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September 6, 2022
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Lawsuit Uncovers Federal Bureaucrats Censoring Free Speech
Aaron Kheriaty
Human Flourishing
While private companies might arguably choose to censor content on their platforms, the government cannot pressure or coerce private companies to censor disfavored content. Under the First Amendment, the federal Government should have no role in policing private speech or picking winners and losers in the marketplace of ideas. But that is what federal officials are doing, on a massive scale.
Our Missouri v. Biden ([link removed]) legal brief ([link removed]) , filed with the court and made public today, reveals that scores of federal officials across at least eleven federal agencies have secretly communicated with social-media platforms to censor and suppress private speech federal officials disfavor. This unlawful enterprise has been wildly successful.
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Sarah Palin's deficiencies—not ranked-choice voting—are to blame for her defeat in the Alaska special election, writes Senior Fellow Henry Olsen ([link removed]) in The Washington Post.
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At American Reformer, Fellow Brad Littlejohn finds ([link removed]) that a comparison between modern technocracy and the feudal order is no mere appeal to fantasy as he reviews Joel Kotkin’s The Coming of Neo-Feudalism.
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Policy Analyst Clare Morell of the Technology and Human Flourishing Project ([link removed]) was quoted extensively in The Federalist ([link removed]) and The American Conservative ([link removed]) with reference to her recent brief ([link removed]) on tech policy for state legislatures ([link removed]) .
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Childcare costs, while high, are not pushing parents out of the workforce in droves, says Patrick Brown ([link removed]) writing for the Institute of Family Studies. "The best way to solve the child care crunch is to boost provider capacity while strengthening parental choice."
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EPPC Welcomes Alexandra DeSanctis as Fellow in Life and Family Initiative
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The Ethics and Public Policy Center is pleased to announce that Alexandra DeSanctis ([link removed]) has joined EPPC as a Fellow in the Life & Family Initiative ([link removed]) , after serving for two years as a Visiting Fellow at EPPC. DeSanctis is co-author, with Ryan T. Anderson, of the 2022 book Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing ([link removed]) .
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