In the past week, at least three attacks have been exposed on the Constitutional guarantee of free speech initiated by the ever-growing tyrannical US and state governments and its deep state actors.

The Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s interpretation of antidiscrimination law is punishing a Christian web business because the owners refuse to go against their religious beliefs and make websites celebrating same-sex marriages. The Supreme Court will take up this case.

In addition, FBI agent Elvis Chan, in deposition, revealed that the FBI ordered Twitter to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, and Twitter owner Elan Musk said Twitter was also ordered by the Biden presidential campaign to censor the story.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, in December 2 Twitter posts, revealed: “In our deposition of FBI agent Elvis Chan on Tuesday, we found that the FBI plays a big role in working with social media companies to censor speech – from weekly meetings with social media companies ahead of the 2020 election to asks for account takedowns…. Chan stated that the FBI regularly sent social media companies lists of URLs and social media accounts that should be taken down because they were disinformation from “malign foreign influence operations.” The FBI then inquired whether the platforms have taken down the content.”

In particular, the FBI coerced censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story that implicated his father, Joe, in unethical and possibly illegal international influence peddling deals that enriched the Biden family at taxpayer expense.

The same story was the example Musk used when he exposed a trove of emails indicating the Biden campaign successfully pressured Twitter to censor information about the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Independent journalist Matt Taibbi, who released the information with Musk, said, “By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: “More to review from the Biden team.” The reply would come back: “Handled.”

There are previous admissions by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that the government pressured his platform to censor the Hunter Biden story.

In addition, the government blatantly censored dissent surrounding COVID lockdowns, vaccinations, and treatments.

These examples and others like them indicate the government’s tightening grip on Americans who do not agree with government policy, much of which is activated through legal interpretations by unelected administrative agencies with assumed enforcement authority.

Private companies are allowed to censor information, but when acting at behest of the government, under pressure from government actors, or being outright told by the government to censor free speech, this is a violation of the First Amendment. Moreover, it is a signal to every American that the government needs to be reined in before it wraps those reins around the throats of dissent.

As Christ said in Luke 8:17, “For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest.”

These dirty dealings are coming to light. May the evildoers be held accountable.

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In all the 20 years of writing and publishing The Daily Jot, it never has been censored, even though many controversial topics have been covered from a biblical worldview. Through the entire COVID episode of unconstitutional lockdowns and mandates, quarantining of healthy people, coercing the public through fear, and leveraging an unholy alliance of business, media and government to take an experimental shot that didn’t work as advertised and is known now to have many side effects, The Daily Jot was not censored. I was able to cover both sides, or all sides, of the many heated debates with clear documentation. Last week, however, that track record was broken. The Daily Jot was censored.

The column “Stupidocrisy: Biden targets Senior Citizens” was published on Wednesday, November 23 through all the normal channels. The column quoted word for word the White House fact sheet on:

• how it planned to launch a nearly half-a-billion-dollar marketing campaign to get people to take the COVID shot.
• word for word on how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was going to issue new regulations to police senior centers and nursing homes to hold them accountable for the proper “education” of residents to take the booster shot.
• that “nursing homes with low vaccination rates will be referred to state survey agencies for close scrutiny
• that facilities that do not comply with the requirement to offer and educate on the benefit of lifesaving COVID-19 vaccinations will face enforcement actions.

The column also quoted from several peer-reviewed studies from reputable sources about the risks and effectiveness of the COVID shot. Documented sources included MIT, the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research, the New England Journal of Medicine, the UK government Vaccine Surveillance report, and the VAERs reporting system.

Yet when the column was posted to Twitter and Facebook, crickets. Nothing. Two days go by, and nothing. Usually, these posts appear immediately. I decided to try to post again but edited out the obvious statement about how the Biden Administration was conducting this campaign despite widespread studies questioning the shot’s efficacy and safety.

When I reposted the edited version to Facebook, it posted but with immediate warnings:

• “Missing context Independent fact-checkers say this information could mislead people”; “Visit the COVID-19 Information Center for vaccine resources”;
• “Fact Check: CDC’s VAERS ‘Reports’ Are NOT Solid Proof of Vaccine Injuries Or Deaths — Just Starting Point for CDC, FDA Investigators,” and this directed readers to a website called leadstories.com.

Had I not edited the content and reposted, the column would not have been read on Facebook or on Twitter. And when it was reposted, Facebook put warnings all over it to make it look like it was not credible. This is how truth is censored. It is how science is censored. And it is how people are deceived by agenda-programmed censor machines.

Christ said in Matthew 24:4, “Take heed that no man deceive you.”

We all have to be on guard 24-7 because we don’t know who fact-checks the fact-checkers.

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