In a media release by Missouri Attorney General (AG) Eric Schmitt, J.D., to MHProNews, their office provided insights and the court ruling in a case that could prove important for those concerned about “Big Government” outsourcing censorship to “Big Tech.” For anyone that has had a social media post throttled, removed, or an account suspended or shut down, this ruling could in time lead to legal relief. MHProNews/MHLivingNews have apparently experienced this problem on ‘Big Tech’ platforms such as YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn among others on social media/search platforms. Put differently, this is an issue that impacts every American in all professions.
“In the Complaint,” per the favorable court ruling linked here, “Plaintiff States set forth examples of suppression of free speech, which include:
- The Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 Presidential election;
- Speech about the lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origin;
- Speech about the efficiency of masks and COVID-19 lockdowns; and
- Speech about election integrity and the security of voting by mail.”
Note, these AGs were involved in the manufactured housing/Department of Energy (DOE) involved case, Louisiana vs. Biden. Recall that these two AGs, in collaboration with other states, obtained a temporary stay that delayed the final rule being promulgated. Meaning, they have already done the industry one favor, albeit it temporary one. As MHProNews reported at the time, that ‘favor’ by the AGs included useful support behind the scenes from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), which rendered legal input to the AGs.
Court Denies Government Request to Stay Injunction Against Manufactured Housing Energy Rule
Put differently, these AGs have demonstrated a willingness to fight for the interests of smaller businesses, consumers, and citizens – including those involved in manufactured housing and manufactured home living – whose rights are being trampled or denied. With that backdrop, here below is the MO AG office’s press release.
Federal Court Grants Missouri Attorney General’s Motion to Collect Discovery from Government Officials, Social Media Companies in Free Speech Lawsuit
Jul 12, 2022, 17:05 PM by AG Eric Schmitt
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Today, the United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana granted Missouri and Louisiana’s motion for discovery in their lawsuit against top-ranking Biden Administration officials for allegedly colluding to suppress freedom of speech, paving the way for the attorneys general to collect discovery and documents from both top-ranking Biden Administration officials as well as social media giants like Twitter, Meta, and others. The lawsuit was filed on May 5.
“In May, Missouri and Louisiana filed a landmark lawsuit against top-ranking Biden Administration officials for allegedly colluding with social media giants to suppress freedom of speech on a number of topics including the origins of COVID-19, the efficacy of masks, and election integrity,” said Attorney General Schmitt. “Today, the Court granted our motion for discovery, paving the way for my Office to gather important documents to get to the bottom of that alleged collusion – this is a huge development.”
Missouri and Louisiana filed a Motion for Expedited Preliminary Injunction-Related Discovery on June 17, 2022. That motion was granted today by the United States District Court, Western District of Louisiana. The Court’s decision today clears the way for Missouri and Louisiana to gather discovery and documents from Biden Administration officials and social media companies.
The order states, “The First Amendment obviously applies to the citizens of Missouri and Louisiana, so Missouri and Louisiana have the authority to assert those rights.”
The lawsuit, which was filed on May 5, 2022, alleges that the Biden Administration – more specifically President Biden, Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the now-defunct Department of Homeland Security’s “Disinformation Governance Board” Nina Jankowicz, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and others – both pressured and colluded with social media giants Meta, Twitter, and Youtube to censor free speech in the name of combating so-called “disinformation” and “misinformation,” which led to the suppression and censorship of truthful information on several topics, including COVID-19.
The lawsuit names President Biden, former Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Health and Human Services Director Xavier Becerra, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and others.
The lawsuit incorporates four counts: (1) Violation of the First Amendment, (2) Action in Excess of Statutory Authority, and (3) Administrative Procedure Act Violations by HHS officials, and (4) Administrative Procedure Act violations by DHS officials.
Read the Court’s order from today here: https://ago.mo.gov/docs/default-source/press-releases/08916881989.pdf?sfvrsn=746ae69_2
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In a related report that helps quantify the impact of censorship, is this report below provided by the WND NewsCenter to MHProNews. Note how the ripple effects of throttled or censored posts can impact tens of millions of people, according to this third-party research study. What follows referenced the MO-LA AGs suit noted above.
144 million instances of Big Tech censorship over 3 months, watchdog reports
‘Mind-boggling that the Silicon Valley speech police have this kind of power’
By WND News Services Published July 20, 2022 at 12:01pm
By Max Keating
Daily Caller News Foundation
Social media users experienced at least 144,301,713 instances of “secondhand censorship” in the first quarter of 2021 alone, according to a report by the Media Research Center (MRC) Free Speech America.
