https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/federal-court-just-handed-biden-ministry-truth-big-defeat
The result was the suppression of “millions of protected free speech postings by American citizens.” Doughty concluded that “substantial evidence” of the government’s extensive, widespread, coercive behavior “depicts an almost dystopian scenario” in which the “United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.’” Or perhaps similar to the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
The fact that the Biden administration has appealed this decision should enrage the American public. The injunction against the government only applies to First Amendment- protected speech. Doughty very specifically makes exceptions for a host of other communications between the government and social-media platforms, including criminal activity and conspiracies; national security and public safety threats; criminal efforts to suppress voting or provide illegal campaign contributions; cyber-attacks; and foreign attempts to influence elections.
Yet the Biden administration says this injunction should be overturned so it can “promote responsible actions to protect public health, safety, and security,” i.e., continue to censor the public postings and opinions of American citizens.
A refresher on the sordid history of the federal government’s free speech abuses, and specifically the FBI’s, is in order. The FBI engaged in a nefarious campaign against Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders of civil rights organizations that included illegal wiretaps and informants. Why?