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How does this not violate the First Amendment? Biden administration telling Facebook what to censor


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2021 Jul 15, 9:38pm   1,017 views  45 comments

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https://reclaimthenet.org/jen-psaki-biden-government-censor-facebook-flagging/


Biden’s Press Secretary admits Federal Government is flagging content for Facebook to censor
The announcement is raising First Amendment violation flags.

The White House press secretary Jen Psaki has made a startling admission at a press briefing on Thursday that the US government is actively coordinating with Facebook to flag the posts of United States citizens for being “problematic” and containing COVID-19 “misinformation.”

The admission has raised First Amendment free speech rights implications, particularly as previous lawsuits that have accused Facebook and the government of working together to censor online content have been dismissed due to a judge finding “lack of evidence.”

Psaki’s admission could open the doors to finding that evidence.

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1   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2021 Jul 15, 9:48pm  

This is censorship, anti 1st A. But someone has to sue and scotus has to not cuck out… a lot of things that generally don’t occur.
2   Patrick   2021 Jul 15, 10:53pm  

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
10h
As I've documented before, the Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment's free speech guarantee is violated when government officials pressure or coerce private actors to censor for them. That is exactly what the Biden WH is doing with Facebook


https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-escalates-pressure-on-tech
6   Patrick   2021 Jul 17, 5:45pm  

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/legal-group-launches-effort-to-learn-about-biden-administrations-coordination-with-big-tech_3906235.html?utm_source=patrick.net&utm_medium=patrick.net&utm_campaign=patrick.net

Legal Group Launches Effort to Learn About Biden Administration’s Coordination With Big Tech
BY ZACHARY STIEBER July 17, 2021

A legal group is seeking information on the extent of the Biden administration’s coordination with Big Tech after White House officials this week said they were in regular communication with the companies.


Lawsuits are the answer.
7   Patrick   2021 Jul 17, 5:55pm  

https://notthebee.com/article/what-jen-psaki-says-you-should-be-banned-from-all-social-media-if-youre-banned-by-one-site

WHAT? Jen Psaki says you should be banned from all social media if you get booted off one site for "misinformation"
9   Patrick   2021 Jul 20, 9:22am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/joe-biden-digital-serfs-misinformation-jen-psaki-facebook/

Yesterday, from February to May to be precise, Facebook censored postings about COVID-19 being a manmade virus, created in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Today, a government that won’t tell you what it knows about COVID-19’s origins will arbitrarily censor your opinions about the mass rollout of an untested vaccine that uses new technology. Tomorrow, it’ll be something else. And while no one willingly lets the government into their home, the digital snoops of social media are already there, ready to denounce us.
11   Bd6r   2021 Jul 20, 10:27am  

note they have built a WALL! around the White House. RACIST!
12   Patrick   2021 Jul 20, 5:21pm  

https://reclaimthenet.org/psaki-no-options-are-off-the-table-regarding-regulating-online-speech/

Psaki: No options are “off the table” regarding regulating online speech


How about violating the First Amendment? Is that off the table?

Apparently not.
15   richwicks   2021 Jul 21, 12:09am  

Patrick says
https://reclaimthenet.org/jen-psaki-biden-government-censor-facebook-flagging/


Biden’s Press Secretary admits Federal Government is flagging content for Facebook to censor
The announcement is raising First Amendment violation flags.

The White House press secretary Jen Psaki has made a startling admission at a press briefing on Thursday that the US government is actively coordinating with Facebook to flag the posts of United States citizens for being “problematic” and containing COVID-19 “misinformation.”

The admission has raised First Amendment free speech rights implications, particularly as previous lawsuits that have accused Facebook and the government of working together to censor online content have been dismissed due to a judge finding “lack of evidence.”

Psaki’s admission could open the doors to finding that e...


http://americangulag.org is available if you want to make a social media site for the outcasts. You stood up at one point, whether you realized it or not.
16   Patrick   2021 Jul 21, 11:45am  

https://notthebee.com/article/dont-be-alarmed-its-just-the-white-house-communications-director-saying-that-the-biden-administration-will-be-targeting-conservative-outlets-for-spreading-misinformation

Don't Be Alarmed, It's Just The White House Communications Director Saying That The Biden Administration Will Be Targeting Conservative Outlets For Spreading "Misinformation"
18   SumatraBosch   2021 Jul 25, 7:02am  

Editing is exactly like Chairman Mao shooting you in the face.

The fact that Donald Trump is not praised on every page and in every column of every newspaper in the world is proof of a conspiracy against him and his rights to endless triumph, now and forever.
19   richwicks   2021 Jul 25, 8:47am  

TC45 says
Bd6r says
note they have built a WALL! around the White House. RACIST!


Lol! That's not the White House! And... The wall around the White House went up under the Trump administration 🤣. Don't believe me? Look it up.


There was no fence around the white house under the Trump administration. If there was, how would people have been setup to enter the capital on January 6th?

I hate it when people make a false claim, and then challenge people to "look it up". You're never going to find something that doesn't exist.
20   Onvacation   2021 Jul 25, 9:47am  

TC45 says
Next will you say "fake news"? Or will you admit that you didn't know and thank me for enlightening you?

