Lawsuit: Government continues to censor Covid vaccine injury support groups

Even private chat groups are a target … if you don’t agree with the government narrative

The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a civil liberties group that bills itself as the successor to the ACLU in defending free speech, has filed an amended complaint in an ongoing lawsuit against what it says is the federal government’s ongoing efforts to collude with social media companies to monitor and censor online support groups for those injured by Covid vaccines.

According to the lawsuit, the censorship campaign has combined the efforts of numerous federal agencies and government actors, including the White House, the Surgeon General’s Office, and the CDC, to coerce, induce, and collude with social media platforms to censor, suppress, and label as “misinformation” speech expressed by those who have suffered vaccine-related injuries.

That includes private speech in online chat groups, the lawsuit asserts.

Now most people already know about the Biden regime’s ongoing censorship regime and its heavy handedness, but’s what’s most disturbing is the latest assertion in Dressen, et al. v. Flaherty, et al., which was originally filed in 2023, that the government’s illegal scheme has continued since the lawsuit began.

The NCLA is urging the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas to enjoin government-sponsored censorship and declare it unlawful state action to prevent the defendants from further censoring free speech and free association in violation of their client’s First Amendment rights. The plaintiffs are also seeking an award of compensatory damages appropriate to compensate their non-economic injuries sustained as a result of any unlawful conduct, as well as an award of punitive damages appropriate to punish and deter similar unlawful conduct..

Finally, the plaintiffs are seeking a declaration that Twitter [X] and other social media companies are under no obligation to censor content (especially content deemed Covid-19 misinformation) and will not be penalized if they do not engage in viewpoint-based censorship.

In the case the NCLA represents Brianne Dressen, Shaun Barcavage, Kristi Dobbs, Nikki Holland, Suzanna Newell, who say they have suffered vaccine-related injuries, and Ernest Ramirez, who alleges that he lost his son to a vaccine-related death.

The defendants include high-ranking administration officials as well multiple federal agencies, among them the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

The lawsuit claims the plaintiffs have all been heavily censored on social media for sharing their personal experiences, supporting others, and exchanging advice and medical research with others who were medically harmed after taking the vaccine. The plaintiffs allege that their speech has repeatedly been flagged as misinformation or removed entirely, and they have had their private support groups shut down.

And they continue to be censored, Casey Norman, the NCLA litigation counsel, asserted in the new complaint: …..