to us, they're like, we had to admit that what we shared was hate speech. Speaker 1: It's this penance that you have to do. Like, go click delete on the tweet and, you know, say 5 pale Twitters or whatever. Speaker 0: We're gonna lose our our reach on Twitter. Our business is gonna tank, and it's gonna be Joel's fault. And, and I'm gonna I'm gonna have to find another job writing stupid headlines somewhere else. I don't know where you do that. Speaker 1: Our entire business model is to write funny articles and put them on Facebook and Twitter. And all of a sudden, Facebook has crushed us. Twitter has removed us. It is Speaker 0: such an easy thing to do to just say, okay, guys. Like, let's delete it. Let's move on. Let's keep the ball rolling. Because everyone does that. Speaker 4: People need to be willing to say what they believe, what they think is true. They need to be willing to make jokes that they're not supposed to make because if they can't, then they're not really free. This isn't a platform for free expression without barriers. Like, it was just, like, a no Speaker 6: brainer to me. Like, we can't delete this. Speaker 4: After I got that feedback from the guys, I'm, like, alright. Well, that's it. This is our decision. We're not deleting it. And I went out there and I tweeted. Speaker 1: In no universe will we ever delete this tweet. If I ever delete this tweet, you can kill me. You couldn't really, mince words about how he about how he made that statement. So there wasn't really any room for us to delete, which is good. You're gonna follow through on it or else you'll you'll look like an idiot. Speaker 8: Twitter suspended the account of the massively popular Christian satire site, the Babylon Bee. Speaker 4: The Babylon Bee, they're gonna be off Twitter because of a tweet about Rachel Levine. Speaker 1: I'm Kyle with the Babylon Bee. Yeah. We're still in Twitter jail. I'm digging a tunnel behind this poster. As soon as I finish it, I'll be as free as the Taliban, Vladimir Putin, and all the other wonderful people who are still out on Twitter. I would like to make the following statement about Twitter. Twitter is Twitter is the best website of all time. I just love Twitter. I love it this much. Speaker 4: Couple of days after we initially got suspended, we received a DM from Elon Musk. Said, hey, have you guys been suspended from Twitter? And, of course, we couldn't respond to him because we were locked out of our account. Suspended from Twitter. Speaker 6: Elon was one of the biggest voices that kind Speaker 4: of, like, emerged from this as as, like, this Speaker 6: is really dangerous. Freedom of speech is really at risk right now, and his platform of choice was always Twitter. Speaker 1: Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? And if that is the case, then we have free speech. Speaker 4: He had a phone conversation with Kyle, and he it was just like a fact finding call. Speaker 1: He asked, like, what our plan was. Oh, you're gonna delete the tweet, and then, well, maybe I'll just buy Twitter. Speaker 4: I thought it was a joke. You know? Like, he wasn't really seriously considering buying Twitter because of this problem. You know? But apparently, he was. Speaker 0: Elon Musk has bought nearly 10% of Twitter for an investment of around $3,000,000,000. Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Twitter. Speaker 2: If he buys our free speech platform, people will be able to have free speech on our platform. Now to some news. Speaker 5: It is now a done deal. Speaker 8: After revolutionizing the space race and electric cars, the world's richest man is now promising a Twitter makeover. Elon Musk carried a kitchen sink into Twitter HQ this week, tweeting let that sink in. Speaker 4: That very day that he took over, you know, he sent me a message. He DM'd me at, like, 4:30 in the morning and said, do you want the Babylon Bee restored? There will be no censorship of humor. Speaker 1: I don't think he realized how much resistance there was gonna be from within Twitter. Speaker 4: The trust and safety team was saying, look. You can't you can't just arbitrarily unban or unlock somebody. Speaker 3: There was always something we could point to that said, this is how we are operating. And then all of a sudden, that didn't exist anymore. Speaker 0: Then it Speaker 3: was reinstate some of these accounts. Speaker 4: Rules are rules for reason. You have to enforce them fairly. He's like, you know, why can't I do that? It's like a presidential pardon. He'll let me part of them. Speaker 1: Like Luke Skywalker busting down the prison cell door and we're we're princess Leia and Elon bust in. There's no undertones there. Don't read anything into that. Speaker 5: It's a little short for Stormtrooper. Speaker 1: I don't remember which one of us got in first, but someone said it's live. We can get in. And I pull up my phone. I see the little blinking cursor on the post button. Like, you feel so much power surging through Speaker 0: your face. Suddenly, we were unbanned, and we were like, oh, crap. Gotta do something funny now. Like, think of something really funny. Someone pitched the Babylon b tests whether gay gay retard Elon Musk still cares about free speech. And, and we thought, oh, you know, let's hold hold off on that one. Yeah. We just stole Elon Musk's joke. You know, we figured that we can't go wrong with that. Speaker 6: We got invited to Twitter headquarters. Speaker 1: The Babylon Bee at Twitter headquarters. Oh, and Elon Musk is there too. Speaker 6: You know, Elon greeted us. He's like, the barbarians have stormed the