{"id":1789338,"date":"2022-12-29T07:48:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T12:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1789338"},"modified":"2022-12-29T07:48:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T12:48:20","slug":"courts-wont-stop-the-feds-from-deputizing-big-tech-the-people-must","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/courts-wont-stop-the-feds-from-deputizing-big-tech-the-people-must\/","title":{"rendered":"Courts Won\u2019t Stop The Feds From Deputizing Big Tech\u2014The People Must"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fcourts-wont-stop-the-feds-from-deputizing-big-tech-the-people-must%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=1789338&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-->\n<p>Publication of internal communications as part of the ongoing series \u201cTwitter Files\u201d reveals a government bent on propaganda and censorship\u2014and a Big Tech industry willing to play along. Every new thread reveals the inner workings of Twitter and the close relationship between our government and it. This is a sign that the political right is more vocal about First Amendment violations.<\/p>\n<p>However, the First Amendment is not the only solution to the problem. In fact, it may not even have been violated. Americans are right to be outraged, but the solution doesn\u2019t rest in constitutional claims. The best solution lies in a revival of the values and freedoms of speech and press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwitter, The FBI Subsidiary\u201d The spot-on title that independent journalist Matt Taibbi created for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi\/status\/1603881787926917120\">thread<\/a> He published two weeks back a detailed account of the hand-in\u2013glove relationship between Twitter and the FBI. But as Taibbi\u2019s Christmas Eve sequel, \u201cTwitter And \u2018Other Government Agencies,\u2019\u201d revealed, it wasn\u2019t just the FBI using Twitter as a corporate underling, nor is it just Twitter the government appropriates for this purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Taibbi reports that rather, \u201cTwitter Files\u201d \u201cshow the FBI acting as doorman to a vast program of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government \u2013 from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA.\u201d Beyond Twitter \u201cFacebook, Microsoft, Verizon, Reddit, even Pinterest, and many others,\u201d As well as \u201cindustry players also held regular meetings\u201d Taibbi spoke out in support of the government.<\/p>\n<p>The internal documents released by Twitter\u2019s new owner, Elon Musk, also <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/12\/20\/twitter-boosted-pentagon-propaganda-efforts-in-middle-east\/\">exposed<\/a> the U.S. government\u2019s use of Twitter, and by extension other social media giants, \u201cto carry out a covert online propaganda and influence campaign\u201d To shape the future. \u201cpublic opinion in countries including Yemen, Syria, Iraq, and Kuwait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier \u201cTwitter Files\u201d Also confirmed was \u201ccovert online propaganda and influence campaign\u201d They reached closer to home. They were they showed the FBI falsely framing the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation to prompt Twitter and Facebook to censor the damning evidence of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden\u2019s pay-to-play scandal, thereby influencing the 2020 presidential campaign. The \u201cTwitter Files\u201d connected to Covid likewise revealed our government\u2019s willingness to use propaganda on her own citizens when bureaucrats believe it\u2019s warranted.<\/p>\n<p> This may not be considered a 1A violation by courts <\/p>\n<p>These details\u2014and more\u2014revealed over the last month paint a disturbing picture of a cozy relationship between the federal government and private platforms. They do not prove that the government violated First Amendment law according to current jurisprudence. Even more, if you examine the communications in the context of First Amendment jurisprudence, it is clear that the federal government took care to not cross the judicial line.<\/p>\n<p>Here, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas\u2019s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/orders\/courtorders\/040521zor_3204.pdf\">exposition<\/a> A necessary constitutional background is provided by the First Amendment when it comes to Twitter and other private entities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough a \u2018private entity is not ordinarily constrained by the First Amendment,\u2019\u201d Thomas explained, \u201cit is if the government coerces or induces it to take action the government itself would not be permitted to do, such as censor expression of a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Amendment, as currently interpreted, lacks the strength to stop the censorship and other Stasi-esque goals of the deep state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":1789341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[10123,12308,6919,6617,4370,12307,4324],"class_list":["post-1789338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-courts","tag-deputizing","tag-federalist","tag-feds","tag-people","tag-tech-the","tag-wont"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789338","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\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1789341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}