Free Speech Wins Big in Court
Four years after the Twitter Files, the Missouri v. Biden case ends in a consent decree barring government from threatening protected speech
Here is Free link to The Twitter Files by Matt Taibbi which began December 2, 2022.
Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary
Finally, Good News: Free Speech Wins Big in Court, March
Four years after the Twitter Files, the Missouri v. Biden case ends in a consent decree barring government from threatening protected speech - a belated but important victory.
Incuriosity of Librarians and Media in Non-Traditional Content and Sources: The Twitter Files as a Case Study
Not long after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, journalists, librarians, and academic scholars displayed a notable lack of curiosity toward significant investigative works on digital censorship, such as the “Twitter Files.” These reports, which claimed to expose potential collusion between government officials and big tech companies, were largely overlooked by traditional media and information professionals, raising ethical concerns about censorship through selective omission.
Back to the Beginning
I’ve written books which feature librarians as heroes who are doing everything in their power to train themselves to be epistemic warriors dedicated to the free flow of information.
But there are librarians who walk a different path, happy and even righteously satisfied to use their curating power to control and suppress what ideas people encounter, according to their own preferences and bias. This is the sort of librarian who would likely be curiously incurious about the Twitter Files.
Thank you for this great take on this Case in Point!
I'm not sure it can ever be counted as a "big win" when consent decrees replace jail time or at least stiff fines for the alleged serious criminal offense of government systematically and with wanton disregard violating Americans' fundamental rights of free speech.
As with politically calculated and carried out vote fraud, there will almost certainly be more of the same where punishment is neither swift nor just.