A federal judge chose the 4th of July to deliver a key ruling blocking Biden administration agencies and officials from meeting and communicating with social media companies. [Read 7-page Injunction HERE]
The temporary injunction targets an ongoing legal battle brought by the state of Louisiana and Missouri against federal agencies for collaborating with social media to censor speech content against the interests of the federal government. The final ruling on govt involved censorship could have profound effects on the First Amendment.
Judge Terry A. Doughty, has not made a final ruling in the case, but he wrote that the Republican attorneys general “have produced evidence of a massive effort by Defendants, from the White House to federal agencies, to suppress speech based on its content.” The ruling may have implications for tech companies, which have been exposed in recent months/years for regular communication with government officials.
“This Preliminary Injunction precludes said named Defendants, their agents, officers, employees, contractors, and all acting in concert with them from the aforementioned conduct. This Preliminary Injunction also precludes said named Defendants, their agents, officers, employees, and contractors from acting in concert with others who are engaged in said conduct.” (link)
Obviously, trying to stop the government from coordinating with social media groups to suppress information adverse to both their interests is a little like squeezing Jello in a closed fist; they will find an angle out of the limitations.
During my trip to DC in the summer of 2020 there were a myriad of disconcerting datapoints assembled; revelations that made sense of the madness and disappointments found everywhere. However, one of the key notations for future reference was to watch the political evolution of Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) and spot the jump where the ideological outlook turns into specific government action.
With that in mind, this recent discovery of a 2010 to 2015 DHS contract to a very well-known USG defense contractor, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems Inc., surfaces.
As many are now becoming aware, DHS is the lead agency behind all of the engagements with Twitter and other social media.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), specifically created as an outcome of the post-911 Patriot Act, is the pivot point on the surveillance radar sweep.
Prior to the DNI the general Intelligence Community (IC) surveillance faced offshore and swept foreign adversaries. If any threat was picked up that included the potential for domestic terrorism, the identified contact transferred from the CIA, NSA, DoD into the DOJ and FBI. The DOJ then used the FISA Court to request transfer of targeting from foreign to domestic.
However, after 911 it was determined the national security surveillance radar needed to sweep a full 360° to include domestic surveillance. The ODNI was the office created to manage the pivot point. As a specific outcome of the Patriot Act, American citizens were now under the same surveillance as foreign adversaries. The new definition of American citizens being threats to the national security state is ultimately what led to our taking off shoes at TSA checkpoints in airports. TSA is a subsidiary agency of DHS.
Offshore surveillance now flowed from the CIA, DoD, NSA, IC into the ODNI, who then filtered it, and if needed transferred it to the newly created DHS.
As the design was laid out, the DHS would then contact the DOJ or FBI while affording the U.S. person (target) in question their duly constitutional protections against unlawful searches and seizures. The sketchy legal dynamic is what created the need for the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD).
At the same time, onshore domestic surveillance would be conducted by DHS through new systems like the Transportation Safety Administration etc. Local, state and federal law enforcement would identify issues or investigative targets, then send the targeting data upstream into the DHS database. DHS transfers the finding to the ODNI who cross-reference it with CIA, NSA, etc. This was the original design.
However, it was specifically Barack Obama and Eric Holder who saw an opportunity with the newly created system. The result, DHS domestic surveillance was weaponized. The timing of this DHS contract (2010) to General Dynamics for “media monitoring and social media support” fits perfectly in line with the known timeline of how DHS was weaponized.
Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; the institutions were already weaponized by the Patriot Act. What Obama and Holder did was take the preexisting system and retool it, so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum.
This point is where many people understandably get confused.
Elevator Speech:
(1) The Patriot Act turned the intel surveillance radar from foreign searches for terrorists to domestic searches for terrorists.
(2) Obama/Biden then redefined what is a “terrorist” to include their political opposition.
Lee Smith makes an important point in this brief podcast excerpt. {Direct Rumble Link Here} We have outlined his point on these pages for several years.
Essentially, the point Lee Smith drives home is how the U.S. Corporate Media, and the Big Tech monopolies, are the front force of the new national security and intelligence state. It is a relationship that extends far beyond the customary leanings of media, and now covers a full synergistic relationship. WATCH:
“We’re all familiar with the fact that the press has historically leaned to the left. That’s not what we’re looking at now. We’re looking at something very, very different. We’re looking at the press as being a part of the intelligence community. They are the ones who is putting these operations out there.”
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The New York Times and Politico are the public relations firms for Main Justice, the DOJ and FBI. The Washington Post handles the needs of the Intelligence Community (IC) and the Central Intelligence Agency. Meanwhile CNN is managed by the needs of the U.S. State Dept. These direct relationships have been discussed here for several years.