castle. Speaker 7: We're in, and we're pillaging the merch. Speaker 1: We wanted to give you something, actually. To restore the liberty of the peace was very expensive, guys. Do you feel like it was worth it? I mean, do you ever regret it and Speaker 0: go, why did I do Speaker 1: this thing just to make a stand for free speech? Or I think it was necessary. I think it's gonna turn out to be important. Speaker 4: We learned the hard way that censorship guards the narrative, not the truth. In fact, it guards the narrative at the expense of the truth. But the law only protects against government censorship. It hasn't caught up to the fact that the vast majority of public discourse now takes place on privately owned platforms. So where is the law that protects us from them? Now you have all of these different pressures on these platforms to try to get them to censor. Speaker 6: It used to be that, you know, you were defending somebody's right again to get up on a soapbox and and speak to a crowd. But now those crowds are online, and your soapbox is your Twitter profile. Speaker 7: That issue really is the question of, does the first amendment protect these companies from curating content? Are they like newspapers? They can publish anything they want and make editorial decisions. Or are they like the old phone company, common carriers, required by law to carry everybody's message whether they like it or not? Speaker 4: And the government applies, pressure through the backdoor saying, look, you know, you're allowing too much misinformation to spread. Speaker 7: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg claims he was pressured by the White House to censor content related to COVID 19 during the pandemic. Speaker 1: Zuckerberg saying, I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. Speaker 4: Like, you already see Brazil and Speaker 6: Australia and other countries fighting Elon tooth and nail and kinda like putting him on the spot demanding that he remove content at their request and stuff, and he's fighting them. But how long can that go on before those governments shut it down? Speaker 9: A Brazilian supreme court judge has ordered the immediate suspension of the social media platform X in Brazil, meaning people there can no longer access or use it. Speaker 4: The advertisers have so much control because of the amount of money that they wield. If they decide that you're not censoring enough, they can say, hey, look. We're not gonna spend money with you anymore because you're not censoring to our liking. Speaker 2: On that note, questions? Speaker 12: What responsibility do you think the current advertisers have? What would you encourage them to do? Should they all just leave? Do you think they can be a force for change? Speaker 3: I think advertisers are one of the most powerful forces influencing social media, and I believe they can use that power to affect positive change. I would encourage them to use it. All of the criticism, there was advertisers leaving. We talked to Bob. I got a Stop. Speaker 7: You hope Don't advertise. Speaker 3: You don't want them to advertise? No. Speaker 7: What do you mean? If somebody's gonna try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Speaker 4: The answer can't be that we have to wait around for 1 of the richest men or a group of the richest men in the world to come and buy the platform and say, say, no, we don't care about your advertiser dollars. We don't care if the government's trying to apply pressure on us. We're gonna safeguard speech at all costs. What are the chances of that ever happening? I can't believe it happened once. We certainly can't count on it ever happening again. The comedian's job is to poke holes in the popular narrative. If the popular narrative is off limits, then comedy itself is off limits, and that's basically where we find ourselves today. Speaker 0: Our speech is restricted to the point where we can't even joke about the insane ideas that Speaker 4: are being imposed on us from the to the point where we can't even joke about the insane ideas that are being imposed on us from the top down. The only reason Twitter is now an exception is because the world's richest man took matters into his own hands and declared comedy legal again. Speaker 0: Did you guys see that the former CEO of Taco Bell has taken over Cracker Barrel? That's kind of funny. Speaker 1: We're gonna have, like, Doritos Locos Fried Chicken. Locos Chicken Fried Steak. The bee has always been a group of guys smoking cigars in the garage, goofing around. Speaker 0: The bee is just going to continue to do what the bee does and throw bombs and be silly and will stay on as long as they'll let us. Speaker 4: I wanna continue to make people laugh, but I also wanna continue to make them think about the importance of safeguarding the right to go out of lockstep with whatever the popular narrative is and challenge it and poke and poke holes in it and refute it and, yes, even ridicule it when necessary.
Saved - March 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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I just celebrated a significant victory in my First Amendment lawsuit against California AG Rob Bonta. The Ninth Circuit issued a permanent injunction against AB 587, a law intended to regulate speech on social media, effectively blocking its enforcement. This ruling is a landmark win for free speech, and I'm proud to be the only major platform that challenged this law and emerged victorious. My commitment to fighting censorship continues to set me apart in the social media landscape.

