Judge Terry Doughty, of a federal court in the US state of Louisiana, banned this Tuesday (4) that some agencies and some government officials of President Joe Biden contact social network companies to ask for content moderation.
According to information from the Reuters agency, the measure determines that government agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services and the FBI cannot contact social networks “with the aim of urging, encouraging, pressuring or inducing in any way the removal, deletion, suppression or reduction of content containing protected free speech” by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Among the Biden administration officials who have been named by name not to make such contacts are Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Jen Easterly, head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
However, in some cases, US government agencies remain authorized to contact companies, in situations such as warning about national security risks and criminal activities.
The injunction responds to a request made by the attorney generals of Louisiana and Missouri, two states governed by the Republican Party. The opposition to Biden maintains that the Covid-19 pandemic was the pretext, using the argument of combating misinformation, for divergent views to be removed from social networks, in many cases, at the request of the American government – which was denounced in the Twitter Files series of reports.
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