Joe Biden’s officials have been temporarily banned from meeting with social media company executives due to what the judge agreed appeared to be a “massive” effort to censor dissent on Covid vaccines. The Telegraph has more.
A judge backed claims that the U.S. President’s administration, including the White House, had engaged in a “massive” attempt to stop Americans questioning the efficacy of vaccines online.
The injunction came after it was revealed last month that U.K. ministers set up a Counter-Disinformation Unit, which was used to target lockdown critics and those questioning the mass vaccination of children.
The U.K. Government used an artificial intelligence firm to monitor social media sites and flag opposition to vaccine passports.
Prosecutors in the Republican states of Louisiana and Missouri brought the case and accused the federal Government of being involved in a “censorship enterprise“.
They claimed that the Biden administration violated the First Amendment by trying to block social media users exercising their right to free speech.
Thousands of communications between Government officials and technology companies during the pandemic have been collected and presented in the court case, which is known as Missouri v. Biden.
Judge Terry Doughty, who was appointed during the Donald Trump administration, issued an injunction which stops Mr. Biden’s officials talking to social media companies about “protected speech”.
In his ruling, the judge banned Government departments from contacting social media companies for “the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression or reduction of content containing protected free speech”.
A final ruling in the case has yet to be made by the judge.
In the injunction, he said that the Attorneys General from Louisiana and Missouri had “produced evidence of a massive effort by defendants, from the White House to federal agencies, to suppress speech based on its content”.
Social media and other technology companies have in the past communicated regularly with the Government, including during elections and in the pandemic.
In his injunction, the judge said there could still be communication if the Government needed to issue warnings about a national security or criminal threat.
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What’s really going on?
Ukraine develops its own long range cruise missile.
The driver for this development is the reluctance of Ukraine’s partners to provide long-range weapons
The R-360 Neptune anti-ship cruise missile, two of which were used to sink the Russian missile cruiser Moskva a year previously, clearly offered a suitable platform for modification as a long-range surface-to-surface missile (SSM).
Technological improvements to the R-360 include a new stand-alone GPS guidance system which takes the missile close to its target before a seeker head homes in on a pre-loaded image of the final objective and guides a terminal attack.
This system, a combination of two target acquisition technologies called Digital Scene Matching Area Correlation (DSMAC) and Automated Target Recognition (ATR) means the missile will be hard to jam.
The system can deliver a 150-kilogram high explosive fragmentation warhead out to 300 km.
Part of the missile development will be to extend the range of the missile to enable it to strike Moscow (a distance of at least 600 km) and other targets inside Russia.
If the missile can achieve that range, it represents a step-change in Ukraine’s ability to strike Russian rear area locations with big implications for the conduct of the war.
Historically Ukraine was a centre for the development of both missile and aviation technology while part of the Soviet Union.
Latest update:
31 May 2024 Cruise missile attack on Russian Kavkaz port near Kerch.
The Russian Federation Ministry of Defence announced attacks by anti-ship missiles “Neptune” on the territory of the Russian Federation.
The partial damage to the oil depot, as well as the disabling of the “Avangard” railway ferry, as a result of a missile attack on the Kerch port the day before, will complicate logistics for the Russian army in Crimea and on the southern fronts.
It is a shame that military supplies for Crimea go by rail using the land route skirting the Sea of Azov. It means yet more missiles wasted on vengeance attacks
The destruction accomplished by this attack now forces Russia to rely on road and rail links across occupied Ukraine — which puts trains and trucks into easier range of Ukrainian attack.
“Considering the fact that the railway line Russians are building through the occupied territories of Ukraine is not finished yet, this civil ferry was their army’s main logistics route,” Pletenchuk said. “Their sea logistics is also long gone after Ukraine destroyed four and damaged five of their landing ships,”
I don’t blame Nigel Farage for choosing to focus on the US election rather than stand in the UK one. Whoever wins here will sign us up to any global agreement going and kowtow to any global body – the UN, the WHO, Human Rights courts. America, with Trump in charge, still has enough clout to refuse to comply or endorse as he showed with NATO. And if they can do that, we have some chance in the UK that these treaties fail and be spared what any of the parties will merrily sign us up to.
