you have now been proven wrong
It was an injunction issued by one federal judge on the basis that the plaintiffs will probably win the case. Calm down there sparky.
The issue at hand in this case comes down to whether the social media companies were acting within their own guidelines and of their own accord or whether they were "coerced or significantly encouraged" by the government to act on the government's behalf. What I found telling about this ruling is that nothing in these 155 pages takes into account what the social media companies that actually made the decisions to take down certain posts had to say about it.
That said, there is actually compelling evidence that certain individuals went to far to the point where that line may have been crossed, if I were the judge in this case I might even feel compelled to rule the same way because of the precedent set here and knowing the type of people that are actually out there waiting to take advantage of it. But here is the part of the ruling that really stood out to me:
"What is really telling is that virtually all of the free speech suppressed was “conservative” free speech. Using the 2016 election and the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government apparently engaged in a massive effort to suppress disfavored conservative speech. The targeting of conservative speech indicates that Defendants may have engaged in “viewpoint discrimination,” to which strict scrutiny applies. See Simon & Schuster, Inc., 505 U.S. 105 (1991)."
In other words, batshit conspiracy theories that are extremely harmful to the health of our society, the very thing the government is duty bound to protect against and that any responsible social media company would not want their platforms to be known for, is now classified as "conservative speech". If you are cheering this ruling you might want to think about how we got here.