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Digital censorship supercharged the effort to hide reality, but reality is getting its day in court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 4, U.S. District Judge&nbsp;Terry Doughty&nbsp;temporarily blocked numerous federal agencies and the White House from collaborating with social-media companies and third-party groups to censor speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discovery in&nbsp;<em>Missouri v. Biden&nbsp;<\/em>exposed relationships among government agencies and social-media firms and revealed an additional layer of university centers and self-styled disinformation watchdogs and fact-checking outfits. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/on.wsj.com\/3JPvwO6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Continue reading . . .<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See our op-ed in The Wall Street Journal&#8230; In the wake of the 1986 Challenger space-shuttle explosion, Nobel Prize-winning physicist&nbsp;Richard Feynman&nbsp;knew that the truth would both fuel progress and soothe the nation\u2019s sorrow. \u201cFor a successful technology,\u201d he said, \u201creality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.\u201d For three years, pandemic public relations mocked nature, generating &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/covid-censorship-proved-to-be-deadly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-note","no-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entropyeconomics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}