Mon Mar 28, 2022 – 3:55 pm EDT
COLUMBUS, Ohio (LifeSiteNews) — Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra illegally pressured tech companies to censor users for sharing contrarian COVID views, according to a federal lawsuit filed March 24.
The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed the lawsuit in an Ohio federal court on behalf of Mark Changizi, Michael Senger and Daniel Kotzin. All three have been suspended at various times for criticizing COVID policies and Senger’s Twitter account has been permanently banned.
“The White House began a coordinated and escalating public campaign to stop the flow of alleged ‘health misinformation’ related to COVID-19 in May of 2021,” the lawsuit states.
It notes that President Joe Biden suggested potential “anti-trust” action if tech companies did not do more to police criticism of COVID vaccines. On May 5, 2021, Press Secretary Jen Psaki also said tech companies needed to do more to “censor health ‘misinformation’ related to COVID-19 vaccinations,” according to the lawsuit.
“This assertion clearly conveyed a thinly veiled threat that, if tech companies refused to censor, there would be unwelcome consequences,” the lawsuit stated, in reference to Biden’s antitrust
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