One year ago today, James Lawrence and I won an unprecedented victory over Big Tech.
At least 62 times, users had sued social media and technology companies over bans and censorship. They’d sued Facebook for pulling down huge groups. They’d sued YouTube for blocking ads and bans. Of course they’d sued Twitter.
They’d sued and sued.
And they’d lost and lost.
Courts had (mis)interpreted Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to give the companies complete immunity over decisions to ban users. The courts took this view everywhere, but especially in California, where tech companies pay the piper, to the tune of trillions of dollars in wealth.
Whether the companies had held themselves out as free speech havens didn’t matter. Whether they had encouraged users to build businesses on their platforms didn’t matter. The protections they supposedly offered users against arbitrary bans didn’t matter. State laws didn’t matter.
All that mattered was Section 230.
How complete was the immunity? Completely complete. When pressed, as in this 2018 case in a California state court, the companies would argue they had the right to discriminate even against people in otherwise protected categories, such as African-Americans.
(We wouldn’t ban black people, yer honor! But we could if we wanted to. But we wouldn’t, so don’t worry about it!)
That position shocked the judge in this case enough that he rejected Twitter’s motion to dismiss it. No matter, though. Twitter quickly appealed - and a week later, without even granting a hearing, the appeals court overturned the ruling and ordered the case dismissed
Are you starting to see the odds we faced when we filed Berenson v Twitter in December 2021?
No wonder that America’s Finest Legal Analyst (TM) - a New York lawyer who appears to spend most of his time making obnoxious Twitter posts (no doubt his clients appreciate his hard work!) - and the rest of lefty legal Twitter had nothing but bad things to say about our suit.
(So confident. Also, so wrong!)
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No matter. We had specific promises from Twitter to me, and we had a theory that hadn’t been tested before, that once Twitter had publicly set up rules to police Covid-19 speech, it had to follow them - and that I could prove I hadn’t violated them.
But Twitter’s lawyers, secure in the knowledge they’d never lost before, didn’t seem to take our arguments very seriously.
Until April 28, 2022, when we had our hearing on Twitter’s motion to dismiss before federal Judge William Alsup - and Alsup showed he took our suit seriously indeed. Within the first few minutes, it was clear Twitter was in trouble. Alsup appeared ready to allow not just our contract claims but at least one broad First Amendment claim to move ahead.
(Philip Burton Federal Building, San Francisco, CA, April 28, 2022, immediately after the hearing in Berenson v Twitter. Blue skies ahead! Yeah, I know, we need tie clips.)
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When Alsup issued his ruling the next day - April 29, 2022, a year ago today - he didn’t go quite that far.
But he DID reject Twitter’s motion to dismiss - and, just as importantly, set up an accelerated schedule for discovery that Twitter could not dodge. Discovery refers to the process in civil litigation where the two sides turn over documents to each other and sit for depositions under oath. As Fox News just learned, it can be extremely painful.
Alsup’s ruling put us in a very strong position. Over the next two months, I promised I would not settle the lawsuit without the discovery that would reveal whether Twitter had come under outside pressure when it took action against me in 2021.
And I kept that promise.
Barely two months later, following tough negotiations led by James and his California co-counsel, Sean Gates, Twitter and I settled. became the only person (as far as I know) to have his social media account reinstated following a ban lawsuit - without giving up the discovery rights I needed.
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Now, thanks to the documents that came out of Berenson v Twitter, we now know that the White House and Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb directly pressured the company to censor me.
Two weeks ago, James, Sean and I took the next step in our quest against corporate and government censorship. We sued Biden Administration, Gottlieb, and Pfizer chief executive Albert Bourla in federal court in New York for violating my First Amendment (and other) rights. I urge you to read Berenson v Biden. I’m proud of it.
I will talk a little more about our strategy in Berenson v Biden in the future. Many of you have donated to support it, and I want - to the extent I can do so without giving too much away - to give you a sense of how we see the case.
Make no mistake. Berenson v Biden will be far from easy. Pfizer and the federal government are even larger and more powerful than Twitter. Still, compared to Berenson v Twitter, we are in a much stronger legal position. This time around we have a strong precedent to draw on, a case in which the same federal circuit found Donald Trump’s Twitter account was a public forum and he could not prevent people from commenting on it, as the White House sought to do to me.
Besides, a year ago we proved the impossible possible.
Alex - thank you for putting it all on the line, for us who don't have your reach, to fight for liberty.
You will be recognized in history as a force for freedom.
I am not a big fan of sycophants, so I don't want it to come of this way; although I disagree on a few cultural issues they have never gotten in the way of my admiration of you.
P.S. - thank you for your "fight" for children. It means a lot to parents like my wife and me.
Oh geez, he crowd funded promising film disclosure and took a settlement behind closed doors. To describe that as putting it all on the line is reduculous. Some doctors were removed from their boards and made ineligible to practice with no crowd funding money, under delivering and settling out of court. Those doctors are the ones who put everything on the line. Alex is doing just fine with his payout from social media for betraying his funders and audience. Even his covid study articles are just rehashes of other covid blogs who produced it first
We're still allowed to have opinions in the US, right?
Let me ask you Wesley, do you think, on a net basis, AB helped those of us who also took a stand at great personal and financial costs?
Or do you think his efforts were counterproductive to those ends?
As far as him making money. So what? This is America my friend. I hope he makes a shit ton more.
Do you have any idea what it takes to write a book? And have you ever been involved in a lawsuit, of this magnitude, against a much more powerful adversary? Settlement is WINNING in this case.
Lastly, how do you think the pressure and his time commitment affected his family?
Maybe a third way is to agree that Alex working hard within his skill set helped turn the narrative around and made some money and that the doctors, confined to the much more autocratic medical profession paradigm fought at least as hard and got royally f'd over. At least for now, the fight continues and god or whomever willing RFK Jr will bring about a national and hopefully rational debate that restores justice, punishes the perpetrators and tries to make whole the victims.
Uh RFK Jr, to his credit, did try to do that in the ABC interview and they censored what he stated about the COVID vaccines. It was a nice try but what did he really expect ABC, brought to you by Pfizer and Moderna, to do? Allow the truth or facts to spread?
Everything you said is true, but would anyone RFK's message have been on ABC at all as recently as 6 months ago? The narrative is falling apart and we need a true leader among men to lead us out of the chaos when it fully collapses.
