Social media companies couldn’t handle all the moderation they had to do. They didn’t want harmful “misinformation” or even *gasp* “malinformation” on their platforms. They kept identifying what they considered dangerous untrue posts that threatened the fabric of society. They even identified true posts that would scare others, and those were worse. People were discussing COVID vaccine side effects, and it started spreading. The social media companies were invested in ensuring that every American felt comfortable getting a shot in the arm, no matter the cost.
Understanding the platforms were overwhelmed, the government stepped in. They worked in tandem with Meta, Twitter, Google, etc., in a symbiotic relationship. The government just wanted to help, you see. So they set up a sprawling public/private conglomerate to act as these organizations’ “Trust and Safety” department. After all, they couldn’t handle it on their own, and the government wasn’t doing anything but alerting social media companies when an unsuspecting citizen stepped out of line and posted wrongthink.
That is the line of garbage the government has force-fed to the media, congress, and the courts over the past year and some months as the Missouri v. Biden case has charged forward. They claimed it again as recently as last week as they filed their appeal to the temporary injunction Judge Terry Doughty slapped on them in the case.
The injunction prohibits them from doing the things listed above. Things like a halt to the practice of coercing, urging, or threatening social media companies to change their policies or remove content. It has carve-outs for everything else you would expect the government needs to do; investigating national security threats, crime, etc. The government is appealing the judge’s request that it not threaten social media companies about censoring Americans.
You see, we have learned throughout the case in discovery provided BY THE GOVERNMENT that they were the ones directing social media companies on how to handle that pesky “misinformation” and “malinformation” we spoke about above. They would take it upon themselves to scour the internet for posts that went against the approved narrative and send them to social media platforms for action. They would then follow up with them to make sure they took action. If they didn’t, they would pester and threaten them until they did. And, all the while and in front of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, they have maintained that their right to censor what they consider harmful speech is more important than YOUR right to say it. They did this while simultaneously claiming they never threatened anyone anywhere to do anything. It was all voluntary, you see.
They have gaslit the appellate court about what the order actually says, even though they can read it. They have pretended the order is a gag on THEIR right to speak rather than a prohibition that they do not deprive you of YOURS. They have done this consistently, but that all came to a screeching halt last week.