“Keir Stamer caves in and says Diane Abbott can stand as candidate”
Good grief, Starmer is about as tough and decisive as a wet rag! What a disastrous choice for a so called leader
At risk of sounding like a right biatch ( but being a ”better out than in” type of person I’ll plough on anyway ), I think Diane Abbot looks like a hippo. Especially if you see photos of her with her mouth agape. She totally needs a stylist because that severe bob and blunt fringe do no favours for a person with that sort of face. Even the glasses don’t suit her. She should try different shape frames or contacts. Just her entire look is completely unflattering, in my opinion.
I’m off for a saucer of milk now…
I like pussy cats.
Worse than her appearance are her arrogant character and hoity toity personality.
I recall her on Andrew Neil’s late night discussion show with the equally egregious Michael Portillo. She was reasonably presentable then, but her insistence that all and sundry should be allowed to come to the UK was strident and grating.
Immigrants always seem to think they’re much more important and necessary than the historical population that created this country. To ‘enrich it’ as Leftards always dribble. Our culture has not been ‘enriched’ but degraded beyond what anyone could have imagined before mass immigration was forced on us without a ‘by-your-leave’.
Pity the poor constituency flippy floppy Queer Smarmer lets Abbott stand in, though it’s probably going to be a Labour stronghold, so Labour voters will get what they deserve.
Chosen or Placed ! SIR is a clue & member of The Tri Lateral commission the rubber stamp that Starmer is upto no good !!…
The WHO assembly draws to a close.
For now the Pandemic treaty and IHR amendments are off the table.
Big protest in Tokyo.
Today a freedom rally in Geneva (wish I was there…).
They will keep trying though, so this will need to be a long campaign.
Yes it’s ongoing ,also have you seen Tedros the Terror-st telling us that anti vaxers are the cause of people being wary of Fauci,s brew !
Tedros – the disgusting lackey of the Chinese communists.
Not being a specialist in legal or tax matters, let alone American ones, my question is whether Donald trump personally filled in his company tax returns or simply takes responsibility for everything his tax advisers write by signing them off.
If they are good enough for the tax man and at least two previous jurisdictions who declined no to take action, surely Trump himself would not be expected to spot these irregularities.
And the real criminal, to me, is Daniels, who apparently signed a legal document and accepted the cash ensuring her silence, and who then totally ignored her contractual commitment to silence.
Does all this make him a criminal or a dupe? Maybe he would rather be seen as a victim in this election.
“With Starmer floundering, Farage flailing and Ed Davey acting a fool, a Tory revival is now on the cards, says Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.”
Please, no.
Can’t Ms Tominey have the decency to call out the likes of Fishy and Kneel for the treasonous bar stewards that they are?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/dwp-worker-benefits-fraud-checks-not-enough-stop/
I can confirm that I was routinely in the same position as this DWP whistlblower. I used to say to colleagues that If I had been paid just 10% of the value of the frauds I detected I would have been able to retire a millionaire after twelve months. Fraud is rampant in the benefits system.
About fifteen years ago our office suffered a presentation from a senior manager. Said manager went in to some detail about how in the previous twelve months DWP had achieved a 15% reduction (something ludicrous) in benefit fraud. Unable to avoid stating the obvious I pointed out to the manager that as in the previous twelve months one third of fraud investigators had been re-allocated (non fraud jobs) the reduction in fraud was hardly a surprise because “If you don’t look for it you don’t find it.”
hux received a wagging finger summons for that statement of the bleeding obvious.
The tales I could tell.
Never try to present truth or reason to a lying fool.
“This is horrific and I want to see it fail as a political strategy” says Lionel Shriver
“Trump’s victory is now more likely, not less” says Boris
Of course! That was the whole idea, to stir up mass sympathy for the AntiChrist Drumpf. As he boasted,
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”
It’s like watching Mass Hypnosis take over the minds of patriots everywhere…
I’m not a “fan” of Trump or any politician for that matter, but how would you vote if you were in the US? Trump or Biden or Kennedy or someone else? And who would you have voted for in the Republican primaries (assuming you’d be a registered Republican)?
Florida Governor Ron De Santis
Yup with you on that
I would vote Trump now though, because the Democrats are just terrible- clearly you see grave dangers from Trump that I don’t