Everyone pls go to to CHD.org RFK Jr's "web site "( way more then that- the children and adults of this world web site, not for him ).
One extra, tiny little step, just as easy as turning on the TV and flipping a channel to learn what is really going on in this country and world. I dare everyone who hasn't yet. Really interesting and informative.
"Even his covid study articles are just rehashes of other covid blogs who produced it first," WB 15 hr ago.
I have a Banker's Box full of meticulous ANOVA and MANOVA Analyses organized and published by Alex. Would you please delineate five distinct entries of his that you can put forward to support your Thesis?
Many make this particular mistake. For some reason my dad used to grill me constantly on this sort of thing along with explaining how it worked so I wouldn’t forget. Thanks for not being defensive. Says a lot about your character.
No matter the outcome, you’re forcing their hand and exposing motive. It’s a massive personal investment which spurs our spirits and potentially sets legal precedent. So grateful. Onward!
I'm goingy to chime in here b/c of your line "exposing motive".
Alex's case comes on the heels of the 'Biden Letter'. If you sub to Taibbi, you'll know what I mean. TL;dr: A former head of the CIA rounded up a bunch of Intel folks to slam the NY Post's report on The Laptop™ and admitted pretty much that before Congress.
I THINK the tide's beginning to turn.
TBH, I'm a paid sub because of this case.
Now Alex... as a ff'r for a while now, I'd like to hear that your marriage is still intact. From reading your COVID book (AND I'm in the back end of Faithful Spy right now), you disclosed to us that this endeavor has been taking a toll on your marriage. TBH, I hope that you & your family are still together...
Time is on your side, Alex. More and more people are seeing the light and speaking out with each new case of blatant journalistic censorship. The courts know people are paying attention. Keep your spirits up.
I’m almost 50 and I can say I haven’t had a lot of heroes in my life. You, sir, are a hero! Keep up the good fight! Set precedents. This Government will never be reined in, but it’s damn nice to see someone be a complete pain in their asses legally instead of violently.
In general, private companies should do what they want without government interference. But in your case, the government and the social media companies got together to suppress ideas that went counter to their narrative. So I hope you can pull off another win for freer (if not fully free) speech.
No, that's not OK. In general, private and public employers haven't taken religious exemptions seriously, despite EEOC laws that require reasonable accommodation for an employee's religious beliefs. This is similar to the government locking down churches, synagogues and other placed of worship for COVID despite clear constitutional protections for the freedom to worship and the freedom of association.
That said, I’ve been perma-banned from Twitter too. In my case, because, on a thread about Merrick Garland, I tweeted, “Tar and feather.” Old-regime Twitter threw me offfor “targeted harassment”! When I protested the ban to new-regime Twitter, they affirmed it. I wasn’t using the jaunty language of 19th century political debate to express disapproval of our disgusting AG, no: I was … I dunno, trying to incite violence or something. If anybody wants to urge @elonmusk to reinstate me (@raysawhill), I’d be grateful. I’m a retired reporter and researcher, btw.
Far too many people I know are now perma-banned from Twitter for really stupid reasons. I didn't wait for them to "tar and feather" me or cast me into outer darkness. I left.
And every time I think about going back, I think about all of the people who are still permabanned. And I reconsider.
And now for a comprehensive review of the studies on hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin effectiveness against Covid-19. Maybe we are being misled by numerous independent doctors when they say that there are many times more studies showing the effectiveness of these medications than the limited number of often flawed, designed to fail, and sometimes fraudulent studies showing they are not effective. I would like to know for sure, as Alex claims that he has found no such evidence of effectiveness and I'm sure he has reviewed all the studies.
Alex is NOT a Doctor or PhD. He knows no more about medicine then your average lay person. He does have a good epidemiologist and statistician behind him however it appears, (unless it is him but highly doubtful as he has never declared any credentials or training as such ) that is well schooled in these two areas.
Alex would not be so stupid to go up against FLCCC and or AFLD and the millions of patients they have successfully treated with Ivermectin and Hydroxychloriquine and the many, many records they have keep and published of their treatments and outcomes. It is all about the outcomes. So many people, they and their readers and followers, have saved from the Fraudci death formula practiced in Hospitals and LSM at his bequest. Dr. Mengele. It is fairly simple to understand why these simple meds have had the success when you understand the mechanisms of action of these common and commonly over the counter meds ( just not in USA ) and the offending ( or lack of ) offending agents, they combat.
Stay in your Lane and Alex will likely continue to stay in his, with help.
I don't know the point of your comment. I made my comment because Alex has not stayed in his lane--he has repeatedly said he sees no evidence of the effectiveness of ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. I am challenging him to actually review the studies, perhaps with his epidemiologist and statistician if he does have them as you imply, and to explain his position. Recently, eugyppius has made similar skeptical statements about hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, and he is also getting pushback, including from me.
How does a non practicer of the piano ( insert any action here, including clinician practicing infectious disease and internal medicine ) decide if a technique works or not if they don't play the piano? 🤭🥱
Answer: They don't. They do not get to and nobody, no intelligent person should pay attention to them.
The people who SUCCESSFULLY treat the patients with that particular illness ( or play the piano ) get to decide. Ask them. Only them. They have written and said a lot. See Dr. Pierre Kory's testimony before Congress 2021 ( you likely have, this is for others). Or go to their regular Conferences. Best to have a degree in immunology first so u can understand the vocabulary and mechanisms ( actions ) to which they are referring, FLCCC, AFLD.
You may pick up about 10-20 % without it. That is better then nothing but can be dangerous because you don't know the other 80 %. Just like the piano player that only knows 20 % of how to play trying to get in the game with the experts.
Do not ask or listen to anybody else's response unless they are SUCCESSFUL clinicians treating numerous of that illness. Or have played the piano and still do, many, many times successfully.
Unless they are 100 % Hands ON Practitioners, it is just a guess. They have a 50 % chance of being right or wrong about it working or not because they have no training and no idea what they are talking about. It takes TRAINING to know how to do something well and successfully! This includes Alex B. He may even realize this partly by now and the other guy too.
Lots can do things unsuccessfully, with or without training.
This seems very basic to me but people have seem to have lost their minds.
