CCDH agents threatened health freedom advocates and covid truthers with lawsuits to silence them
CCDH agents threatened health freedom advocates and covid truthers with lawsuits to silence them
A government-related group targeted independent news sites and health freedom advocates who bravely told the truth about COVID-19 during the pandemic using a multipronged approach that included censorship and the threat of lawsuits.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) is the group that put together the Disinformation Dozen – 12 people who they claim were behind more than 65 percent of “vaccine misinformation” online, including GreenMedInfo, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Dr. Mercola and The Truth About Cancer. Of course, they were aiming far beyond these 12 as well, looking to silence sites like Natural News that worked tirelessly to keep people informed about topics the mainstream media was unwilling to discuss.
We already know how they targeted RFK Jr. and Elon Musk, in addition to calling for the “Disinformation Dozen” to be deplatformed. The group’s censorship rightfully deserves to be in the spotlight, but one thing that often gets overlooked is the fact that they also used lawfare to try to suppress those who are in favor of health freedom.
Attorney Brian Rothschild, who many believe is connected to CCDH, announced in 2021 that he would be filing a mass tort wrongful death lawsuit against the various information outlets who appear in the Disinformation Dozen compiled by the group.
According to Rothschild, those who spoke out about the dangers of the jabs were somehow directly responsible for deaths related to COVID-19. He cited cases such as one involving a firefighter who died of the virus and was reportedly influenced by so-called misinformation.
The idea behind this and similar suits was to make it seem as though individuals who question the safety and efficacy of the vaccines were guilty of negligence or intentional harm so that these people would be too scared to continue going against the preferred government narratives. They sought to silence dissenters and cause them significant financial harm.
Putting aside the fact that it is completely illogical to claim that someone who shared, for example, stories about the vaccine injuries that some people experienced should be held responsible for other people’s deaths, it is also worth noting that this type of case would be extremely difficult to prove in court.
Case would be hard to prove, but the threat may have been enough to silence people
Legal analyst Dan Eaton told the media that to win a case like Rothschild’s, it would be necessary to prove that people who didn’t get the vaccine died from the virus because of intentional or negligent acts made by the “misinformers.”
“The challenge in proving this claim is going to be to show that there is a link between the conduct and the death,” he said.
Moreover, at the time, there were still so many unknowns about how the virus and the vaccines worked. “This is a unique kind of wrongful death lawsuit because you are talking about misinformation related to a pandemic that has a lot of uncertainty surrounding it,” he acknowledged.
Plus, since we know that the vaccines never actually stopped the virus from being transmitted, even if the so-called “Disinformation Dozen” was intentionally trying to kill its own readers, convincing them not to get the vaccine would not be an effective way of doing so since vaccinated people continued to be infected.
They may well have been aware of the fact that they didn’t have much legal ground to stand on but were certainly hoping that even the threat of such a lawsuit would be enough to convince those who were courageously telling the truth about the pandemic to keep their mouths shut. Rothschild’s lawsuit never ended up happening, but there is no telling how many people were scared into silence because of the threat.
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