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This is good. It’s not quite as tight as would be ideal (e.g. contact allowed for … contacting and/or notifying social-media companies of national security threats, extortion, or other threats posted on its platform… ), but still encouraging, especially for a preliminary injunction.
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If the media need to know about threats, they can receive a bulletin from the White House.
Problem: DOJ has authority to declare what is national security via 11 th circuit court.
Good start for sure but corrupt gov will continue saying all is national security and continue to censure. Gonna have to have a SCOTUS ruling that is long over due.
That issue is going to be addressed, in Jack Smiths rediculous case.
Yes, the Judicial branch must defer to the Executive, on matters if National Security.
Thats directly from the Constitution dedignating the POTUS as Commander in Chief, and so the power of Depts of the Executive to tell the Courts what is National Security is DERIVATIVE and comes FROM the Presidents authority.
That Smith would try to assert the authority of the Dept of the Executive, extends to POTUS is absurd, and the ruling that will eventually come from SCOTUS, is going to go a significant way towards “clipping the wings” of the I/C deep state.
Almost as beneficial as the Ga case, …after successfully blocking over 70 cases challenging the 2020 election results the Ga prosecutor is now goung to bring a case which will INEVITABLY enable PDJT to put in evidence, before a Court, all of the evidence of election fraud in Ga. in 2020.
Metaphorically, I could kiss these prosecutors, its not just “Bring it on!” its “c’mon, WHAT are you WAITING for?”
Ever hear of jury nullification? Ever hear of the OJ Simpson verdict? Are you familiar with the “demographics” of Fulton County, GA?
Not even Jesus Christ would get a fair shake from the “jury” Fani Willis will assemble. And if I were a betting man, I’d say the judge will be, well, shall we say, hostile to the motions, etc. that Trump’s lawyers make.
At first thought the same but then if anything “bad” happens and using social media to warn, or forearm people, then the agencies could blame the injunction by that Judge. So now see it as a balanced approach that the Judge is going for.
Judges are political.
The politics is turning towards freedom and MAGA and woe unto a conservative judge who betrays his constituents.
“The wheels of Justice turn slow” is that the quote?
The Judicial system, by nature is not only slow, it is retroactive, not proactive.
It does seem, with recent rulings like the court system may be grtting tired of Lawfare and all of the crap, and starting to weigh in.
And, this Judgr COULD have issued this ruling yesterday, tomorrow or even next week.
That he issued it today, seems like he is indicating the ditection he is leaning, and its pure MAGA.
He has seen how the Govt. has been fighting this case, tooth and nail, resisting discovery at every turn, and for a “fair” Judge its obvious what they were doing, obvious its Un Constitutional, and obvious who’s going to win the case.
wheels of justice turn slow
wheels of justice grind fine
I think/hope
We must end Shadow banning by Facebook, Instagram, Google, etc. Please enter this into the lawsuits.
Shadow banning users is evil and it goes against all normal reasoning of having social media applications.
Funny thing, Hunter just gained a new lawyer to help him with his various legal problems. This line from a BB article struck me as doing exactly what this judge has ordered the Biden administration NOT to do.
“Former Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA), who also advised the partisan January 6 Committee House on technical matters, will work with Hunter Biden’s legal team on reducing technical digital exposure facing the Biden family.”
~ Breitbart July 5, 2023
Sounds a little bit like censoring the Biden Family information.
Sundance, you’re the best! Thank you for your determined leadership and unwavering commitment your readers. God bless you.🙏🏻
AMEN TO THAT!!!!
Putting “independent companies” in charge of communications is an end run around the First Amendment. As usual, CTH is spot on.
Outsourcing tyranny.
This two word comment sums up this whole story.
It’s a two way outsourcing of tyranny in our modern iteration of fascism.
The government abuses on behalf of corporations; corporations abuse on behalf of government.
A match made in Hell.
A match made in Hell.
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Succinctly put, Maquis. Succinctly put.
Or the beast with two backs.
That “Public Private Partnership” thingy again….
or
“A rose is a rose by any other name”
The Democrat party is a mafia organization. It will always look for a workaround. It has 2 centuries of experience doing so.
Government is the mafia masquerading as a human-rights organization. – Dave Smith
It goes well beyond certain crime families within the organization.
kosher nostra
It isn’t just the Democrats, it is both so called parties aka the UniParty.
Puhleeeease! “The UNIPARTY is a mafia organisation,…”
Name an establishment Republican that opposes or even aknowledges this censorship, and yet they all KNOW it is happening.
Like all of the things they have been Censoring, the RINO’s are just as deeply involved in, as the Democrats.
RINO’s approve of censoring;
Anything questioning the 2020 election results.
Anything questioning the J6 Insurrection narrative.