I understand your point, but, of course, there is a larger agenda pushing against the treatments. The point is Alex fancies himself an expert on the pandemic. He does not say he doesn't know about ivermectin, he disparages those who say they do and that it works, including Dr. Robert Malone and the doctors you mention, not to mention scores of other studies. Your point is that one shouldn't pay attention to him because he's not qualified to answer the question. My point is that he is presenting himself as though he is qualified to discriminate the studies, and is basically calling those who come to different conclusions than him deluded, at best, and liars at worst. He doesn't get a pass for being not qualified.
Not having access to Ivermectin (but a family I know used Iver and it worked wonderfully!) or Hydroxychloroquine, I mimicked the actions of both of them (from what I read) by taking high doses (which can be hard on the liver, so only for 7 to 10 days, to be repeated in a week or two, if needed) of quercitin and zinc, glutathione, Vit. C, Vit. D, B12 (my own decision to take B12) and later, I took melatonin at night and resveratrol once a day. When I first got sick (I got Delta variant), I also did a generous pinch of turmeric in my drinking water (turmeric has quercitin in it). I got well quickly, although I had bad, lingering intestional issues and after all other initual symptoms were gone, I had to slam the probiotics for a while and eat really cleanly to get back to normal.
I don't know how high those doses are, but I don't know why as say it's hard on the liver. For years and even decades for some things, I have been taking all those and more, although I had limited my zinc to 22 to 44 mg a day. Although I am taking a time release version of vitamin C now, I usually took 1 to 2 g a day of calcium ascorbate, and 10,000 IU of vitamin D3, as I can't seem to raise my blood levels above the high 30s even so. I take quercetin 500 mg a day and resveratrol 100 mg a day--for a while I was taking 50 mg a day of Enzymatically Modified ISO-Quercetin (EMIQ), which is suppose to be 40 times more absorbable, so the equivalent of 2500 mg quercetin. I take 5000 mcg. of methylcobalamin a day, 400 IU of vitamin E (mixed tocopherols, Unique brand), vitamin K, ginkgo biloba, R-Lipoic Acid, CoQ10, pyridoxal-5'-phosphate, B vitamins, and numerous other things--I don't take glutathione, but I have been taking 500 mg a day of N-Acetyl L-Cysteine for over 30 years. Although lately I sometimes skip taking my supplements for couple couple days at a time. I tend to only get some sort of in viral thing once every five years or so. I think I got a very early case Covid from mid-September to early October 2019, before it was known. I had a throat tickle in the morning, which developed into a dry cough that tickled my throat and made me choke, which lasted a week. I did not have a head cold. I was very fatigued, felt like I was double my weight, slept a lot, could not eat or drink anything for three days. Food and even water tasted weird. Slowly I could take a little soup and other things after that. I lost 12 pounds in ten 10 days. It was over in three weeks. I didn't have a respiratory issue luckily. And I could not take my supplements during this time, especially at the beginning. But if it was Covid perhaps they protected me leading up to it. I was not vaccinated and I never came down with Covid, aside from my suspected early case, which would have given me natural immunity. In the last year or so, or so I believe I got one or two colds, but they were not Covid.
Thank you for your detailed reply and to answer you, Clark (and I don't see a "reply button" under your reply, so I'll do it here), I daily took 100 mg. zinc (unless it was the sublingual liquid kind - then 50mg), 500mg of quercitin (only half that if it's the phytosome, which is stronger - which I didn't know, so I guess I was taking more like 1000 mg of quercitin), 2 grams glutathione (I only managed 1 gram most days), 3000 mg minimum (5000 is better) of buffered Vit. C, up to 40,000 I.U. of Vit. D3, 5000 mcg of Vit B12 and later I took 150mg. of herbal resveratrol (Gaia brand) and 10mg of melatonin.
I can't say I know too much about him but I was very happy with the way he stood up to the covidian's and the woke mob so that's two big pluses. If you want to know who RFK Jr is watch this 45 minute talk from Sept 2021. https://rumble.com/v2jzbfi-rfk-jr.-the-second-american-revolution.html
The same Kennedy, who praises his son for being a mercenary in the " foreign legion" in Ukraine, as a "machine gunner" killing Russians?
Doesn't the US still have such "soldiers" from Iraq locked up in Guantanamo for 20 years, without trial or conviction, as "unlawful combatants"?
And he conveniently leaves unmentioned that Victoria Nuland proudly reported in December 2013 that she'd "invested" $5B in the rent-a-mob Maidan coup in early 2014 that the duly elected president ran for his life from, before we installed our chosen NATO-supporting puppets Yats and Poreshenko, who half the country rejected any authority of, and were then put under siege by Kiev, using US weapons and money for 8 years, until the Russian special military operation defended them last year?
Poreshenko is on video saying "We'll be living the good life in Kiev while those vermin in Donbas will be hiding in their basements" in 2014, when the war began.
First he never said he was proud of his grandson killing anyone, if you're saying that he was then you're lying. A man can and should be proud of a grandson who put his life in very real danger fighting for a cause even if he may have been mislead into believing that cause was just. What's your view on Vietnam? War is complex but with sound leadership unnecessary. RFK jr is very anti war, he wants to close American bases around the world, focus on the defense of America, and hopefully Canada and Mexico and a few others and stop meddling in foreign wars for oil and resources. His goal is to work towards peace and prosperity on a global scale not at the point of a sword but by mutual respect and understanding. If a candidate has to be 100% aligned with your ideals you will be part of a very small and very angry mob.
Bottom line, without the machine gunners, like the kid, there would be no wars. To "volunteer" to kill to support the most blatant coup in history, the Maidan-mob "revolution" of 2014, not as a conscripted countryman, but as a mercenary from 5000 miles distant, is seen by most of the planet's inhabitants as a war crime. You can't praise the killers and claim to be against the killing.
Why did Russia put their country so close to our NATO bases?
Whatever happened to the promises, after the dissolution of the USSR, by GHWB and then Clinton, of "NATO will not expand 'one inch' Eastward "?
When the Soviets built a missle base in Cuba in 1962, after the US secretly moved nuclear missles to Turkey, there was great distress about the existential threat to the US with nukes 90 miles from Florida, resolved only by Kennedy, the uncle of Junior, withdrawing the arms from Turkey after which Kruschev agreed to dismantle the base in Cuba. How is the Russian resistance to the puppet-led "democracy" in Ukraine, replete with NATO arms, minutes flight time from Moscow, substantively different from what is euphemistically sold to Americans as "the Cuban missle crisis"?
