Free Speech Either is – or it Isn’t
Posted by freedomforall 1 month, 1 week ago to Politics
Excerpt:
"Rand Paul has been defending free speech again – the bastard.
He says Americans – everyone – ought to be worried about their freedom to speak (more finely, to read and hear about things the government and corporations don’t want them to read and hear about) being arbitrated by government – and corporations.
But, the Chinese!
They own Tik Tok! Even though – as the senator has had to explain to those who already know better – the “Chinese” do not own Tik Tok. There are Chinese people who own part of it. As well as Americans. All of which is completely beside the point that Paul has been trying to make. Which is that it ought not to matter who owns Tik Tok if you are opposed to the government and corporations owning what you are allowed to read and hear and also to where and how you’re allowed to say what you think.
That is the danger. This “bipartisan” (naturally; when it comes to important things, the Uniparty is always bipartisan) effort to ban Tik Tok or place Tik Tok under a regime of official supervision has nothing to do with protecting Americans from the wily Chinese. It has everything to do with placing what Americans are allowed to say and read and hear under the supervision of the corrupt authorities in Washington. The same horrible people who framed people who questioned whether a “pandemic” was afoot when the facts (such as case fatality rates) indicated otherwise as “superspreaders” of “misinformation” are itching to frame anyone who disagrees with any of their narratives as even worse than that.
This talk of “threats to our democracy” being no small threat to those who resent being told what they must pretend to believe and what they are allowed and not allowed to say, hear or read.
Make no mistake, they are going for broke. Because they have no choice. Free speech and authoritarianism cannot co-exist. You can have one – or the other. You cannot have both at the same time – and the authoritarians know it."
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Con-gress is run by the Deep State with one possible exception.
Rand Paul is the voice in the wilderness promoting individual liberty and real free markets.
There is no better choice for VP, imo.
"Rand Paul has been defending free speech again – the bastard.
He says Americans – everyone – ought to be worried about their freedom to speak (more finely, to read and hear about things the government and corporations don’t want them to read and hear about) being arbitrated by government – and corporations.
But, the Chinese!
They own Tik Tok! Even though – as the senator has had to explain to those who already know better – the “Chinese” do not own Tik Tok. There are Chinese people who own part of it. As well as Americans. All of which is completely beside the point that Paul has been trying to make. Which is that it ought not to matter who owns Tik Tok if you are opposed to the government and corporations owning what you are allowed to read and hear and also to where and how you’re allowed to say what you think.
That is the danger. This “bipartisan” (naturally; when it comes to important things, the Uniparty is always bipartisan) effort to ban Tik Tok or place Tik Tok under a regime of official supervision has nothing to do with protecting Americans from the wily Chinese. It has everything to do with placing what Americans are allowed to say and read and hear under the supervision of the corrupt authorities in Washington. The same horrible people who framed people who questioned whether a “pandemic” was afoot when the facts (such as case fatality rates) indicated otherwise as “superspreaders” of “misinformation” are itching to frame anyone who disagrees with any of their narratives as even worse than that.
This talk of “threats to our democracy” being no small threat to those who resent being told what they must pretend to believe and what they are allowed and not allowed to say, hear or read.
Make no mistake, they are going for broke. Because they have no choice. Free speech and authoritarianism cannot co-exist. You can have one – or the other. You cannot have both at the same time – and the authoritarians know it."
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Con-gress is run by the Deep State with one possible exception.
Rand Paul is the voice in the wilderness promoting individual liberty and real free markets.
There is no better choice for VP, imo.
OUC has it illustrated in this week's Meme Tyme.
Yeah, give me another reason to vote MAGA~~as if I really needed another.
I agree with his main theme, but the whole thing DISTRACTS from the real issue in SCOTUS right now: The US Government dictating with threats what US media can say and delete. I can't believe that trial took more than 5 minutes with some of the e-mails from the government I have seen.
I bet the TikTok bipartisan collaboration is to keep people from watching John Roberts let the Government walk all over us ... again.
As if farcebook wasn't an NSA unconstitutional collection device.
In the 50's half of what is posted today would never have been posted in the first place,
mainly because it contains references to bodily functions and waste products.
Personally I liked that brainwashing better.
We have discussed before relative to censoring:
Censor? No Section 230 protection. You are monitoring and controlling your publications, fine, and you are responsible.
Free? Welcome to Section 230 protections, since you are just providing a forum for other's free speech, you can't be prosecuted, but the "others" can for actual crimes.
Solves the whole problem.
evidence within an established limited time period.
Hurt feelings are not damage. "Hate" speech is not a crime.
We are getting screwed...
They can't pass Kate's Law... But this they can agree on, and the media doesn't cover the Other Side of the story?
While Kate's Law was out there, the media ONLY covered the other side of the story.
It's no longer Baffling...
https://www.theblaze.com/news/fanatic...
It's hard to imagine a strict constitutional republic in the future short of either secession or revolution.