I’ve recently posted twice on the case of Missouri v. Biden, in which
the states of Missouri and Louisiana — along with four private
plaintiffs (Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, the non-profit Health
Freedom Louisiana, and yours truly) represented by the New Civil
Liberties Alliance — are suing the Biden Administration for alleged free
speech violations. Specifically, the executive branch of the federal
government has been colluding with social media to censor any content on
social media platforms — Twitter, YouTube (owned by Google), and
LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft), Facebook and Instagram (both owned by
Meta) — any content that questions, challenges, or contradicts the
government’s covid policies.
While private companies might
arguably choose to censor content on their platforms, the government
cannot pressure or coerce private companies to censor disfavored
content. Any such action is clearly a violation of the free speech
guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution. As we
articulate in our latest legal brief: “Under the First Amendment, the
federal Government should have no role in policing private speech or
picking winners and losers in the marketplace of ideas. But that is what
federal officials are doing, on a massive scale.”...
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