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• The injunction would bar officials from the White House, CDC, FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Surgeon General’s office from coercing or significantly encouraging social media platforms to censor constitutionally protected speech.
• In September, a Fifth Circuit panel upheld the key components of U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty’s July 4 preliminary injunction order, prohibiting named federal officials from coercing or significantly encouraging social media companies to suppress legal speech.
• Though the U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily stayed the Fifth Circuit’s injunction, NCLA believes the Justices are ultimately unlikely to permit the egregious First Amendment abridgements this case has exposed.
• In fact, much of the speech the government suppressed in this case—about Covid-19 and Hunter Biden’s laptop—was truthful.”
  — Mark Chenoweth, President and Chief Legal Officer, NCLA

• The State Department uses its Global Engagement Center (“GEC”) to finance the development and promotion of censorship technology and enterprises, including NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index.
• The State Department’s censorship scheme clearly violates the First Amendment rights of The Daily Wire, The Federalist, and numerous similar outlets.
• NCLA is proud to represent The Daily Wire and The Federalist again, having won important victories with them in the past.
• NCLA will fight the State Department’s censorship scheme alongside these news outlets for as long as it takes.

• One byproduct of this is a rightwing movement in the tech and economic spaces, known as the “parallel economy”.
• The parallel economy is a system of financial services, e-commerce websites and social media targeting communities with rightwing political values, mainly in the US and Europe.
• Advocates for the parallel economy view mainstream media and tech firms as oppressors of conservative voices.
• In response, they are creating and supporting alternative platforms that align with their conservative values.

Deplatformed and demonetised

• The YouTube Partner Programme has been a vital revenue source for content creators, including some conspiracy theorists and extremists.
• This means banning users from the ad revenue sharing programme altogether, although demonetised creators and their content may still be visible to users.
• Self-proclaimed free speech advocates have launched a number of alternative platforms, providing refuge to the deplatformed.
• Rumble, a Canadian company, has become home to numerous “mega influencers” considered controversial or who have been deplatformed by major social media platforms.

Making money in the parallel economy

• PayPal has deplatformed several conservative alt-tech platforms including Gab, known as the free speech Twitter alternative.
• In response, Gab launched its own payment processor, GabPay, to enable financial transactions with and between users.
• American conservative political commentator Jeremy Boreing is a vocal advocate for the parallel economy.
• The parallel economy capitalises on a sense of ideological victimhood that many on the political right are feeling.

• DailyWire+ Podcast Networkthe seventh largest podcast company in the country according to Podtrachas named industry veteran Scot Herd as senior vice president of ad revenue.
• DailyWire+ will continue its sales partnership with Westwood One, which will continue selling the networks flagship podcast, The Ben Shapiro Show.
• Im thrilled to take over this new role at DailyWire+ and to capitalize on our tremendous growth, said Herd.
• Herd will be leading the network into upfront season from a strong performance position:
  DailyWire+ is a subscription podcast and video-on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned and operated by The Daily Wire, LLC.