{"id":2212787,"date":"2024-04-04T07:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T11:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/net-neutrality-could-expand-bidens-social-media-censorship-to-the-whole-internet\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T07:50:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T11:50:28","slug":"net-neutrality-could-expand-bidens-social-media-censorship-to-the-whole-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/net-neutrality-could-expand-bidens-social-media-censorship-to-the-whole-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Social Media Censorship Could Extend to the Entire Internet through Net Neutrality"},"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%2Fnet-neutrality-could-expand-bidens-social-media-censorship-to-the-whole-internet%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=2212787&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--><p>The\u2062 Supreme Court recently debated a critical case with significant implications \u2062for free speech rights in the\u2063 digital era. The case, Murthy v. Missouri, centers \u2064on the Biden administration&#8217;s actions \u2064to \u2064influence \u200bsocial media \u2062censorship. This discussion also ties into the potential impact of \u2062&#8217;Net Neutrality&#8217; regulations, \u2063raising concerns about government control over the \u200dinternet and its consequences on\u2062 ISPs \u200band users.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>The Supreme Court recently heard oral argument in one of the most important cases this term, one with critical implications for First Amendment free speech rights as society proceeds further into a world reliant upon internet service.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy at the heart of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2024\/03\/efforts-to-quell-online-disinformation-face-free-speech-challenge-at-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Murthy v. Missouri<\/em><\/a> is the Biden administration\u2019s effort to pressure or \u201cjawbone\u201d social media to censor various opinions and public policy advocacy about the Covid pandemic that it found objectionable. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2123530270\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-84a5bc4b54c180b98987670eac9b2f89 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-84a5bc4b54c180b98987670eac9b2f89\"><\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration naturally claims it was simply engaging in discourse with social media leaders to \u201cinform and persuade,\u201d but discovered correspondence included direct threats against the companies while White House officials openly and publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/09\/11\/the-5th-circuit-agrees-that-federal-officials-unconstitutionally-coerced-or-encouraged-online-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threatened<\/a> new \u201clegal and regulatory measures\u201d if the targeted groups failed to submit to its desires. <\/p>\n<p>Those revelations only confirm widespread suspicion that the left-leaning administrative state, favored and further empowered by the Biden administration, seeks to exploit its vast authority to suppress the speech of Americans who don\u2019t share its preferred narratives or big-government goals.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court must now determine whether that White House pressure campaign crossed the line into unconstitutional intimidation and censorship, even without formal government prosecution or enforcement.\u00a0Under applicable Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/372\/58\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">precedent<\/a>, the Biden administration\u2019s form of \u201cinformal censorship may sufficiently inhibit the circulation of publications to warrant injunctive relief,\u201d even where the targeted groups are \u201cfree\u201d to ignore its threats, because \u201cpeople do not lightly disregard officers\u2019 thinly veiled threats.\u201d <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Government Censorship with \u2018Net Neutrality\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The case assumes additional importance amid the Federal Communications Commission\u2019s (FCC) attempt to resurrect the discredited Title II \u201cnet neutrality\u201d regulations that would designate internet service as a \u201cpublic utility\u201d subject to federal micromanagement under Depression-era statutes meant for obsolete copper-wire telephone service. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-fdab6b2c15aea026e044ff46d6a95a93 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-fdab6b2c15aea026e044ff46d6a95a93\"><\/div>\n<p>What could possibly go wrong by placing one of the nation\u2019s most dynamic economic sectors under greater control of federal bureaucracies? <\/p>\n<p>Actually, the idea was briefly imposed at the end of the Obama administration, and the results were immediate and destructive: For the first time in history outside of an economic recession, private broadband investment declined.\u00a0After the Trump administration rescinded the Title II rules and returned to the longstanding \u201clight touch\u201d internet service regulations, internet investment resumed and internet performance accelerated and even outperformed all expectations through the Covid pandemic. This week, the FCC announced it will vote later this month to revert to Obama-era \u201cnet neutrality\u201d rules.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, many Supreme Court observers suggest that the justices\u2019 behavior during oral argument in <em>Murthy<\/em> last week indicated the court may be reluctant to fully condemn and remedy the Biden administration\u2019s assault on First Amendment free speech rights. That makes it even more important for Americans to awaken to how Title II \u201cnet neutrality\u201d would give the Biden administration new and powerful tools to exercise political control over the internet. <\/p>\n<p>As noted above, reimposing those \u201cnet neutrality\u201d regulations upon internet service providers (ISPs) would allow the federal government to dictate the types of services offered and even the prices that could be charged.\u00a0In turn, that would allow federal bureaucrats the authority to penalize ISPs that fail to toe the administration\u2019s line versus other more compliant ISPs. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b04ee3068917a0b19e67540b98039813 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-b04ee3068917a0b19e67540b98039813\"><\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration claims it would never use its Title II \u201cnet neutrality\u201d powers to set prices. As we at the Center for Individual Freedom have recently highlighted, however, rate regulation is precisely what the Biden Commerce Department has sought to impose through its implementation of broadband expansion programs within the 2021 infrastructure bill, despite the statute explicitly prohibiting it, and despite sworn testimony before the Senate from Commerce Department officials foreswearing the same.<\/p>\n<p>Watch what the Biden administration does, not what it says, even in sworn Senate testimony. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Enforcing \u2018Digital Equity\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>As another example of gross regulatory misconduct, the FCC, under the guise of \u201cdigital equity,\u201d continues to move forward with unworkable and legally questionable racial discrimination rules that measure any unequal outcomes as evidence of intentional discrimination. Once again, the FCC foreswears any effort to exploit its authority to enforce its divisive agenda, but that same FCC also just demanded that broadcast companies provide government reports on the racial makeup of their labor forces.<\/p>\n<p>Again, focus on what they do, not what they say.<\/p>\n<p>Collectively, all of this reveals how the Biden administration seeks to create a political environment in which speech from those with whom the administration disagrees politically is suppressed or censored, even if that is accomplished via third parties in the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>What the Biden administration wants is obvious. The question is why Americans would ever allow its growing administrative state vast new powers like Title II \u201cnet neutrality\u201d to accomplish it. <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-44e69b9992744f7debf32d4dcb10327b fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-44e69b9992744f7debf32d4dcb10327b\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a crucial case this term, the Supreme Court heard arguments with significant implications for free speech rights in the digital age. The Murthy v. 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