Biden’s ‘Orwellian’ social media crackdown

Joe Biden cannot be trusted to protect the American people’s freedom of speech. He needs to be restrained, by law, from interfering with people’s First Amendment right to express themselves as they see fit. That is the implication of an extraordinary preliminary injunction slapped on the Biden administration this week by a federal judge.

The injunction was issued by US District Court judge Terry Doughty. He says Biden officials likely conspired with social media companies to remove content, in particular content on Covid-19, that the government considered undesirable or dangerous. This would represent a flagrant usurping of the First Amendment, he says, which holds that the government shall take no action that might abridge ‘the freedom of speech’. And so, says Judge Doughty, Biden’s people must cut off contact with the bosses of social media.

The case was brought by the Republican attorney general of Louisiana, Jeff Landry, and the former Republican attorney general of Missouri, Eric Schmitt.