2024, Free Speech
AG: Missouri’s landmark injunction halting Biden administration censorship of conservatives clears the path for free speech in 2024 electionMissouri’s historic injunction against Biden administration censorship of online conservative speech, upheld by an appeals court Friday, sets the rules of engagement for the 2024 election decidedly in… Read More
Biden administration, Uncategorized
Bailey says wall between social media, government will come from Missouri v. Biden(The Center Square) – Missouri’s lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s administration is showing how the federal government is influencing social medial companies to violate the constitutional right to free speech… Read More
Biden administration
Hearing into Biden administration’s online censorship of conservatives goes exceedingly poorly for government, observers reportA hearing Thursday over whether the Biden administration can censor online speech “did not go well” for the federal government, according to one interested observer. Matt Taibbi – the investigative… Read More
Courts
Biden admin can’t coordinate with social media to suppress speech, federal judge rules(Daily Caller News Foundation) – A federal judge issued an injunction Tuesday ruling that the Biden administration likely violated the First Amendment when it worked with social media companies to… Read More
Free Speech
‘We should all be frightened’: landmark Missouri lawsuit over Biden’s ‘Orwellian’ censorship has judge’s full attentionA judge’s first crucial ruling is expected any time. But Missouri’s lawsuit fighting back against the Biden administration’s hectoring of Big Tech to censor conservative speech already has “landmark case”… Read More
Biden administration
‘Taxpayer-funded censorship campaign’ assailed by Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt at congressional hearing(The Center Square) – The Biden administration's collusion with social media companies and others to censor speech related to COVID-19, election integrity and other issues "was far more pervasive and… Read More
Culture
GOP Representative grills witness on whether banning pornographic magazines for first graders is ‘censorship’(Daily Caller) – Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman of Wyoming grilled a witness during a Thursday hearing, asking if she believed preventing teachers from showing first graders pornographic magazines was “censorship.”… Read More
Big Tech
Congressman calls out FBI, says ‘Twitter Files only tell part of the story’(The Center Square) – U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop is leveraging Twitter to expose how the company worked with the FBI to silence free speech, the latest in a series of… Read More
Big Tech, Congress
New bill would ban feds from working with big tech to censor Americans(The Center Square) – Leading Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives filed new legislation that would ban federal employees from working with big tech companies to censor Americans. Read More
Big Tech
Hawley: Twitter’s lies about censoring conservatives, Sam Bankman-Fried’s financial schemes benefiting Democrats, beg for investigationsWith the silencing of conservatives on social media, a near-blackout of that story in “mainstream” media, and the sudden arrest – and silencing – of big donor Sam… Read More
Big Tech
‘Accountability is coming:’ Twitter files spark calls for consequences, answers(The Center Square) – A series of document dumps called the “Twitter files” have exposed the social media companies’ collusion with federal law enforcement and the Democratic Party to censor… Read More
Courts
Missouri, Louisiana AGs release 359-page Fauci deposition in social media collusion lawsuit(The Center Square) – A 359-page transcript of the deposition of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden, was released Monday by the two attorneys general… Read More
Big Tech
Musk expected to expand Twitter operations in TexasLawsuits, investigations expected over released ‘Twitter files’ (The Center Square) – Before and after billionaire Elon Musk acquired the social media company Twitter, he’d been invited by Texas Gov. Greg… Read More
Big Tech
Apple and Biden are both out to censor speech in the United States and China, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley warnsThe Biden administration and Apple Inc. have been caught in alarming and elaborate schemes to censor speech here and abroad, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley says. Apple… Read More
Big Tech
DeSantis blasts Apple in dispute over Elon Musk, Twitter(The Center Square) – Elon Musk says Twitter may now be removed from the Apple App store, prompting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to defend the social media company. “Apple has… Read More
Big Tech, Opinion
COLUMN: Missouri senator, attorney general nearly alone in standing against government censorship on Facebook, Instagram, other social mediaJosh Hawley gives his U.S. Senate colleagues far too much credit when he excuses them for supposedly not knowing the extent of the Biden administration’s conspiracy to silence… Read More
Biden administration
Probe launched into Homeland Security’s ‘taxpayer-funded censorship campaign’(The Center Square) – House Oversight Committee Republicans are kicking off an investigation into what they they called a “taxpayer-funded censorship campaign” at the Department of Homeland Security. Since 2020,… Read More
Biden administration
Lawsuit alleging government collusion with social media companies to censor speech expands(The Center Square) – Officials from the White House, Centers for Disease Control, the FBI and 11 other federal agencies are being added to a lawsuit alleging collusion with social… Read More
National
Hawley: Biden’s disinformation board frightening, Congress’ prime-time hearing on Jan. 6 ‘a joke’The Biden administration’s aborted Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) was far more nefarious than first thought, say internal documents indicating the board secretly intended to monitor and perhaps censor… Read More
Opinion
COLUMN: Are conservatives being censored by Big Tech? The evidence is becoming overwhelming. What to do?If Facebook has a “Most Wanted” poster in its break room, John Altevogt’s mug is likely on it. The Kansas City conservative has been in and… Read More