{"id":2031814,"date":"2023-09-14T13:36:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T17:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-pause-ruling-banning-big-tech-collusion\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T13:38:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T17:38:12","slug":"biden-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-pause-ruling-banning-big-tech-collusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-pause-ruling-banning-big-tech-collusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration seeks Supreme Court&#8217;s intervention on Big Tech collusion ban."},"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-asks-supreme-court-to-pause-ruling-banning-big-tech-collusion%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=2031814&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 \u2063Biden Administration Seeks \u200cSupreme Court Intervention in Big Tech Censorship Case<\/h2>\n<p>The\u200d Biden administration has made a significant move in the ongoing battle over online censorship by requesting the Supreme Court to halt an \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-rushes-appeal-against-court-ruling-in-effort-to-keep-censorship-regime-intact\/\" title=\"Biden admin swiftly appeals court ruling to maintain censorship regime.\">appeals court\u200b ruling<\/a>. This\u200b ruling found that\u200d key officials had &#8220;coerced&#8221; Big Tech \u2062companies into engaging in censorship practices.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2064Justice \u2063Department has asked the high court to stay the injunction imposed by the U.S. \u2064Court of Appeals for \u200cthe 5th Circuit. This injunction upheld a portion of\u2064 a federal district court \u200druling that limited communication between\u2063 several administration officials and\u2063 <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> \u200bregarding \u2062content moderation.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenging the \u200cOverreach<\/h3>\n<p>Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, representing \u200bSurgeon General\u2062 Vivek Murthy, argued that the injunction\u200c entered\u200d by the\u2063 lower courts was overly broad, even if the respondents had standing and a \u2063likelihood of success on the merits. The filing \u2064emphasized the \u2063need to address the excessive scope \u2062of the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>A three<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-pause-ruling-banning-big-tech-collusion\/\" title=\"Biden administration seeks Supreme Court's intervention on Big Tech collusion ban.\">-judge panel unanimously upheld \u2063key \u2062portions<\/a> of a preliminary injunction against federal interference\u2064 with content moderation on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-celebrate-medicare-anniversary-with-attacks-on-republicans\/\" title=\"Senate Democrats mark Medicare anniversary by criticizing Republicans.\">social media\u200d platforms<\/a>. \u200dThe panel\u2063 agreed that officials, including Murthy, \u2064the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the FBI, had exerted pressure\u200d on platforms to\u2064 suppress speech deemed dangerous or misleading.<\/p>\n<p>The 5th Circuit also concluded that the injunction \u200cissued by U.S. District \u2062Judge \u2064Terry Doughty\u200b in July was overly expansive, encompassing too many agencies.<\/p>\n<h3>Supreme Court&#8217;s Involvement<\/h3>\n<p>Earlier \u200cthis\u2063 week, \u2062the Supreme Court scheduled\u2062 the case,\u200d Missouri v. Biden, for consideration on\u2063 October 6. The justices will decide \u2062whether to grant a \u2063writ of certiorari, which\u2062 would allow for \u200boral arguments.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed by former \u2064Missouri Attorney General \u200cEric Schmitt and \u200dLouisiana Attorney General Jeff\u2062 Landry, alleges collusion between the federal government and social media \u200cgiants like Twitter and Meta to suppress freedom \u2063of speech.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will \u200dbe updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration seeks to halt a court ruling that accused officials of pressuring Big Tech firms into online censorship. 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