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 legal brief, 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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