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The MAGA Movement Seeks to Destroy Trust and Accountability. No matter what happens in this case, the MAGA movement has been working hard to undermine trust in every government function, and this decision won't prevent future complaints (formal and informal) about the government-service dialogue. Even if the lawsuits stop, there will be a constant drumbeat of conspiracy theories that the government (including the "deep state") is working to censor conservative voices. This perceived censorship and implicit loss of power has become a defining issue among "conservatives," and there is a lot of money and power to be obtained by continuing to stoke fears. This anti-accountability movement brought to mind the horrible abuse heaped upon the Stanford Internet Observatory, which has had to retrench its research efforts because the MAGA movement branded it as part of the "censorship industrial complex." Knocking SIO out of the accountability industry might cheer the MAGA base, but the House Republicans' role in targeting SIO is actually a way worse form of censorship than anything the Biden Administration allegedly did in this case. Case Citation: Murthy v. Missouri, No. 23-411 (U.S. Sup. Ct. June 26, 2024)

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The MAGA Movement Seeks to Destroy Trust and Accountability. No matter what happens in this case, the MAGA movement has been working hard to undermine trust in every government function, and this decision won't prevent future complaints (formal and informal) about the government-service dialogue. Even if the lawsuits stop, there will be a constant drumbeat of conspiracy theories that the government (including the "deep state") is working to censor conservative voices. This perceived censorship and implicit loss of power has become a defining issue among "conservatives," and there is a lot of money and power to be obtained by continuing to stoke fears. This anti-accountability movement brought to mind the horrible abuse heaped upon the Stanford Internet Observatory, which has had to retrench its research efforts because the MAGA movement branded it as part of the "censorship industrial complex." Knocking SIO out of the accountability industry might cheer the MAGA base, but the House Republicans' role in targeting SIO is actually a way worse form of censorship than anything the Biden Administration allegedly did in this case. Case Citation: Murthy v. Missouri, No. 23-411 (U.S. Sup. Ct. June 26, 2024)
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“This anti-accountability movement brought to mind the horrible abuse heaped upon the Stanford Internet Observatory, which has had to retrench its research efforts because the MAGA movement branded it as part of the “censorship industrial complex.” Knocking SIO out of the accountability industry might cheer the MAGA base, but the House Republicans’ role in targeting SIO is actually a way worse form of censorship than anything the Biden Administration allegedly did in this case.”

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