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Judge rules White House pressured social networks to “suppress free speech” (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by asteroidrainfall@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social
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A federal judge yesterday ordered the Biden administration to halt a wide range of communications with social media companies, siding with Missouri and Louisiana in a lawsuit that alleges Biden and his administration violated the First Amendment by colluding with social networks "to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content."

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[–] C4RP3_N0CT3M@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My main point was that the Whitehouse shouldn't be allowed to censor people (via the FBI) by calling certain information "misinformation" (especially when they had little to no evidence to support their own narrative) by forcing social media platforms to carry out said cencorship (or really in any way in all honesty).

The current administration came up with a narrative, and stifled any and all debate, including that of the then CDC director who they subsequently sidelined simply for saying we should investigate both possibilities on the origins of the virus.

[–] CarlsIII@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And you’re still wrong! There is no evidence that the government forced social media companies to do anything, and the article you provided doesn’t even make the claim that anyone was forced to do anything.

[–] C4RP3_N0CT3M@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I didn't say that article claimed that. This information is already known, and it's why there is a case in the first place. The Twitter files came out and corroborated that it had been going on for quite a while.

[–] CarlsIII@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So you don’t have any source for your claim that social media companies were literally forced to take actions directed by the government?

[–] C4RP3_N0CT3M@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Let me get that for you, but yes I do.