Shred this ruling: Federal judge’s injunction on government communication with social media is unsound

In his July 4 ruling blocking the Biden administration from communicating with social media companies on issues of content, Louisiana Federal Judge Terry Doughty quickly showed himself to be a deeply unserious jurist, writing that the case “arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” He apparently slept through high school history classes on the Alien and Sedition Acts, Jim Crow and McCarthyism. If Doughty believes that the government engaging with social media platforms to encourage certain uniform policies and flag the spread of, for example, med...