Thu Sep 1, 2022 – 6:27 am EDT
This article was originally published by The Defender – Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website
(Children’s Health Defense) – Without warning, Facebook on August 17 de-platformed (unpublished) the Children’s Health Defense (CHD) account. Simultaneously, Instagram suspended CHD’s Instagram account.
Each of these accounts had hundreds of thousands of followers.
CHD received the following notifications from both platforms:
Commenting on the move, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., CHD chairman and chief legal counsel, said:
Facebook is acting here as a surrogate for the federal government’s crusade to silence all criticism of draconian government policies. Our constitutional framers recognized this peril of government censorship.
We don’t need the First Amendment to protect popular or government-approved speech. They incorporated the First Amendment specifically to protect free expression of dissenting opinions. They understood that a government that can silence its critics has a license for every atrocity.
The de-platforming by Facebook and Instagram dovetails with CHD’s lawsuit against Instagram and Facebook’s parent company, Meta, filed in August 2020.
In an appeal filed July 29 in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, CHD provided the court with documents, produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
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