On May 8, the Biden administration’s effort seeking the dismissal of a lawsuit by Texas and two media outlets, The Daily Wire and The Federalist, accusing the U.S. Department of State of enabling, technologically, the censorship of conservative voices failed. U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle in Tyler, Texas, ruled that the State Department did indeed engage in efforts to “market and promote the censorship tools and technologies to social media platforms,” citing allegations that the federal agency encouraged social media companies to “de-platform’” the two news outlets.
It’s bad enough that the two conservative outlets were potentially being censored by a federal agency in a country where freedom of speech is supposedly guaranteed by the Constitution. It’s even worse that the government tried to silence the victims, preventing them from speaking out and seeking justice.
As an immigrant who fled Soviet Russia, I’m gravely concerned about the emergence of the unfreedom of speech in America, my adopted homeland. Team Biden’s Sovietesque tactics made me reflect on my own experience with censorship in America.
Last month, my Facebook account was restricted after I posted an article I authored that was published by Fox News. Titled “Ignore FBI director’s urgent warning about terrorist threats at our own peril,” I forecasted threats the U.S. homeland will likely face in 2024 based on my experience as an intelligence analyst.
Facebook’s justification for restricting my account was my alleged “violation of Community Standards,” claiming the content shared “went against our rules on dangerous individuals