Anything about Covid
Anything about Vax
Anything praising PDJT, or denigrating RDS.
UNIPARTY=ONE albeit TWO FACED Party.
Oh, and Hunter laptop and Joes Corruption, off limits until it wasn’t.
Truth is the new hate speech .
One thing that has been proven over and over and over again is that the government and it’s affiliates are 100% responsible for ALL DISINFORMATION .
The government is 100% committed to shutting down all truth and they will label all truth discriminatory or hate speech which none of it ever is .
Outstanding comment!
Like Sundance says: There is no disinformation. There is only information. To which I add: There is no hate speech. There is only speech. There is no hate crime. There is only crime.
Communists routinely distort the language in order to remove our Constitutionally protected freedoms. George Orwell got that exactly right.
Twatter (and the rest of big tech), being complicit with the censorship, does not need that much direction from the gubmit. They are willing participants.
They employ ex FBI-CIA so the well is poisoned.
Nellie Ohr will probably receive a transfer. The new Ham Radio Social Media Club.
I don’t see anyone else in the click that has a Ham License. It takes two to Tango! Who & Where is the other Party? Plus she has a Technician License, it is 50Mhz and above. The “skip” comes into play below 30Mhz. Six Meters (54Mhz) is a shade better in coverage than the FM stations 88-108Mhz. Here in the Pittsburgh area, that would be like covering to just beyond Youngstown, Ohio. Cleveland would be a major stretch. Two Meters (144Mhz) is relegated to locally which is like line of sight (extended by Repeaters) I could get into 2 Meters as that is where Moon bounce starts to come into play. There is something in the order of 3+ second delay. Rather interesting I think! Been a long time since I saw that! Maybe 50 years ago. That was in the ’60s, and I was a teener, LOL
I have been wondering about this as well.
The main stream media NEVER EVER TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT ANYTHING . They alter , delete , edit , omit and add wording to fit their narratives 100% of the time and have been doing that for decades .
Try finding CTH on Google. You have to type in the entire name.
CTH Sundance:
https://www.google.com/search?q=cth+sundance&source=hp&ei=NMekZL-xMc-nqtsP8pyxoA0&iflsig=AD69kcEAAAAAZKTVRBMyVVA-sSP3Y6c1g_AMTpXe3pch&ved=0ahUKEwi_m5aFtfb_AhXPk2oFHXJODNQQ4dUDCAw&uact=5&oq=cth+sundance&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAM6EQguEIAEELEDEIMBEMcBENEDOggIABCABBCxAzoFCAAQgAQ6DgguEIAEELEDEMcBENEDOgsIABCABBCxAxCDAToLCAAQigUQsQMQgwE6CAguEIAEELEDOhEILhCKBRCxAxCDARDHARDRAzoLCC4Q1AIQsQMQgAQ6CAgAEIoFELEDOgcIABCABBAKOg4ILhCABBCxAxDHARCvAToLCC4QgAQQxwEQrwE6CggAEIAEELEDEAo6EwgAEA0QgAQQsQMQgwEQsQMQgwE6DQguEA0QgAQQsQMQsQM6GQguEA0QgAQQsQMQgwEQxwEQrwEQmAUQmQU6BwguEA0QgAQ6CgguEA0QgAQQ1AI6EAguEA0QgAQQxwEQrwEQmAU6BwgAEA0QgAQ6BggAEBYQHjoICAAQFhAeEA9QAFjiEmC-FGgAcAB4AIABjwGIAdAJkgEDNC44mAEAoAEB&sclient=gws-wiz
Try CTH or the conservative. Nothing. If you didn’t already know CTH, no one would search CTH -Sundance. Point is you won’t stumble upon CTH unless you already were familiar with it.
And yet, the top 3 “alt right” rebel alliance sites, CTH, TGP and Warrom are getting more views than the big 6 msm cable nees sites.
And that means their manipulation of public opinion no longer works.
Yes. So it’s one of our jobs to go on social media, where the rinos liberals and independents hang out, and link CTH.
Take it to them.
That’s a lotta link.
I can’t help but wonder exactly what that insanely-long series of letters in that URL are intended to encode.
Seems like probably enough information in there to include your address, what room in the house you’re typing in, your blood type, and what shampoo you use.
And all your 2A selections.
Prescriptions too!
You have to type the entire name for just about ALL real news websites . Google makes them as difficult to find as possible.
I use Startpage.
Great privacy protection, and they don’t retain or sell searches.
Based in Europe, results are much less distorted than Goolag.
Goolag, gonna have to steal that !
Not that most people know what that is 🙄
Here, steal “Ghoulgle”, as well! Their previous motto of “Do No Evil” is now “Do Evil”,.. hence, Ghouls.
The perfect anagram of their “Don’t Be Evil” is “Bend To Evil.”
