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Government’s ‘Privatized Censorship Regime’ Violates First Amendment, Legal Expert Says

By Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.

 

Attorney Jenin Younes alleges the U.S. government’s orchestrated “takedown” of the “Great Barrington Declaration” may have led to more tragedy than necessary.

lawsuit alleging the U.S. government censored the opinions of the scientists who wrote the “Great Barrington Declaration” illustrates the First Amendment’s “chief purpose, and why the framers of the Constitution did not create an exception for ‘misinformation,” according to Jenin Younes, litigation counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), which is representing the scientists.

Writing last month for Tablet — an online magazine of Jewish news, ideas and culture — Younes said censorship of “wrongthink” by Big Tech at the behest of the government is government censorship that violates the First Amendment.

According to Younes, in October 2020, three “impeccably credentialed epidemiologists” — Jayanta Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Standford, Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard and Sunetra Gupta, a professor of epidemiology at Oxford in the U.K. — gathered to publicly summarize their critical views of the emerging COVID-19 government-mandated restrictions.

Younes said the three experts, after conducting their own research, wrote that lockdowns create more harm than good, and that resources should be devoted to protecting the vulnerable rather than shutting down society.

 

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