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| Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. blasted Democrats as betraying liberty and free speech. Reacting to a federal judge's injunction stopping the Biden administration from censoring and banning speech on the Internet, RFK excoriated government suppression of information. "This ruling has been widely reported as barring the |
Update: Biden is "appealing a court ruling sharply limiting the ability of federal officials to interact with social media companies about the content contained on their platforms," reports Politico.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., hailed a Louisiana federal judge's ruling to grant an injunction against President Joe Biden, ordering the administration to halt government-induced censorship of the internet, and the administration's myriad contacts with Big Tech,
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination for Untied States president.
Judge Doughty's ruling forbids the Biden administration from contacting social media companies for "the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech."
As the national Democratic Party has become a champion of censorship of speech that the administration says is too dangerous to read or hear, Kennedy has taken the opposite position, blasting Democrats as betraying liberty and free speech.
"This ruling has been widely reported as barring the administration from ‘working with,' 'contacting,' or 'coordinating with' social media," said Democratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is mentioned in the injunction as one of the people censored on social media. "These are euphemisms. The case is about blatant censorship, in which government agencies colluded with and coerced tech platforms to censor Constitutionally-protected speech."
The Biden administration's work for state censorship has also defined the national Democratic Party, as not one Democratic member of Congress has expressed public objection to what Judge Doughty calls Biden's "Ministry of Truth."
Kennedy is mentioned several times in Judge Judge Doughty's Memorandum Ruling on Request for Preliminary Injunction.
Kennedy, a prominent environmental attorney and children's' advocate, has been banned and censored by Big Tech for advocating for patients, consumers and families against what Kennedy has said are sometimes dangerous corporations.
Writes Judge Doughty:
(1) On January 23, 2021, three days after President Biden took office, Clarke Humphrey (“Humphrey”), who at the time was the Digital Director for the COVID-19 Response Team, emailed Twitter and requested the removal of an anti-COVID-19 vaccine tweet by RobertF. Kennedy, Jr.21 Humphrey sent a copy of the email to Rob Flaherty (“Flaherty”), former Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Digital Strategy, on the email and asked if “we can keep an eye out for tweets that fall in this same genre.” The email read, “Hey folks-Wanted to flag the below tweet and am wondering if we can get moving on the process of having it removed ASAP.”22
Kennedy's press release in reproduced below:
LOS ANGELES, CA—JULY 5, 2023—A federal judge issued an injunction Tuesday prohibiting Biden administration officials and federal agencies from communicating with social media companies about certain forms of protected speech.
The 155-page ruling details numerous clear violations of the First Amendment’s free speech clause. Amply referenced and footnoted, the document describes how Biden administration officials demanded that social media companies suppress information and deplatform people who expressed political views they deemed harmful.
“This ruling has been widely reported as barring the administration from ‘working with,’ ‘contacting,’ or ‘coordinating with’ social media,” said Democratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who is mentioned in the injunction as one of the people censored on social media.
“These are euphemisms. The case is about blatant censorship, in which government agencies colluded with and coerced tech platforms to censor Constitutionally-protected speech.”
As described in the injunction, government censorship demands were backed with threats to revoke Article 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which shields social media companies from liability for actions taken on their websites, as well as the threat of anti-trust action. Both of these, in the words of Mark Zuckerberg, are “existential threats” to social media companies’ business.
The injunction describes the formation of a censorship apparatus that includes public-private partnerships with groups like the Virality Project, the Stanford Internet Observatory, and the Election Integrity Project. They operated not only through direct demands, but also through creating a tacit consensus about what information is permissible.
Disallowed posts and suppressed information included those:
- Questioning the safety of the Covid vaccines
- Claiming the shots did not prevent infection or transmission
- Doubting the utility of masks and lockdowns
- Suggesting the lab leak hypothesis for Covid origins
- Questioning the integrity of the 2020 elections
- Claiming the authenticity of the Hunter Biden laptop story
“The judge got it exactly right when he wrote, ‘Freedom of speech and press is the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom,’” Kennedy said. “Without freedom of speech, there is no democracy.”
Attorneys for Team Kennedy are considering further legal action to protect Mr. Kennedy’s rights and those of the campaign to be heard, free of censorship.
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