A federal judge has denied the Biden Administration’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by multiple state Attorneys General, alleging that the administration violated the First Amendment by colluding with social media companies to censor certain topics. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.
Link - dailycaller.com/2023/03/20/federal-judge-delivers-major-setback-to-biden-admin-in-pivotal-censorship-case/
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A federal judge has denied the Biden administration's request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by multiple state attorney generals alleging the administration violated the First Amendment by colluding with social media companies to censor certain topics.
Okay.
So as I look at this, they got a lot to talk about, don't they?
They really do.
And this one is an interesting one for me.
I'm actually, I don't know that there is too much trouble for the Biden administration.
It's gonna come down to how you interpret certain words.
But I'm glad it wasn't dismissed because I do feel this one is important enough that this is something that needs to be hashed out and does need to be discussed.
So what we've got here is the Biden administration, you know, allegedly 2021 was sending messages to Twitter because Twitter said, we're gonna throttle covid misinformation.
Well, obviously that didn't happen.
So the Biden administration reaches out and says, hey, you told us you were gonna throttle this stuff.
We're seeing, you know, they're sending Tucker Carlson tweets back to Twitter saying, look right here.
Here it is.
So does this rise to the level of the government saying, take it down? Or is it just could you tell us what's going?
It's kinda like Matt Taibbi in front of Congress.
Okay.
He laid out, you don't think he did, I do.
I think he laid out a very good case that we have government determining what we can and can't hear.
We did a segment on it.
Everybody used to love Matt Taibbi, wrote with, you know, some of the biggest magazines in the country.
Very credible writers.
His dad, of course is the person that uncovered the worst conduct by the CIA.
So Taibbi comes out and he says, this is going on.
This is just another story.
This is another extension of it.
Now, the problem I'm having is we're seeing even the result of that Taibbi, when he was up there testifying, they sent in the IRS to his house.
Did you see the story?
I have seen that.
Yeah.
They sent the IRS to his house.
Unheard of.
People don't show up at people's, IRS doesn't show up at people's houses to somehow ask questions.
That's what they did with Taibbi.
So they're very concerned about this.
They're very concerned about this argument that government is, really the Biden administration, has been censoring the hell outta social media.
Well, this is why I say it comes down to the how you interpret and how the courts are going to interpret, or juries, I guess, you know, what certain words mean.
Because, who was the one with Taibbi, Shellenger?
Shellenger, yeah.
He mentioned, he said, you know, the government requested to take a look at this specific info they were talking about that day.
Right.
And he was asked point blank, said, so a government request in your mind, is that the same as a demand? So he said, yes.
I disagree.
Well, it's.
If the government says, does this violate your policy? That's not the government saying take down the tweet.
Now we do, on the other hand, have information that Donald Trump reached out to Twitter while President.
Oh, absolutely.
Saying, take down these tweets.
No question.
So if we want to go with this lawsuit, they better be careful because it's gonna open up both ways.
Well, it should go both ways, Farron.
It should, yes..
I don't care if it's, I don't care if it's Trump.
I don't care if it's Biden.
I don't if it's Obama.
This needs to be stopped.
It does.
Absolutely.
And people who call themselves progressives that say, oh, that's okay.
There's a good reason for it.
They're out in La La land if they don't understand the constitutional threats of what's going on here.
And I don't care whether it's Biden.
