At last this court action may finally provoke a debate about the administrative state that embarked on the great silencing. Its machinery seized control of the country in March 2020 in a great turning point in American history. It’s taken more than three years to finally observe a major pushback. The struggle to maintain freedom will always be with us as a great task of every generation.
The Sedition Act in particular imposed nationwide censorship edicts that made it illegal to criticize the government or its officials.
Even with a Constitution, government is a threat to human rights.
Under the guise of pandemic management, unelected government officials worked daily for years with all the top social media platforms to silence dissident voices.
These unelected people took it upon themselves to police speech and push for the banning of accounts that offered opinions contrary to what the government wanted out there controlling the public mind.
Even up to the day of the injunction, YouTube was still taking down videos at the behest of government officials.
"During the COVID-19 pandemic," writes the judge, "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."
The judge further quotes Harry Truman: "Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one place to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-unraveling-of-the-censorship-hegemon/
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