@MarioNawfal - Mario Nawfal

🚨🇺🇸X WINS FIRST AMENDMENT FIGHT AGAINST CALIFORNIA—PERMANENT INJUNCTION BLOCKS CENSORSHIP LAW X just secured a major victory in its First Amendment lawsuit against California AG Rob Bonta, blocking the enforcement of AB 587, a law aimed at regulating speech on social media. The Ninth Circuit ruled in X’s favor, issuing a permanent injunction against the law—marking a landmark win for free speech. No other platform challenged the law, but X stood alone and won. Elon’s platform remains the only major social media company actively fighting censorship—and winning. Source: @GlobalAffairs

@MarioNawfal - Mario Nawfal

🇺🇸 ELON: KAMALA REGIME WOULD SHUT DOWN X "If Kamala wins, the boycott against X will get stronger. A Kamala-controlled regime wouldn’t allow X to exist. They’d use the DOJ, claiming 'hate speech' and 'misinformation,' while they’re the ones pushing misinformation." Source: @joerogan

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If Kamala wins, the boycott against X will intensify, potentially leading to its shutdown. A Kamala-led administration wouldn't allow X to continue operating. Is there a way to shut it down? Absolutely. The Department of Justice could be weaponized, filing massive lawsuits under the guise of combating "hate speech" and "misinformation." Despite being the actual source of misinformation, this wouldn't deter them from using the DOJ to target X.
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Speaker 0: If if Kamala wins, we'll see that boycott get stronger. And and they'll they'll freaking shut down. There's no way that that the sort of Kamala Kamala public regime would allow x to exist. You really think that they'll be able to shut it down, though? Is there a pathway to that? Yes. What would they do? Well, I mean, they can just they can stick the DOJ on on you know, and say, like you know, they've heard this whole thing about, like, hate speech, misinformation, whatever, except that they're they're the ones pushing the misinformation. But that doesn't stop them from filing massive, you know, lawsuits and and using the DOJ.

@MarioNawfal - Mario Nawfal

🇺🇸ELON: THIS ELECTION IS A FORK IN THE ROAD OF DESTINY "I see this election as a crucial turning point. Just a few swing states often decide outcomes with margins as small as 10-20k votes. But the current administration has been moving vast numbers of illegals into these… https://t.co/lSKa2SWCLc

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This election is a critical turning point, and it's why I've become politically active now. I believe that failing to elect Trump will result in the loss of democracy and the two-party system in the US. There are only a handful of swing states where the margin of victory is very small. The current administration is bringing large numbers of undocumented immigrants into these states. You can see the numbers on government websites. The increases in the number of illegals are enormous, in some cases up to 700%. If a state has a 10 or 20,000 vote margin and you add 200,000 illegals, it's no longer a swing state.
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Speaker 0: I view this election as a turning point, like a fork in the road of destiny that is, incredibly important. You know, I've not I've not been politically active until this election. And the reason I've been politically active this election is because I think if we don't if we don't elect Trump, I think we I think we will lose, we will act we will lose democracy in this country. We will we will lose the two party system. And let me explain why. So there's there's only, like, six six or seven swing states. The the the margin of victory in those states is small, often, like, 10 or 20,000 votes. What the the the Democrat administration has been doing is importing vast numbers of illegals into swing states. You can look at the numbers on the actual government website, meaning you don't take my word for it. You'll just look look at the numbers as reported by the government, which is controlled by the Democrats. And and what we're seeing is triple digit increases in the number of legals in every swing state. Some cases, 700% increases. These are these are gigantic numbers. So if you if you if you have a state that was that that went that that has a 10 or 20,000 vote margin and you put 200,000 illegals into that state, you 10 x the the you you swamp the it's it's not a swing state anymore.
Saved - April 16, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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It's hard to overstate the significance of recent changes regarding free speech. For years, the State Department engaged in a global censorship operation, targeting not just foreign propaganda but also American voices. This censorship, often disguised as combating "disinformation," has threatened Western freedom. My legal battle against the Biden administration revealed extensive ties between government agencies and third-party censors. Now, with a supportive administration, we are dismantling this censorship enterprise, marking a crucial victory for free speech, especially online.