MRC, a conservative media watchdog, defines secondhand censorship as the number of times that social media users had information they otherwise would have seen kept from them due to censorship. The group logged 172 individual cases of censorship in the first quarter, with the scale of secondhand censorship caused by the incidents ranging from as little as 305 negated would-be views in the case of a deleted Youtube video from Alaska Senate hopeful Kelly Tshibaka, to roughly 11 million for an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience removed from Spotify.
MRC measures secondhand censorship by aggregating total followers of accounts that had posts deleted or were suspended themselves at the time of a censorship incident. The group maintains a proprietary CensorTrack database to monitor and record big tech censorship against conservative and independent voices online.
“It’s truly mind-boggling that the Silicon Valley speech police have this kind of power. This report gets us one step closer to understanding the real impact anti-conservative discrimination at Facebook, Twitter and others are having on speech in this country,” Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
In January, Youtube reportedly refused to publish a video in which Rand Paul — a medical doctor — said there was no reason to continue with COVID-19 mandates. That same month Facebook allegedly began cracking down on Moms4Liberty, a concerned parent group. And in February, Twitter reportedly banned Chalkboard Review, an account that tracks critical race theory in schools, without any warning or explanation.
“When Big Tech companies censor someone, they don’t just block that one account or its posts. They also block all of the users that follow that account from seeing new ideas and viewpoints,” MRC said in a press release announcing the report.
The report notes that the true number of secondhand censorship instances is likely even higher, since MRC’s database includes only the censorship events they were informed about, likely “a mere fraction of the total scale” of online censorship, the report says.
Big Government doesn’t get to outsource censorship to Big Tech. https://t.co/VsFRbl8qfd
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) July 14, 2022
Facebook was by far the largest perpetrator of censorship in the quarter, leading to roughly 86 million secondhand censorship incidents, according to the report. Youtube and Twitter were the next largest sources, at around 20 million incidents apiece.
The most common topics that resulted in secondhand censorship events during the first quarter included war and alleged violence, race, transgenderism, COVID-19 and abortion, according to MRC’s report.
Youtube, Facebook and Twitter did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
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“There is nothing new under the sun. Your climate alarmism. Your administration’s thirst for power and suppression of speech. And free states like MO stopping your unconstitutional overreach through successful lawsuits. We love our freedom. We will never surrender it to you.”
— Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) July 20, 2022
BREAKING: Yesterday, we served discovery requests and today served third-party subpoenas demanding documents from top-ranking Biden Administration officials and social media companies over their alleged collusion to suppress freedom of speech.
Here’s what we asked for –>
— Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) July 19, 2022
We served discovery requests demanding documents from Dr. Fauci and the NIAID, the CDC, Jen Easterly and CISA, DHS, HHS, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, and Nina Jankowicz.
— Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) July 19, 2022
We also served third-party subpoenas on social media giants Meta, Youtube, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
— Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) July 19, 2022
One discovery request demands documents from Dr. Fauci detailing his communications with Mark Zuckerberg, any communications with social media platforms on the “Great Barrington Declaration” and its authors, any communications with social media companies in general, and more.
— Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) July 19, 2022
Another discovery request demands documents from Nina Jankowicz detailing any communications she had with social media platforms relating to content moderation, information on the April 2022 meeting between DHS officials and Twitter execs, and more.
— Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) July 19, 2022
We also demanded documents from WH Press Sec. Karine Jean-Pierre detailing any communications between White House personnel and social media companies, which WH staff members communicated with social media companies on content moderation, and more.
— Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) July 19, 2022
Read the full release, with links to every discovery request, here: https://t.co/NTO7h636ip
— Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) July 19, 2022
Read more about the original lawsuit here: https://t.co/WHJ9vYjAbY
— Attorney General Eric Schmitt (@AGEricSchmitt) July 19, 2022
MHProNews previously advised readers of the original suit cited above in May in a report found at this link here.
There are authentic efforts by associations, politicos, nonprofits, and businesses. Then there are items that are more in the realm of posturing, paltering, and propaganda-style-spin. Perhaps that is why this previously referenced Edelman research report revealed over half of the population (correctly) takes what business or political leaders with a grain of salt.
