RFK Jr. Goes to Legal War With Google
2024 presidential candidate RFK Jr. – arguably the most censored man in American history, even surpassing Trump by my reckoning – has launched a lawsuit against Google for working to censor him in a capacity as a "state actor" in collusion with the Brandon regime and the intelligence community.
Per RFK Jr's campaign site, "[the presidential candidate] alleges that Google worked with the federal government to develop and enforce ‘misinformation’ policies to censor the government’s political opponents, including Kennedy, who is running against President Biden in the Democratic primary. Such actions violate the First Amendment when, as here, they result from a public-private partnership that relies on government sources.”
https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1687610443676954625?s=03
And therein lies the crux: the constant refrain from the corporate state is that when an entity such as Google suppresses speech, it is not a violation of First Amendment protections because Google is ostensibly a private sector actor, and the Constitution only constrains government censorship per se.
Via Independent (UK):
"Robert F Kennedy has claimed* his anti-vaxx interviews are being censored by YouTube and Google in a new lawsuit which accuses the big tech behemoths of being 'state actors'.
The presidential candidate filed a 27-page complaint in California on Wednesday alleging the sites had caved to pressure to “silence” him by the federal government and his Democratic primary rival President Joe Biden."
*Note the intentional use of the term "claimed," used here in order to establish doubt at the outset about the veracity of Kennedy's claims, which are readily verifiable were The Independent interested in doing actual journalism rather than obfuscation on behalf of the technocracy.
Continuing:
"Mr Kennedy’s lawyers alleged in the court filing that his misinformation about Covid vaccines was being censored through “overt and covert” means.
'Under these circumstances, YouTube is a state actor and it violated Mr Kennedy’s First Amendment rights by engaging in viewpoint discrimination,' [the suit states]."
In the modern era, there is no longer any meaningful distinction between the multinational corporations that run the US government – in concert with multinational organizations such as the WEF and "nonprofit" multinational NGOs – and the government itself. For all intents and purposes, they are one and the same – the textbook definition, incidentally, of fascism, per Benito Mussolini. Google is the government, and the government is Google, no matter what the diverse White House Press Secretary or Ayn Rand fans say to the contrary.
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This is an important lawsuit. Thank You for this story, Ben. Google is the gateway to almost all online information for almost all internet users. I experienced overt censorship from Google (gmail account since 2004) in spring 2016, when I was sending out bcc newsletters to 200 friends, and I was suddenly blocked without respite as I covered the DNC disenfranchisement of Sanders supporters.
I started my Google blog that spring to work around that Gmail censorship, and it did.
The blocking of bcc emails stopped 3 days after the 2016 elections.
The censorship of gmail bcc sends resumed in summer of 2018, and stopped 3 days after voting again.
The pattern repeated in 2020, starting in late spring, and resolving after November, despite the vote-rigging stories I was posting.
All of that changed February 22, 2022 when I posted "Two New Countries" just before Russia invaded Ukraine https://www.johndayblog.com/2022/02/two-new-countries.html
Our family email was removed and my Google blog was also removed. POOF!
The censorship algorithms had been set to total-shut-down on a hair trigger.
The blog and gmail were restored after we groveled a few days, but I stopped sending the bcc newsletters and began a Substack blog, drjohnsblog.substack.com , which mirrors the Google blog that I still maintain.
3 of the subsequent posts have been removed from Google Blogger since then, but the Substack blog has been unmolested and it is user-friendly for subscriibers.
Why do I keep Google?
I am monitoring the censorship patterns as they are applied to my modest internet-research based blogging. I think there are a lot of "ordinary bloggers" like me.
I am not Scott Ritter or Alex Jones. I am ordinary.
I love RFK's courage in speaking up and speaking in question of big pharma as well as conglomorates such a Monsanto whose shareholders - despite parading ESG good standing - have not an iota of integrity. Businesses need to be profitable in order to hire people / pay salaries and taxes as well as bills, but profit and doing the right thing (in terms of hard to humans) are not mutually exclusive.
Thanks for this post, Ben.