Welcome to the Reason Round Table, your weekly reminder that there are other ways of looking

at politics and governance and media than the main way.

I am Matt Welch, joined by Nicholas B, Peter Suterman, and Katherine Mangu Ward, Hello

Ab Normals.

Howdy.

Hey, Matt.

Happy Monday.

So first they say it's all in your head, then they say it's a nothing burger cooked

up by near-to-well billionaires and served up to gullible journalists with scare quotes

who might be on the take, then they say, well, the government's got to do something about

all that misinformation, people are dying, etc.

And then finally, when federal judge Terry Dowdy on July 4th, get that July 4th, issues

an injunction against the federal government from continuing to jawbone social media companies

into censoring the speech of disfavored citizens saying, quote, the present case arguably

involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States history, unquote,

and quote, whatever.

They, and by they, here I specifically mean the Washington Post's news pages, say that

this quote, Trump appointed judges move could undo years of efforts to enhance coordination

between the government and social media companies, heaven for fend.

It is amazing to watch the elite journalistic consensus, Washington Post, New York Times,

CNN, etc., coalesce behind a view totally contrary to the whole Congress shall pass no

law thing.

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