SCOTUS Temporarily Green-Lights Biden Admin Conspiring With Big Tech Censors
Free speech supporters got both good news and bad from the Supreme Court on Friday. The court agreed to look at whether a far-ranging censorship scheme directed by the Biden administration violates the U.S. Constitution.
However, the court blocked a lower court s temporary restriction on federal agencies participation in that scheme until the case is decided, expected to be sometime before the end of June. That lifting of the ban means the Biden administration can resume directing Big Tech companies to censor Americans speech and debate.
[W]hat the Court has done, I fear, will be seen by some as giving the Government a green light to use heavy-handed tactics to skew the presentation of views on the medium that increasingly dominates the dissemination of news. That is most unfortunate, Associate Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a blistering dissent to the court s temporary allowance of the censorship regime. Associate Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch joined that dissent.
The other justices did not explain why they decided to allow the federal government to continue its comprehensive censorship of Americans speech. The case was originally brought by groups concerned about restrictions on debate regarding the COVID 19 lab leak theory, pandemic lockdowns, vaccine side effects, election fraud, and the Hunter Biden laptop story. The groups further allege it was government officials who were pulling the strings of that censorship because these officials coerced, threatened, and pressured the social media companies.
Mollie Hemingway.
I certainly hope the great SCOTUS gets this right. I’m worried about it, frankly, but no surprise there. It ought to be 9-0 free speech v. censorship, but the libs will go with censorship, thinking they’ll win the next general election, which seems likely to me as well. But you really don’t want to live in a country that controls the thought sphere. Think of it as you would a country that had just discovered writing. They had a free speech law but the legal noodle-heads declared, oh, that only applies to *speech* don’t you know, not the written word! So much for discovery, intellect, and yes, progress. Well, I hope I’m wrong about this. Watch Roberts, Kavanaugh and Barrett.