A federal lawsuit against the Biden administration alleging that public-private collaboration violated First Amendment rights for American citizens during the coronavirus pandemic has shed new light on how deep the Biden-directed collusion went, which censored public opposition to Big Tech’s official pandemic policy. .
The lawsuit was filed by Missouri and Louisiana Attorneys Generals Eric S. Schmitt (who recently won Missouri’s Republican nomination for the upcoming Senate race) and Jeff Landry.
st. LOUIS, MISSOURI – AUGUST 2: State Attorney General Eric Schmitt on August 2, 2022, in St. Louis, Missouri. (Photo: Kyle Rivas/Getty Images)
Jack Dorsey on screen at the Senate (Pool/AFP/Getty)
The case was joined by scientists and doctors who signed the Great Barrington Declaration, which, contrary to general social restrictions and orders, recommends targeted protection for the most vulnerable during the coronavirus.
An analysis by legal expert Jonathan Turley said Twitter was asked to discuss its view on censorship with the government the same week that former CEO Jack Dorsey stated before Congress that the company did not censor. “hard.”
by Jonathan Turley:
A recent post between accused Carol Crawford, head of the CDC’s digital media division, revealed a back channel to Twitter and other companies that censored “unconfirmed opinions” on social media. The “difficult” part may be about that week on March 25, 2021, when former CEO Jack Dorsey testified before Congress about such censorship and insisted that “we don’t have a censorship department.” It seems that any meeting with the government on systemic censorship will have to be postponed until Dorsey denies the existence of such systemic censorship.
…
The meeting request was made on March 18, 2021. That week, Dorsey and other CEOs were scheduled to appear before a House session to discuss the “disinformation” and “content change” policies on social media. I just testified about private censorship that bypassed the First Amendment as a kind of proxy censorship. Dorsey and other CEOs were asked my warning about the “little sibling problem, the problem that private companies create for government but cannot legally solve on their own.” Dorsey insisted that there was no such censorship or effort.
The new case sheds new light on these testimonies. It now appears that these companies are actively spreading their disapproved views, including a list of tweets that the CDC has deemed false information. In an email, Twitter’s senior director of public policy, Todd O’Boyle, asked Crawford to help identify tweets for censorship, emphasizing that the company “looks forward to having regular conversations”.
The collusion includes other tech giants, and Facebook is also keen to assist the Biden administration in its new role as proxy censor:
Facebook also got the list of “offensive” posts that needed to be “detected”. Facebook is training government officials to use the “CrowdTangle” system used by “health departments”. [to] flag any potential misinformation about the vaccine” so the company can review and possibly remove the vaccine. “This is similar to how governments and validators use CrowdTangle before elections…” he added.
The Biden administration has been quite open about requests from tech companies to censor what they consider “disinformation,” and Biden even went so far as to accuse tech platforms of “killing people” because they didn’t succumb to the dictates of government censorship in time. attitude. . The case looks set to show how official censorship requests are also played out on secret channels.
Source: Breitbart
