The State Departments has a visa policy which bars access to visas by individuals associated with an organization that created blacklists of so-called right-wing disinformation websites, that cost many of us lots of money in ad revenue, primarily by Google.

In my case, Google began marking me as disinformation years ago and banned me from using their ads. But that’s happened to a lot of conservative websites, which is why some of us have been relegated to using ads we don’t like just to keep afloat.

But now the despicable Judge Boasberg has blocked this policy by the state department, claiming it’s viewpoint discrimination or something.

Here’s more from Fox News:

Judge Boasberg freezes Trump administration’s visa policy targeting foreign nationals accused of censoring Americans — ruling the government may be engaging in viewpoint discrimination by only going after those who favor more content moderation.

The State Department policy restricted visa access for individuals linked to organizations like the Global Disinformation Index, which conservatives say created blacklists that cost right-wing media outlets ad revenue and thus impeded their ability to exercise their First Amendment rights.

The ruling is a temporary stay, not a final decision on the merits. The State Department can still seek appellate review.

The backstory: During the Biden era, the Global Disinformation Index received federal funding and produced what critics called “black lists of certain news websites.” Conservatives argued those blacklists led to right-wing outlets losing ad revenue — effectively suppressing their speech through financial pressure.

The Trump State Department responded by restricting visas for individuals tied to GDI and similar organizations.

Boasberg acknowledged the government has a “legitimate interest in responding when foreign officials use sovereign power to suppress protected expression in the United States” — but said the policy as written only targets one viewpoint.

“It presses its enforcement thumb against one side of the scale: the view that platforms should do more to moderate content, label disinformation, restrict abuse, share data with researchers, or take responsibility for the harms their systems amplify.”

Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., ripped the decision: “A visa is a privilege — not a constitutional entitlement. The First Amendment protects the American people’s right to speak. It does not require the American people to admit foreign actors who work to restrict that speech.”

This is the same judge who blocked Trump’s rapid deportation of Venezuelan migrants, ordered officials to preserve Signal messages about Yemen strikes, and drew Trump’s call for impeachment — which Chief Justice Roberts rejected.

Schmitt is right. No one was a right to visas and the US can dole them out to who they see fit. I hope the state department can get this overturned on appeal.

And while I don’t like to discuss this topic, I will just say that before you send me nastygrams about the ads I run, remember that I am being discriminated against by Google and can’t run the proper display ads I prefer because they blackballed me. All because I am conservative. And you may not realize just how deep this goes, but Google essentially has a monopoly on ads and all these other ad companies are also using Google ads, which means they can’t even serve me their premium ads because Google won’t let them. And these tabloid-sytle ads don’t pay as well either, but I refuse to just go away and let Google win. Anyway, just keep all that in mind. I don’t like this anymore than you do, but I have no choice.