Free Speech is something that government just can't resist keeping its clutches off of, particularly when it is the speech of political opponents.
In fact, the most important reason the Founding Fathers adopted the First Amendment was to protect political speech.
The Revolutionary leaders understood that Free Speech and tyranny cannot be in the same room. Thus, wise men put up with much absurd speech, often full of errors, for the protection free speech gave to democracy.
As a Revisionist I also assert that free speech is necessary for human intellectual growth, honest history, and Truth but these are different reasons to protect free speech.
The latest dangerous attack on free speech is not coming from the usual enemies of Free Speech, the ADL or theoreticians against "Hate Speech." It is coming from an irritated
Donald Trump.
President Trump targeted social media giants with a new executive order aimed at limiting their legal liability protections. Earlier this week, the President expressed his distaste at being fact-checked by Twitter for tweets surrounding mail-in vote fraud.
With Attorney William Barr present, Trump announced “We’re here today to defend free speech from one of the greatest dangers it has faced in American history,” Trump said before signing the executive order in the Oval Office.
“My executive order further instructed the Federal Trade Commission to prohibit social media companies from engaging in any deceptive acts or practices,”
The order calls for new regulations under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The original act, initiated by a 1996 landmark federal law, exempted online platforms from legal liability for material posted by their users, allowing them to be treated more like publishers.
https://thehighwire.com/trump-signs-exe ... ensorship/
By imposing liability for "deceptive practices," the new regulations will create lawsuits which will shut down any unpopular or controversial speech.
Already the media giants use the "community standards" argument to shut down Revisionist sites. Soon, lawsuits will back up the political pressures
of the ADL and other anti-Revisionist groups.
The correct action would be to return to the original promise of the Internet, open public platforms which must be allow all political speech.
Communications Decency Act.
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Merlin300 said:
"The correct action would be to return to the original promise of the Internet, open public platforms which must be allow all political speech"
That would be the correct action, but until we get there, the Social Media "platforms", that are acting as publishers, should be sued for libel, slander, incitement to violence, death threats, intimidation and a host of other offences.
But, of course, that will probably never happen.
"The correct action would be to return to the original promise of the Internet, open public platforms which must be allow all political speech"
That would be the correct action, but until we get there, the Social Media "platforms", that are acting as publishers, should be sued for libel, slander, incitement to violence, death threats, intimidation and a host of other offences.
But, of course, that will probably never happen.
Maybe, just maybe, they believe what they are telling you about the 'holocaust', but maybe, just maybe, their contempt for your intelligence and your character is beyond anything you could ever have imagined. -- Bradley Smith
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