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The district court cited all the precedent supporting this public-private dialogue before cavalierly dismissing it, in part by declaring that “what is really telling is that virtually all of the free speech suppressed was ‘conservative’ free speech.” As if the cases that supported the government all of a sudden didn’t matter because this case involves conservatives? (One side note: Several of the allegations in the complaint occurred during the Trump administration. Communications between social media companies and government officials happen no matter who’s in power, and the First Amendment is not supposed to lean right or left.)
There is also the fact that the district court made no effort to identify circumstances where the government came even close to coercing social media companies into doing something they didn’t want to do. Take the allegations concerning hydroxychloroquine. On pages 52-53 of the opinion, the district court recites the
very serious allegation that the Department of Health and Human Services “suppressed speech on hydroxychloroquine” by having Dr. Anthony Fauci make “statements on Good Morning America and on Andrea Mitchell Reports that hydroxychloroquine is not effective.” The next sentence then reports that, after this apparently
very coerciveGood Morning America appearance, “social-media platforms censored” videos and material that were pro-hydroxychloroquine. That must have been quite the Good Morning America appearance. But joking aside: A government official appearing on a television show and stating that certain speech is disinformation does not come even remotely close to the government coercing social medial companies into removing that speech.
Let’s go to the tape.
Evidence.” “Scientific data.” “Clinical trials.”
That’s what informed Dr Fauci’s statements as opposed to the mad ramblings of a quack that “embraces demon semen” or a carnival barker who also suggested that people drink bleach to get rid of COVID-19.
So were the warnings on those very social media sites not to drink bleach to get rid of COVID-19 suppressing conservative speech as well?
This would be merely frustrating if hundreds of thousands of people didn’t die, in part, because of disinformation like the claims about hydroxychloroquine that Dr. Fauci is debunking.
The judge must be from
Cloud Cuckoo Land.
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