"Supreme Court Punts on Technicalities"
Expert analysis of Murthy v. Missouri decision by respondent Aaron Kheriaty, MD.
Aaron Kheriaty, MD was one of the plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found there had been some coercion in the government's contact with social media companies in violation of the First Amendment. The government appealed, and in October 2023, the Supreme Court agreed to review the case, which became Murthy v. Missouri. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that the states lacked standing to bring suit.
Dr. Kheriaty just published a thorough analysis of the case—a momentous document about a momentous decision that is a great blow to the concept of government of the people, and a great victory for a paternalistic state that is now heavily tilted towards tyranny. To read Dr. Kheriaty’s essay, please click on the image below and also consider subscribing to his Substack. He is one of the smartest and most capable men who are working to preserve our beleaguered Republic.
This is ridiculous and against the peoples rights.
I read Dr. Kheriaty’s essay, and I admire his optimism and tenacity. We all need to exercise those two characteristics if we are to get through this Hellscape. Three more characteristics that would come in mighty handy about now are reason, discipline and selflessness.
Unsophisticated, simple-minded fellow that I am, I try to look for simple answers to problems.
One of my simple-minded ways to not allow the censorship by social media into my life, at least not directly, is that I do not use Facebook, Ticktock, X/Twitter, Truth Social, etc. Platforms such as this are the extent of my social media, and if it becomes evident that this or others are censoring content, I'll abandon them, too.
All that may sound absurd to most. If so, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I look at it like this: Collectively, We The People have the power and legal authority to make any change in this country we want to make, unless of course God opposes us. If we truly united, we could put Facebook or any company completely out of business, fairly quickly.
I became frustrated with FB a couple of years ago, and abandoned it - before all the government censorship thing started being talked about. I probably still have a FB page floating around out there but its been inactive for years.
Not long ago, after hearing how wonderful X/Twitter had become, after Elon Musk acquired it, I opened a paid account, and very quickly learned that it has what I consider to be strict censorship.
I found the censorship absurd in that people could easily disguise foul language or even violent rhetoric by simply substituting a letter here or there, or inserting a symbol or punctuation mark in a key place, and their posts remained viewable. On the other hand, when I stated something the censorship program found displeasing by spelling it out in plain English, my posts were removed and I got put in time out. I tried that masking for a time, I've done it on this platform, but to me, those are childish games and I've decided I will no longer participate. It's either a free speech platform or it isn't. My decision has inspired me to clean-up my language, a little - and that's not a bad thing.
Of course, I'm not naive enough to believe that many people would do what I'm suggesting.
After it came to light that FB colluded with the regime to censor content they disagree with, I tried to convince people close to me that the solution is to close your FB account and never go back.
Naturally, I got lots of pushback, usually along this line: "Well, I don't use FB for political stuff. I just use it to keep up with family members. It's the 'only way' I get to see family photos.", or "If I didn't have FB, I'd never know what Joanie is doing.", or "Oh, I don't pay any attention to stuff like that. I just use FB to watch my church's bible studies.". I'm sure that if this comment were read by a few million people, there would be a few million similar lame excuses.
The People have the Power, but they're too divided to use it.
Gee, I wonder if 'division' was part of the plan all along?