Obfuscated forbidden truth about the origins of the conflict. Crimea was bought by Russian Empress Catherine the Great in the 1760s, there has been a Russian navy warm_water port there ever since, though you'd be hard-pressed to know that from American media.
Catherine was the first world leader to recognize the American colonies' Declaration of Independance, before 1776 had ended. Almost no one knows that recent history because it doesn't fit the NATO agenda. Jnj
Last sentence in last full paragraph; " he " could not prevent people from commenting on it.
Who is he? Donald Trump? Wasn't the issue he was " censored " off Twitter of course unjustifiably, as you were?
Both a ridiculous show of ignorance and blatant disregard for the free speech Constitutional Law, by the previous Dictators at Twitter. Painfully obvious to everyone but it took someone such as you to go through the work, pain and suffering to put those arrogant spoiled children in their places. And ultimately fire their stupid, lazy, spoiled asses. Thanks Elon.
10 years ago I would have never expected I would need heroes for free speech. And certainly would not have thought they would be a writer for the NYT and a tech mogul like Elon. But here we are, and I am thankful for you.
Alex, I look at Berenson v. Twitter as a landmark victory whose ripple effects may well bring down the entire Censorship Industrial Complex. The real prize for winning (it not being dismissed, that is) was the revelation (through discovery) that the government had actually outsourced First Amendment violations to a private social media platform. This was confirmed (in spades!) by Matt Taibbi in "The Twitter Files". That, in turn, has led to the suspicion (and for many of us, the near certainty) that the government used its regulatory authority to bully other social media giants to censor public commentary. From now on these First Amendment lawsuits can and should name the government as a defendant or a co-defendant.
I’m so glad I found you on Twitter before you were banned. I learned so much about the covid nonsense and your info gelled me decide to avoid the jabs. Forever grateful to you for that!
Why are you suing the guy who had you banned when you said you would vote for him over Trump in 2024?
FOX found out how dangerous it is to publish that truth that experts showed how Dominions voting machines can be compromised. Look for Tucker Carlson to be set up with a phony rape charge soon.
The implications of a win here are profound. Other than Berenson, Taibbi, Greenwald, Carlson, and a handful of others, investigative journalism isn’t quite dead but is certainly on life support. Without a strong first amendment, and a strong second to protect the first, America dissolves into a globalist governed obscurity.
We also have Robert Kennedy entering in the political sphere. The message is spreading beyond the 10-30% who never bought this fraud in the first place.
Yes, a good conman will leave his victims not feeling suckered. A great conman might even maker the sucker feel thrilled to be suckered! He promised you an inside look at all of the government censorship at Twitter....you got.... "hey guys, I settled for a big fat check", followed by almost the very next day "subscribe and donate more money while I take on Biden. This time guys, I will really not settle and take a even bigger, even fatter check and give you all the inside details." Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, might as well subscribe to Alex's substack.
Dude I'm pretty sure his lawsuit and victory has at least a little to do with Twitter selling to Elon. We might not have the true free speech environment we're just now seeing spread to the broader population, I know substack's awesome but my attention span isn't always up for the read. Both of these platforms plus many others and now RFK Jr in the political arena are on the verge of crumbling the false narrative that's been the mind virus that we're all fighting.
Haha, what wish fulfillment thinking. No, the selling of Twitter to Elon has to do with Elon asking a price above stock value and the board having to make a decision it, via legal obligation and it being a good deal. Alex's settlement didn't effect Elon's asking price or twitter's share price at all b/c it was such an insignificant blimp to the social media giant. Facebook, as an example, gets fined by the EU for like $100m all the time and they, in their networth of hundreds of billions, laugh it off.
If you think Alex is why RFK Jr is running for president, that's kind of hilarious too.
Did he result in the McRib coming back to McDonalds too? Is there anything he hasn't done via accepting this private-settlement rather than give you the promised government collusion documents? Did it also solve global warming? Start the war in Ukraine?
I never said that Alex Berenson had anything to do with RFK running. Their philosophies align to some extent and both their voices have contributed to dismantling the false covid narrative. Man you're bitter.
It is a big deal. All of this has been. Sent a modest contribution to the law office. I continue to believe every little bit helps. Wishing you and James Lawrence success.
Too much self congratulations. You had a chance to set precedent before judge Bill Alsup. He's well respected (his opinions in the Oracle v. Google case won the approval of the Supreme Court) and he was on your side. You threw that all away to go after bigger fish. Thanks for nothing.
Now I'm rooting against you. The government and private parties have the right to lobby Twitter to ban people they think are spreading false and harmful information. Twitter has the right to decide. Twitter was pressured, not coerced. That's the line. The defendants didn't cross it.
So bad luck to you in your lawsuit. For the sake of the public, I hope you lose.
Alex, congratulations 1 year later. I’m grateful for you, your legal team and Judge Alsup. We are all hoping and praying that the judge allows Discovery to move forward. You indeed have a strong case and we shall see if the rule of law is strong.
Alex. I/we admire your backbone and willingness to stand up and fight. We have contributed to your cause. Now my corporate experience suggests you very well may face every dirty "legal process" trick in the book. For instance I was once slammed with 40,000 documents as "discovery" with the implied message "Go find the needle in the haystack". The desired/required materials were in the 40,000 documents somewhere but the other party refused to tell us where. AND. the judge let it stand.
If you set up a Go Fund Me account for extra late night coffee, I will be glad to contribute again. I suspect you are going to need it.
So, will settling out of court be an option you'll take this time? As I understand it, settling sets no precedent that others can use. You certainly have to take care of you and your family first, but if settling out of court is a strategy you plan to use if offered, I know I would like to know up front. Maybe that's not something you can divulge under the circumstances so I will just have to go by what I know of your history and not get too emotionally involved this time around. Good luck.
Alex - thank you for putting it all on the line, for us who don't have your reach, to fight for liberty.
You will be recognized in history as a force for freedom.
I am not a big fan of sycophants, so I don't want it to come of this way; although I disagree on a few cultural issues they have never gotten in the way of my admiration of you.
