{"id":1973732,"date":"2023-07-15T00:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T04:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-scores-victory-against-order-blocking-contact-with-social-media-companies\/"},"modified":"2023-07-15T00:32:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T04:32:06","slug":"biden-administration-scores-victory-against-order-blocking-contact-with-social-media-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-scores-victory-against-order-blocking-contact-with-social-media-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration triumphs over order hindering contact with social media firms."},"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\">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%2Fbiden-administration-scores-victory-against-order-blocking-contact-with-social-media-companies%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=1973732&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>The Biden Administration Receives Reprieve from Judge&#8217;s Order Blocking Contact with Social Media Companies<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration received a reprieve on Friday from a judge&#8217;s order blocking several government agencies and officials from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-blocks-biden-officials-from-contacting-social-media-companies-report\/\" title=\"Federal judge stops Biden officials from contacting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-poll-watcher-it-expert-non-trump-supporter-affidavit-sudden-surge-of-20000-mail-in-votes-for-biden-in-early-hours-on-nov\/\" title=\"GA Poll Watcher, IT Expert, Non-Trump Supporter Affidavit: Sudden Surge of 20,000 Mail-In-Votes For Biden In Early Hours On Nov\">social media companies<\/a>: Report&#8221;>contacting social media companies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted a temporary stay &#8220;until further orders&#8221; are given and called for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-scores-victory-against-order-blocking-contact-with-social-media-companies\/\" title=\"Biden administration triumphs over order hindering contact with social media firms.\">expediting oral arguments<\/a> in the case, which now appear to be set for August 10.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The ruling is part of a lawsuit brought in 2022 by the GOP attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri over alleged collusion between the federal government and social media companies such as Twitter and YouTube to censor &#8220;disfavored&#8221; speech in violation of the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, who was nominated to his position by former President Donald Trump, granted a preliminary injunction on July 4 while recognizing allegations of coordinated suppression of information on a range of topics ranging from COVID to elections labeled by the defendants as &#8220;misinformation,&#8221; &#8220;disinformation,&#8221; or &#8220;malinformation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The order restricted a number of officials, including White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and agencies from meeting or communicating with social media companies for the purpose of &#8220;urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing&#8221; in any manner the &#8220;removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech.&#8221; Some exceptions related to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-to-appeal-judges-order-blocking-contact-with-social-media-companies\/\" title=\"Biden admin to challenge judge's order on social media contact.\">flagging criminal behavior<\/a>, national security concerns, and election tampering were included in the order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must build a wall of separation between tech and state to preserve our First Amendment right to free, fair, and open debate,&#8221; said Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who called the judge&#8217;s order &#8220;a huge win for the right to freely speak without government censorship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DOJ lawyers responded by filing a notice of appeal and asking for a stay from the appeals court after Doughty rejected the request for a pause. Their filing said the preliminary injunction would &#8220;cause the government and thus the public to suffer irreparable injury&#8221; while raising concerns about the ban being too vague and overbroad.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1688648178298000&#038;usg=AOvVaw10v0UGh9BJZV8inaPuI6t7\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to continue to promote responsible actions to protect public health, safety, and security when confronted by challenges like a deadly pandemic and foreign attacks on our election,&#8221; Jean-Pierre told reporters last week.<\/p>\n<p>She added that social media companies have a &#8220;critical responsibility&#8221; to take account of the effects their platforms have on the American people and to &#8220;make independent choices about the information they present.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration got a break as a judge&#8217;s order to halt communication between government agencies and social media companies was temporarily stayed by a three-judge panel. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans expedited oral arguments while granting the stay &#8220;until further orders.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1973733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1973732","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1973733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}