Today's oral argument in Missouri v. Biden proved what we've known all along: the Biden Administration has shamelessly and relentlessly coerced and colluded with social media platforms to censor free speech,
Some highlights from the hearing:
Biden’s lawyer seriously insinuated COVID caused a lot in the world to change, and thus, government censorship is permissible.
Biden's lawyer also said that Americans have not been harmed by the vast censorship enterprise emanating from the Biden White House.
Every American who has had a post removed or deplatformed would beg to differ.
Biden's lawyer asserted that they have never once threatened social media companies into censoring free speech.
He must be suffering from memory loss. Here's a recap:
Joe Biden told reporters that "Facebook is killing people" because they originally refused to silence truthful information about the COVID vaccine.
Jen Psaki spouted from the WH podium that social media companies would lose their Section 230 immunity if they didn't work with the feds to remove disfavored speech.
White House Digital Director Rob Flaherty told Twitter that “if your product is appending misinformation to our tweets that seems like a pretty fundamental issue”
Flaherty used the F-word to convey his disgust to social media companies that Biden's Instagram account wasn't gaining followers after Meta's algorithm identified it as a spreader of vaccine misinformation.
Can't make this up.
Quickly after these interactions, the social media companies' resistance to censor quickly crumbled.
Back to highlights of the hearing.
One of the judges noted that the exchanges between the feds and the social media companies include "veiled and not-so-veiled threats" as the government "strongarms" the tech companies into censoring speech.
Another judge called out Biden's lawyer, noting that "You talk about these meetings [between the feds and social media companies] as if they're friendly."
The judge also pointed out that when the federal government says jump, social media companies merely say "how high", seemingly due to the immense pressure to censor Americans' speech.
The same judge then asked Biden's lawyer if hypothetically, it matters if the federal government knowingly censors true speech if it disagrees with the government's narrative (i.e. COVID-19).
The government unabashedly said, "No."
Today's hearing was further proof that Joe Biden has zero respect for the Constitution.
But Missouri is fighting back. He will not get away with this blatant First Amendment violation.
Stay tuned.
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I will always fight for Missouri consumers when their rights are being violated.
To that end, I filed suit against H&R Block, Taxslayer LLC, and TaxAct, Inc. for illegally sharing the sensitive data of Missouri taxpayers with Meta, Google and other Big Tech companies.
These companies violated state law when they shared sensitive personal and financial information with the Big Tech companies, which use the data for diverse advertising purposes, without customers’ consent.
If there’s anything we’ve discovered in our federal censorship lawsuit, it’s that these Big Tech companies do not have Americans’ best interests at heart.
Yesterday, we obtained an order to HALT what the court described as the Biden administration’s "massive attack against free speech” unseen before in United States history.
Some notable points from the judge’s order in our landmark free speech case, Missouri v. Biden:
The judge noted the censorship emanating from the federal government looks a lot like George Orwell’s “1984,” that “the evidence produced thus far depicts an almost dystopian scenario” and that the feds appear to have “assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.”
The Court points out that the 20,000+ pages of evidence my office uncovered display the frightening coercion and collusion occurring between the feds and social media companies.
🚨BREAKING: The Court has granted our motion to BLOCK top officials in the federal government from violating the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans.
What a way to celebrate Independence Day.
The preliminary injunction prohibits nearly all of the federal government, including DHS, DOJ, and HHS, from coercing and colluding with social media companies to censor free speech, amongst other things:
Key officials of the White House, CDC, FBI, State Department, and other agencies are also blocked from participating in the federal government’s vast censorship enterprise.
As Attorney General, I will always fight for the rights of states to protect the unborn.
I've joined 16 other AGs in filing an amicus brief at the Arizona Supreme Court in support of Arizona's pro-life law that has been tied up in litigation.
In its Dobbs ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court correctly recognized that the Constitution allows states to protect life. After that decision, Arizona asked the state courts to allow it to enforce its elective-abortion ban.
The trial court agreed, but the Arizona Court of Appeals reversed and essentially declared Arizona’s pro-life law had been repealed. It concluded that physicians may perform abortions through 15 weeks gestation.
The Second Amendment guarantees freedom and security for all Americans.
I joined with 22 other states in challenging California’s “Unsafe Handgun Act," which effectively created hurdles to halt the purchase of all new firearms, a clear violation of the Second Amendment.
I will not stand idly by while rogue progressive activists in California attempt to eradicate the freedoms of law abiding gun owners that are enshrined in our Constitution.
I'm proud to stand in the gap with my fellow attorneys general to protect our God given rights.
I will always fight to protect Missouri businesses, and that includes the trucking community that is vital to the success of our state.
Joe Biden is partnering with California to attempt to upend our economy through his federal bureaucrats, and we aren't standing for it.
I joined 18 states in challenging the EPA's decision to allow California to illegally ban existing tractor-trailers and heavy-duty vehicles by forcing truckers to buy zero-emission trucks and mandating net-zero emissions standards.
This regulation would regulate the current trucking industry out of existence.