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

It's hard to overstate how big this is. For years, the State Department ran a global censorship operation—not just in America, but across the West. Now, it's pushing free speech instead. Here's why this matters. 🧵

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

The "disinformation" and "hate speech" industry is one of the top threats to Western freedom today. "From its very beginnings," @SecRubio writes, this industry "has existed to protect the American establishment from the voices of forgotten Americans."

@SecRubio - Secretary Marco Rubio

Over the past half decade, our own governing ruling class nearly destroyed America's long free speech history. Today, we are putting that to an end. https://thefederalist.com/2025/04/16/rubio-to-protect-free-speech-the-censorship-industrial-complex-must-be-dismantled/

Rubio: To Protect Free Speech, The Censorship Complex Must Die No matter what name it goes by, the Global Engagement Center is dead. It will not return. thefederalist.com

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

As Attorney General of Missouri, I sued the Biden admin for working with Big Tech to censor conservatives. We took them all the way to the Supreme Court. That case—Missouri v. Biden—led to the release of thousands of pages of documents detailing a vast censorship enterprise. https://t.co/YffN43srog

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

Piece by piece, we uncovered exactly how this system worked. Under Biden, government agencies funded an army of third-party censors and "disinformation" groups to do what they couldn't legally do themselves—censor American speech. More details here: https://t.co/vNDBYyAo8r

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

The Left spent the past decade building a vast censorship enterprise. A shadowy network of NGOs, tech groups and governments working to censor the Left's enemies—not just in America, but across the West. Over the next four years, the GOP must expose + dismantle this system. 🧵 https://t.co/XH2EkdGaoM

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

One of the nerve centers of this censorship machine was the State Department's Global Engagement Center (GEC). Founded under Obama, the GEC was originally billed as a way to combat FOREIGN propaganda. But it began to target Americans—under the guise of fighting "disinformation." https://t.co/i8LTeUKzcB

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

And it wasn't just Americans. The GEC funded and worked with powerful NGOs pushing speech restrictions and creating advertiser blacklists—designed to crush conservative media—across the West. Your tax dollars were funding a global war against conservatives. As Rubio writes: https://t.co/1I03Q8VCks

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

These people were very good at burying their radicalism in neutral, harmless euphemisms—"disinformation," "information integrity," etc. But in practice, they were almost exclusively going after right-wing speech. This was an international effort to silence criticism of the Left.

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

For example: One GEC-funded group, the London-based Global Disinformation Index, compiled blacklists of media outlets to feed to advertisers—essentially a form of financial warfare against disfavored outlets. The top 10 outlets on its "disinformation" list were all on the right. https://t.co/sdjGwfu3dF

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

Last year, I led a fight in Congress to shutter the GEC for good. The agency was supposed to sunset at the end of 2024. But the Biden State Department simply renamed it, kept all the same employees, and tried to smuggle it into the next administration. https://t.co/Zfmi7fDTys

@SenEricSchmitt - Senator Eric Schmitt

The Global Engagement Center must be excluded from any subsequent piece of legislation for the remainder of the 118th Congress. The American people deserve to know their First Amendment rights are being protected. https://t.co/dxU8V5clAz

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

That's how the administrative state works. It morphs and adapts to protect itself. But now, those of us in Congress who pushed for these reforms have an administration that shares our goals. As Rubio writes today: "Whatever name it goes by, GEC is dead. It will not return." https://t.co/M0VsQrrfAN

@Eric_Schmitt - Eric Schmitt

This is a huge step in dismantling the Left's censorship enterprise. Free speech—and in particular, free speech online—is one of the major battlefields of our time. It's one of the fights that will define whether we win or lose on everything else. It's a big, big win.