Thx! I’ve been on Brave, which was great for awhile, but it’s gone to the dogs, as well.
Yes, they now defer video and images searches to your choice, Bing or <Goolag>, used to have their own.
Wonder who or why, not for the good i’m sure.
I can still blank my entire history links, temps and all every time it closes so, its still workable especially with a VPN kicker.
What I use. I like the way they deal w/ad junk.
Same with Swiss Cows.
yes no tracking with startpage, there is also brave search, and yandex
The best browser I’ve used to get me here is Brave. Other browsers either link to old pages or to hit pieces on CTH.
I don’t know if you omitted FNC from that list of lying liars on purpose, but they’re in the Club too.
Most of that list comes directly from Wikileaks believe it or not but you’re 100% correct FNC is just as bad as the rest .
I feel like they are winning not only the battle but the war. We seem to take two steps forward once in a while and then they push us 4 steps backwards with their corruption. I hate what they are doing to our country. Maybe it isn’t ours any longer. It only belongs to the billionaires. Maybe I need to find somewhere to hide and stop paying taxes.
Get rid of that negativity and fight on . The fact is that the overwhelming majority of the country do not support what the left supports .
People and many companies get fooled into thinking that the majority of the country supports leftist idea’s but that’s only because the left controls 99% of the media.
Don’t be fooled and never back down or throw in the towel , there is no fight more important than the fight we’re currently in .
Dixie, if you were here right now, I would slap you.
Not out of animosity or anger, but just to jar you out of your stupor.
The New movie on child trafficking that debuted around the country is smashing bix office records, meanwhile the latest Indiana Jones movie, another woke diatribe, is BOMBING.
The last 8 “summer blockbusters” released by Disney, all pushing woke crap, have bombed.
Big Tech and MSM each lost $1 billion in 2022, and they are going to be looking back on 2022 with nastalgia.
The top 3 rebel alliance sites, CTH, TGP and Warroom, are getting more daily viewsthan all 6 cable news stations.
Just got 3 GREAT SCOTUS wins, AND indications are, this case is going our way.
THR PDJT Indictment strategy is bombing, if they keep it up the FEC is going to fine the DOJ for illegal, in kind donations to the Trump campaign,..
The RDS campaign is now finally admitting they are stuck with forks, the Base IS aware (BECAUSEof the massive shift TO the Rebel alliance) of the machinations of the RNC and State R parties, and such machinations only “work” for them, in darkness..
PDJT is polling at 60%, and Magadosians don’t do polls!
When I joined here in 2016, I had been saying “Uniparty” for some time, but never heard others, until I read Sundance using it.
Now, I hear and read it, ALL THE TIME.
And you somehow think we are losing? WTF, SLAP YOURSELF!
They will never be punished for their lies and corruption that has caused millions harm, due to free speech.
Never say never, cause never is a really long time, and there are only a few absolutes.
However, talking about punishment and us getting Justice is premature.
FIRST, wrest THEIR hands off of the control levers, put the plane back on coarse, THEN we can focus on what to do with the hijackers.
Actually, wresting their hands off the control levers IS the punishment, in many ways.
Yep.
Get ’em out of the cockpit.
The passengers will deal with them.
Could it also be that your media list includes all Communist-owned and operated propaganda sources. They are an evil cabal, hellbent on destroying humanity.
If this is upheld, it could be a big problem for the Bureaucratic State. I can’t wait until the Congress is told that only they can write new laws and only the Executive Branch can enforce them. I pray to God the Supreme Court doesn’t panic first. We could actually see the dismantling of all enforcement groups in our Federal Bureaucracies.
I also don’t think there was any intent by the framers to allow the Federal Government to write any criminal laws, unless the States authorize them through Constitutional Amendments. Only laws pertaining to foreign countries and their citizens can be written by the US Congress. I am not a legal scholar, but that is my take on what I read in the Constitution. I believe that is why the Demcommies want to give the IRS an army of enforcers, at least that is what I gather about Amendment XVI. Anyone know where I am wrong on this?
Not a clue ” Pokey”.But you made me flash on a data point that remains stuck in my brain. Before Pelosi gave up the speaker ship gavel she set up an Office of the Capital Police in South Florida. Why would she do that? Never heard any reason given.🤷♂️🤷♂️
Isn’t there a rumor that Pelosi is looking to buy – or has already bought – a house in Florida ?
She bought a $25M place on the beach a couple years ago.
Correct. There weren’t supposed to be any “national” laws for for most part. The states were supposed to be sovereign, independent bodies. Which is why things like murder are handled by the states.
To actually solve the problem, most of the bureaucracies will have to be terminated. Twitter, because of its dependence on government infrastructure might be finished. As long as independent news organizations can operate freely on the internet, the propaganda MSM organizations can simply be ignored.
