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Conservatives just received some exciting news that they have been hoping for.
Alex Berenson, who is a veteran journalist and best-selling author on Covid-19 issues, has filed a lawsuit against Twitter.
Big tech has been guilty of censoring the speech of anyone with whom they disagree.
Twitter is accused of banning Berenson from the platform and ruining his reputation.
Making matters worse, Twitter is accused of colluding with the Biden administration to violate Berenson’s rights, despite the fact Berenson has often been correct about the virus and vaccines.
The lawsuit explains how Twitter took significant action over the course of one week in July 2021.
On Sunday, July 11, Dr. Fauci, who is Biden’s Chief Medical Advisor, called Berenson’s comments about the Covid-19 vaccines “horrifying.”
Later that same week, Biden blamed social media giants like Twitter for “killing people” by failing to censor content.
Hours after Biden’s comment, the lawsuit argues, Berenson was suddenly barred from his acount.
The lawsuit states, “Mr. Berenson also has a uniquely viable claim that Twitter acted on behalf of the federal government in censoring and barring him from to its platform.”
“Twitter’s censorship is selective, enforced against conservative political leaders with views distasteful to the woke elite in Silicon Valley—and against independent journalists like me, who have raised questions about our response to COVID that public health authoritarians cannot tolerate,” Berenson writes.
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The background to Twitter’s censorship of Berenson harmed the public interest and the critic was proven right on several occasions.
“During 2020 and 2021, Mr. Berenson became a prominent critic of the governmental and public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic,” the lawsuit states. “Mr. Berenson made many statements on Twitter which, although controversial at the time, have since become conventional wisdom, most notably about the profound harm to children caused by remote learning and unnecessary school closures.”
While Twitter initially reassured Berenson he would be given free reign to pursue his journalism, the Big Tech platform began its suppression of his tweets in reaction to disparaging statements from Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Biden administration.
“On August 28, in the wake of even more calls for censorship from government officials, Twitter permanently suspended Mr. Berenson from its platform, citing ‘repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation rules’,” the lawsuit notes. “Mr. Berenson did not violate those rules.
Twitter, on the other hand, broke its promises to Mr. Berenson as well as its policies, and violated his rights as it served the federal government’s censorship demands.”
This is where the rubber-meets-the-road when it comes to Big Tech censorship (as well as vaccine mandates): If a company is carrying out a government’s demands that would otherwise violate a citizen’s Constitutional rights, then it is essentially acting as an agent or instrument of the government itself. This fascism should not be allowed to stand in a U.S. court of law.
