{"id":1964601,"date":"2023-07-05T13:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T17:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/an-almost-dystopian-scenario-judge-says-bidens-social-media-censorship-likely-trampled-on-first-amendment\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T13:50:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T17:50:41","slug":"an-almost-dystopian-scenario-judge-says-bidens-social-media-censorship-likely-trampled-on-first-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/an-almost-dystopian-scenario-judge-says-bidens-social-media-censorship-likely-trampled-on-first-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge: Biden&#8217;s Social Media Censorship Likely Violated First Amendment"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fan-almost-dystopian-scenario-judge-says-bidens-social-media-censorship-likely-trampled-on-first-amendment%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=1964601&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--><h2>Federal Judge Rules Biden Administration Violated First Amendment<\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n      Anthony Fauci at Dec. 2020 Biden event (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A federal judge on Tuesday issued a broad ruling that bans the Biden administration from colluding with social media companies to censor online information, saying the collusion likely violated the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty &#8220;barred White House officials and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-bidens-tax-fueled-spending-spree\/\" title=\"Joe Biden\u2019s Tax-Fueled Spending Spree\">multiple federal agencies<\/a>&#8221; from working with social media companies to suppress &#8220;political views and other speech,&#8221; the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>That speech includes &#8220;disfavored views about COVID-19 health policies, the origins of the pandemic, the Hunter Biden laptop story, election security, and other divisive topics,&#8221; according to the lawsuit, brought by doctors and Republican state attorneys general. The doctors, epidemiologists who authored a declaration opposing the government&#8217;s lockdown policies, allege that former White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci &#8220;helped lead a campaign to discredit the declaration and suppress it on social media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reporting has confirmed the originally censored Hunter Biden laptop story, which at least one whistleblower says the FBI authenticated in November 2019, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> reported. Multiple federal agencies, including the FBI and the Department of Energy, now support the theory that a Chinese lab leak sparked the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci went to extraordinary lengths to dismiss the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-said-he-would-press-china-on-the-origins-of-covid-he-hasnt\/\" title=\"Biden Said He Would Press China on the Origins of COVID. He Hasn\u2019t.\">lab-leak theory<\/a>, even commissioning a paper opposing the theory and then pretending he was unfamiliar with the paper&#8217;s authors, the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Doughty&#8217;s ruling is a huge victory for the plaintiffs, who argued that the administration created a &#8220;federal censorship enterprise&#8221; to police what it considers to be disinformation. During the pandemic, the CDC &#8220;coordinated with social media companies and Google to censor users&#8221; with concerns about the COVID-19 vaccines, the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Both the lawsuit and Doughty&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/an-almost-dystopian-scenario-judge-says-bidens-social-media-censorship-likely-trampled-on-first-amendment\/\" title=\"Judge: Biden's Social Media Censorship Likely Violated First Amendment\">ruling cited email exchanges<\/a> between White House officials and social media executives. In one email, President Joe Biden&#8217;s then-director of digital strategy, Rob Flaherty, criticized YouTube for the &#8220;vaccine hesitancy&#8221; on its platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a concern that is shared at the highest (and I mean highest) levels&#8221; of the White House, Flaherty wrote to the company.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 is not the only issue on which the Biden administration colluded with Big Tech. Biden&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security last year solicited Twitter to &#8220;become involved&#8221; with its &#8220;Disinformation Governance Board,&#8221; which the administration shuttered following controversy over board director Nina Jankowicz&#8217;s views on free speech.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The evidence produced thus far depicts an almost dystopian scenario,&#8221; Doughty wrote, in which &#8220;the United States government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian &#8216;Ministry of Truth.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Published under:<\/strong><br \/>\n      <span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/anthony-fauci\/\" title=\"View all posts in Anthony Fauci\">Anthony Fauci<\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>,<br \/>\n      <span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/attorneys-general\/\" title=\"View all posts in Attorneys General\">Attorneys General<\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>,<br \/>\n      <span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/biden-administration\/\" title=\"View all posts in Biden Administration\">Biden Administration<\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>,<br \/>\n      <span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/big-tech\/\" title=\"View all posts in Big Tech\">Big Tech<\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>,<br \/>\n      <span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/cdc\/\" title=\"View all posts in CDC\">CDC<\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>,<br \/>\n      <span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/censorship\/\" title=\"View all posts in Censorship\">Censorship<\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>,<br \/>\n      <span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/department-of-homeland-security\/\" title=\"View all posts in Department of Homeland Security\">Department of Homeland Security<\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>,<br \/>\n      <span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/disinformation\/\" title=\"View all posts in disinformation\">disinformation<\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>,<br \/>\n      <span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/first-amendment\/\" title=\"View all posts in First Amendment\">First Amendment<\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>,<br \/>\n      <span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/lawsuit\/\" title=\"View all posts in Lawsuit\">Lawsuit<\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>,<br \/>\n      <span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/social-media\/\" title=\"View all posts in Social Media\">Social Media<\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>,<br \/>\n      <span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/twitter\/\" title=\"View all posts in Twitter\">Twitter<\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>,<br \/>\n      <span><br \/>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" title=\"View all posts in White House\">White House<\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge has prohibited the Biden administration from collaborating with social media companies to censor online content, stating that such collusion likely violates the First Amendment. 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