Don’t look now,…but based on viewership and revenue, they ARE being ignored.
Like the Biden administration will obey the law! Please!
The FBI and DHS will simply ignore the court decision! Nobody will ever know the difference.
I just read about the Philly shooter and had a thought, instead of banning or show banning, who’s to say they can’t insert anything into your social media to make you look like something you’re not?
If you saw any pictures of them they were definitely lightened, all shooters are,the narrative being that it’s Muh White Supremacy” or when they make Trump look orange,I have seen him a number of times, he is as Irish White as you can get and clear skinned. MSM has been making Conservitive males look rosacea faced and bloated for half a century.Even the local fake news makes their female narrative readers look bad when it suits them, come time for November “Sweeps”, particularly with the entry level ones. On many occasion apon meeting them I’ve had to comment how nice they look, their ass isn’t fat at all.🤷♂️🤷♂️😹
The following is a brief summary of events and evidence in Attkisson v. DOJ and FBI over the U.S. Government Computer Intrusions
https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/12/attkisson-v-doj-and-fbi-for-the-government-computer-intrusions-the-definitive-summary-2/
Multiple forensics exams concluded that numerous devices used by Attkisson were remotely compromised including, but not limited to:
CBS Toshiba LaptopApple iMac DesktopMacBook AirMobile devices, including BlackberryForensics exams were conducted from 2013 to present by:
Confidential government source (CBS Toshiba Laptop)CBS-hired forensics firm (CBS Toshiba Laptop and iMac Desktop)Independent forensic examiner #1 (CBS Toshiba Laptop, iMac Desktop and other devices)Department of Justice Inspector General (iMac Desktop, only)Independent forensic examiner #2 (CBS Toshiba Laptop, iMac Desktop and other devices)Independent forensic firm (CBS Toshiba Laptop, iMac Desktop and other devices)Most recently, I received a clerk’s default against one of the guilty federal agents I’m suing. Discovery is underway with another defendant, an ex-Secret Service agent imprisoned on a different corruption crime, whom DOJ is using your tax money to hire private counsel to defend.
Click the link below and watch the original CBS News announcement confirming the computer intrusions in June 2013. (Print story here.)
CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson’s computer hacked
Only documents show that Not only can they intrude over the web, they can crash your computer, Hard drive, etc… or even the smart tv hooked up to it.
They can. And this is why I think the lawyer in the current documents case against PDJT don’t want the video surveillance that was filming their raid of Mar-A-Lago to be shown, at the least I would expect the video to show the FBI/DOJ staging boxes and such for photo-ops, and perhaps adding some documents that weren’t there to begin with.
Some of the agents were doing creepy things with Melania’s under garments,video the deseased minds are probably proud of,no doubt
They were paying homage to J. Edgar.
Ask Sundance.
Why would anyone expect this corrupt regime to respect the will of this or any other court?
Sundance noted that the spirit of this ruling will not restrain their creation of end runs to pervert it.
None here are spiking the football.
One salutary effect is that defiance of the injunction by the named individuals should result in a loss of qualified immunity, who would become subject to personal liability under a violation of civil rights under color of law action.
In other words, they defy the order at the risk of the loss of their life savings and most of any future paycheck as to any censored US citizen whose 1st Amendment rights are violated. So if Elvis Chan flags 100 Twitter accounts and those accounts are purged at his suggestion, Elvis will possibly be facing 100 lawsuits for which he is personally liable for the damages, potentially awarded by juries in perhaps 25 or more states. Try defending against that.
People are much more aware of censorship, and more likely to seek and win discovery now that the cat is out of the bag.
FWIW, any US citizen previously censored at the behest of Elvis should already be awarded damages if an action is timely filed. But, if he continues, then that’s egregious behavior and juries would be more likely to award damages.
Like you said” squeezing jello in a closed fist”. They won’t give up on this anyway they can.
My grape jello will never be the same.
What our government does is the same as hiring someone to commit murder for you versus you going out and doing it yourself.
THIS is why I have said ballots don’t matter. It is AP who calls the Presidential and other federal, state and and some local races. Once they call it, you are off to court with any disputes.
WE MUST END THIS!
We must and we are. Its a multifaceted operation (stealing national elections) and WE have had to “drill down” thru tthe various levels, and as Joe Hoft says in an article today, understand and address the fundamentals.
EXPOSURE hss worked, in blocking then from using SOME methods.
Ultimately, you are correct that ballot ENVELOPES are secondary; it is that elected officials, regardless of the R or D after their name are UNIPARTY, and “in on” the election theft, because it guarantees THEM election and reelection.
Break the Uniparty THEN we can secure elections, fail to break the Uniparty, and they will thwart any effort at securing our elections.
