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For years, the Biden administration pressured Big Tech companies to take down information on the internet that threatened its false narratives and administrative power — the ability to control Americans through force. It's well documented, and the administration was sued by the state of Missouri for doing it.
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The justices ruled 6-3 that Missouri didn't have standing, and therefore, the Biden administration's censorship industrial complex is about to get kicked back into gear. In his dissent, which Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch joined, Justice Alito said it best.
"This case involves what the District Court termed 'a far-reaching and widespread censorship campaign' conducted by high-ranking federal officials against Americans who expressed certain disfavored views," Alito wrote. "This is one of the most important free speech cases to reach this Court in years. Freedom of speech serves many valuable purposes, but its most important role is protection of speech that is essential to democratic self-government."
"A coterie of officials at the highest levels of the Federal Government continuously harried and implicitly threatened Facebook with potentially crippling consequences if it did not comply with their wishes about the suppression of certain COVID–19-related speech. Not surprisingly, Facebook repeatedly yielded," he continued. "We are obligated to tackle the free speech issue that the case presents. The Court, however, shirks that duty and thus permits the successful campaign of coercion in this case to stand as an attractive model for future officials who want to control what the people say, hear, and think."
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