Tue Jul 11, 2023 – 2:15 pm EDTTue Jul 11, 2023 – 2:16 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Free speech advocates are cheering a July 4 Court ruling in the case of Missouri v. Biden barring nine federal agencies and the Biden administration from urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing social media companies to censor free speech. The case, whose ruling was unsuccessfully appealed, may end up in the Supreme Court.
Unfortunately, this case is just a small first step. While the judge did an excellent job of documenting a wide variety of abuses, the wording of his Order contains exceptions and ambiguities that are ripe for exploitation in the future.
Judge Terry Doughty ruled that government officials violated the First Amendment by working with and through online social media platforms to suppress information that the Constitution did not allow the government to censor directly. The Judge described evidence depicting “an almost dystopian scenario” similar to an “Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth’” based on more than 20,000 pages of evidence exposing a vast censorship enterprise across multiple federal agencies. He called it “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history,” one that “almost exclusively targeted conservative
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