The Actual Winner: “One of the gravest threats to our democracy today is a powerful group of Big Tech corporations that have teamed up with government to censor the free speech of the American people. This is not only wrong—it is unconstitutional. To restore free speech for myself and for every American, I am suing Big Tech to stop it.
Social media has become as central to free speech as town meeting halls, newspapers and television networks were in prior generations. The internet is the new public square. In recent years, however, Big Tech platforms have become increasingly brazen and shameless in censoring and discriminating against ideas, information and people on social media—banning users, deplatforming organizations, and aggressively blocking the free flow of information on which our democracy depends.
No longer are Big Tech giants simply removing specific threats of violence. They are manipulating and controlling the political debate itself. Consider content that was censored in the past year. Big Tech companies banned users from their platforms for publishing evidence that showed the coronavirus emerged from a Chinese lab, which even the corporate media now admits may be true. In the middle of a pandemic, Big Tech censored physicians from discussing potential treatments such as hydroxychloroquine, which studies have now shown does work to relieve symptoms of Covid-19. In the weeks before a presidential election, the platforms banned the New York Post—America’s oldest newspaper—for publishing a story critical of Joe Biden’s family, a story the Biden campaign did not even dispute.
Perhaps most egregious, in the weeks after the election, Big Tech blocked the social-media accounts of the sitting president. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you—and believe me, they are.
Jennifer Horton, a Michigan schoolteacher, was banned from Facebook for sharing an article questioning whether mandatory masks for young children are healthy. Later, when her brother went missing, she was unable to use Facebook to get the word out. Colorado physician Kelly Victory was deplatformed by YouTube after she made a video for her church explaining how to hold services safely. Kiyan Michael of Florida and her husband, Bobby, lost their 21-year-old son in a fatal collision caused by a twice-deported illegal alien. Facebook censored them after they posted on border security and immigration enforcement.
Meanwhile, Chinese propagandists and the Iranian dictator spew threats and hateful lies on these platforms with impunity.
This flagrant attack on free speech is doing terrible damage to our country. That is why in conjunction with the America First Policy Institute, I filed class-action lawsuits to force Big Tech to stop censoring the American people. The suits seek damages to deter such behavior in the future and injunctions restoring my accounts.
Our lawsuits argue that Big Tech companies are being used to impose illegal and unconstitutional government censorship. In 1996 Congress sought to promote the growth of the internet by extending liability protections to internet platforms, recognizing that they were exactly that—platforms, not publishers. Unlike publishers, companies such as Facebook and Twitter can’t be held legally liable for the content posted to their sites. Without this immunity, social media companies could not exist.
Democrats in Congress are exploiting this leverage to coerce platforms into censoring their political opponents. In recent years, we have all watched Congress haul Big Tech CEOs before their committees and demand that they censor “false” stories and “disinformation”—labels determined by an army of partisan fact-checkers loyal to the Democrat Party. As the cases of fellow plaintiffs Ms. Horton, Dr. Victory and the Michael family demonstrate, in practice this amounts to suppression of speech that those in power do not like.
Further, Big Tech and government agencies are actively coordinating to remove content from the platforms according to the guidance of agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Big Tech and traditional media entities formed the Trusted News Initiative, which essentially takes instructions from the CDC about what information they need to “combat.” The tech companies are doing the government’s bidding, colluding to censor unapproved ideas.
This coercion and coordination is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has held that Congress can’t use private actors to achieve what the Constitution prohibits it from doing itself. In effect, Big Tech has been illegally deputized as the censorship arm of the U.S. government. This should alarm you no matter your political persuasion. It is unacceptable, unlawful and un-American.
Through these lawsuits, I intend to restore free speech for all Americans—Democrats, Republicans and independents. I will never stop fighting to defend the Constitutional rights and sacred liberties of the American people.”.......
Like Hitchcock's "Strangers", the Occupation Government and Big Tech are swapping crimes. "Criss-cross".
Big Tech does the Political Censorship that is forbidden to the Regime, and the Regime looks the other way while Big Tech engages in monopoly, commits business fraud, spies on Americans and cuddles up to dictatorships--other dictatorships, I mean.
