A district court in Louisiana ordered the FBI, the White House, the department of health, and a slew of other agencies to cease all communication with social media companies for “the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech.”

“If the allegations made by Plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history,” wrote Judge Terry Doughty in a 155 page judgement that observers expect the Biden administration to appeal.

A group of public health academics and the states of Missouri and Louisiana brought the case last year, claiming various arms of the US government had pressured Facebook and Twitter to censor or shadow ban posts about Covid19.

Posts of the plaintiffs that were removed included claims Covid19 came from a lab in Wuhan, that masks were ineffective, that lockdowns were excessively costly, that vaccine mandates were wrong, that Covid19 vaccines didn’t stop transmission and led to health risks for young people.

“The right to free speech is not a member of any political party and does not hold any political ideology. It is the purpose of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail, rather than to countenance monopolisation of the market, whether it be by government itself or private licensee,” the judge wrote.

He said the plaintiffs “have presented substantial evidence in support of their claims that they were the victims of a far-reaching and widespread censorship campaign.”

“[T]he evidence produced thus far depicts an almost dystopian scenario … During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterised by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.’”
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/judge-rules-joe-biden-administration-tram...


The verdict comes as governments in Australia and the UK introduce legislation to boost government’s power to compel social media companies to censor viewpoints deemed misinformation and disinformation.

Well now it’s gone too far! This is lunacy.
Next trick ….they will only attend house fires of the vaxxed and ignore the unvaxxed? 
This divisive BS has grown tiresome.

Quote:


The last batch we had was thrown out people didn't want to get another clot shot.

People were forced to take this clot shot or be fired from jobs locked out of society they had to show vax papers to go  shopping.

3 years after it was approved the manufacturer withdrew it because of risks.

Another win for the conspiracy theorists. 

Politicians who didn't toe the party line were excommunicated

Frank wrote on Jul 31^st, 2023 at 12:08pm:



frank,

Despite Adam Creighton's good intent, he still used the   wrong   word, imo.




FIXED.


fraudulent = = done by or involving fraud.      deceitful or dishonest.



critical thinking = = is an agent of true scientific method


QUOTE;       "Science isn't 'science', if people can no longer question it!"

i.e.
'Science' [human knowledge] 'evolves', and has always increased, ONLY, when people have been permitted to questioned 'todays' scientific status quo.

Over 7,000,000 died from covid

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jun 7^th, 2024 at 8:39pm:


700,000,000 recovered from covid, too. Right now, there is a bit of an outbreak around town here of covid and influenza. With the agricultural Show coming up in a few days, we will be seeing a severe 'flu epidemic in CQ. But just about 100% of us will recover.

I wonder if the government has been paying the funeral costs for the more than 24,000 (and counting) people who have died from Covid in Australia so far? Including the 6,600 (and counting) aged care deaths?

No, I didn't think so.