Videos: Establishment Media Whines About Injunction To Stop Biden Censorship Via Big Tech

This ruling is so vital. The first to:

1) acknowledge the systemic program of the US Govt to pressure/coerce Big Tech to censor for it;

2) apply established 1st Am principles that the state is barred from pressuring private actors to censor for it;

3) banned its continuation: https://t.co/m5lXYheywU

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 6, 2023

Had to copy edit the misleading NY Times subhed on the new court ruling to ensure this article is all the news that’s fit to print.

“Fighting disinformation” is Newspeak for censorship. pic.twitter.com/Xas4z5HSiF

— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) July 5, 2023

NYT, CNN: Americans shouldn’t be allowed to communicate & exchange information unless the Biden Admin explicitly permits that topic of conversation https://t.co/qPOMz18E91

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 5, 2023

MSNBC’s @ryanjreilly argues the FBI isn’t policing social media enough: “It’s not as though the FBI has been going in & saying, ‘Hey, take down this post.’ … The FBI’s not very good at monitoring social media. Look what happened on Jan 6th. There are all of these warning signs” pic.twitter.com/S2iIkbUbe0

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 5, 2023

MSNBCFBI’s Reilly: The Biden Admin not telling social media companies what content to allow is “not a world we want to live in” pic.twitter.com/qJuuPEoBDk

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 5, 2023

Imagine deciding you want to be a “journalist” — this is what you want to do with your life — and then you become a leading advocate for the need for state and corporate power to be united to censor citizens on the internet.

Just go work for the FBI:https://t.co/wpQn2aYW3M

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 5, 2023

Amidst a rant about the “darkness” of today’s Republican Party, @mikebarnicle says the federal judge that ordered the Biden Administration to stop censoring Americans “voided the 1st Amendment” pic.twitter.com/8nwHlWIefs

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 6, 2023

In fact, Ryan, there’s a smorgasbord of evidence:

1) It was the FBI’s Jim Baker, then working at Twitter, who demanded Twitter censor the Hunter Biden story, which the FBI had already established was true
2) The FBI made so many content moderation requests at Twitter that… https://t.co/aEf7RcZVk2

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 5, 2023

As always, establishment liberals and their media allies went from:

“This DHS/CIA/FBI censorship scheme isn’t happening; it’s a giant right-wing conspiracy theory” to:

“Yes, it’s happening, and it should. We need this censorship.”https://t.co/sEiMuIIznx

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 6, 2023

Experts said yesterday’s anti-censorship court ruling was too badly written to be implemented, but it’s already working. The State Department today canceled its regular Wednesday meeting with Facebook, and all future meetings, “pending further guidance.”https://t.co/5ZKMdXUEPU

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) July 6, 2023

“On the White House contact with social media companies, does the White House have a response to the judge basically saying that this is the most massive attack on free speech in the U.S. history?”

Karine Jean-Pierre: “We certainly disagree with this decision.” pic.twitter.com/3iHhHa5te7

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 5, 2023

BIDEN: “Do you disagree with the judge’s ruling that this coordination was a form of censorship that specifically targeted Conservative speech?”

JEAN-PIERRE: “We disagree with the decision.” pic.twitter.com/4ui0ql6jiD

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 5, 2023