The Supreme Court hints it may give away our free-speech rights in social-media-censorship case
NY Post
Outside the Supreme Court Monday, a crowd of several hundred, some clad in shirts reading “Speak your mind, stand your ground” and others hoisting signs with messages like “Fauci lied,” rallied to reclaim the First Amendment from the federal speech police.
Inside the court, the feds rallied to retain the power to silence those speech advocates — and tens of millions more who might dare dissent from government orthodoxy — by cajoling, coercing and colluding with social-media platforms to censor them.
Disturbingly, the Supreme Court might have bought the government’s argument.
That would leave the censorship-industrial complex intact, guaranteeing not only rampant domestic interference in our elections but the death knell of our free-speech rights in the digital public square.
The court heard oral arguments Monday in the landmark Murthy v. Missouri case (formerly Missouri v. Biden).
Plaintiffs — including the states of Missouri and Louisiana, eminent doctors, a conservative website and health activist — demonstrated that by pressuring and partnering with Big Tech platforms to suppress disfavored speech on matters ranging from The Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story to election processes and outcomes to COVID-vaccine efficacy, federal authorities engaged in what a Louisiana district judge called “arguably” the “most massive attack against free speech” in US history.
