CHUMLEY Biden, Democrats have a hate affair with the First Amendment - - washtimesoped An attack on one’s free speech is an attack on all free speech. And as this latest Trump indictment shows, free speech attackers, once emboldened, only dig in deeper to…
White House officials during the coronavirus years pressed Facebook-slash-Meta censors to strip away memes that poked fun of COVID-19 shots, according to the platform’s internal documents.When Americans can’t even crack jokes without having the powers of the federal bureaucracy — the executive, no less — coming down hard to shut them up, then it’s obvious, the idea of free speech has become little more than a service of the lip.
For instance, even “posts questioning whether you should get a vaccine under a mandate, whether it’s government overreach — we demote those,” Facebook employees assured the surgeon general’s office, according to documents just made public about the call, Fox NewsIn other words: That leads people to ask questions that government would rather not have asked.
“In an email,” Fox News wrote, “Facebook’s then-VP of Global Affairs Nick Clegg discussed with his team a call he had with Andy Slavitt, President Biden’s White House senior adviser for the COVID response. Clegg said of Slavic, ‘He was outraged’ ‘that we did not remove this post’ ” about a meme that poked fun of the shots’ side effects.
That’s like suggesting, ‘Since it’s an emergency, can we just suspend the Constitution?” — something this White House did with alarming frequency during the COVID years, anyway. Think dictates to shut down churches; think mandates to wear face masks; think orders to close down businesses, stay home and stay obedient to government while awaiting the stimulus check in the mail. Nary a duly passed law in sight — all orders, all executive dictates, all bureaucratic decrees.
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