by Chris Black
No one ever thought the government censoring speech was legal in the first place; the government was just doing it and there was no one to stop them.
So what does a court ruling saying “this obviously illegal thing you are doing is illegal” mean?
Basically nothing.
It’s interesting, but that’s all.
Remember Edward Snowden?
Bulk data collection from American citizens with no warrant by the NSA?
Something which everyone admitted was totally illegal?
No one went to jail and they’re still doing it to this day.
So what is even the point?
A federal court of appeals ruled earlier this month that the White House, surgeon general, CDC and FBI “likely violated the First Amendment” by exerting a pressure campaign on social media companies to censor COVID-19 skeptics — including Stanford epidemiologist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
“I think this ruling is akin to the second Enlightenment,” Bhattacharya told The Post. “It’s a ruling that says there’s a democracy of ideas. The issue is not whether the ideas are wrong or right. The question is who gets to control what ideas are expressed in the public square?”