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   From: democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov   
      
   https://nypost.com/2023/07/06/new-york-times-shows-democrats-lie-about-   
   federal-censorship/   
      
   How does The New York Times not get the First Amendment?   
      
   US District Judge Terry Doughty ruled July 4 that the federal government   
   can’t, in fact, bully social-media platforms like Twitter and Facebook   
   into taking down speech it dislikes.   
      
   The Times’ response?   
      
   A long “news analysis” framing the decision in purely partisan terms and   
   impugning the judge’s credibility.   
      
   The paper’s apparent reasoning: it’s bad for the White House and   
   Democrats, and therefore dangerous and wrongheaded.   
      
   Team Biden (and Dems national, state and local) used first Donald Trump   
   and then the pandemic as moral-panic springboards to ramp up government   
   “anti-disinformation” efforts, justifying them on grounds of public health   
   and safety.   
      
   And never mind that the First Amendment says the feds can’t restrict   
   speech, nor (by implication) have third parties do that dirty work.   
      
   Yet the Times fawningly echoes the “disinfo” rationale, describing the   
   censorship as meant to “prevent the spread of potentially dangerous   
   information, particularly in an election or during emergencies like a   
   pandemic.”   
      
   No: As the Twitter Files and other reporting amply show, the hammer came   
   down again and again on true content that the feds (or Democrats) found   
   inconvenient, as well as political opinion.   
      
   The Post’s reporting on Hunter’s laptop, for example.   
      
   Or our commentary on the likelihood of COVID having originated in a lab.   
      
   Both stories have since been utterly vindicated; both were suppressed on   
   the same specious grounds.   
      
   It’s clearly censorship by other means.   
      
   And it’d be wrong even if we’d been wrong: The First Amendment has no   
   “disinformation” exception, as decades of jurisprudence on speech make   
   clear.   
      
   That applies even to RFK Jr.’s bonkers arguments about the dangers of   
   vaccines, which are now getting suppressed by YouTube.   
      
   Ah, the disinfo warriors rejoin: It’s private companies doing the   
   suppression of their own free will, so the First Amendment doesn’t apply.   
      
   But they only (or mainly, anyway) did it under government pressure,   
   including threats of federal action if they didn’t obey. Hence the close-   
   and-cuddly relationship between Big Tech and Big Government and frequent   
   meetings, phone chats and email updates to coordinate the censorship   
   efforts.   
      
   Free speech has to be free for everyone.   
      
   Even the wrong and the morally repulsive.   
      
   It’s beyond appalling that the Times can no longer see that.   
      
   Or that the Grey Lady simply refuses to, which is even sadder.   
      
   ata777   
   7 July, 2023   
      
   As brilliant as they were, I can't imagine the Founding Fathers ever   
   envisioned a scenario where a free press whose freedom was protected by   
   the Constitution would become so corrupt, that it now advocates for   
   government-sponsored censorship.   
      
   We Know It's True   
   7 July, 2023   
      
   Up to 20 years ago, none of us did.   
      
      
   --   
   We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
   Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem.  It has none.   
      
   No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.   
   Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.   
      
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   fiasco, President Trump.   
      
   Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the   
   The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood   
   queer liberal democrat donors.   
      
   President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed   
   dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.   
      
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