Social Media Monopolies essentially serve as public utilities today, much like telephone and telegraph companies once did. We broke up AT&T and Ma Bell--and they never tried to censor anybody. We trust-busted Standard Oil, but not even John D. Rockefeller kept a file on everybody on the planet like these megalomaniacs do.
They claim to be neutral bulletin boards when it helps them--and a Letters to the Editor-page when that helps them. Like a Backstreet Boy, "They want it both ways." Tell me why.
And, for the record, Benito, this Corporate/State Incest is the textbook definition of "Fascism".
Grazi, Obama.
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In 2005, the Jim Baker/Jimmy Carter Commission recommended voter ID, purging the rolls, banning ballot harvesting and against Mail-In voting.
In 2006-2007, CNN and the NYTimes reported on SmartMatic Voting Machine Fraud in Venezuela and the CIA was investigating.
In 2018, Sens. Harris, Klobuchar and Wyden all warned of election fraud by the Voting Machine Cartel.
All that is gone now.
John Adams: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” Look at Chicago, where God is out of the schools, fathers are out of the home and politicians, DAs and judges are out of their minds.
It also especially applies to the Deep State Uni-Party-class.
They no longer believe in Honest Elections and Rule by the People.
Oh, McConnell and Biden know they still have to mouth the words–for now–but in their hearts, they don’t trust the People. Because the People chose Donald Trump. Twice. And the second time, in a LANDSLIDE. You people have let Obama down--again.
I don’t know if they can be re-moralized or even compelled by the force of law to return to our previous understanding. Neville Chamberlin thought he could talk Hitler into behaving. No, they're in too deep; this is for all the marbles.
“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”– Thomas Sowell
Same with Election Fraud. Democrats have been rigging elections so long it has become an entitlement to them. And Honest Elections seem like punishment.
And now they have stolen the Presidency and the Senate in broad daylight, in front of everyone's’ faces. They are like a wild animal now who has tasted human blood. A man-killer of republican self-government, having acquired the taste for tyranny.
Their corrupt Uni-Party System will have to be put down if the villagers are ever again to live in safety and freedom. That's what the villagers of Lexington and Concord believed, too.
This is our Cause and our Duty, Whatever It Takes.
"In the legal brief, Ayyadurai points out that Twitter’s legal counsel “began formulating and designing the framework for silently violating the free speech rights of US persons by first characterizing speakers as Influence Operators (IOs) thereby fabricating a sinister connotation where none exists, as the ideological framework to justify canceling speakers who exercise their right to express their opinion.”
After labeling problematic thought-leaders and American citizens as Influence Operators, “they created a new centralized Governing Coordinating Council (GCC) that brought together both state and federal officials to create an electronic infrastructure for surveilling speech and monitoring Influence Operators.”
In this wedding between the Twitter Trusted Partnership and the Governing Coordinating Council, the federal government began working in tandem with Big Tech to censor Americans. When Americans complained about Big Tech censorship, Big Tech companies simply shrugged it off as their right as private companies to censor whomever they want; they did not explain that Big Tech is censoring Americans on behalf of the government. ...
In that playbook, the Big Tech and government partnership very explicitly state that those hashtagging tweets with #electionfraud should be banned immediately. According to the playbook, those with the biggest social media influence should be targeted for censorship first, and it lines out how government agents should report Americans to Twitter to be banned, including screenshots and other information about the speech they don’t like. Incredibly, the playbook also states that “more credible voices” should be banned by Twitter first.
The playbook also explains how a threat assessment of ‘low, medium, and high’ should be given to American citizens based upon their credibility and level of post-engagement. Those deemed ‘the highest threat’ (reminder: we are talking about U.S. Citizens who are only guilty of free speech) should be “consistently monitored and surveilled” by both Twitter and the government.
In other words, the government is out-sourcing state-sponsored censorship to Twitter. That way, Twitter can hind behind the veil of Section 230, and the government can claim that it isn’t censoring anyone.".......
Obama's NSA
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