Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins dead at 50

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/foo-fighters-drummer-taylor-hawkins-obituary-1327112/

Feds' pressure on tech platforms to censor COVID 'misinformation' is unconstitutional, suit says

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is using same statutory authority Supreme Court struck down for eviction moratorium, suit says.

The government's sustained pressure on social media platforms to censor and report purported COVID-19 misinformation amounts to "state action" that violates the First Amendment, according to a lawsuit filed Friday on behalf of three Twitter users.

The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), a frequent litigant against COVID-related administrative action, is representing theoretical cognitive scientist Mark Changizi, lawyer Michael Senger and stay-at-home father Daniel Kotzin.

Twitter suspended Kotzin temporarily and Senger permanently within a week of Surgeon General Vivek Murthy's March 3 request for information (RFI) on the "impact and prevalence of health misinformation in the digital information environment during the COVID-19 pandemic," including how it affects "likelihood to vaccinate."

The RFI not only encompasses search engines and social media but e-commerce platforms and instant messaging systems, "prompting technology companies to ramp up censorship for fear of adverse action against them," including regulation, the suit says.

Murthy is exceeding the statutory power of his office, which lets him quarantine individuals "reasonably believed" to be infected and communicable to prevent interstate transmission, NCLA claims. It's the same legal basis the Supreme Court ruled ineligible for the CDC's COVID eviction moratorium.

The Department of Health and Human Services, which includes Murthy's office, didn't respond to requests for comment from Just the News.

The suit says the unconstitutional state action started with statements by the White House in May and HHS in July.

Press Secretary Jen Psaki implied President Biden would take antitrust actions against tech platforms if they didn't censor vaccine misinformation, while Murthy issued an "advisory on building a healthy information environment." The phrasing resembles that used by Chinese state media.

Tech platforms will be held "accountable" for people who reject COVID vaccines and masking and use "unproven treatments," Murthy said. They must increase monitoring of purported misinformation, crack down on "super-spreaders" and "repeat offenders," and "amplify" information from "trusted and credible sources" and "subject matter experts."

Despite using the words "asking" and "proposing," Murthy and Psaki made clear at a press conference these were not suggestions, the suit claims.

The press secretary said the White House was already reporting "the latest narratives dangerous to public health" to social media companies and even "flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation."

Biden later said platforms were "killing people" by not aggressively censoring misinformation, and USA Today reported the administration was considering "whether social media platforms are legally liable for misinformation spread on their platforms."

The lawsuit's timing may be fortuitous for its visibility. Kotzin's wife Jennifer Sey, a former Olympic gymnast and Levi's executive in the running for CEO until recently, was profiled Friday in The New York Times for her acrimonious exit from the company.

Sey became an ill fit inside Levi's for her strident social media advocacy for school reopening and criticism of masking children and CDC guidance on COVID. She faced criticism for her husband's tweets, according to the Times, quoting one: "Covid masks are obedience training and Covid vaccines are loyalty oaths."

https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/feds-pressure-tech-platforms-censor-covid-misinformation

Child safety officer at Christian School suspended after tipping off sex predator

A senior teacher responsible for child protection at a Melbourne Christian college has been suspended after she sent private messages to a colleague who has now pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting two students.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/subbed-legalled-ready-christian-school-s-child-safety-officer-suspended-after-tipping-off-sex-predator-20220324-p5a7gb.html

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Religious Leader Indicted and Arrested for Coercion and Enticement of a Minor

https://www.justice.gov/usao-pr/pr/religious-leader-indicted-and-arrested-coercion-and-enticement-minor

Child safety officer at Christian School suspended after tipping off sex predator

A senior teacher responsible for child protection at a Melbourne Christian college has been suspended after she sent private messages to a colleague who has now pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting two students.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/subbed-legalled-ready-christian-school-s-child-safety-officer-suspended-after-tipping-off-sex-predator-20220324-p5a7gb.html

Former Maine gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler was charged with several counts of possession of child pornography and arrested at his home Friday afternoon.

https://seacoastcurrent.com/me-gubernatorial-candidate-eliot-cutler-faces-child-porn-charges/

Mesa County Sheriff’s Office arrests man for sex crimes on a child

https://www.nbc11news.com/2022/03/25/mesa-county-sherriffs-office-arrest-man-sex-crimes-child/

Former music teacher sent to prison for child pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdtx/pr/former-music-teacher-sent-prison-child-pornography

Military Dependent Found Guilty of Sexual Abuse of a Child in South Korea

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndok/pr/military-dependent-found-guilty-sexual-abuse-child-south-korea

Northern Territory man charged with multiple online child abuse related offences

https://www.afp.gov.au/news-media/media-releases/northern-territory-man-charged-multiple-online-child-abuse-related

Shalimar man sentenced to 70 years in federal prison for creating, distributing child porn

https://www.nwfdailynews.com/story/news/crime/2022/03/25/shalimar-man-jeffrey-boone-jr-gets-70-years-federal-prison-after-creating-child-porn/7169693001/

East Peoria Man Sentenced to 151 Months in Prison for Possession of Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdil/pr/east-peoria-man-sentenced-151-months-prison-possession-child-pornography

Convicted sex offender charged with groping Bridgeport girl, 13

https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Convicted-sex-offender-charged-with-groping-17029130.php?src=rdctplocal

2 men charged with sexual exploitation of minor in Henderson County

https://my40.tv/news/local/2-men-charged-with-sexual-exploitation-of-minor-in-henderson-county-robert-james-birch-dakota-james-cook-national-center-for-missing-and-exploited-children

Eagle River Man Sentenced to 8 Years for Receiving Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwi/pr/eagle-river-man-sentenced-8-years-receiving-child-pornography

Alexander, Joshua L. - Child Pornography; Criminal Use of Communication Facility; Dissemination of Child Sex Acts

https://lancaster.crimewatchpa.com/lititzpd/11450/arrests/alexander-joshua-l-child-pornography-criminal-use-communication-facility-dissemination

Vinita Man Convicted for Attempting to Sexually Entice a Minor

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndok/pr/vinita-man-convicted-attempting-sexually-entice-minor

Cincinnati man who sex trafficked teen sentenced to more than 15 years in prison

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/cincinnati-man-who-sex-trafficked-teen-sentenced-more-15-years-prison-0

Webster City Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Possessing Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndia/pr/webster-city-man-sentenced-federal-prison-possessing-child-pornography

Shalimar Man Sentenced To Seventy Years In Federal Prison For The Production And Distribution of Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndfl/pr/shalimar-man-sentenced-seventy-years-federal-prison-production-and-distribution-child

Hartford Man Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Recording His Sexual Abuse of a Child for Nearly 3 Years

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/hartford-man-sentenced-30-years-prison-recording-his-sexual-abuse-child-nearly-3-years