New York AG Letitia James conducts the left’s war on free expression
Defends state law that orders private citizens to enforce speech codes
COMMENTARY
By Tim Murtaugh - - Thursday, February 15, 2024
OPINION:
For the longest time, when conservatives complained about being censored, muted or blocked on social media, we were met with a chorus of voices telling us that these were private companies that could do what they wanted.
But we always asked in follow-up, “What if it’s the government ordering the censoring in the first place?”
It’s clear that the government has orchestrated the censorship in quite a lot of cases, in direct violation of free speech rights guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution. This ought to concern every American, no matter their political viewpoint.
Although they were cagey about it, Biden administration officials occasionally lifted the veil. Even Jen Psaki, while she was White House press secretary, admitted that the administration brought certain accounts to the attention of social media executives, pressing for suspensions or other online sanctions.
With the release of the Twitter Files — batches of internal communications from inside the social media platform before it was purchased by Elon Musk — the public saw unquestionable evidence that the Biden White House forced social media companies to censor law-abiding U.S. citizens. These victims of government oppression had committed no crimes other than holding opinions that ran contrary to the approved way of thinking and trying to work against efforts at thought control. Earlier this month, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, released what are being called “the Amazon Files,” which show that Biden aides were hard at work pressuring the enormous internet retailer to suppress books that contain unapproved views on vaccines.
Over this time, many have suggested that the First Amendment is antiquated because of technology, and that the framers of the Constitution could not have foreseen today’s social media. That’s pretty shaky ground on which to base government-sponsored censorship. But even if you accept that, don’t you think they knew about books in the 18th century, when the Constitution was written?
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