Listen! Missouri vs. Biden in Court

The infamous censorship court case, beyond my own case, is the Missouri vs. Biden lawsuit, which went to oral arguments before a judge yesterday. I provide you this one excerpt and it is amazing. Take a listen.

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TRANSCRIPT:
Thank you, Your Honor, and may please the court.

John Sauer of Louisiana, on behalf of all the

plaintiffs, appellees, and then my colleague from Missouri, Mr.

Devine.

I think we'll address the court for five minutes.

After I do, I want to start by

asking the court to imagine a scenario where

senior White House staffers contact the book publishers.

You know, Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble in the

United States and they tell them we want to

have a book burning program and we want to

help you implement this book burning program.

We want to identify for you

the books that we want burned.

And by the way, the books that

we want burned are the books that

criticize the administration and its policies.

And suppose they said, we want to

be partners in this book burning effort.

And when they didn't get the cooperation

they wanted, for example, one time they

said, hey, here's twelve authors.

We want you to pull off the shelves and burn.

These are the really bad ones.

You got to burn those books.

And the booksellers probably said, we

don't really want to do that.

Then two days later, the White House press

secretary was at the podium and said, these

booksellers need to burn more books.

And the president supports a robust antitrust program

to go after them, so they need to

do more to go after these books.

And later they started sending emails

that contained implied threatening communications like,

oh, you haven't burned enough books.

You haven't let us help you identify

the books we want you to burn.

And therefore internally we're considering our options

about what to do about it.

And when they lose their temper, they

use the F bomb against the booksellers.

And then all of a sudden, in the middle

of July of 2021, there is a one, two,

three public punch where the White House press secretary

and the surgeon general stayed at the podium.

And they say, these books are poison and

we are going to hold you accountable.

A word that the district court expressly found

carries with it the threat of consequences for

letting these books be on your shelves.

And then a few days later, the White

House communications secretary also goes public, and she

says, we're exploring legal liability against you because

you haven't burned enough books.

And we're looking at repealing a piece of legislation

that gives you a huge subsidy worth billions of

dollars if you don't burn more books.

And then suppose all the booksellers decided the game

wasn't worth a candle and they started complying.

And that's exactly what you see here in

the record here in July of 2021.

You see the platforms having resisted the White

House pressure for a significant period of time.

They complied on a number of issues,

but they're holding out on certain issues.

And all of a sudden after there's those

public threats combined with the private pressure campaign

that had lasted for months and months.

You see the platforms just given in, and

you see them essentially from then on, agreeing

with whatever the White House and the surgeon

general demanded on those particular issues.

And in particular, the White House had said,

deplatform these specific speakers, Alex Baronson, because we

think he's the epicenter of disinfo that radiates

out to the persuadable public.

In other words, the most persuasive speakers,

the ones who are most effective at

rebutting the government's preferred message.

The White House is privately

saying, take those people down.

Tucker Carlson, why aren't you d boosting a

video by Tucker Carlson, a Fox News critic

or Fox News host who's one of the

most prominent critics of the administration.

And what you see is the platforms complying.

They're under what the district court aptly described

as unrelenting pressure from the most powerful office

in the world, and apparently they complied.

So you see, in July of two.