That is what this comes down to.
Dallas, Texas has a population of 1,304,379 citizens as of the 2020 Census. The number of deaths from COVID-19 as of today is 1,133,620. That virus wiped away lives in the USA without mercy and no one could stop the misinformation. The online misinformation was incredible with a President asking his advisor in public if injecting bleach was a method of ending the virus. What Doughty did in this case was to allow firestorms of information to cloud the judgement of Americans and because of it dying is okay.'
The "Misinformation Age" is alive and well in the USA and judges like Doughty simply don't care if we live or we die when the government knows how to save our lives and our democracy.
I hope there are independent organizations that are objective, love the law and the people of this country and are logging decisions by judges that amount to the classification of "dangerous."
There needs to be a clear understanding that "online" language/speech is definitely not the same as "offline" language/speech. There is no way conversation or "real" speech between people causes the level of concern on a societal basis. Online speech is completely different from offline speech. Online speech is more powerful and magnifies the intent of the words a million times than the same exact words between individuals. Online speech affects the thoughts of complete strangers around the world. It has to be treated differently.
Misinformation has to be policed.
By Steven Lee Myers and David McCabe
A federal court in Louisiana (click here) on Tuesday barred parts of the Biden administration from communicating with social media platforms about broad swaths of content online, a ruling that could curtail efforts to combat false and misleading narratives about the coronavirus pandemic and other issues.
In the ruling, Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana said that parts of the government, including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, could not talk to 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.”
Judge Doughty said in granting a preliminary injunction that the agencies could not flag specific posts to the social media platforms or requests reports about their efforts to take down content. The ruling said that the government could still notify the platforms about posts detailing crimes, national security threats or foreign attempts to influence elections....
