Influential COVID policy skeptic sues Big Tech, feds for censoring his social media posts
By: Greg Piper
Yet more democrat big government dystopian action. In this case they actively encourage and conspire with big tech social media to silence and censor 1st amendment free speech the government disagrees with. This Orwellian scheme to use big tech social media to trample upon the 1st amendment where a regime may not has been openly admitted to. Mainstream media and big tech social media working in concert with government to silence dissent. Unacceptable!
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Influential COVID policy skeptic sues Big Tech, feds for censoring his social media posts
"Within days" of removals, Biden administration admitted it was pressuring companies to remove "misinformation," suit says.
An influential COVID policy skeptic followed through on his threat to sue Facebook for suspending his account this summer based on a graphic he posted: "Masking Children is Impractical and Not Backed by Research or Real World Data."
Identified in a recent MIT paper as one of a handful of "anchors" for the anti-mask network on Twitter, Justin Hart also named Twitter, President Biden, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as defendants in the lawsuit .
"When the federal government admits to conspiring with social media companies to censor messages with which it disagrees, as it has in this case, both the government and the private companies are guilty of unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination," it says.
Five days after Facebook suspended Hart's account, which he also used for business, Twitter suspended his account for commenting on a CDC report that 70% of infected people were wearing masks, according to the suit. "We know that masks don't protect you ... but at some point you have to wonder if they are PART of the problem," he wrote.
Murthy and White House press secretary Jen Psaki publicly disclosed "within days" of the two removals that the feds were pressuring social media to remove "misinformation super-spreaders" and that White House "senior staff" were directly contacting the companies.
The suit cites Murthy's 22-page advisory asking technology platforms to monitor and stop distribution of views such as Hart's, through algorithm changes, increased staffing of content moderation teams, imposing "clear consequences" for violators and amplifying "trusted messengers and subject matter experts."
In addition to the First Amendment claim for "state action" against Hart's posts, the suit claims HHS and OMB are violating the Freedom of Information Act by missing their statutory deadline to provide him requested records relevant to the suit.
The California resident is also using the state constitution's free speech clause to accuse the tech platforms of violating his speech rights as "common carriers of information." He cited a state supreme court ruling that barred a shopping center from evicting political protesters from its private property.
"It's clear to Americans that what is said at the White House podium isn't always true, so why do we think it's acceptable for the government to direct social media companies to censor people on critical issues such as COVID?" Hart asked in a press release by his lawyers at the Liberty Justice Center.
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The guy that "found" Hunter Biden's laptop sued Twitter and lost with prejudice, now he has to pay their legal fees.
he's opened a new shop in denver,... temporarily...
Why temporarily?
poor location, unfavorable business climate, negative internet reviews, being a dipshit...
And that has what to do with this issue? Ultimately it was the New York Post that was most censored and impacted by the illegitimate censorship of their all too true real story in order to protect Biden before the election.
People should be very careful who they sue, or have very deep pockets.
Oh, is the real topic Biden bashing?
Justin Hart is a 'social media influencer' who influences people to do stupid things that end up overfilling ICUs, but fuck the nurses and doctors who work in them, Justin's rights are more important than theirs and they don't need no fucking freedom of speech if they are dead.
The sites you read will be your spiritual death.
We need to protest and object to the marriage of government with big tech social media to trample upon and subvert the 1st amendment.
Not with scam artists like Justin.
meh, I'm good with anything that oppresses misinformation clowns, white supremacists, fascists, autocrats, and especially closet dominionists. we really need to protest and object to the marriage of government and narrow minded evangelism that tramples upon and subverts the 1st amendment.
So you steer clear of left wing rags.
Good to know you've come to your senses s/
Sorry but the 1st amendment protects everyone when it comes to free speech, even people you don’t like and have objectified by all sorts of labeling simply because you disagree with them.
Like Kyle Becker does daily, Justin Hart deliberately misrepresented the study and kept shouting his incorrect
personal interpretations, not the findings of the CDC study.
Fact check: Misrepresented CDC study about community exposure to the new coronavirus | Reuters
We do have laws about shouting fire when there is none.
Which don’t cover people disagreeing with their government or the politifact/Snopes/MBFC like content controlling censor.
Your voting up your own comment doesn't
win against my unsolicited up vote, sorry.
LoL
The minority doesn't always control the courts, the news and the opinions of what is fair in this country, despite the ebbs and tides.
70% support Roe.
The Texas law will fail on unconstitutionality, HIPPA law violations and violations of of client /lawyer violations
including the laws ludicrous inclusion of trial law judges.
It just highlights the trend towards the Christian Taliban trend in this country t
hat the Founding Fathers would never have approved of.
Prediction; lees than one week of upheaval as no self respecting Republican has dared issue supportive stement
on this abomination of legal word salad.
Not all of it. A majority favors more limits on abortion than presently allowed.
we shall see. They may well compromise and allow abortion but put more Limits on it like the pain threshold at 15 weeks instead from the Mississippi law.
There is no Christian Taliban except in the fevered minds of the God hating political left.
hail to the leftest echo chamber
... you mean the teavangelical hating left.
No, that's a different group of dumbasses.
who? Do what?
Ivermectin, Hydrochloroquiene, and Zithro along with vitamin D3 and Zinc are great tools with which to combat the China virus.
You should be unceremoniously tossed from this site for that comment alone.
See 3.1.10. It’s the secular progressive dream.
I stand by what I said. They are good tools to be used as Therapeutics to fight it with and the zinc and vitamin D are good tools to provide the body with resistance to getting the virus.
They are no better than prayer or rubbing unsalted butter on one's self to sun bathe.
It may make you feel better but it has no value.
Some people are susceptible to a degree and to others it is fatal. Others walk through the fire unscathed.
Our prisons are full of unvaccinated worthless pieces of shit that have killed their families or strangers
and yet despite horrendous COVID infections
somehow survive your God's wrath.
Why the fuck is that?
It suggests that there are other factors at play.
So eat pasture grass, drink piss or holy water, I don't care.
According to whom? Medical experts and the FDA disagree! Or do you simply accept some claim made without a shred of research or evidence to support it?
There are experts all over the world not under the influence of our pharmaceutical industry through their FDA Tool where they were used and had lower per capita hospitalizations and fatalities from China virus than we did who swear by them. They are not preventatives like a vaccine is but they both reduced the odds of catching it and minimized the effects on users of they started soon enough.
I'll listen to actual medical and pharmaceutical experts over some questionable or other secondary source, especially those with an agenda or bias.