P.S. - thank you for your "fight" for children. It means a lot to parents like my wife and me.
Cheers friend!
I don't know if Alex went to law school, but I'm sure by now he knows enough law to practice it ... or teach it.
63 cases that had tried to do this ... and failed is quite the anecdote about those scales of justice.
No, Alex is NOT qualified to practice or teach law. But he would make a GREAT guest lecturer to at a CLE conference on First Amendment lawsuits.
Bill,
Hired guns at many, many dollars per hour is how it is done.
Oh geez, he crowd funded promising film disclosure and took a settlement behind closed doors. To describe that as putting it all on the line is reduculous. Some doctors were removed from their boards and made ineligible to practice with no crowd funding money, under delivering and settling out of court. Those doctors are the ones who put everything on the line. Alex is doing just fine with his payout from social media for betraying his funders and audience. Even his covid study articles are just rehashes of other covid blogs who produced it first
We're still allowed to have opinions in the US, right?
Let me ask you Wesley, do you think, on a net basis, AB helped those of us who also took a stand at great personal and financial costs?
Or do you think his efforts were counterproductive to those ends?
As far as him making money. So what? This is America my friend. I hope he makes a shit ton more.
Do you have any idea what it takes to write a book? And have you ever been involved in a lawsuit, of this magnitude, against a much more powerful adversary? Settlement is WINNING in this case.
Lastly, how do you think the pressure and his time commitment affected his family?
Maybe a third way is to agree that Alex working hard within his skill set helped turn the narrative around and made some money and that the doctors, confined to the much more autocratic medical profession paradigm fought at least as hard and got royally f'd over. At least for now, the fight continues and god or whomever willing RFK Jr will bring about a national and hopefully rational debate that restores justice, punishes the perpetrators and tries to make whole the victims.
Uh RFK Jr, to his credit, did try to do that in the ABC interview and they censored what he stated about the COVID vaccines. It was a nice try but what did he really expect ABC, brought to you by Pfizer and Moderna, to do? Allow the truth or facts to spread?
Everything you said is true, but would anyone RFK's message have been on ABC at all as recently as 6 months ago? The narrative is falling apart and we need a true leader among men to lead us out of the chaos when it fully collapses.
Everyone pls go to to CHD.org RFK Jr's "web site "( way more then that- the children and adults of this world web site, not for him ).
One extra, tiny little step, just as easy as turning on the TV and flipping a channel to learn what is really going on in this country and world. I dare everyone who hasn't yet. Really interesting and informative.
Best Regards
Good point
Berenson vs. Biden evidence came from Berenson vs. Twitter settlement. Kind of a big deal in my book. What are you bringing to the table Wesley B?
They (doctors, even otherwise good ones) were just too few & far between.
"Even his covid study articles are just rehashes of other covid blogs who produced it first," WB 15 hr ago.
I have a Banker's Box full of meticulous ANOVA and MANOVA Analyses organized and published by Alex. Would you please delineate five distinct entries of his that you can put forward to support your Thesis?
You know very little of the details yet sound so confident!
He made the details mostly public on this very substack.
Good thoughts, Ryan. Also, it’s ‘like my wife and me’.
I'm terrible at grammar. Thank you for the correction
Many make this particular mistake. For some reason my dad used to grill me constantly on this sort of thing along with explaining how it worked so I wouldn’t forget. Thanks for not being defensive. Says a lot about your character.
Alex advocating for 1A is why I'm here. Keep fighting for us
No matter the outcome, you’re forcing their hand and exposing motive. It’s a massive personal investment which spurs our spirits and potentially sets legal precedent. So grateful. Onward!
I'm goingy to chime in here b/c of your line "exposing motive".
Alex's case comes on the heels of the 'Biden Letter'. If you sub to Taibbi, you'll know what I mean. TL;dr: A former head of the CIA rounded up a bunch of Intel folks to slam the NY Post's report on The Laptop™ and admitted pretty much that before Congress.
I THINK the tide's beginning to turn.
TBH, I'm a paid sub because of this case.
Now Alex... as a ff'r for a while now, I'd like to hear that your marriage is still intact. From reading your COVID book (AND I'm in the back end of Faithful Spy right now), you disclosed to us that this endeavor has been taking a toll on your marriage. TBH, I hope that you & your family are still together...
If so... GO GET 'EM TIGER!!!
Congratulations keep fighting! We all need to hear the success stories. The chaos across our great country is demoralizing
Time is on your side, Alex. More and more people are seeing the light and speaking out with each new case of blatant journalistic censorship. The courts know people are paying attention. Keep your spirits up.
Keep pushing that boulder... you will make it roll one day.
I’m almost 50 and I can say I haven’t had a lot of heroes in my life. You, sir, are a hero! Keep up the good fight! Set precedents. This Government will never be reined in, but it’s damn nice to see someone be a complete pain in their asses legally instead of violently.
In general, private companies should do what they want without government interference. But in your case, the government and the social media companies got together to suppress ideas that went counter to their narrative. So I hope you can pull off another win for freer (if not fully free) speech.
I got fired from my private employer for refusing the jab. Is that ok? I’m suing, they denied my religious exemption, and retaliated.
No, that's not OK. In general, private and public employers haven't taken religious exemptions seriously, despite EEOC laws that require reasonable accommodation for an employee's religious beliefs. This is similar to the government locking down churches, synagogues and other placed of worship for COVID despite clear constitutional protections for the freedom to worship and the freedom of association.
Thank you! The EEOC granted my right to sue
GOOD LUCK in your fight against your former employer!! May you get all the pay you lost....& then some!
Unless you are a Muslim or a Satan worshiper, then you could still meet.
Not that they have anything to do with each other, just 2 examples.
You are a hero! May the road rise to meet you.
Thank you, you too!
Wishing Alex the best in the lawsuit. Go go go!
That said, I’ve been perma-banned from Twitter too. In my case, because, on a thread about Merrick Garland, I tweeted, “Tar and feather.” Old-regime Twitter threw me offfor “targeted harassment”! When I protested the ban to new-regime Twitter, they affirmed it. I wasn’t using the jaunty language of 19th century political debate to express disapproval of our disgusting AG, no: I was … I dunno, trying to incite violence or something. If anybody wants to urge @elonmusk to reinstate me (@raysawhill), I’d be grateful. I’m a retired reporter and researcher, btw.