Saved - September 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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I’m excited to share that Google has committed to allowing all creators previously banned from YouTube for political speech violations to return. YouTube has acknowledged that the Biden Administration's pressure to censor was "unacceptable and wrong." They are rolling back censorship policies related to political speech, including COVID and elections, and promise not to use third-party fact-checkers in the future. This is a significant victory for free speech and accountability in Big Tech, and we will continue to advocate for these principles.

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

🚨BREAKING: Due to our oversight efforts, GOOGLE commits to offer ALL creators previously kicked off YouTube due to political speech violations to return to the platform. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL. Thread: https://t.co/60SsoCK2Yk

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

YouTube also: -Admits the Biden Admin censorship pressure was “unacceptable and wrong” -Confirms that the Biden Admin wanted Americans censored for speech that did not violate YouTube’s policies -Details when YouTube began rolling back its censorship policies on political speech after @JudiciaryGOP began its investigation -States that public debate should NEVER come at the expense of relying on “authorities” -Promises to NEVER use third-party “fact-checkers” -Warns that Europe’s censorship laws target AMERICAN companies and threaten AMERICAN speech

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

Over the past few years, we have uncovered massive scandals relating to Big Tech censorship. https://t.co/aUgWllkPUv

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

THE FACEBOOK FILES, PART 1: SMOKING-GUN DOCS PROVE FACEBOOK CENSORED AMERICANS BECAUSE OF BIDEN WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE 🧵 Thread:

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

During the Biden-Harris years, under White House pressure, YouTube changed its policies to censor political debate on COVID and elections. TODAY, YouTube admits that the censorship pressure from Biden Admin was “unacceptable and wrong.” https://t.co/dGfJK0T0oD

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

Now, to make amends to the American people, and because of our work, YouTube is rolling back its censorship policies on political speech, including topics such as COVID and elections. https://t.co/ni42Ze9dR4

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

What does that mean? Whether you were an established YouTube presence with a massive following like @dbongino or just were starting out to express political views there, YOU will have an opportunity to come back onto the platform if you were censored for engaging in political speech.

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

This is another victory in the fight against censorship. In Aug 2024, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote the Committee a letter admitting: 1. Biden Admin “pressured” Facebook to censor Americans. 2. Facebook censored Americans. 3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story. https://t.co/m2KqiWbY1A

@JudiciaryGOP - House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Mark Zuckerberg just admitted three things: 1. Biden-Harris Admin "pressured" Facebook to censor Americans. 2. Facebook censored Americans. 3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story. Big win for free speech.

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

Even as Meta admitted the Biden-Harris censorship was wrong, others in Big Tech were reluctant to go on the record. Now Google is acknowledging, for the first time, that it too faced censorship pressure from the Biden White House and that pressure was “unacceptable and wrong.”

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

But that’s not all. YouTube is making changes to its platform to prevent future censorship. YouTube is committing to the American people that it will NEVER use outside so-called “fact-checkers” to censor speech. No more telling Americans what to believe and not believe. https://t.co/MFIk0NIAiV

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

YouTube also is trying out Community Notes. @elonmusk was ahead of the curve. Meta followed suit. And now YouTube. https://t.co/1IHDqOKREY

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

And YouTube confirms that Europe is targeting American speech and innovation. Here it admits that European social-media laws place a “disproportionate regulatory burden on American companies.” https://t.co/bbuVnVseqJ

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

YouTube warns that Europe could force companies to remove LAWFUL social-media content and could risk freedom of expression “within and OUTSIDE of the EU.” That’s right. Europe wants to censor your online speech even if you aren’t in Europe! https://t.co/aRBvErnQ61

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

Google and YouTube credit @JudiciaryGOP for bringing transparency of and accountability for Big Tech’s censorship. We will continue to hold Big Tech accountable. https://t.co/lJiEalQZeE

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

All the above are MASSIVE wins for the American people, the First Amendment, and freedom. We won’t stop fighting to protect free speech.

