- The book “Censored: The Battle for Free Speech” asserts that the First Amendment is being violated by an unholy alliance between the federal government and Big Tech corporations. Agencies like the FBI and White House pressure social media platforms to censor content they dislike, circumventing constitutional protections by using private companies as proxies for government censorship.
- The censorship machine has a proven body count, as exemplified by the “disinformation dozen” list and Twitter Files. This suppression led to the destruction of livelihoods and suppression of life-saving information about COVID-19 treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, resulting in preventable deaths.
- Lawsuits like Bollinger v. Biden are challenging this government-Big Tech collusion under the legal theory that when the government coerces private companies to censor, those companies become state actors subject to the First Amendment. However, these cases require substantial public funding and support to succeed.
- To fight back, Americans must support independent platforms that refuse government pressure, build their own information networks through newsletters and local communities and become the media they wish to see rather than relying on the corporate-controlled digital town square.
- Thomas Jefferson’s wisdom that “truth is great and will prevail if left to herself” remains relevant today, as censorship can only drive knowledge underground but cannot erase it. The ultimate solution lies in open and vigorous debate rather than allowing corporations or government agencies to decide what constitutes truth.
The book “Censored: The Battle for Free Speech” stresses that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is a sacred promise. It reads: “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” For over two centuries, this was our nation’s bedrock.
The Founding Fathers understood that a free society requires the free exchange of ideas, no matter how uncomfortable. But today, that promise is being broken by an unholy alliance between the federal government and the very corporations that control the digital town square.
This isn’t happening through direct government action, which would be easily challenged in court. Instead, the censorship machine works indirectly. As documented in the fight against the “censorship-industrial complex,” the government pressures private companies to do the silencing for them.
This is a clever end-run around the Constitution. The First Amendment only restricts the government, not private businesses like Facebook, Google or Twitter (now X). So when federal agencies lean on these platforms to remove “misinformation,” they are effectively censoring speech without facing legal consequences.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Homeland Security and even the White House have been caught directing tech giants to remove content they disagree with. This was proven conclusively in the Twitter Files, which showed direct communications between government officials and social media executives demanding the removal of posts about Hunter Biden’s laptop, Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) treatments and vaccine safety concerns.
Censorship with a body count
The evidence of this collusion is overwhelming. The Center for Countering Digital Hate published a “disinformation dozen” list targeting doctors and journalists who questioned the official COVID-19 narrative. Incidentally, the group is tied to intelligence services and funded by George Soros’ Open Society Foundations.
Social media platforms used that list as a script to purge accounts. People like Ty Bollinger, who only cited the respective websites of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, saw their YouTube channels with millions of subscribers deleted overnight.
Their businesses were destroyed and their livelihoods were erased, all for the crime of asking questions that the powerful wanted suppressed. This system of government-funded censorship has a body count.
When information about early treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine was suppressed, people died. When natural health information about vitamins, herbs and immune support was labeled “misinformation,” people who might have been saved were left with only two options: an experimental vaccine or a hospital.
The censorship machine can be dismantled
The truth about these therapies has continued to spread through independent websites and personal conversations, but the censors delayed its recognition at a terrible cost in human life. The good news is that this censorship machine can be dismantled.
Lawsuits like Bollinger v. Biden are challenging the government’s coordination with Big Tech, demanding discovery that would expose the full extent of the collusion. These cases target both the source of censorship: government officials who made the requests, and the facilitators – social media companies that carried them out.
The legal theory is straightforward. When the government coerces a private company to censor, that company becomes a state actor subject to the First Amendment.
But these lawsuits need funding. They need public support. The fight for free speech is not a spectator sport:
- We must support independent platforms that refuse to bow to government pressure.
- We must build our own information fortresses through newsletters, local communities,and alternative economies.
- We must become the media we wish to see.
The truth will always outlast the censors. It has done so for thousands of years, from the samizdat movement in the Soviet Union to the printing press that sparked the Reformation.
An idea that is real cannot be unlearned. Once a person understands that their health is their own responsibility, that natural remedies work and that institutional authority often serves corporate profits, they cannot go back. Censorship may drive that knowledge underground, but it does not erase it.
Government and Big Tech can’t own the truth
President Thomas Jefferson wrote that “truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.” The censors of today fear that truth because they know that if people are allowed to see all sides, the truth will win. That is why they desperately try to create a single, sanitized narrative.
But truth does not need protection. It needs exposure, and it needs voices brave enough to speak it. And it needs listeners willing to hear it.
The First Amendment is a sacred promise, and it is a promise we must keep. The siege comes from overreaching government power and corporate policies that enforce a narrow, approved worldview. To protect our liberty, we must resist this siege.
We must reject the idea that a corporation or a government agency can be the ultimate decider of truth. The only way to find the truth is through open and vigorous debate, not through censorship. The fight for the First Amendment is the fight for everything else.
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