Biden administration can resume contact with social-media platforms ‘until further orders’

NEW ORLEANS -- A federal appeals court Friday temporarily paused a lower court’s order limiting executive branch officials’ communications with social media companies about controversial online posts.

Biden administration lawyers had asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to stay the preliminary injunction issued on July 4 by U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty. Doughty himself had rejected a request to put his order on hold pending appeal.

Appeals court pauses order limiting Biden administration contact with social media companies

We will fight for our right to interfere in our own elections and intimidate social media into censoring content we deem "harmful to the State"...

 

Which article in the Constitution says government should be an authority on what is suitable for the press?

 

That's not what I asked. Which article in the Constitution says government should be an authority on what is suitable for the press?

 

That's not even close to what we're talking out, but in your embodiment of absolute dishonesty, you just can't help yourself, can you? We're talking about the government throwing their weight around to harass and coerce social media companies and/or free press to change, edit and delete certain posts or stories. A police officer can't pull me over every time I pull out of my driveway without probable cause. Does that mean a police officer can never question me ever? or say hello? Of course not. But I have Constitutional rights which protect me from being harassed daily by the police with questions that invade my privacy. Likewise, government cannot abuse their power in regulating something that is not supposed to be regulated. If there is a specific underlying crime that is occurring, sure the FBI should be able to reach out to social media platforms to get their assistance in apprehending the suspect. But aside from that, no, government law enforcement doesn't have the purview in regulating social media content or journalism. They are not supposed to flex their muscles to cajole media or press to censor certain posts, stories or information, which is what is happening a lot. Both parties are guilty. It needs to stop yesterday.

People like you are the reason we're in this situation where news channels merely serve as arms of the DNC or RNC. You cannot watch news now without knowing it's tainted by government propaganda, coercion and collusion. People like you will be the reason we'll lose our rights, because you just hand them away on a silver platter as though they are nothing burgers. Freedom of the press is so broad that the government does not prosecute a journalist if they publish classified intelligence to the public. Let that sink in for a bit before you begin foaming at the mouth again about how "ridiculous" my assertion is. So no, of course, government should not be nagging social media platforms or news organizations to run the stories they want or to remove posts or stories they don't like. You know where that stuff happens a lot? Russia. China. Yeah, not here though. Not supposed to, at least. We hope the SCOTUS will put a stop to it.

 

Typical @l_boy response when there really is no response.

 

It's a 'nice way' of saying the state is taking over media. And of course, they're never going to come right out and tell you "we're regulating media." They're going to frame it as "oh we're just letting the execs know certain posts are violating their TOS." Yeah..right. So on top of violating our Constitution rights, you're going to insult our intelligence too. Constitutional rights violations aside, we actually are paying government employees to scour millions of social media posts a day just to send a DM to the moderators or execs to let them know there's a rule violation? They are doing this on our dime. It's not a function of government. Which legislation did we pass which deemed this a function of government? Which article in the Constitution says government is supposed to help media regulate themselves? It doesn't exist. Not only are they violating Constitutional rights, they are doing so outside of the law and we, the taxpayers, are the ones paying for it.