Unprecedented effort in 2023 to ban books

Judge: "THE most massive attack against free speech in US history."


"A court has now found that the evidence overwhelmingly shows systemic violation of the First Amendment by the Biden administration."

"According to Judge Doughty, the government used layers of coordination and consultation to "assume a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.’” The court found that "the censorship alleged in this case almost exclusively targeted conservative speech."

"In February’s hearing before the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, I warned that "the massive censorship system employed by social media companies presents the greatest loss of free speech in our history." The Trump administration had some back-channel communications with social media companies, but that was radically expanded under President Biden."


"The judge’s order names various agencies, including the Department of Justice, State Department, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as individual officials like Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Jen Easterly, who leads the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency."

"Mayorkas not only attempted to create the infamous Disinformation Governance Board but has given grants to an array of controversial censorship programs."

"When two journalists testified before the subcommittee about their investigations of censorship programs, Delegate Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands), the subcommittee’s ranking member, called them “so-called journalists.” Plaskett later suggested one of them, Matt Taibbi, be criminally investigated. Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas) and other members pressed the journalists to reveal their sources.

These attacks reflect a growing problem for Democrats who have tied the party to the cause of speech limits, blacklisting and censorship. When the party controlled both houses of Congress, these members simply denied allegations of censorship as conspiracy theories and said there was no real evidence while opposing any effort to acquire evidence.

Then Democrats lost control of the House, and Elon Musk purchased Twitter, opening up its files for full public view. The resulting Twitter Files forced everything into the open.

This censorship system included funding groups to blacklist targeted individuals and sites. With the help of companies like Microsoft, federal agencies poured millions into efforts to target not just social media accounts but the advertisers for conservative sites."

"They also clearly agreed with the standard of former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal that the company would “focus less on thinking about free speech” and more on "who can be heard.” The Twitter Files showed that the federal government supplied thousands of names and sites of precisely who should not be heard."