The Deeper Implications of This Week’s Rescue of the First Amendment
On July 4, 2023, U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana gave us the best of presents. He began the takedown of the censorship and cognitive warfare apparatus put into its recent and historically most virulent form by Barack Obama beginning on December 23, 2016. It has ballooned since then and is now recognized, as the result of the Twitter Files revelations and the lawsuit before Judge Doughty, as an American version of George Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, something accurately described as a “Censorship Industrial Complex.”