Thread by @bhweingarten

BIG BREAKING: On July 4th, in the most important free speech case to date challenging the mass public-private censorship regime imposed on America — Missouri v. Biden — a bombshell ruling for the plaintiffs just dropped.

Judge Terry Doughty declares motion for preliminary… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

.@AGAndrewBailey has pulled out some of the key highlights from this major ruling in defense of free speech and against America's mass public-private surveillance and censorship regime. I'll be threading my takeaways as well in tweets to follow

https://twitter.com/AGAndrewBailey/status/1676284957575245824?s=20

Judge Doughty: "If the allegations made by Plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history. In their attempts to suppress alleged disinformation, the Federal Government...are alleged to have blatantly… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

More Judge Doughty: "Although the censorship alleged in this case almost exclusively targeted conservative speech, the issues raised herein go beyond party lines. The right to free speech is not a member of any political party and does not hold any political ideology."

What Judge Doughty describes here is the mass public-private censorship regime that has conspired against 1A, interfered in our elections, engaged in rampant viewpoint discrimination for years -- all based on a predicate of combating "dangerous" "mis-, dis-, and mal-information"

Judge Doughty: "The principal function of free speech under the United States’ system of government is to invite dispute; it may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

A Judge Doughty line that cannot be emphasized strongly enough: "Freedom of speech and press is the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom."

Drink it in - this is your federal government-led War on Wrongthink

"Plaintiffs assert that by using emails, public & private messages, public & private meetings, and other means, the [Biden] White House Defendants have 'significantly encouraged' and 'coerced' social-media platforms to suppress protected free speech...on social-media platforms"

Sampling of the smoking guns demonstrating Biden administration officials calling for social media companies to censor Wrongthinkers

To see just a sliver of the evidence of your Biden administration betters' efforts to police your speech, you simply must read pages 9-27 of Judge Doughty's bombshell opinion storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Judge Doughty details the Biden Office of the Surgeon General-led COVID-19 censorship regime -- one colluding with "private" cut-outs like the Virality Project on pages 28-38 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

"Like CISA, the GEC works through the CISA-funded EI-ISAC and works closely with the Stanford Internet Observatory and the Virality Project." Get ready to learn about these entities and how they've stifled your speech, America. weingarten.substack.com/p/full-testimo…

Judge Doughty: "Government action, aimed at the suppression of particular views on a subject that discriminates on the basis of viewpoint, is presumptively unconstitutional"

Here is how your government led a mass censorship regime against you: "Defendants used meetings and communications with social-media companies to pressure those companies to take down, reduce, and suppress the free speech of American citizens. They flagged posts and provided… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Judge Doughty: "If there were ever a case where the 'significant encouragement' theory" [that the feds exercised such 'significant encouragement' that it induced social media platforms to censor Americans on elections, COVID-19, etc. at mass scale] should apply, this is it."

Judge Doughty: "What is really telling is that virtually all of the free speech suppressed was 'conservative' free speech. Using the 2016 election and the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government apparently engaged in a massive effort to suppress disfavored conservative speech. The… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

More Judge Doughty: "the question is not what decision the social-media company would have made, but whether the Government 'so involved itself in the private party’s conduct' that the decision is essentially that of the Government. As exhaustedly listed above, Defendants… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Judge Doughty: "The [Biden] White House Defendants and the Surgeon General Defendants...engaged in coercion of social-media companies to such extent that the decisions of the social-media companies should be deemed that of the Government"

Will anyone ask Joe Biden for comment?

Judge Doughty notes that "Explicit threats are an obvious form of coercion, but not all coercion need be explicit." Here he cites some of the Biden White House's coercive acts

(CC: @TuckerCarlson @AlexBerenson)

@TuckerCarlson @AlexBerenson Your White House and your digital public square -- "partners" till the bitter end of your First Amendment

@TuckerCarlson @AlexBerenson Judge Doughty on Chinese coronavirus-related censorship: "The problem with labeling certain discussions about COVID-19 treatment as 'health misinformation' was that the Surgeon General Defendants suppressed alternative views to those promoted by the government"

@TuckerCarlson @AlexBerenson BOOM: "Differing views about whether COVID-19 vaccines worked, whether taking the COVID-19 vaccine was safe, whether mask mandates were necessary, whether schools and businesses should have been closed, whether vaccine mandates were necessary, and a host of other topics were… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@TuckerCarlson @AlexBerenson Judge Doughty addresses the FBI's "particularly troubling" role in the social media suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story in the run-up to the 2020 election -- a story that the FBI, alongside other security state partners convened by CISA, groomed the platforms to censor:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

@TuckerCarlson @AlexBerenson "Plaintiffs allege the FBI told the social-media companies to watch out for Russian disinformation prior to the 2020 Presidential election and then failed to tell the companies that the Hunter Biden laptop was not Russian disinformation"

I testified before @HomelandGOP in May about CISA's role as the linchpin of the federal government-led mass public-private surveillance and censorship regime imposed upon America. Judge Doughty more than validates that testimony in his opinion today https://t.co/4phnk3mbmMweingarten.substack.com/p/full-testimo…

"This Court finds the White House Defendants, the Surgeon General Defendants, the CDC Defendants, the NIAID Defendants, the FBI Defendants, the CISA Defendants, and the State Department Defendants likely 'jointly participated' with the social-media companies to such an extent… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

"The Defendants argue that by making public statements, this is nothing but government speech. However, it was not the public statements that were the problem. It was the alleged use of government agencies and employees to coerce and/or significantly encourage social-media… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

"Plaintiff States have produced sufficient evidence to demonstrate a likelihood of proving ongoing injuries as of the time the Complaint was filed."

Translation: The censorship regime still exists, which is why Judge Doughty's preliminary injunction freezing it is so important

Judge Doughty in concluding his opinion quotes Harry Truman:

"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one place to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source"

Judge Doughty: "Although this case is still relatively young, and at this stage the Court is only examining it in terms of Plaintiffs’ likelihood of success on the merits, the evidence produced thus far depicts an almost dystopian scenario. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Here are all of the government actors subject to Judge Doughty's preliminary injunction freezing the public portion of America's government-led mass public-private surveillance and censorship regime

Judge Doughty's preliminary injunction prevents government actors from coercing social media platforms into censoring Wrongthink in comprehensive fashion. Here are all the things government cannot do with respect to the platforms under his ruling

For further background on Missouri v. Biden, see my June 9th column @nypost https://t.co/EJwtAOAo6Enypost.com/2023/06/09/thi…
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@nypost For an extensive analysis of America's mass public-private surveillance and censorship regime, see my May 11th testimony before the @RepDanBishop-led @HomelandGOP Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability weingarten.substack.com/p/full-testimo…