Saved - September 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I’ve been reflecting on the alarming revelations surrounding censorship during the COVID pandemic. Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki admitted to removing over a million videos under pressure from the Biden administration, which she defended as necessary. This has exposed a troubling alliance between government and tech companies, undermining free speech and silencing dissent. The recent acknowledgment from Alphabet confirms that this was about control, not public health. I believe it’s crucial to support those who have been deplatformed for sharing their views and to fight for First Amendment rights for everyone.

@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji

🚨 1/MUST-WATCH: Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki admits they removed over 1 million COVID videos — while coordinating directly with Biden & Fauci. Even more disturbing: she doesn’t just defend the censorship, she pathologizes dissent — musing about whether “anti-vaxxers” should be psychoanalyzed for their behavior. This wasn’t “content moderation.” It was government-directed censorship at mass scale — erasing science, silencing citizens, and rewriting reality.🧵

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"When it comes to vaccines, vaccine hesitancy, videos that cause a public health risk, where do you wanna see YouTube do better?" "Well, first of we've taken responsibility very seriously." "And with regard to COVID and with regard to vaccines, that has been a top priority for us." "So first of all, we wanna make sure that if there's information that violates our policies we came up with 10 different policies around COVID." "Then if that's a violation of policies, then that's something that we'll remove." "We removed over a million videos associated with COVID." "Well, we did a event actually with the Biden administration, including president Biden himself, with a number of creators, Fauci as well."
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Speaker 0: When it comes to vaccines, vaccine hesitancy, videos that cause a public health risk, where do you wanna see YouTube do better? Speaker 1: Well, first of we've taken the we've taken responsibility very seriously. I've it's been one of my top priorities. And with regard to COVID and with regard to vaccines, that has been a top priority for us. And we have we have a number of different ways that we address that. So first of all, we wanna make sure that if there's information that violates our policies we came up with 10 different policies around COVID. Then if that's a violation of policies, then that's something that we'll remove. We removed over a million videos associated with COVID. Speaker 0: Have you talked to the Biden administration at all about vaccine hesitancy or or vaccine misinformation? Speaker 1: Well, we did a event actually with the Biden administration, including president Biden himself, with a number of creators, Fauci as well. Speaker 0: I wonder if there's anything that you see in, you know, the way that anti vaxxers behave on the platform, if there are any data or or insights there that could be helpful to people understanding where they're coming from? Speaker 1: I mean, we try to we try to understand what are the different ways that we can break through. So we talked about in this campaign that we did about getting back to the things that you love. So we what we really tried to do was get not just from the experts, but also people that, were not experts, but who were explaining, like, why did they take the vaccine? Why was that relevant for them? And what was their thought process?

@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji

2/ On Sept 23, 2025, Alphabet (Google/YouTube’s parent) finally CONFESSED in writing to @Jim_Jordan: ➡️ The Biden administration pressured them to censor lawful speech. ➡️ They called this pressure “unacceptable and wrong.” 🔥This is the smoking gun.

@Jim_Jordan - Rep. Jim Jordan

🚨BREAKING: Due to our oversight efforts, GOOGLE commits to offer ALL creators previously kicked off YouTube due to political speech violations to return to the platform. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL. Thread:

@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji

3/ For years, the so-called “Disinformation Dozen” were vilified, deplatformed, and erased . We said this wasn’t about health or misinformation. It was about CONTROL. Alphabet’s admission proves we were right all along.

