US court relief for Covid sceptic PIO doctor

September 21, 2023 15:04

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A US federal court of appeals ruled earlier this month that the White House, surgeon general, CDC and FBI "likely violated the First Amendment' by exerting a pressure campaign on social media companies to censor COVID-19 skeptics -- including Stanford epidemiologist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, reports Rikki Schlott in New York Post.

For Dr Bhattacharya, the ruling came as second enlightenment, he says.

"It's a ruling that says there's a democracy of ideas. The issue is not whether the ideas are wrong or right. The question is who gets to control what ideas are expressed in the public square?' he tells Schlott, here.

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