And, WE ARE breaking the Uniparty.
“brick by brick, my citisens,….brick by brick.
Keep digging. There is a lot more to uncover.
My country tis of thee, Sweet land of Liberty….
Thank you Missouri, the Heartland of America!
I do not expect FIB and related agencies to comply with the ruling. They’re already rogue and extra constitutional in their behaviour. They have too much to lose.
There is no time in history where the people who were censoring speech were the good guys.
– Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“they will find an angle out of the limitations”
My thought exactly, when I first saw this ruling. The “Censorship Industrial Complex”, as it’s been coined in light of the #TwitterFiles effort, and also Dr. Shiva’s Federal lawsuit prior to that… consisting of both government agencies and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)… is so extensive and well-established at this point, that it will be difficult to police indirect Government Censorship. You simply need Political Operatives on the inside of Government (e.g., within the White House) communicating through NGO “backchannels” to Political Operatives on the inside of Big Tech. We’ve already seen folks like Jim Baker and other FBI and CIA assets as employees of Twitter and the like. At that point, it’s up to Project Veritas, Judicial Watch, et al to prove that those backchannels exist.
BUT… this ruling is a small step in the right direction.
As someone once said… Nice ruling. Now let’s see them enforce it.
How many divisions does SCOTUS have? 😉
While it is despicable that the IC targets their political opposition with the aid of corporate media, conservatives should not be surprised that this enormous power that Congress surrendered under Bush has regularly been renewed since. Conservatives regularly harp on the excesses of government as liberals (I refuse to call them Progressives since nothing they do can be viewed as progress) cry “trust us”. Power corrupts. And it is the Liberal who feels exonerated to exceed their authority for the “greater good”. I wrote my Congressman weeks ago opposing reauthorization of the Patriot Act. We all need to, as a minimum.
“Conservatives regularly harp on the excesses of government as liberals (I refuse to call them Progressives since nothing they do can be viewed as progress)”
Illiberal regressives.
So long as you remain stuck in blue pill thinking of “Liberals vs Conservatives” (which is just the same as Demicrats vs Republicons) and (pardon me while I laugh/cry) think that writing your Congressman has ANY effect, well you just don’t get it.
Please, tell me you don’t still vote for RINOS, “cause the Dem is worse”?
It is NOT R vs D, or L vs C, it is MAGA vs Globulist, and it is an EXISTENTIAL BATTLE for survival.
TAKE the RED pill, and WAKE UP.
I know how he feels. I saw them last night in a nightmare. Two of them. 😎
Bravo! Free speech is uncomfortable. Free speech can be “mean” if you don’t like it. Free speech can be factually WRONG … or it can be truthful. A FREE people need a filter. Need an education. They DON’T need leftist Monopolies telling them what to believe and/or censoring “sensitive” material. That’s book burning … that’s censorship. That’s Fascism.
“Essentially, the point Lee Smith drives home is how the U.S. Corporate Media, and the Big Tech monopolies, are the front force of the new national security and intelligence state.”
The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings.
We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.
Ironic, no, that JFK’s assassination is still a secret. An open secret.
Another judge to be subpoenaed by AOC!
Any judge that can’t see what’s been going these past few years must have his/her head up you-know-where. About time though. Let’s how compliance is enforced.
With Operation Mockingbird, the press has been part of the intelligence community from the early days of the CIA. The CIA itself has never been good. The Democrat administration of Truman created the CIA to streamline the vile and evil work of Operation Paperclip.
Obama is an evil genius and knew that many people looked at him as the coming of the messiah. He used that cover to make the workings of the intelligence community more pervasive. His goal is to ensure that the Democrat party never lose another election. You could only imagine his consternation when Trumps internal polling numbers were skyrocketing with Blacks and with women. They had to immediately put the intelligence community to work against him. They tainted him with racism, sexism and treason to counter his powerful strengths. They sill lost. They had to take super human efforts in the next election and they still lost. So they just pilfered it. In the upcoming election, they are relying heavily on an old favorite; a technique Democrats perfected against Black Republicans during Jim Crow- The color of law or as Sundance calls it, Lawfare. Let us see where it goes since all we do is complain instead of creating effective strategies to easily demolish the demolish the Democrat party.
It is being demolished. One grain of sand at a time. Happy Independence Day !!!!
I don’t think barry came up with all this on his own. I think he enjoys very much being the tool though. He was well groomed for the job.
you got to call them who they are, they are no longer democrats, they are communists
So what happens if the judge’s order is not followed? We know Biden is going to make a mockery of this.