@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji

🚨Intentionally spreading MISSING information has become a digital crime punishable by defamation and de-platforming, demonetization, law fare, 'black operations,' and threats of criminal prosecution. 🇺🇸The following US citizens courageously spoke up to share the truth about the Covid jabs, lockdown mandates, and advocated for bodily sovereignty, parental rights and informed medical choice. ☠️They were labeled "killers" by their own government, corporations, the global media, and foreign, dark money groups like the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), which deleted their accounts only days ago to remove evidence that would implicate their alleged illegal activities against US citizens, and their election interference. 🙌All of the citizens on this list have now been completely vindicated. Their bravery, dedication and commitment to sharing the truth saved many thousands of lives. ⁉️But why are they still deplatformed and defamed? Give this a share, and support those who were treated this way. 🎉Here are the 'trusted twelve' you should know about and follow: ✅Dr. Joseph Mercola @mercola ✅Sayer Ji @sayerjigmi ✅Robert F. Kennedy Jr. @RobertKennedyJr ✅Ty Bollinger @TyCharleneB ✅Charlene Bollinger @TyCharleneB ✅Dr. Sherri Tenpenny @BusyDrT ✅Rizza Islam @RizzaIslam ✅Dr. Rashid Buttar @DrButtar ✅Erin Elizabeth @unhealthytruth ✅Dr. Kelly Brogan @kellybroganmd ✅Dr. Christiane Northrup @DrChrisNorthrup ✅Dr. Ben Tapper @DrBenTapper1 ✅Kevin Jenkins @Kevdjenkins1963 🚨Also, when will X reinstate @greenmedinfo (http://www.Greenmedinfo.com's account)? - our handle of 13 years was deleted after CCDH directed Twitter 1.0 to remove it. @Safety @elonmusk #CCDH #informationdozen #trustedtwelve #disinfodozen #disinformationdozen #FARA #sovereignty

GreenMedInfo | Alternative Medicine | Vitamin Research | Natural The world's most widely referenced, evidence-based, natural health resource with over 10,000 health topics and 95,000 peer reviewed abstracts. greenmedinfo.com

@sayerjigmi - Sayer Ji

4/ My deep-dive article breaks it all down: 🔎 Alphabet’s confession 🔎 Susan Wojcicki’s chilling brag 🔎 The global censorship-industrial complex 🔎 Why our federal civil rights lawsuit is the road to justice 📖 Read here ➡️ https://sayerji.substack.com/p/breaking-big-tech-admits-censorship

BREAKING: Big Tech Admits Censorship Was ‘Unacceptable and Wrong’ — Our Lawsuit Fights for Justice In a historic plot twist, Alphabet (who owns Google and Youtube) admits to grave wrong-doing against the countless Americans it deplatformed on behalf of the government sayerji.substack.com

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5/ This fight is bigger than me. It’s about restoring the First Amendment for EVERY American. No citizen should ever be erased because their views are politically inconvenient. ⚖️ Join us. Share this. Support the lawsuit. The road to accountability starts NOW. Let's do this! Learn more: https://sayerji.substack.com/p/on-trial-for-truth-replay-of-live @DrChrisNorthrup @unhealthytruth @RizzaIslam @DrBenTapper1 @DrChrisNorthrup @mercola @RobertKennedyJr @TTAVOfficial @greenmedinfo @standforhealth1 @G_W_Forum

🔥 🔥 On Trial for TRUTH: Replay of Live Conversation with the Trusted Twelve They called them the “Disinformation Dozen” and tried to erase them from the internet. They failed, and they are coming back stronger than ever now on behalf of FREE SPEECH and SOVEREIGNTY. sayerji.substack.com

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This was the May 2021 meeting where YouTube staged a so-called “Town Hall” with President Biden, Dr. Fauci, and hand-picked influencers. Marketed as “conversation,” it was in truth a state-sanctioned propaganda event: the White House partnered with a private platform that was simultaneously banning dissenting voices, narrowing what Americans could see and hear to only government-approved talking points. This is not free speech — it is viewpoint discrimination directed by the state and enforced by Big Tech. Events like this expose the architecture of a censorship regime where government power merges with corporate control to erase debate under the guise of “public health.” The Constitution forbids the government from outsourcing its censorship to private actors, yet this is exactly what happened. What was presented as outreach was, in fact, an egregious violation of civil liberties — a calculated move in a global campaign to weaponize “disinformation” as a pretext for silencing dissent and manufacturing consent. https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/white-house-youtube-town-hall/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

President Biden and Dr. Fauci join YouTube creators Jackie Aina, MannyMUA and Brave Wilderness to discuss COVID-19 vaccines and debunk myths Inside President Biden's YouTube Town Hall on COVID-19 vaccination and more on our efforts to reach younger Americans. blog.youtube

