{"id":65464,"date":"2023-07-05T09:32:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T14:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65464"},"modified":"2023-07-05T09:32:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T14:32:12","slug":"judge-bars-biden-officials-agencies-from-contacting-social-media-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65464","title":{"rendered":"Judge Bars Biden Officials, Agencies From Contacting Social Media Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__z0vIZ\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__FDrpw\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/judge-bars-biden-officials-agencies-contacting-social-media-companies\">Judge Bars Biden Officials, Agencies From Contacting Social Media Companies<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__2jyAd\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__HBEFs NodeBody_container__eeFKv\">\n<p>In an order fittingly issued on Independence Day,\u00a0<strong>a federal judge in Louisiana has forbidden multiple federal agencies and named officials from having any contact with social media companies with the intent to moderate content.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The preliminary injunction arises from a suit filed by the states of Missouri and Louisiana, along with individuals that include two\u00a0<strong>leading critics of the Covid-19 lockdown regime<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Harvard&#8217;s Martin Kulldorff and Stanford&#8217;s Jay Bhattacharya &#8212; and Jim Hoft, who owns the right-wing website Gateway Pundit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the allegations made by plaintiffs are true,\u00a0<strong>the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States\u2019 history,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>wrote US District Judge Terry A. Doughty.\u00a0<strong>\u201cThe plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits<\/strong>\u00a0in establishing that the government has used its power to silence the opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1676383238863077376&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fjudge-bars-biden-officials-agencies-contacting-social-media-companies&amp;sessionId=3592bc622da1141594950b701073a772e37ec546&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=aaf4084522e3a%3A1674595607486&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1676383238863077376\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>dozens of people and agencies bound by the injunction\u00a0<\/strong>include President Biden, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control, the Treasury Department, State Department, the US Election Assistance Commission, the FBI and entire Justice Department, and the Department of Health and Human Services.<\/p>\n<p>Bhattacharya and Kulldorff, who are among the originators of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gbdeclaration.org\/\">Great Barrington Declaration<\/a>\u00a0that denounced the lockdown regime, have been victims of social media censorship. For example,\u00a0<strong>the pair says their censorship-triggering statements included assertions that &#8220;thinking everyone must be vaccinated is scientifically flawed,&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0questioning the value of masks, and stating that natural immunity is stronger than vaccine immunity.<\/p>\n<p>While the case is dominated by Covid-19 censorship,\u00a0<strong>it also encompasses the Justice Department&#8217;s efforts to suppress reporting about Hunter Biden&#8217;s &#8220;laptop from hell&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0in the run-up to the 2020 election. Doughty gave credence to that accusation.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Bars Biden Officials, Agencies From Contacting Social Media Companies In an order fittingly issued on Independence Day,\u00a0a federal judge in Louisiana has forbidden multiple federal agencies and named officials from having any contact with social media companies with the intent to moderate content.\u00a0\u00a0 The preliminary injunction arises from a suit filed by the states [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9336,120,29011,30393,1169,827,843,4318],"class_list":["post-65464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-big-tech","tag-censorship","tag-covid-19","tag-great-barrington-declaraton","tag-social-media","tag-united-states","tag-us-government","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65465,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65464\/revisions\/65465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}