Biden’s ‘Ministry of Truth’
A federal judge’s ruling halting the president’s online censorship program highlights Democrats’ use of the cudgel of ‘disinformation’ to stifle free speech.

The most patriotic fireworks yesterday are from a federal judge whose ruling halting President Biden’s online censorship program will spark debate about Democrats using the cudgel of “disinformation” to stifle free speech. The ruling, in which the judge compared Mr. Biden’s effort to Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth,” notes fears that “the government has used its power to silence the opposition.” It would have outraged the American Framers.
The First Amendment, barring the federal government from “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press,” is front and center in Judge Terry Doughty’s ruling. The “indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom,” he calls these liberties. He reckons Mr. Biden’s “attempts to suppress alleged disinformation” on social-media sites apparently set off “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.”
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