The judges wrote that the White House, the Surgeon General, the CDC and the FBI likely “coerced the platforms to make their moderation decisions by way of intimidating messages and threats of adverse consequences.”

The Court upheld many restrictions on the White House and Surgeon General’s office’s contacts with tech companies, finding that they ‘coerced’ platforms’ content decisions

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  • raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Because many democratic politicians are very conservative and are in favor of things like austerity. There are more Manchins and Sinemas off in the wings, it’s just not efficient for them to out themselves if they already have someone designated to be the villain who will put a stop to any legilslation they’re not in favor of. They know that being pro-austerity is not popular with their base.

    It’s critical that people use a politician’s history and where they get their funding as the real measuring stick of how they will behave in office, not simply what they say or vote for when they know it won’t matter.

    https://www.opensecrets.org/ is a useful resource to research candidates and politicians. You can look up where their campaign funding comes from, get spending data of lobbying groups etc.