Far too many people I know are now perma-banned from Twitter for really stupid reasons. I didn't wait for them to "tar and feather" me or cast me into outer darkness. I left.
And every time I think about going back, I think about all of the people who are still permabanned. And I reconsider.
Continued success!
And now for a comprehensive review of the studies on hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin effectiveness against Covid-19. Maybe we are being misled by numerous independent doctors when they say that there are many times more studies showing the effectiveness of these medications than the limited number of often flawed, designed to fail, and sometimes fraudulent studies showing they are not effective. I would like to know for sure, as Alex claims that he has found no such evidence of effectiveness and I'm sure he has reviewed all the studies.
Clark,
Alex is NOT a Doctor or PhD. He knows no more about medicine then your average lay person. He does have a good epidemiologist and statistician behind him however it appears, (unless it is him but highly doubtful as he has never declared any credentials or training as such ) that is well schooled in these two areas.
Alex would not be so stupid to go up against FLCCC and or AFLD and the millions of patients they have successfully treated with Ivermectin and Hydroxychloriquine and the many, many records they have keep and published of their treatments and outcomes. It is all about the outcomes. So many people, they and their readers and followers, have saved from the Fraudci death formula practiced in Hospitals and LSM at his bequest. Dr. Mengele. It is fairly simple to understand why these simple meds have had the success when you understand the mechanisms of action of these common and commonly over the counter meds ( just not in USA ) and the offending ( or lack of ) offending agents, they combat.
Stay in your Lane and Alex will likely continue to stay in his, with help.
I don't know the point of your comment. I made my comment because Alex has not stayed in his lane--he has repeatedly said he sees no evidence of the effectiveness of ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. I am challenging him to actually review the studies, perhaps with his epidemiologist and statistician if he does have them as you imply, and to explain his position. Recently, eugyppius has made similar skeptical statements about hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, and he is also getting pushback, including from me.
How does a non practicer of the piano ( insert any action here, including clinician practicing infectious disease and internal medicine ) decide if a technique works or not if they don't play the piano? 🤭🥱
Answer: They don't. They do not get to and nobody, no intelligent person should pay attention to them.
The people who SUCCESSFULLY treat the patients with that particular illness ( or play the piano ) get to decide. Ask them. Only them. They have written and said a lot. See Dr. Pierre Kory's testimony before Congress 2021 ( you likely have, this is for others). Or go to their regular Conferences. Best to have a degree in immunology first so u can understand the vocabulary and mechanisms ( actions ) to which they are referring, FLCCC, AFLD.
You may pick up about 10-20 % without it. That is better then nothing but can be dangerous because you don't know the other 80 %. Just like the piano player that only knows 20 % of how to play trying to get in the game with the experts.
Do not ask or listen to anybody else's response unless they are SUCCESSFUL clinicians treating numerous of that illness. Or have played the piano and still do, many, many times successfully.
Unless they are 100 % Hands ON Practitioners, it is just a guess. They have a 50 % chance of being right or wrong about it working or not because they have no training and no idea what they are talking about. It takes TRAINING to know how to do something well and successfully! This includes Alex B. He may even realize this partly by now and the other guy too.
Lots can do things unsuccessfully, with or without training.
This seems very basic to me but people have seem to have lost their minds.
By design.
Best
I understand your point, but, of course, there is a larger agenda pushing against the treatments. The point is Alex fancies himself an expert on the pandemic. He does not say he doesn't know about ivermectin, he disparages those who say they do and that it works, including Dr. Robert Malone and the doctors you mention, not to mention scores of other studies. Your point is that one shouldn't pay attention to him because he's not qualified to answer the question. My point is that he is presenting himself as though he is qualified to discriminate the studies, and is basically calling those who come to different conclusions than him deluded, at best, and liars at worst. He doesn't get a pass for being not qualified.
Not having access to Ivermectin (but a family I know used Iver and it worked wonderfully!) or Hydroxychloroquine, I mimicked the actions of both of them (from what I read) by taking high doses (which can be hard on the liver, so only for 7 to 10 days, to be repeated in a week or two, if needed) of quercitin and zinc, glutathione, Vit. C, Vit. D, B12 (my own decision to take B12) and later, I took melatonin at night and resveratrol once a day. When I first got sick (I got Delta variant), I also did a generous pinch of turmeric in my drinking water (turmeric has quercitin in it). I got well quickly, although I had bad, lingering intestional issues and after all other initual symptoms were gone, I had to slam the probiotics for a while and eat really cleanly to get back to normal.
I don't know how high those doses are, but I don't know why as say it's hard on the liver. For years and even decades for some things, I have been taking all those and more, although I had limited my zinc to 22 to 44 mg a day. Although I am taking a time release version of vitamin C now, I usually took 1 to 2 g a day of calcium ascorbate, and 10,000 IU of vitamin D3, as I can't seem to raise my blood levels above the high 30s even so. I take quercetin 500 mg a day and resveratrol 100 mg a day--for a while I was taking 50 mg a day of Enzymatically Modified ISO-Quercetin (EMIQ), which is suppose to be 40 times more absorbable, so the equivalent of 2500 mg quercetin. I take 5000 mcg. of methylcobalamin a day, 400 IU of vitamin E (mixed tocopherols, Unique brand), vitamin K, ginkgo biloba, R-Lipoic Acid, CoQ10, pyridoxal-5'-phosphate, B vitamins, and numerous other things--I don't take glutathione, but I have been taking 500 mg a day of N-Acetyl L-Cysteine for over 30 years. Although lately I sometimes skip taking my supplements for couple couple days at a time. I tend to only get some sort of in viral thing once every five years or so. I think I got a very early case Covid from mid-September to early October 2019, before it was known. I had a throat tickle in the morning, which developed into a dry cough that tickled my throat and made me choke, which lasted a week. I did not have a head cold. I was very fatigued, felt like I was double my weight, slept a lot, could not eat or drink anything for three days. Food and even water tasted weird. Slowly I could take a little soup and other things after that. I lost 12 pounds in ten 10 days. It was over in three weeks. I didn't have a respiratory issue luckily. And I could not take my supplements during this time, especially at the beginning. But if it was Covid perhaps they protected me leading up to it. I was not vaccinated and I never came down with Covid, aside from my suspected early case, which would have given me natural immunity. In the last year or so, or so I believe I got one or two colds, but they were not Covid.
