9/10/2023

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It is about time. The Tech media are harassing the conservatives big time.

It will be nice when we can walk by the grave yard and state – tech business is dead.

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PROTECTED SPEECH

Judges Find Administration Probably Violated Free Speech

Appeals panel limits reach of injunction on contacting social media sites over COVID posts

A federal appeals court delivered a mixed ruling to the Biden administration on its attempts to get social media sites to remove false information about COVID-19, cutting back a lower court’s injunction on the issue while saying the actions probably infringed on First Amendment protections. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit wrote that White House officials and the Office of the Surgeon General “coerced the platforms to make their moderation decisions by way of intimidating messages and threats of adverse consequences,” the New York Times reports.

At the same time, the judges found a preliminary injunction issued this summer that bars several administration officials and agencies from having almost any contact with social media companies was “vague and broader than necessary,” per CNN. The panel limited the order to the White House, Surgeon General’s Office, FBI, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The administration had argued that the government needs to be able to communicate with social media companies to help protect the public from COVID misinformation and threats to election security, for starters.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry praised the ruling as a victory over censorship. “It confirms what we have said from the very beginning: the federal government is not permitted to engage in viewpoint suppression, no matter your political ideology,” he said. White House officials said the Justice Department is reviewing the decision, per USA Today. The three judges on the panel are all Republican appointees. They put a 10-day hold on the ruling to allow time for an appeal to the Supreme Court. (Read more protected speech stories.)

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