It's so nice to have people to debate.

Welcome to patnet, though I suspect you have been here before.
21   mell   2021 Jul 25, 9:48am  

They built the xiden fence after the capitol attacks, but there was a partial fence already around it, though clearly not massive enough to not being conquered easily by grandmas and shamans. Supposedly the enforcing xiden fence has started to come down at some point, current status is unclear.
22   Onvacation   2021 Jul 25, 9:48am  

TC45 says
enlightening

So why did you vote for Biden?
23   Patrick   2021 Jul 25, 10:31am  

SumatraBosch says
Editing is exactly like Chairman Mao shooting you in the face.

The fact that Donald Trump is not praised on every page and in every column of every newspaper in the world is proof of a conspiracy against him and his rights to endless triumph, now and forever.


What is the name for this dishonest form of argument where the point is willfully misrepresented and then that strawman is refuted?

James Damore used the term "misrepresent and shame", where the left (and it's always the left for some reason) deliberately misrepresents and then attempts to shame for something that was never asserted.

The point is, and the truth is, that it's a gross violation of freedom of speech to have the executive branch coordinating with tech monopolies to censor dissenting opinions. And it is in fact clearly similar to the operations of Mao, Stalin, and Hitler with respect to free speech, especially when we have hundreds of political prisoners now who were arrested for protesting election fraud after being invited into the Capitol and taking selfies.
24   richwicks   2021 Jul 25, 12:53pm  

TC45 says
richwicks says
I hate it when people make a false claim, and then challenge people to "look it up". You're never going to find something that doesn't exist.


Do you have a problem with business insider?
https://www.businessinsider.com/white-house-anti-climb-wall-protests-2020-7


Yes, yes, I do.

https://www.businessinsider.com/climate-change-wildfires-heat-drought-floods-effect-homes-housing-market-2021-7
https://www.businessinsider.com/nixons-white-house-counsel-jeff-sessions-ousting-like-a-planned-murder-2018-11?op=1
https://www.businessinsider.com/new-unredacted-mueller-report-most-explosive-revelations-stone-wikileaks-2020-6?op=1
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-surviving-autocracy-interview-masha-gessen-2020-7?op=1

TC45 says
Next will you say "fake news"?


I just demonstrated they produce pretty obvious propaganda. Business insider isn't a reliable source, anymore than the Atlantic, Fox, or MSNBC is. Try again.
25   Bd6r   2021 Jul 25, 1:43pm  

TC45 says
Bd6r says
note they have built a WALL! around the White House. RACIST!


Lol! That's not the White House! And... The wall around the White House went up under the Trump administration 🤣. Don't believe me? Look it up.

It is not enough to not be racist. You should be anti-racist. Ibrahim X. Kenzi, Democrat titan of thought.

TEAR THAT WALL DOWN, MR. BIDEN, otherwise you are racist-adjacent!
26   SumatraBosch   2021 Jul 25, 1:54pm  

When Trump is reinstated on August 13, he can outlaw all editorial copy in newspapers and websites that fail to praise him and his accomplishments and shoot the perpetrators in the face.
27   richwicks   2021 Jul 25, 5:15pm  

TC45 says
richwicks says
I just demonstrated they produce pretty obvious propaganda. Business insider isn't a reliable source, anymore than the Atlantic, Fox, or MSNBC is. Try again.


Lol so you are saying the pictures are fake? Do you have any proof Trump didn't do as the article claims?


I have proof that business insider is filled with liars and hacks. Because of this, anything they claim, I just ignore, because they do blatantly lie.

TC45 says
That those pictures are photo shopped?
This doesn't make it any less true.


Look, if a supposed "news source" is going to lie to my face, and they do, why would I consider anything they write to be credible? Find a credible source.

I have sat through 20 years of being fully aware that "reporters" will goddamned lie to me, and make BLATANT lies. In one instance, CNN was claiming that they had video footage of a Russian invasion into Ukraine. Well, it turned out to be archival footage of the Ukrainian and Russian army doing military exercises before the US overthrew Yanukovych and they keep reporting on that as a "revolution" - well, it's goddamned easy for me to talk to a Ukrainian.

I can show you example, after example, after example of when our "news media" just completely fucking lies to us, about things that are EASY to verify they are lying to us about.

They have done shit like show protests in "China" where the soldiers in uniform are wearing Indian uniforms. I am so fucking tired of it. They tried to pass off a video of a supposed Turkish attack against the Kurds, which turned out to be a Kentucky gun show. They don't care, they lie their asses off ALL THE TIME, and they are "duh, why doesn't anybody trust us"? They are completely not worth paying attention to at this point.

For 4 years it was "Trump is losing his mind and is cognitively disabled!" - and silence on Biden. Every goddamned thing they do is insincere, misleading, and dishonest. It's complete propaganda. Would they goddamned lie about a wall - of course they would. There was a time in the 1990's when a "news station" told a whopper, SOMEBODY would call them out on it in the national media - that ended in 2000.

