SCOTUS Threatens to Legitimize the Censorship Industrial Complex
The 'conservative' Supreme Court appeared to strike during oral arguments in the landmark Murthy v. Missouri free speech case
The Supreme Court hints it may give away our free-speech rights in social-media-censorship case
Outside the Supreme Court Monday, a crowd of several hundred, some clad in shirts reading “Speak your mind, stand your ground” and others hoisting signs with messages like “Fauci lied,” rallied to reclaim the First Amendment from the federal speech police.
Inside the court, the feds rallied to retain the power to silence those speech advocates — and tens of millions more who might dare dissent from government orthodoxy — by cajoling, coercing and colluding with social-media platforms to censor them.
Disturbingly, the Supreme Court might have bought the government’s argument.
At the New York Post, I share my initial impressions from oral arguments in the landmark Murthy v. Missouri case (formerly Missouri v. Biden) — arguments delivered before the court yesterday that I had the privilege to witness in person.
Read my analysis at the NY Post here.
And you can find background on the case below: