Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Celebrates Free Speech Ruling: ‘Happy Independence Day’Joel B. Pollak 4 Jul 2023
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. celebrated a federal judge’s decision to block the Biden administration from interacting with social media companies that have censored him and others.
As Breitbart News reported, U.S. Judge Terry A. Doughty — a Donald Trump appointee — issued a temporary injunction on July 4th in a suit by Missouri and Louisiana to challenge the administration’s alleged censorship.
Critics say that by telling social media companies what “disinformation” and “misinformation” to suppress, on the topics of elections and the coronavirus, doing through private companies what the government itself could never do under the First Amendment.
Judge Doughty appeared to agree: “If the allegations made by Plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history. In their attempts to suppress alleged disinformation, the Federal Government, and particularly the Defendants named here, are alleged to have blatantly ignored the First Amendment’s right to free speech.”
Kennedy noted in a celebratory tweet that he is mentioned on page 17 of the judge’s decision:
https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1676341618100641792/historymore
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/07/04/robert-f-kennedy-jr-celebrates-free-speech-ruling-happy-independence-day/