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🚨FLASHBACK🚨 In 2021, the White House + YouTube used beauty influencers to push COVID shots: 💄 Manny MUA (with ~5m followers): “I have dose one and two. I am fully vaccinated.” 👨‍⚕️ Fauci: kids “are not exempt” & must get vaccinated. 🇺🇸 Biden: young people have an “obligation” to get the shot ❌This was propaganda disguised as lifestyle content. Now Alphabet admits Biden’s censorship pressure was “unacceptable and wrong.” The influencer campaign wasn’t about health. It was about control. Our lawsuit fights back — for us, and for every American silenced. 👉Learn and support this historic federal civil rights case here: https://sayerji.substack.com/p/breaking-big-tech-admits-censorship #FreeSpeech #Censorship #DisinformationDozen

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There's a lot of rumors that are going around that young and healthy people don't need to get the vaccine. You should save it for people who are a little bit older. "There’s a syndrome that we refer to as long COVID, which means you get a syndrome following the clearing of the virus where it could be for months and months that you have symptoms that are profound fatigue, muscle aches, temperature dysregulation, and even an inability to focus or concentrate." "So for the person themselves to protect themselves. But then there's also the responsibility that you have of not being part of spreading the infection throughout the community. So you almost wanna take what I call a societal responsibility. Protecting children also protects society." "And, by the way, we have enough supply of vaccine. We don't have to worry about it. Everybody can get vaccinated."
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Speaker 0: There's a lot of rumors that are going around that young and healthy people don't need to get the vaccine. You should save it for people who are a little bit older. What do you guys think about that? Both of your guys' thoughts. Speaker 1: Well, certainly, young children, even though, statistically, when they get infected, it's unlikely that they would have a serious disease compared to an elderly person or a person who has an underlying condition. But they are not exempt from getting serious illness. So you want to protect the youngsters, be they adolescents, be they young children. You want to protect them. There's no doubt about it. The other thing that I think people don't appreciate is that even with people who get mild disease or very few symptoms, there's a syndrome that we refer to as long COVID, which means you get a syndrome following the clearing of the virus where it could be for months and months that you have symptoms that are profound fatigue, muscle aches, temperature dysregulation, and even an inability to focus or concentrate. So for the person themselves to protect themselves. But then there's also the responsibility that you have of not being part of spreading the infection throughout the community. So you almost wanna take what I call a societal responsibility. Protecting children also protects society. Speaker 2: And, Manny, I think that young people, at least, I think every generation, that's where most of the idealism comes from. And I think it's an obligation, an obligation to help your fellow man, an obligation to make sure that even if it's only a small percentage possibility that you could be a carrier of and spread the disease, that you have an obligation. That's what I you know, one of the reasons I'm so incredibly optimistic about the future, and I'm not being solicitous when I say this, is that we have the most generous, the most informed, the most caring generation coming up. And it's not just people who are, you know, 14, 15, 16, but people in their twenties and early thirties. So I I think it's, you know, it's and by the way, we have enough supply of vaccine. We don't have to worry about it. Everybody can get vaccinated. And I'm not gonna ask you, but you should too. Speaker 0: I'm fully vaccinated, just so you're aware. Speaker 2: Alright. Well, good. We're Speaker 0: in. I have dose one and two. Speaker 2: Alright. Great. Speaker 0: So I am good.
BREAKING: Big Tech Admits Censorship Was ‘Unacceptable and Wrong’ — Our Lawsuit Fights for Justice In a historic plot twist, Alphabet (who owns Google and Youtube) admits to grave wrong-doing against the countless Americans it deplatformed on behalf of the government sayerji.substack.com

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Indeed, these 'researchers' amplified a fake report by CCDH (a UK-US intelligence cutout who laundered civil rights violations on behalf of governments and corporations) which had a 1300 FOLD error, yet it was used by the research community in a dozen or more peer-reviewed and published studies to further crystallize the lies against us: https://greenmedinfo.com/content/disinformation-publication-case-study-academic-failure1

From Disinformation to Publication: A Case Study in Academic Failure From Disinformation to Publication: A Case Study in Academic Failure In the realm of academic publishing, a 1460-fold error should raise more than eyebrows--it should sound alarms. Yet, at the 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022, sponsored by SIGWEB, such a colossal miscalculation found its way into the proceedings, calling into question the very foundations of academic integrity in the digital age. greenmedinfo.com
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