Well, the case against the feds for violating the court order will be (coincidentally) assigned to a judge who’s in on the scam. The case will be delayed on all sorts of procedural grounds until the end of the second Newsome/Schiff admin when it will be quietly dropped just after the 2032 coronation of the AOC/Malia Obama regime. All the Demmunistas will then be given a blanket pardon.
Your Default Assumption Should Be That Everything Corporate Media Says Is A Lie
https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/24/your-default-assumption-should-be-that-everything-corporate-media-says-is-a-lie/
That Judge named names! And extensively included secretaries and employees of those agencies. Huge implications, and really great to see a Judge not afraid to be so thorough in this injunction.
Most likely there will be an emergency appeal, after all, government’s gotta government. Alito is the Supreme Court Justice assigned as head of the 5th Circuit. This could get interesting real fast!
“a little like squeezing Jello in a closed fist” Sundance, you never fail to make me laugh out loud with your way with words! You and Wordman aren’t related are you ? 😉
My concern is that the Feds just use NGO’s or States to do their bidding. They always try to find a work around rather than up hold the law and our constitution.
The money seems to be drying up. Pierre Omidyar has gone dark from where he is holed up in New Zealand, and the funds have stopped flowing from his hand to the NGOs. They are looking at layoffs.
Which brings to mind that certain Executive Order President Trump issued at Christmas of 2018, allowing seizure of certain foreign assets under certain circumstances. I don’t think there was anything in there about the seizures having to be made public.
I have wondered for a long time whether Bin Talal Al Waleed still owns any of his original 40 percent of Twitter or whether, between MBS and the US government, all of that ownership interest was seized, which may account for some of what we have seen happen with Twitter.
“Alex1689” I read that George Soros and Open Societies is cutting back significantly as well.Cutting staff,budget and money to NGOs.
‘Obviously, trying to stop the government from coordinating with social media groups to suppress information adverse to both their interests is a little like squeezing Jello in a closed fist; they will find an angle out of the limitations.’
No, they will simply ignore the court ruling, because they know the Garland DOJ won’t prosecute them for any violations.
The same goes for any other court ruling anymore that goes against Deep State Inc.
The security state cannot self finance. It will take a kill shot knee capping their funding. Something fast that they cannot recover from.
The deep state is engaged in wholesale child, adult and drug trafficking, among other endeavors. Financing won’t be a problem no matter what official funding is or is not authorized.
Indeed.
They are self-sustaining, running operations around the globe, their budgets are icing on their cake.
What is the legal basis for States in the U.S. to have private corporations manage elections?
What would it take to get rid of The Patriot Act? Hopefully AN ACT OF CONGRESS, and enough voting congressmen/women to vote it out.
On another note:’ You may have already written on this and I missed it:
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg was just blindsided with this nasty surprise he never saw comingI read it on Renewed Right on July 3rd.
Donald Trump
Cut off their funds. That’s how you reign in an agency. Make them Broke.
2nd. Disperse them. Move all agencies away from DC. FBI to Dallas, DHS to Alabama, CDC to Arkansas, DHHS to Ohio, NSA to Iowa, DoS to Nebraska, break their presence and influence in DC.
Fire every SES head of any department that can’t survive an IG audit. Fire the JCOS, all of them, every head of every SES and executive department, including all DoJ Attorneys. Clean house and remove the usurpers. All of them can be replaced for 120 days by anyone promoted to the position. Just keep cycling people through those seats until hell freezes over. Destroy their entrenched echo chamber. That’s how to root out the pretenders. Fire them. Promote only those who objectively support the Constitution. A Captain can become a General in a month or two if he/she is of the proper mettle. Competence, ability, and fidelity to the Constitution matter more than DEI and other psychoses of Marxist traitors.
Inbred DC government alphabet agencies totally ignore federal judge’s order in 3…2…1…..
(psssst…..’cause laws are for the “little people”….tee…hee…heee…)
“said named Defendants, their agents, officers, employees, contractors, and all acting in concert with them”
This suggests the judge has seen enough evidence to know how our feral agencies would get around any sticky Constitutional issues.
Contractors? Yep. Paid for by those being spied on or having their speech suppressed.
I suspect this type of activity is rampant throughout every feral agency and not limited to just the Fourth Branch thugs.
Are we Independent yet?
Does this preclude Kevin McCarthy?
Wasn’t good old Kevin the one who said, “Can’t we just have their Twitter accounts suspended?”
So we might have the Military Industrial Complex helping run the previous Twitter, support the 4th branch of government AND plowing money into the choreographed campaign circus for POTUS. Even bigger and more powerful than imagined by Eisenhower! Most of the World stopped waging war after WWII, but the USA didn’t because it made the right people richer and richer and richer.
