COVID-Era Case on Free Speech Tests the Supreme Court Today

March 18, 2024

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-government-big-tech-and-free-speech-round-two-supreme-court-

The Government, Big Tech and Free Speech, Round Two

The Supreme Court considers if government can coerce social-media platforms to censor content it doesn’t like.

By The Editorial Board

March 17, 2024

The Supreme Court is back on the First Amendment beat Monday when it hears cases asking whether government officials can jawbone businesses to restrict speech. It seems government needs remedial constitutional training.

In Murthy v. Missouri, states and individuals whose posts on Covid were censored sued federal officials for violating the First Amendment. Lower courts ruled for the plaintiffs based on copious evidence that government officials pressured social-media platforms to suppress their posts.

Former White House director of digital strategy Rob Flaherty and Covid adviser Andy Slavitt flagged posts for removal to social-media employees and berated them if they didn’t follow orders. 

Facebook is “hiding the ball” on its efforts to combat vaccine “borderline content,” Mr. Flaherty wrote in one email.  (See link for article)
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**Comment**
 
Today Americans learn if they have free speech or if a government bureaucrat decides what you are allowed to say.
 
I don’t need to remind Lyme/MSIDS patients what’s at stake. They know full well that their own doctors who dare treat them are under a veritable microscope and that the state medical and other “professional” boards can come after them at any point for stating anything that defies the accepted narrative.
 
From Mary Holland, the Children’s Health Defense President:

The Supreme Court heard arguments today from attorneys on behalf of the states of Missouri and Louisiana in a case that will have a huge impact on CHD’s own closely related legal effort — Kennedy v. Biden — to shut down government censorship.

The respondents in the Supreme Court case already won a lower court injunction against the Biden administration based on evidence that key administration officials knowingly broke the law when they pressured social media companies to censor content that contradicted the government’s narrative.

As CHD stated in our “friend-of-the-court brief” submitted to the Supreme Court: “There may be no individual in the country more heavily targeted for social media censorship by the Federal Government than Mr. Kennedy” — CHD’s founder and chairman on leave.

It’s no exaggeration to say that how the Supreme Court rules in this case will determine the fate of freedom of speech in America.

The government has been engaged for years in a brave new world where it censors dissent and dissenters by proxy, controlling what hundreds of millions of Americans say, see, and hear every day.

A federal district judge said this case “arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.”

Government bureaucrats decided that you should know only two facts about COVID: that the vaccines alone will “save” you . . . and that they are “safe and effective.”

The FDA and CDC didn’t want you to know about alternative treatments for COVID.

Officials at the White House, CDC, FDA, CISA and more, directly pressured Facebook, Twitter and other social media giants to censor information — if it contradicted government orthodoxy – even information they knew to be true!

The NIH and Fauci didn’t want you to know that “official” hospital protocols were killing people . . . or that their “safe and effective” vaccines were — and still are — causing a record number of vaccine-related deaths and injuries.

When I dedicated my career to fighting for informed consent and medical freedom, it never occurred to me that I, or CHD, would have to sue the U.S. government to protect our First Amendment right to free speech.

But here we are. In the fight of our lives. And we need your help.

Because if the government is allowed to censor scientists, doctors and citizens like you and me to promote its “health” agenda, informed consent will be impossible. Medical freedom will be impossible.

Democracy will die.

This case isn’t just about censorship and free speech. It’s also about power. And autonomy.

It’s about your right to make your own decisions about health and the health of your children — based on all the facts — not just the propaganda spoonfed to the masses by Big Government joined with Big Tech.

Make no mistake, we are up against the most powerful people and agencies in the world.

 

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**Comment**

Government collusion with the media, UNICEF, WEF, WHO, IFCN, FB, Google, and more has been  continually proven.

Nobody seems to notice or care that Fauci’s daughter worked at Twitter as a software engineer during the pandemic.  But I’m sure we should just believe him when he states they never discussed content posted to social media.

One other little factoid: Fauci’s wife serves in a leadership role overseeing bioethics at the NIH.  I’m sure that’s all kosher too, as well as the fact the pandemic vastly increased their household net worth from $7.6 million to $12.6 million between the start of 2020 and the end of 2021.  She also co-authored a March 2022 report approving of social ostracization for the “vaccine”-hesitant and encouraging employers to pressure their workers, which didn’t work out so well for the mayor of Chicago who recently lost her re-election bid, and now has to reinstate fired workers with back pay and a 7% interest on top.

Seems censorship has been going on long before COVID.  Anyone questioning vaccines is Wakefielded, those who disagree with government dictates is fired, or thrown in jail without a search warrant, and anyone defying the narrative is ‘disappeared.’

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