The mainstream media are not covering one of the most important free speech court cases of all time: Missouri, Louisiana et al vs. President Biden, a case that was filed with a federal district court in Louisiana on March 3, 2023, so it is all happening now in real time. The case by the states is that the Biden administration has acted to suppress citizens’ First Amendment rights. According to the documents: “Federal officials, including Defendants, have made a long series of public statements since at least 2018 demanding that social-media platforms increase their censorship of speech and speakers disfavored by these officials, and threatening adverse consequences – such as repeal or reform of Section 230 immunity under the Communications Decency Act (CDA), antitrust scrutiny or enforcement, increased regulation, and other measures – if the platforms do not increase censorship.”
The states have plenty to go on here, especially the evidence that has come to light of governments across the West, including both the US and Australia, among many, working with Big Tech to censor Covid critics, and to control public protests, and shut them down. Hopefully this case will get somewhere, but it will be a hard row to hoe, and even more difficult in jurisdictions such as Australia without a constitutional protection of free speech, trusting the pollies and lawyers to do the right thing.