The internet is filled with propagandists, and trolls, and general assholes - that's now far, FAR, more reliable information than "a trusted authoritative source". That's the state of "corporate news". I honestly don't know who wastes their time listening to them. If you haven't figured out that they are malicious, viscous liars, by now you never will, and I'm certain you have actually figured it out. Stop pretending it's weird at this point to have figured out the blatantly obvious.
28   richwicks   2021 Jul 25, 5:32pm  

TC45 says
richwicks says
I have proof that business insider is filled with liars and hacks. Because of this, anything they claim, I just ignore, because they do blatantly lie


Ok, fair enough. I did not know. The wall around the White House seems like a story not easily faked. I really don't know much about business insider. Thanks for the tip. I know it's all propaganda. All


The very first thing I do, when somebody gives me a source, it to go to the top level of the source, and see if they are publishing bullshit or not. Here, you want a fairly reliable news source in the United States?

https://www.wsws.org/en

The fact that THAT is now a, relatively, reliable news source, is showing you that our "news organizations" are betraying the country. I'm not at all a communist, but that site, if you ignore "the analysis" is quite accurate on reporting what is going on. That's pathetic.

And BTW - they are HARDLY accurate, they're just better than CNN, Fox, MSNBC, the NY Times, PBS, NPR..
29   Patrick   2021 Jul 29, 5:06pm  

https://reclaimthenet.org/disclose-government-censorship-act/

Issue: July 29, 2021
New bill would force government to disclose online censorship requests
Not that the Federal Government should be violating the First Amendment anyway. ...

A Republican senator has introduced a bill that would require the White House to disclose the censorship requests it sends to Facebook and other social media companies. ...

On Wednesday, Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) introduced a bill focused on revealing the extent of censorship requests from the White House to social media platforms. The bill, called the Disclose Government Censorship Act, is co-sponsored by Sens. Roger Marshall (R-KS), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Mike Rounds (R-SD).

We obtained a copy of the bill for you here.

“The recent collusion that has come to light between the Biden Administration and Big Tech is not only disturbing, but inconsistent with the government’s constitutional role in American life,” Hagerty said in a statement.
30   Patrick   2021 Aug 2, 3:49pm  

https://reclaimthenet.org/fb-cdc-misinfo-collusion/

Emails show collusion between US government and Facebook over online coronavirus “misinformation”
A new Freedom of Information request has revealed the emails.
31   Patrick   2021 Aug 13, 10:52am  

https://reclaimthenet.org/florida-veteran-sues-facebook-for-first-amendment-violation/

Issue: August 12, 2021
Florida veteran sues Facebook for First Amendment violation, alleging censorship collusion with Biden administration
Richard Rogalinski was censored by Facebook several times.
32   Patrick   2021 Aug 13, 10:52am  

https://reclaimthenet.org/facebook-deletes-australian-mp-george-christensen-argued-against-lockdowns/

Issue: August 12, 2021
Australian MP George Christensen argued against lockdowns in parliament. Facebook just deleted it.
Facebook continues to insert itself between the citizens and their elected officials.
33   Onvacation   2021 Aug 13, 3:45pm  

richwicks says

I can show you example, after example, after example of when our "news media" just completely fucking lies to us, about things that are EASY to verify they are lying to us about.

Their audience won't even look at evidence counterfactual to "the narrative".

Not only won't they look they will become combative. Try showing a "progressive" the evidence that Biden is racist or Trump is not. They want the TRUTH, not the facts.
34   Onvacation   2021 Aug 13, 3:47pm  

richwicks says
If you haven't figured out that they are malicious, viscous liars,

They are kind of thick.
35   Patrick   2021 Aug 13, 3:58pm  

Onvacation says
Not only won't they look they will become combative.


The actual truth would make them feel bad.

So whatever hallucinations are necessary to stop them from feeling bad will appear in their minds.
38   Hircus   2021 Sep 12, 12:34am  

zuck is doing censorship political favors in exchange for congressionally assured business continuity protection from the dems.

FB will oddly keep getting approvals to buy up all competitors, assuring it maintains monopoly status.

"But congressman... If a new social media company rose to the top, could you guarantee they would work with you the way that I do? What if a new company displaced FB, and they favored free speech and/or republicans? What if they wouldn't freely hand over info on anyone you want, like I do? Don't take the chance - stay with your trusted pal Zuck."
39   Robert Sproul   2021 Sep 12, 7:18am  

Onvacation says
Their audience won't even look at evidence counterfactual to "the narrative".

Not only won't they look they will become combative.

This is what has completely blown my mind in recent years. Incurious and irritable, they dwell on the surface of all issues and converse in sound bites. I saw the Corporate Media referred to as the Talking Point Industrial Complex.
I hope they enjoy the World they are creating. I told my blindly indoctrinated buddy that I hoped it was him who would come drag me out of my house to take me to the Community Hygiene Camp so he could maybe earn an extra voucher for Almost Meat Roach Patties for his grandkids.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/global-covid-19/shielding-approach-humanitarian.html

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