With that spirt and fact-pattern in mind, this publication will continue to monitor and report as deemed appropriate to keep industry professionals and others informed on this developing issue involving the state AGs. Perhaps others in our profession, which generate more smoke than light or disinfecting sunshine, avoid such facts and events in part because it doesn’t serve their respective agendas? Stay tuned for your one source for “Intelligence for your MHLife” © here on MHProNews.
Next up is our daily business news recap of yesterday evening’s market report, related left-right headlines, and manufactured housing connected equities.
The Business Daily Manufactured Home Industry Connected Stock Market Updates. Plus, Market Moving Left leaning CNN and Right-leaning (Newsmax) Headlines Snapshot. While the layout of this daily business report has been evolving over time, several elements of the basic concepts used previously are still the same. For instance. The headlines that follow below can be reviewed at a glance to save time while providing insights across the left-right media divide. Additionally, those headlines often provide clues as to possible ‘market-moving’ news items.
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- No place to go
- NEW YORK, NEW YORK, – APRIL 14: A cyclist rides past a closed Starbucks during the coronavirus pandemic on April 14, 2020 in New York City. Shelter-In-Place and social distancing continues across the city, emptying streets and businesses to curb the spread of the coronavirus, COVID-19. Worldwide, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has claimed over 120,000 lives and infecting over 1.9 million people.
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- The FCC is cracking down on ‘auto warranty’ robocalls
- Facebook is redesigning the home feed
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- TELL US Have you recently shifted from part-time to full-time work?
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- Big companies are starting to get nervous about the job market
- Amazon to buy One Medical for $3.9 billion in healthcare expansion effort
- A employee moves pizza boxes before a delivery at a Domino’s Pizza Inc. restaurant in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018.
- Domino’s is still struggling to get pizza to your house
- INVESTING
- Bill Ackman, chief executive officer of Pershing Square Capital Management LP, listens during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017.
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- Crypto is making a big comeback. Will it last?
- Google’s stock just got a lot cheaper
- Jamie Dimon battens down the hatches for a recession
- Russia broke the stock market. Now there’s only one reliable way to make money
- NETFLIX
- People wait in a line to enter “The Lab”, Stranger Things Netflix series experience venue in Madrid, Spain on June 27th, 2022. The visit in The Lab located at the Telefónica Building is fre for everyone.
- Netflix loses subscribers, but stops the bleeding
- ‘Stranger Things’ is ending, but a spinoff is in the works
- Why Netflix split up this season of ‘Stranger Things’
- Netflix with ads is coming
- Dave Chappelle’s controversial Netflix special nabs Emmy nominations
Headlines from right-of-center Newsmax 7.21.2022
- Governors’ Immigrant-Busing Strategy Hits Home for Mayors
- Some blue-city mayors are appealing for federal aid to help deal with an influx of immigrants being bused to their jurisdictions from border states such as Texas and Arizona. To some Republicans, it’s only fitting that these mayors get a taste of what it’s like to be a border state grappling with an immigration crisis: Wrote Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee: “Doesn’t feel great, does it?” [Full Story]
- Russian Invasion of Ukraine
- Turkey: Ukraine Grain Export Deal to Be Signed in Istanbul
- CIA Director: Putin ‘Entirely Too Healthy’
- Kremlin: Russia Is Reliable Gas Supplier, Blames Europe for Problems
- UK Boosts Arms Supply to Ukraine With More Anti-tank Weapons
- CIA Head: Ukraine War Making China Rethink Taiwan Strategy
- US Cyber Command Reports 20 Russian ‘Hacking’ Indicators Against Ukraine
- CIA Director Says Some 15,000 Russians Killed in Ukraine War
- Yellen Welcomes Ukraine Debt Freeze, Calls on Creditors to Join
- More Russian Invasion of Ukraine
- Newsmax TV
- Dick Morris: WashPost Column on Trump 2024 ‘Fake News’ | video
- Rosendale: ATF Now Harassing Legal Gun Owners? | video
- Babin: Dem Mayors’ Complaints About Immigrants ‘Absurd’ | video
- Cloud: Biden Should Be Focused on Protecting American Families, Not Climate | video
- AG: Fentanyl Is a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’ | video
- Comer: Hunter Biden ‘Bleeding Bear’ in a Snowstorm | video
- Donalds: GOP Courting Black Voters for ‘First Time Since the ’60s’ | video
- More Newsmax TV
