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Opinion from federal judge on Biden admin trampling first amendment rights by pressuring social media companies to squash any covid discussion not fitting the prescribed narrative. It is not about Covid or even partisanship. It's about democracy:
The president has been abusing our fundamental law and denying basic rights to which our citizens are entitled. If he doesn’t understand constitutional rights by now he probably never will and needs to be constrained by the Justices and then removed by voters.
But if there’s any hope that Mr. Biden can be educated on this issue he might start by reading the Independence Day ruling in which Judge Doughty noted:
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. 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...
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 anger... Freedom of speech and press is the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom.
Judge Doughty also quoted George Washington:
For if men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the slaughter.
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