Thank you for your detailed reply and to answer you, Clark (and I don't see a "reply button" under your reply, so I'll do it here), I daily took 100 mg. zinc (unless it was the sublingual liquid kind - then 50mg), 500mg of quercitin (only half that if it's the phytosome, which is stronger - which I didn't know, so I guess I was taking more like 1000 mg of quercitin), 2 grams glutathione (I only managed 1 gram most days), 3000 mg minimum (5000 is better) of buffered Vit. C, up to 40,000 I.U. of Vit. D3, 5000 mcg of Vit B12 and later I took 150mg. of herbal resveratrol (Gaia brand) and 10mg of melatonin.
Stay focused. Stand firm in the fight!
Enjoyed the picture of the courtroom gladiators just out of the ring!
Yes, that looked like quite a day judging by the ties 👔!!
Keep being relentless. And thank you for never letting go. Our world needs more of this level of tenacity in its citizens. Bravo!
You should be very proud of your accomplishments. Thank you for your fortitude and keep fighting for the truth.
Please let me know if you are still taking donations to your legal defense fund ...
Tighten the noose (legal noose) on the bastards!
So proud of you Alex and Team!
Great victory! Thank you for bringing the lawsuit!
Love it Alex....keep it going & all the Best of Luck in the fight..."FJB"
Executive. Legistlative. Judiciary.
When the first is fully compromised, and the second partially compromised, thank heavens the third is still functional.
Well Tareq, to some extent, The Law has become an instrument of illegality itself.
Congratulanniversary!
I’m curious if you have plans to share the discovery documents from twitter in their entirety, once you have won Berenson vs. Biden et al?
If you have shared them already, please excuse my ignorance; I assumed you might keep them to yourself through the current suit.
Awesome!
To Alex, what do you think of RFK Jr's nomination fight? Forgive me if I've missed it but I haven't seen your opinion anywhere.
How do you feel about Desantis?
I'm probably biased because I live in Florida.
I think he has a better chance of winning.
Anything to stop this march to totalitarianism is better than the current regime though...;)
I can't say I know too much about him but I was very happy with the way he stood up to the covidian's and the woke mob so that's two big pluses. If you want to know who RFK Jr is watch this 45 minute talk from Sept 2021. https://rumble.com/v2jzbfi-rfk-jr.-the-second-american-revolution.html
Thank you
The same Kennedy, who praises his son for being a mercenary in the " foreign legion" in Ukraine, as a "machine gunner" killing Russians?
Doesn't the US still have such "soldiers" from Iraq locked up in Guantanamo for 20 years, without trial or conviction, as "unlawful combatants"?
And he conveniently leaves unmentioned that Victoria Nuland proudly reported in December 2013 that she'd "invested" $5B in the rent-a-mob Maidan coup in early 2014 that the duly elected president ran for his life from, before we installed our chosen NATO-supporting puppets Yats and Poreshenko, who half the country rejected any authority of, and were then put under siege by Kiev, using US weapons and money for 8 years, until the Russian special military operation defended them last year?
Poreshenko is on video saying "We'll be living the good life in Kiev while those vermin in Donbas will be hiding in their basements" in 2014, when the war began.
First he never said he was proud of his grandson killing anyone, if you're saying that he was then you're lying. A man can and should be proud of a grandson who put his life in very real danger fighting for a cause even if he may have been mislead into believing that cause was just. What's your view on Vietnam? War is complex but with sound leadership unnecessary. RFK jr is very anti war, he wants to close American bases around the world, focus on the defense of America, and hopefully Canada and Mexico and a few others and stop meddling in foreign wars for oil and resources. His goal is to work towards peace and prosperity on a global scale not at the point of a sword but by mutual respect and understanding. If a candidate has to be 100% aligned with your ideals you will be part of a very small and very angry mob.
I am curious, why did the appeals court roll over so quickly and dismiss in favor of Twitter? Leftist, Obama appointed judge? Paid off judge?
Bottom line, without the machine gunners, like the kid, there would be no wars. To "volunteer" to kill to support the most blatant coup in history, the Maidan-mob "revolution" of 2014, not as a conscripted countryman, but as a mercenary from 5000 miles distant, is seen by most of the planet's inhabitants as a war crime. You can't praise the killers and claim to be against the killing.
Why did Russia put their country so close to our NATO bases?
Whatever happened to the promises, after the dissolution of the USSR, by GHWB and then Clinton, of "NATO will not expand 'one inch' Eastward "?
When the Soviets built a missle base in Cuba in 1962, after the US secretly moved nuclear missles to Turkey, there was great distress about the existential threat to the US with nukes 90 miles from Florida, resolved only by Kennedy, the uncle of Junior, withdrawing the arms from Turkey after which Kruschev agreed to dismantle the base in Cuba. How is the Russian resistance to the puppet-led "democracy" in Ukraine, replete with NATO arms, minutes flight time from Moscow, substantively different from what is euphemistically sold to Americans as "the Cuban missle crisis"?
Obfuscated forbidden truth about the origins of the conflict. Crimea was bought by Russian Empress Catherine the Great in the 1760s, there has been a Russian navy warm_water port there ever since, though you'd be hard-pressed to know that from American media.
Catherine was the first world leader to recognize the American colonies' Declaration of Independance, before 1776 had ended. Almost no one knows that recent history because it doesn't fit the NATO agenda. Jnj
Alex,
Last sentence in last full paragraph; " he " could not prevent people from commenting on it.
Who is he? Donald Trump? Wasn't the issue he was " censored " off Twitter of course unjustifiably, as you were?
Both a ridiculous show of ignorance and blatant disregard for the free speech Constitutional Law, by the previous Dictators at Twitter. Painfully obvious to everyone but it took someone such as you to go through the work, pain and suffering to put those arrogant spoiled children in their places. And ultimately fire their stupid, lazy, spoiled asses. Thanks Elon.
10 years ago I would have never expected I would need heroes for free speech. And certainly would not have thought they would be a writer for the NYT and a tech mogul like Elon. But here we are, and I am thankful for you.
