Meeting Between State Department And Facebook Axed After Judge Warns Of ‘Orwellian’ Relationship | Eastern North Carolina Now

    Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the The Daily Wire. The author of this post is Leif Le Mahieu.

    State Department officials have reportedly canceled a meeting with Facebook after a federal judge ordered that the Biden administration limit its communications with social media companies after describing an "Orwellian" relationship between the two.

    A Facebook employee told the Washington Post that the social media company's weekly Wednesday meeting with government officials had been canceled in light of U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty's decision to grant an injunction in a lawsuit brought by Louisiana and Missouri over alleged collusion between the federal government and social media companies to censor "disfavored" speech in violation of the First Amendment.

    The meeting would have covered topics like the 2024 election and potential hacking problems. Facebook was informed that the meetings had been "canceled pending further guidance," according to the Facebook insider.

    Another meeting between Facebook and the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency could also face cancellation due to Doughty's ruling.

    In his July 4 ruling, Doughty said that opposition to COVID vaccines, opposition to masking, criticism of the 2020 election, true statements about the Hunter Biden laptop, and opposition to other government policies were all "suppressed" by the government.

    "During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterized by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian 'Ministry of Truth,'" he wrote.

    The White House has moved to appeal Doughty's injunction, which will be in place as the case makes its way through the judicial process. A spokeswoman for the White House characterized the administration's communications with social media companies as necessary for national security.

    "But we're not going to apologize for promoting responsible actions to protect public health, safety, and security when confronted by challenges like a deadly pandemic or foreign attacks on our elections," Sharon Yang said. "We're also not going to apologize for believing that social media platforms have a responsibility - a critical responsibility - to take account of the effects their platforms have on the American people."

    Doughty, a Trump-appointed judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, said that many of the actions taken by the Biden administration amounted to political discrimination.

    "It is quite telling that each example or category of suppressed speech was conservative in nature. This targeted suppression of conservative ideas is a perfect example of viewpoint discrimination of political speech," he said.

    The ruling still allowed the government to warn of foreign election interference, cyberattacks, and criminal activity.

poll#128

Where do you stand on the wanton censorship by Big Tech Platforms, while retaining their Section 230 carveout indemnifying them for Slander /Defamation lawsuits and Copyright infringements?

  Big Tech Platforms have the right to Censor all speech providing they voluntarily relinquish their Section 230 Carveout.

  Big Tech Platforms DO NOT have the right to Censor any speech, while retaining multiple indemnifications by virtue of the Section 230 Carveout.

  I know nothing of this 230 talk, but "I do love me some social media".

476 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?

poll#165

In light of continued developments, primarily since 2008, there exists in these United States a Legal System which operates on a proved Two Tiered approach to justice rendered, which primarily benefits Democratic Elites and Woke Ideological Virtue Signalers, representing their co-dependent wards, to the expressed exclusion of normal hardworking American citizens: What is your suggestion in remedying this widespread injustice and, if not corrected, its existential outcome for our Constitutional Republic?

  Complete overhaul of the Department of Justice and their enforcers - the FBI - to reflect a far more honest justice system to keep patriots remaining calm.

  Disband the FBI, and request that congress investigate all unethical and non patriotic practices to partially right the wrongs of a distrusted and politically weaponized "Department of Justice."

  Continue with the current system since the two tiered justice system has been so remarkably beneficial to Democratic Socialist political hegemony; chronic distrust in institutions notwithstanding.

674 total vote(s)     What's your Opinion?