KGIII Matchup
Vivek Murthy (OSG)
vs.
Krystal Jones (City of San Antonio)
Surgeon General? More like Censor General! That’s right! Vivek H. Murthy, the US Surgeon General, ordered social media platforms like Twitter to censor alleged “misinformation” about Covid-19. Murthy’s speech ban included information the Government and recent press reports have now conceded was true but that conflicted with the Government’s messaging on Covid-19 at the time. Murthy commanded Twitter and others to collect data on the “spread and impact of misinformation.” It only makes matters worse that the Supreme Court let Murthy get away with this abhorrent conduct (so far) by ruling in Murthy v. Missouri that the states and NCLA’s individual clients did not have standing to obtain a preliminary injunction.
The people’s poet no more. As Executive Director of San Antonio’s Department of Arts and Culture, Jones cast the First Amendment’s free speech protections aside and unlawfully fired accomplished Chicano writer, artist, and activist Nephtalí De León as the City’s poet laureate. Jones then proceeded to defame Mr. De León for his supposed use of a “racial slur” in an elegy he had written in honor of a renowned Chicano writer-activist who had dedicated his life to fighting racial injustice. Jones’s unlawful and unwarranted actions have harmed Mr. De León’s professional reputation and denigrated his life’s work.
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