The collusion between the federal government and social media giants to control the narrative through censorship may be coming to an end.
The case will be heard in the Supreme Court on Monday, March 18th. Mercy vs Missouri (Previously Missouri vs. Biden).
Sen. Eric Schmidt (R-Missouri) joins Glenn Beck to discuss details of upcoming hearings.
The lawsuit “deals with a massive censorship enterprise in which the federal government coerces, colludes with, and appeases large social media companies to censor speech,” Schmidt said.
“What the justices found in the lower courts was that it was almost exclusively conservatives who were being censored. It reeked of viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.”
“What we discovered were tens of thousands of pages of emails and text messages from government officials to social media giants saying, ‘If you don’t delete it, we’ll start an investigation, or we’ll sue you.'” is exposed to antitrust issues,” Schmidt explains. “The full power of the federal government was being used to suppress dissent in order to silence the American people.”
Of course, the case is “on appeal by the government,” Schmidt says, because “the government wants to continue censoring people,” but thankfully, “the Supreme Court decided to hear oral arguments on the case on Monday.” “It’s happening.”
“What do you think will happen?” Glenn asks.
“I’m hopeful. … A lot of the questions will come down to what the government was actually doing and was it actually coercive? They used the power of the federal government to So, did they force social media giants to do something they legally couldn’t do themselves?”
FBI agent Elvis Chan “fabricated Hunter Biden’s laptop incident in advance, calling it Russian disinformation” [and] In preparation for 2020, the federal government has conducted a “hack-and-leak operation” to squash all stories about “mask effectiveness,” “vaccine issues,” and the potential “origins of the new coronavirus.” Ta.
“All of that is on display in this lawsuit,” Schmidt said, adding that “Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter using Twitter files” also exposes a blatant violation of the First Amendment. It was a great help, he added.
“How much of it do you think was willpower and how much was fear of the government?” Glenn asks.
“Both,” is Schmidt’s answer.
He believes that “these social media platforms have typically been very aligned with the left,” and that Facebook in particular is run by “voluntary participants.”
But other documents reveal that some companies were “resisting” and that the content they were asked to censor “did not violate our terms of service.”
“We’re working on a virtual town square right now, Glenn.”
For more information on Monday’s SCOTUS hearing, watch the clip below.
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