- Newsfront
- Quick Georgia Abortion Restrictions Send Some Patients Home
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- Group Working to Block Kamala Harris, Maxine Waters From Ballots
- A super PAC intent on making President Joe Biden a one-term occupant [Full Story] | Platinum Article
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- Democrats, and some Republicans, are playing politics and twisting [Full Story] | Platinum Article
- New York Reports 1st US Polio Case in Nearly a Decade
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- Jen Psaki: WH Must Soon Show Biden as ‘Active’ President After COVID-19 Diagnosis
- Jen Psaki’s first keynote, or viral, appearance as an MSNBC TV [Full Story]
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- Birx to Newsmax: Biden’s COVID Sends Message to US on Virus |video
- Doctor: Biden Has Fatigue, Dry Cough
- Jill Biden Negative for COVID
- Schumer: ‘It’s Time to End the Federal Prohibition on Cannabis’
- Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has released the [Full Story]
- Italy to Hold Early Election After PM Draghi Resigns
- Italian President Sergio Mattarella dissolved parliament Thursday, [Full Story]
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- Dick Morris: Hillary Clinton Will Run Against Trump Again
- It will be one of the great political re-matches of all time. Hillary [Full Story]
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- Video Report: Confirming US Fears, Russia Says Goals in Ukraine Extend Beyond Donbas
- Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed the fears of U.S. officials [Full Story]
- Ex-cop Lane Gets 2 1/2 Years on Floyd Killing Federal Charge
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- Pelosi: Husband Never Bought Stock Based on Information From Her
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., says her husband has never made [Full Story]
- Video Report: Disney’s Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique Goes Gender Neutral
- On Thursday’s “National Report,” Leonardo Feldman reports on Disney [Full Story] | video
- House Passes Bill to Protect Access to Contraception
- The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a bill to [Full Story]
- UCLA Professor Quits Over ‘Woke Takeover’
- A tenured anthropology professor said he’s leaving his job because of [Full Story]
- Biden Administration Reorganizes HHS to Improve Pandemic Response
- The Biden administration is reorganizing the federal health [Full Story]
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Griner Supporters Must Pressure Russia, Not US
- Former NBA starKareem Abdul-Jabbar said those arguing that the U.S. [Full Story]
- Michelle Obama’s Book ‘The Light We Carry’ Coming This Fall
- Michelle Obama will have a book out this fall, “The Light We Carry,” [Full Story]
- Judge Blocks Louisiana Abortion Ban
- A judge has barred Louisiana officials from enforcing a state law [Full Story]
- Report: Russia Removes Its Last Typhoon-class Nuclear Submarine
- Moscow has decommissioned its last Typhoon-class nuclear submarine [Full Story]
- Parents of Alleged Michigan School Shooter File Appeal to Dismiss Case Against Them
- Arguing that the prosecution is trying “to fit a square peg into a [Full Story]
- Republicans Could Take Same-Sex Marriage Issue off the Table With Senate Support for Bill
- Political operatives say Republicans have an opportunity to take the [Full Story]
- Amazon to Buy Primary Healthcare Provider for $3.9B
- Amazon announced Thursday it will acquire the primary care [Full Story]
- BBC Agrees ‘Substantial Damages’ to Ex-royal Nanny Over Diana Interview
- The BBC said on Thursday it had agreed to pay “substantial damages” [Full Story]
- GOP’s Loudermilk Wants to Probe Jan. 6 Panel
- Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., told Politico that he wants to chair a [Full Story]
- Chris Cuomo to Give First TV Interview Since Being Dumped by CNN
- Chris Cuomo will give his first television interview on Tuesday since [Full Story]
- Comic-Con Returns in Full Force With Costumes, Crowds
- The pop culture extravaganza that is Comic-Con International is back [Full Story]
- AOC Denies She Faked Being Handcuffed During Her Arrest
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is denying claims she acted [Full Story]
- Finance
- Global Manufacturers See Chip Shortage Easing
- Hyundai Motor Co., factory robot builder ABB and Swedish fridge maker Electrolux see the semi-conductor chip shortage easing, executives said Thursday, in a boost for manufacturers after a long struggle for components…. [Full Story]
- Air Carriers’ Spiraling Costs Overshadow Travel Boom
- Facebook Offers New Way to See Friends’ Posts
- Dow Forecast Disappoints as Inflation Drags Demand
- Putin, Saudi Crown Prince Discuss OPEC+
- Health
- The Best Times to Hydrate
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