The White House Seeks Injunction Halt So It Can Continue Social Media Censorship Pressure

The Biden administration wants to continue playing “misinformation” police

A US court has decided to go for a preliminary injunction in a case looking into the Biden administration’s collusion with Big Tech, aimed at imposing censorship on social media users – the ruling now seeking to prevent this from continuing; but the Biden White House doesn’t seem to care.

The US district judge who issued the injunction, Terry A. Doughty, however, seems to very much do: the ruling went as far as to say that during the pandemic, the US government “assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth’.”

The lawsuit was brought by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana.

The current administration and its media supporters like to talk about the importance of “election integrity” – but how about supporting the integrity of your judicial system?

Apparently, not so fast. The judge’s conclusions came upon reviewing the attorney generals’ allegations from the filing – about the federal government and social media platforms coming together to censor speech, all the while claiming they were fighting Covid and election misinformation.

And for that reason, the injunction now restricts a large number of Biden administration representatives as well as the FBI and other agencies, from continuing with the practice – i.e., flagging posts for tech companies to delete or suppress, “or urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing” such outcomes “in any manner.” The judge also ordered an end to collaboration with the Election Integrity Partnership and similar groups.

One of those named in the ruling is White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, whose initial reaction has been one of defiance of the court. What the judge scathingly compared to the “Ministry of Truth” will continue to do its thing, is the sum of Jean-Pierre’s comments.

And she sees nothing Orwellian about it – on the contrary, it’s all supposedly sound public service. Pressuring, urging, encouraging… etc. social media companies, is “promotion” of that “positive” policy – at least in White House speak.