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a court ruling issued earlier this week is one of the most significant

defenses of core free speech

rights in years. A federal district court judge in Louisiana has barred officials

throughout the Biden administration including top FBI officials and the White House press secretary, from continuing

to apply pressure to big-tat platforms to censor political speech they dislike.

We know from a spate of reporting over the last two years, including but not only

the Twitter files, that the U.S. security state and the Fauchy-led health policy establishment

has implemented campaigns to coerce Facebook, Google, and Twitter to ban or

otherwise limit ideas and viewpoints those agency regard as threatening or

otherwise uncomfortable. This week's court ruling though is the first to recognize the existence of these systemic

censoring campaigns at the highest levels of the U.S. government.

The court additionally applied a longstanding First Amendment jurisprudence, which

prohibits the government from pressuring private actors to censor for them in a way

that the Constitution would prohibit them from doing directly

in order to rule that the First Amendment's free speech guarantees

have been directly violated by such censorship campaigns.

And most importantly of all, the court put an immediate stop to it by barring senior officials throughout the government from continuing to speak with big tech companies for the purpose of pressuring them to censor the constitutionally protected political speech of American

citizens.

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