{"id":1520824,"date":"2022-06-17T14:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T18:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520824"},"modified":"2022-06-17T14:04:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T18:04:16","slug":"attorney-generals-demand-biden-admin-stop-colluding-with-big-tech-to-censor-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/attorney-generals-demand-biden-admin-stop-colluding-with-big-tech-to-censor-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney Generals Demand Biden Admin Stop Colluding With Big Tech To Censor Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fattorney-generals-demand-biden-admin-stop-colluding-with-big-tech-to-censor-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1520824&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/pexels-thought-catalog-2228555.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Attorneys general in Missouri and Louisiana filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/ago.mo.gov\/docs\/default-source\/press-releases\/doc-11-1---plaintiffs-mis-of-motion-for-pi.pdf?sfvrsn=75b49d9e_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">motion for preliminary injunction<\/a> this week demanding a court stop Big Tech companies from colluding with the federal government to inform their political censorship sprees, after the White House has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/07\/19\/white-house-says-nothing-off-the-table-when-it-comes-to-using-big-tech-to-silence-dissent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeatedly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/07\/15\/white-house-brags-about-colluding-with-tech-oligarchs-to-suppress-dissent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bragged<\/a> about exploiting its relationships with social media companies to suppress information the Biden administration deems \u201cproblematic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the motion, Missouri AG Eric Schmitt and Louisiana AG Jeff Landry argue that the Biden administration, in partnership with Meta (formerly Facebook), Twitter, Google\u2019s YouTube, and other Silicon Valley giants, has taken advantage of Big Tech\u2019s grip on the social media platform market to suppress any speech contrary to their chosen narrative. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreedom of speech is the very bedrock of this great nation, and needs to be protected and preserved. The federal government\u2019s alleged attempts to collude with social media companies to censor free speech should terrify Missourians and Americans alike,\u201d Schmitt said in a statement. \u201cThe federal government must be halted from silencing any more Americans, and this motion for preliminary injunction intends to do just that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fed-inspired decision to \u201cshadow-ban, de-platform, de-monetize, de-boost, restrict content access, and suspend many speakers, both temporarily and permanently,\u201d a press release announcing the motion states, has silenced people \u201cfrom doctors and scientists, to the owner of a conservative radio show, to everyday Americans who dare to voice their opinion in the public sphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As noted by the state attorneys, it was during the height of the government\u2019s panic over Covid-19 that Big Tech censored the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration who criticized the bureaucrats calling for continuous national lockdowns. The \u201cextensive social-media censorship on multiple platforms\u201d endured by authors such as Dr. Martin Kulldorff and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya came shortly after emails between then-Director of the National Institutes of Health Dr. Francis Collins and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci demanding a \u201cquick and devastating \u2026 takedown\u201d of the group\u2019s criticism.<\/p>\n<p>The motion follows a complaint from the state attorneys last month against the Biden administration and other federal officials for engaging in \u201copen and explicit censorship programs\u201d such as the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s \u201cDisinformation Governance Board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving threatened and cajoled social-media platforms for years to censor viewpoints and speakers disfavored by the Left, senior government officials in the Executive Branch have moved into a phase of open collusion with social-media companies to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content on social-media platforms under the Orwellian guise of halting so-called \u2018disinformation,\u2019 \u2018misinformation,\u2019 and \u2018malinformation,\u2019\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/ago.mo.gov\/docs\/default-source\/press-releases\/mo-la-v-biden-filed-petition.pdf?sfvrsn=3d20bca5_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original petition states.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys general in Missouri and Louisiana filed a motion for preliminary injunction this week demanding a court stop Big Tech companies from colluding with the federal government to inform their<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1520824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}