BTW … I’m watching “America, the story of US” … on the hard leftist History channel. YEAH, YEAH, I know … and so they are talking about the Baby Boomer hippies affecting positive change and transformation … esp. the Vietnam War. They simply say … “in 1975, the War was over”. Wha whaaaat!? Not a single mention of Pres. Nixon personally ENDING the pointless War! … ohhhh they finally mention Nixon with watergate saga and his embarrassing resignation. LIARS! LIARS by omission. In fact they went on to whitewash Reagan … yet didn’t even mention Jimmy Carter or the LANDSLIDE election of Reagan. They failed to mention Jimmy Carter’s sweater and American malaise. It’s disgusting when leftists edit OUT all the MOST INFLUENTIAL conservative moments and movements in history. All they did was show that “consumerism” ran rampant over the Reagan years … yes, they admit the economy was booming! … but alas … people ran up their credit cards … buying stuff. Yeah … Reagan was about “buying stuff”. Sheesh. Leftists LIE about America … with bold impunity … on July 4th.
then, they claim America needs a “Free Press” … as if. The Press is one GIANT truth telling machine. They’re LIARS.
call them what they are COMMUNISTS
Guy: “You can’t go around killing people just because you think they’re useless.
Bruno: Oh, what’s a life or two? Some people are better off dead, Guy. Take your — wife and my father, for instance. It reminds me of a wonderful idea had once. I used to put myself to sleep at night — figuring it out. Now, let’s say you want to get rid of your wife.
Guy: Why?
Bruno: Let’s say she refuses to give you a divorce — [raises a finger and stops Guy’s protest] Let’s say. You’d be afraid to kill her because you’d get caught. And what would trip you up? Motive. Now here’s the plan…
Guy: I’m afraid I haven’t time to listen.
Bruno: It’s so simple, too. A couple of fellows meet accidentally, like you and me. No connection between them at all. Never saw each other before. Each of them has somebody he’d like to get rid of, but he can’t murder the person he wants to get rid of. He’ll get caught. So they swap murders.
Guy: Swap murders?
Bruno: Each fellow does the other fellow’s murder. Then there is nothing to connect them. The one who had the motive isn’t there. Each fellow murders a total stranger. Like you do my murder and I do yours.
Guy: We’re coming into my station.
Bruno: For example, your wife, my father. Criss-cross.”—Alfred Hitchcock’s “Strangers On a Train”, 1951
Like Hitchcock’s “Strangers”, the Occupation Government and Big Tech are swapping crimes. “Criss-cross”.
Big Tech does the Political Censorship that is forbidden to the Regime, and the Regime looks the other way while Big Tech engages in monopoly, commits business fraud, spies on Americans and cuddles up to dictatorships–other dictatorships, I mean.
Social Media Monopolies essentially serve as public utilities today, much like telephone and telegraph companies once did. We broke up AT&T and Ma Bell–and they never tried to censor anybody. We trust-busted Standard Oil, but not even John D. Rockefeller kept a file on everybody on the planet like these megalomaniacs do.
They claim to be neutral bulletin boards when it helps them–and a Letters to the Editor-page when that helps them. Like a Backstreet Boy, “They want it both ways.” Tell me why.
And, for the record, Benito, this Corporate/State Incest is the textbook definition of “Fascism”.
Rest in the Vine: “Why I’m Suing Big Tech” by True President Donald J. Trump
Good one. I also thought ‘Rope’ was prescient.
Oh what a tangled web they weave when they started to deceive.
Ace of Spades HQ (mu.nu)
“The money quote:
Pres Trump will have to fire 200 generals and then order tanks into Langley before this is over.
Why Langley?
The Superseding Fourth Branch.
sharing this link, though it may be for subscribers only (not sure if that is the case) that Epoch Times’ Jan Jakielek just did today with Louisiana AG Jeff Landry on this ruling. Very insightful man, AG Landry. 18 minutes:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/major-blow-to-biden-admin-and-federal-agencies-in-free-speech-case-judge-blocks-communication-with-big-tech-louisiana-ag-jeff-landry_5374352.html
Oh thanks, I’d like to watch that.
Jeff Landry will be Louisiana’s next governor.
They can just do it anyway. The agencies will just keep it quiet.
So how are the government-controlled social media surveillance groups going to ever separate themselves from…the government?
Can’t a judge simply say that any contractors or subcontractors of the government suppressing speech would be classified as agents of the government and subject to the same rules? I’m tired of the specific wording of any ruling being used as a new baseline, and new words or terms being used to do the functionally equivalent thing.
What may be good about this ruling is that it opens up the ability to sue to the government for 1st Amendment violations.
The social media companies are still shadow banning anyone that doesn’t align with Biden.
Shadow banning is dangerous because it blocks your messages from being viewed by family and friends.
You may need help, or something else from them. Your messages appear to be there, but the other user will not receive or see the message.