KGIII Sweet 16 Matchup
Vivek Murthy (OSG)
vs.
Jennifer Easterly (CISA)
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.
We never censored anyone, but if we did, we should be allowed to keep doing it! Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency chief Jen Easterly, as well as a number of other major federal agencies, pressured social media firms to censor First Amendment-protected speech. While the Supreme Court wrongly found NCLA’s clients lacked standing to stop the censorship, with limited discovery at the preliminary injunction stage, NCLA uncovered a vast censorship operation emanating from the highest levels of government, across at least a dozen agencies, and featuring well over a hundred government actors—and potentially many more that are as yet unknown.
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