Biden Appeals Court Order to Cease Censorship

This week, US District Judge Terry Doughty ruled against the Biden Administration's collusion with social media to censor free speech, calling it "the most massive attack against free speech in United States history. In their attempts to suppress alleged disinformation, the Federal Government has blatantly ignored the First Amendment’s guarantee of the right to freedom of speech. The purpose of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment is to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail, rather than to countenance monopolization of the market, whether it be by government itself or private licensees."

Former President Obama’s attorney general Eric Holder labeled the ruling "stupid and dangerous. Blocking censorship will curtail efforts to combat false and misleading narratives. It undermines the government's responsibility to provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare. It assails the unity behind one leader that is necessary for the nation's survival."

In its appeal of Judge Doughty's ruling the Biden Administration contends that "the plaintiffs lack standing to present evidence substantiating their First Amendment claims. They can show no harm resulting from the government's efforts to protect the public from erroneous ideas. We, on the other hand, contend that millions of lives were saved by insulating a credulous population from rogue attacks on the government's scientifically sound pandemic mitigation policies."

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, spokesman for the 20 plaintiff states, called the Administration's case "a ludicrous inversion of its responsibilities. Unfettered and open discussion is what our Constitution calls for. The First Amendment explicitly prohibits the government from abridging free speech. Covert meetings between the government and media expressly for the purpose of infringing on the right of people to utter dissenting views is behavior more suited to a tyranny than a democracy. We can't stop the government from lying to the people, but we can stop the government from preventing people seeking the truth from other sources."

SEMI-NEWS/SEMI-SATIRE by John Semmens