{"id":45882,"date":"2023-07-19T06:42:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T20:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=45882"},"modified":"2023-07-19T06:42:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T20:42:13","slug":"us-disinformation-industry-lands-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=45882","title":{"rendered":"US \u2018Disinformation Industry\u2019 Lands in Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-45883\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Blinken_At_Google-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Blinken At Google\" width=\"612\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Blinken_At_Google-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Blinken_At_Google-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Blinken_At_Google-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Blinken_At_Google-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Blinken_At_Google.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>W<\/strong>hat kind of a week was last week in the theater of war wherein battles rage over illegal censorship, illegal attacks on freedom of speech, illegal government infringements on our constitutional rights, and, amid it all, the complicity of our most powerful media in these illegalities?<\/p>\n<p>For a brief while it looked as though it was a very fine week. On July 4, an excellent day for this, a district court in Louisiana ruled that the White House and a long list of other federal agencies are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2023\/07\/04\/us-court-victory-against-online-censorship\/\">barred<\/a>\u00a0from all contacts with social media companies if the intent is to intimidate or otherwise coerce Twitter, Google, Facebook, and other such platforms into deleting, suppressing, or in any way obscuring content protected as free speech, to paraphrase a key passage in the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. A federal judge brings to the surface, there on your morning page one, all the illegal interventions, years of them, in which the Biden regime and its Capitol Hill allies have indulged to quash dissent. What liberal authoritarians impudently dismissed as a kooky \u201cconspiracy theory\u201d on July 3 is in a judicial stroke written into the record as an ugly reality to be eliminated. What\u2019s not to like?<\/p>\n<p>[Related:\u00a0<a class=\"gs-title\" dir=\"ltr\" href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2023\/07\/04\/us-court-victory-against-online-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?client=internal-element-cse&amp;cx=017930374292714292268:vw5cotp1r2c&amp;q=https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2023\/07\/04\/us-court-victory-against-online-censorship\/&amp;sa=U&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiviqjAqIyAAxUqFlkFHf69DeEQFnoECAAQAg&amp;usg=AOvVaw2kjKCBIej5LGkQL06k2Csm\" data-ctorig=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2023\/07\/04\/us-court-victory-against-online-censorship\/\"><em>US Court Victory Against Online Censorship<\/em>]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then came the insidious reaction to the Louisiana ruling among mainstream liberals and in our corporate media, which stand on the wrong side of every one of the illegalities just noted.<\/p>\n<p>These people, we are on notice, don\u2019t give a tinker\u2019s damn about the Constitution and the rights of all Americans thereunder, they are not going to start giving a damn now, and what happened in the Western District of Louisiana a week ago Monday is not going to stop their rampant trampling on the laws that make our troubled republic tick.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly the week looked like something other than very fine.<\/p>\n<p>How shall we read these events?<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2023\/07\/14\/us-disinformation-industry-lands-in-court\/\">https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2023\/07\/14\/us-disinformation-industry-lands-in-court\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kind of a week was last week in the theater of war wherein battles rage over illegal censorship, illegal attacks on freedom of speech, illegal government infringements on our constitutional rights, and, amid it all, the complicity of our most powerful media in these illegalities? For a brief while it looked as though it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=45882\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US \u2018Disinformation Industry\u2019 Lands in Court&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45884,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45882\/revisions\/45884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}