Alex, I look at Berenson v. Twitter as a landmark victory whose ripple effects may well bring down the entire Censorship Industrial Complex. The real prize for winning (it not being dismissed, that is) was the revelation (through discovery) that the government had actually outsourced First Amendment violations to a private social media platform. This was confirmed (in spades!) by Matt Taibbi in "The Twitter Files". That, in turn, has led to the suspicion (and for many of us, the near certainty) that the government used its regulatory authority to bully other social media giants to censor public commentary. From now on these First Amendment lawsuits can and should name the government as a defendant or a co-defendant.
I’m so glad I found you on Twitter before you were banned. I learned so much about the covid nonsense and your info gelled me decide to avoid the jabs. Forever grateful to you for that!
Go get em Alex. Smash those fuckers.
Shit yeah, dude! Love it.
Why are you suing the guy who had you banned when you said you would vote for him over Trump in 2024?
FOX found out how dangerous it is to publish that truth that experts showed how Dominions voting machines can be compromised. Look for Tucker Carlson to be set up with a phony rape charge soon.
The implications of a win here are profound. Other than Berenson, Taibbi, Greenwald, Carlson, and a handful of others, investigative journalism isn’t quite dead but is certainly on life support. Without a strong first amendment, and a strong second to protect the first, America dissolves into a globalist governed obscurity.
For America - win this Alex.
We also have Robert Kennedy entering in the political sphere. The message is spreading beyond the 10-30% who never bought this fraud in the first place.
Great news.
Hahaha, won, lol. You mean you settled behind closed doors and took everyone for a fool who donated.
I donated. I don’t at all feel that way. I’m thrilled!
Yes, a good conman will leave his victims not feeling suckered. A great conman might even maker the sucker feel thrilled to be suckered! He promised you an inside look at all of the government censorship at Twitter....you got.... "hey guys, I settled for a big fat check", followed by almost the very next day "subscribe and donate more money while I take on Biden. This time guys, I will really not settle and take a even bigger, even fatter check and give you all the inside details." Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, might as well subscribe to Alex's substack.
Boy Wesley you must have donated big bucks to be so upset. This your third negative post.
So what, Louise? He gets to feel the way he feels and he has expressed why.
Sometimes ‘negative’ is the appropriate expression.
Touche. In a post about free speech, I shouldn't complain that someone is using his 1st Amendment rights.
Wesley is clearly some kind of planted troll.
Probably works for the WH.
I'm upset by the principle of someone conning people out of their money. Worldwide, per-person, not much money was spent on mRNA vaccines.
Principle.
The school principal is your pal.
Go Frederick! Well done!
Not much money was spent? Oh that's right, we got the vaccine free from the government. Moderna and Pfizer hardly made millions.
Dude I'm pretty sure his lawsuit and victory has at least a little to do with Twitter selling to Elon. We might not have the true free speech environment we're just now seeing spread to the broader population, I know substack's awesome but my attention span isn't always up for the read. Both of these platforms plus many others and now RFK Jr in the political arena are on the verge of crumbling the false narrative that's been the mind virus that we're all fighting.
Haha, what wish fulfillment thinking. No, the selling of Twitter to Elon has to do with Elon asking a price above stock value and the board having to make a decision it, via legal obligation and it being a good deal. Alex's settlement didn't effect Elon's asking price or twitter's share price at all b/c it was such an insignificant blimp to the social media giant. Facebook, as an example, gets fined by the EU for like $100m all the time and they, in their networth of hundreds of billions, laugh it off.
If you think Alex is why RFK Jr is running for president, that's kind of hilarious too.
Did he result in the McRib coming back to McDonalds too? Is there anything he hasn't done via accepting this private-settlement rather than give you the promised government collusion documents? Did it also solve global warming? Start the war in Ukraine?
I never said that Alex Berenson had anything to do with RFK running. Their philosophies align to some extent and both their voices have contributed to dismantling the false covid narrative. Man you're bitter.
Same!
It is a big deal. All of this has been. Sent a modest contribution to the law office. I continue to believe every little bit helps. Wishing you and James Lawrence success.
Thank you Alex. I’ve trusted you and your position from the beginning!
You’re a fierce fighter and the thing that underlies your fierceness is that you have truth on your side.
Truth is one of the most powerful forces in the universe (along with love). The truth makes people free and brave.
Keep going as you have!
Too much self congratulations. You had a chance to set precedent before judge Bill Alsup. He's well respected (his opinions in the Oracle v. Google case won the approval of the Supreme Court) and he was on your side. You threw that all away to go after bigger fish. Thanks for nothing.
Now I'm rooting against you. The government and private parties have the right to lobby Twitter to ban people they think are spreading false and harmful information. Twitter has the right to decide. Twitter was pressured, not coerced. That's the line. The defendants didn't cross it.
So bad luck to you in your lawsuit. For the sake of the public, I hope you lose.
Keep up the fight, Alex! Our once great country is great BECAUSE of the 1A!
We, the people, will help to keep (y)our freedom of speech ANY way we can!
THANK YOU!!!!!!
Alex, congratulations 1 year later. I’m grateful for you, your legal team and Judge Alsup. We are all hoping and praying that the judge allows Discovery to move forward. You indeed have a strong case and we shall see if the rule of law is strong.
Good luck. Godspeed.
Alex. I/we admire your backbone and willingness to stand up and fight. We have contributed to your cause. Now my corporate experience suggests you very well may face every dirty "legal process" trick in the book. For instance I was once slammed with 40,000 documents as "discovery" with the implied message "Go find the needle in the haystack". The desired/required materials were in the 40,000 documents somewhere but the other party refused to tell us where. AND. the judge let it stand.
If you set up a Go Fund Me account for extra late night coffee, I will be glad to contribute again. I suspect you are going to need it.
Why win when you can settle?
Massive congratulations; thanks for the lesson in fighting for what you believe and modeling tenacity.
Great stuff!
So, will settling out of court be an option you'll take this time? As I understand it, settling sets no precedent that others can use. You certainly have to take care of you and your family first, but if settling out of court is a strategy you plan to use if offered, I know I would like to know up front. Maybe that's not something you can divulge under the circumstances so I will just have to go by what I know of your history and not get too emotionally involved this time around. Good luck.
Very well done. Keep up the excellent quest.
Thank you, Thank you for taking the fight and WINNING!!!
We need a WINNING mug!