Who is actually shocked that the fake news clowns at the New York Times don’t like free speech? In an op/ed the paper has declared that not only should we put limits on free speech, but that a failure to do so will kill everyone. Who is actually shocked that the fake new clowns at the NYT are fear-mongering a human extinction event to attack something that offends their liberal sensibilities?
Here’s a thing the NYT editors thought was a good idea to publish: Free Speech Is Killing Us
Enjoy these fun unconstitutional quotes:
Noxious speech is causing tangible harm.
Using “free speech” as a cop-out is just as intellectually dishonest and just as morally bankrupt.
…not all speech is protected under the First Amendment anyway.
Free speech is a bedrock value in this country. But it isn’t the only one. Like all values, it must be held in tension with others, such as equality, safety and robust democratic participation.
…unchecked speech can expose us to real risks. And we can take steps to mitigate those risks.
There’s even a BS liberal comparison between the right of free speech and the privilege of driving, which a global warming twist:
In one of our conversations, Mr. Powell compared harmful speech to carbon pollution: People are allowed to drive cars. But the government can regulate greenhouse emissions, the private sector can transition to renewable energy sources, civic groups can promote public transportation and cities can build sea walls to prepare for rising ocean levels. We could choose to reduce all of that to a simple dictate: Everyone should be allowed to drive a car, and that’s that. But doing so wouldn’t stop the waters from rising around us.
So it’s like gun control only it’s speech control. The important word is “control” because that is at the heart of everything liberals try to push on the rest of us. They want the ability to control how we think and act, which is exactly why our Founding Fathers protected our inalienable rights in the Constitution.
The basic gist of this anti-1st Amendment piece is that people are free to say anything on the Internet and that is inciting others to commit acts of real-world violence. The author doesn’t give any real examples of this, but nothing liberals believe is based on fact.
The question that is avoided over the course of this piece is: who gets to decide what speech is acceptable and what speech should be banned? We already know the answer: liberals. The left has declared themselves the arbiters of everything and want nothing less than the power to ban everything that offends them or counters their hysterical delusions.
The solutions this author has for clamping down on unacceptable free speech is a government takeover of all media:
Congress could fund, for example, a national campaign to promote news literacy, or it could invest heavily in library programming. It could build a robust public media in the mold of the BBC. It could rethink Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — the rule that essentially allows Facebook and YouTube to get away with (glorification of) murder. If Congress wanted to get really ambitious, it could fund a rival to compete with Facebook or Google, the way the Postal Service competes with FedEx and U.P.S.
I’m sure the author means the government should take over TV, news, and the Internet when there is a democrat in the White House. Somehow I don’t think any liberal wants President Trump in charge of all information the public consumes. In fact, it’s certain that Trump’s Twitter account is the reason why this nutter wants a clampdown on social media free speech.
The entire point of a free and independent press is a check on government power. To keep the government from descending into tyranny. The government controls the media in the UK and people are arrested and jailed for having racist dogs. The government controlled the media in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, which killed tens of millions of people. Why in God’s name would anyone think putting the U.S. government in complete control of the media is a good idea?
We know the answer to that as well: As long as there is free speech and an independent media, socialism and civilian disarmament are impossible. The only way the left can transform this country into a commie hellhole is to silence all dissent.
