A federal court has granted a preliminary injunction against the White House and other federal defendants in a lawsuit brought by Mr. Kennedy Jr. that accuses the Biden administration of orchestrating a campaign to pressure social media platforms to censor vaccine criticism.
Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued the ruling on Feb. 14, stating that Mr. Kennedy Jr. has demonstrated a strong likelihood of success in proving government infringement on his free speech rights.
The injunction prevents the defendants—which include the White House, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the FBI—from taking any actions to coerce social media companies to remove or suppress content containing protected free speech.
Good news, but this clouds things a bit from my perspective: : "The injunction remains on hold for the time being, however, as the proceeding in Mr. Kennedy Jr.’s lawsuit has been consolidated with the case of Missouri v. Biden, which is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. The freeze will be in place for 10 days after the Supreme Court rules in Missouri v. Biden, which is based on the same evidence."
I interpret this to mean that the government can keep doing what it is doing for now until the Miss vs. Biden case is settled, whenever that is. The last sentence about the freeze is totally obtuse to me (does 'freeze' refer to the pausing of the injunction or to the injunction itself? And if the court finds for Biden then the injunction is moot in any event. Confusingly written).
Yeah, and even if they win the lawsuits, does anyone expect the government and alphabet agencies to follow the law? They'll just be more secretive is my guess ...
I was a big fan of NPR at one time. Regularly gave money through the 80s, 90s, and early oughts. Even went to an NPR event at their Philadelphia location back in the early 2000s where I met Terri Gross. That was then.
I started to drift away sometime in the 2010 timeframe and shut the door pretty definitively about five years later, when they - along with the rest of the MSM - went full TDS. Have not looked back since.
By the way, I recommend that everyone watch the recent Tucker Carlson interview with Mike Benz, wherein the latter recounts in great detail the evolution of the censorship regime here in America, and more broadly in the West. Specifically, he describes how the government, which had advanced freedom of speech as a national security tool in the early days of the internet so as to undermine the censorship regimes of foreign adversaries, turned against it as a result of Brexit and Donald Trump's win in 2016. Indeed, according to Benz the stated policy of the deep state apparatchiks which man these censorship organizations is that freedom of speech is not consistent with modern day realities.
it would have been better for NPR to present the Carlson interview in its totality - and then commentary by Tim Snyder from Yale, who knows something about the matter, for "post-game" commentary. For those who know anything about Ukraine, especially from an anarchist perspective, Putin's "history" was laughable, most of the rest of his comments came straight from Solovyov's propaganda TV show. Tucker got rolled and he didn't know it - it was bad. For the record, I oppose and have opposed Putin's imperialist aggression against Ukraine and other places. He's following Aleksandr Dugin's fascist "National Bolshevist" plan pretty exactly, if you read this, from 2004 and then follow the history from 2007 onwards, you'll see the parallels -
Another enjoyable read, Tim. I always appreciate the candor and it pleases me to watch another person questioning and revising their own world view. That's uncommon. Most of us become emotionally attached to a particular version of reality and guard it with fierce defense tactics to prevent our Ego (in the Freudian sense) from experiencing the pain of loss when that reality is attacked.
Just in:
A federal court has granted a preliminary injunction against the White House and other federal defendants in a lawsuit brought by Mr. Kennedy Jr. that accuses the Biden administration of orchestrating a campaign to pressure social media platforms to censor vaccine criticism.
Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued the ruling on Feb. 14, stating that Mr. Kennedy Jr. has demonstrated a strong likelihood of success in proving government infringement on his free speech rights.
The injunction prevents the defendants—which include the White House, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the FBI—from taking any actions to coerce social media companies to remove or suppress content containing protected free speech.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/federal-judge-hands-rfk-jr-win-lawsuit-accusing-biden-admin-censoring-covid-19-vaccine-info
Good news, but this clouds things a bit from my perspective: : "The injunction remains on hold for the time being, however, as the proceeding in Mr. Kennedy Jr.’s lawsuit has been consolidated with the case of Missouri v. Biden, which is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. The freeze will be in place for 10 days after the Supreme Court rules in Missouri v. Biden, which is based on the same evidence."
I interpret this to mean that the government can keep doing what it is doing for now until the Miss vs. Biden case is settled, whenever that is. The last sentence about the freeze is totally obtuse to me (does 'freeze' refer to the pausing of the injunction or to the injunction itself? And if the court finds for Biden then the injunction is moot in any event. Confusingly written).
Yeah, and even if they win the lawsuits, does anyone expect the government and alphabet agencies to follow the law? They'll just be more secretive is my guess ...
And another nice article about the NPR CEO ...
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/person-crazy-racist-new-npr-ceo-exposed-woke-activist
This person is a crazy racist!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 14, 2024
Well, it's not just me ...
"An Open-Minded Spirit No Longer Exists Within NPR" - NPR Veteran Excoriates Outlet Over Hunter, Russiagate Activism
https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust
reprinted here: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/open-minded-spirit-no-longer-exists-within-npr-npr-veteran-excoriates-outlet-over-hunter
I was a big fan of NPR at one time. Regularly gave money through the 80s, 90s, and early oughts. Even went to an NPR event at their Philadelphia location back in the early 2000s where I met Terri Gross. That was then.
I started to drift away sometime in the 2010 timeframe and shut the door pretty definitively about five years later, when they - along with the rest of the MSM - went full TDS. Have not looked back since.
By the way, I recommend that everyone watch the recent Tucker Carlson interview with Mike Benz, wherein the latter recounts in great detail the evolution of the censorship regime here in America, and more broadly in the West. Specifically, he describes how the government, which had advanced freedom of speech as a national security tool in the early days of the internet so as to undermine the censorship regimes of foreign adversaries, turned against it as a result of Brexit and Donald Trump's win in 2016. Indeed, according to Benz the stated policy of the deep state apparatchiks which man these censorship organizations is that freedom of speech is not consistent with modern day realities.
It is a very educational conversation.
it would have been better for NPR to present the Carlson interview in its totality - and then commentary by Tim Snyder from Yale, who knows something about the matter, for "post-game" commentary. For those who know anything about Ukraine, especially from an anarchist perspective, Putin's "history" was laughable, most of the rest of his comments came straight from Solovyov's propaganda TV show. Tucker got rolled and he didn't know it - it was bad. For the record, I oppose and have opposed Putin's imperialist aggression against Ukraine and other places. He's following Aleksandr Dugin's fascist "National Bolshevist" plan pretty exactly, if you read this, from 2004 and then follow the history from 2007 onwards, you'll see the parallels -
https://tec.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/aleksandr-dugins-foundations-geopolitics - and then have a look at my Substack piece - https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/putins-secret-strategy-if-you-cant
Yup.
Just show the DATA and let people decide.
World expert on propaganda Mark Crispin Miller is right here on substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/markcrispinmiller?r=peo1w&utm_medium=ios
The propaganda at NPR isn’t new. They’ve been slanting their news and programming leftward since at least the Reagan Administration…..:..:
Another enjoyable read, Tim. I always appreciate the candor and it pleases me to watch another person questioning and revising their own world view. That's uncommon. Most of us become emotionally attached to a particular version of reality and guard it with fierce defense tactics to prevent our Ego (in the Freudian sense) from experiencing the pain of loss when that reality is attacked.