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In case you were in doubt — and if you were in doubt, that means you aren’t following what is happening in America to the most important freedom of all — Pew Research has confirmed that Democrats value free speech far less than Republicans do.
Read the following statistics and conclusions and weep for our country:
— “The share of U.S. adults who say the federal government should restrict false information has risen from 39% in 2018 to 55% in 2023.”
— “Just over half of Americans (55%) support the U.S. government taking steps to restrict false information online, even if it limits people from freely publishing or accessing information.”
— “Support for government intervention has steadily risen since the first time we asked this question in 2018. In fact, the balance of opinion has tilted: Five years ago, Americans were more inclined to prioritize freedom of information over restricting false information (58% vs. 39%).”
— “The partisan gap in support for restricting false information has grown substantially since 2018.”
— “Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are much more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to support the U.S. government taking steps to restrict false information online (70% vs. 39%). There was virtually no difference between the parties in 2018, but the share of Democrats who support government intervention has grown from 40% in 2018 to 70% in 2023.”
— “A large majority of Democrats and Democratic leaners (81%) support technology companies taking such steps, while about half of Republicans (48%) say the same.”
Here are 10 conclusions:
No. 1: The most important human freedom is freedom of speech. Free speech is what makes the pursuit of truth possible. It is what makes the advancement of science possible. It constitutes the very definition of a free society. And free speech is what makes human dignity possible. People who cannot say what they believe are dehumanized. They ultimately become robotic beings exemplified by North Koreans.
No. 2: America has been the freest country in the world for all of its history. That is why the French gave America the Statue of Liberty. It is rapidly relinquishing that title.
No. 3: Free speech is seriously threatened for the first time in American history.
No. 4: The threat to free speech comes entirely from the Left.
No. 5: There is no example in history of the Left attaining power and allowing free speech. From the French Revolution to the Russian Revolution to the Maoist takeover of China to almost any university in America today, wherever the Left comes to power, it suppresses speech.
No. 6: The Left must suppress speech in order to retain power. If it were to allow dissent, it would lose its hold on power.
No. 7: That is why conservative speakers are rarely allowed to speak on college campuses. Left-wing professors, deans, and administrators know — consciously or subconsciously — that an effective conservative speaker can undo years of left-wing indoctrination in just 90 minutes.
No. 8: Given that “Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are much more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to support the U.S. government taking steps to restrict false information online (70% vs. 39%),” the often-stated claim that “there is little difference between the two parties” is false.
No. 9: All tyrannies label dissent “misinformation.” That is what Vladimir Putin’s government labels all dissent in Russia today.
The communist regime in the Soviet Union named its official newspaper “Pravda” — the Russian word for “truth” — because in a left-wing tyranny, the left-wing regime determines truth. Anything else is “misinformation” or “disinformation.”
That Western societies are moving toward Soviet-like suppression of speech is obvious in America and was made particularly clear in 2020, when the then-prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, told her country: “We will continue to be your single source of truth” and “If you do not hear it from the government, it is not true.” Fittingly, Ardern was awarded with two teaching fellowships at Harvard University — one of them at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, based at Harvard Law School, where she “will study ways to improve content standards and platform accountability for extremist content online.”
No. 10: Liberals are abandoning liberal values — in particular, their storied commitment to free speech. There are far more liberals than leftists, but over the past few years the liberals’ unswerving commitment to the Democratic Party, unswerving commitment to The New York Times, The Washington Post or virtually any other mainstream news source, and their unswerving opposition to conservatives and the Republican Party has led them to embrace and unswervingly vote for left-wing values.
As for the future, this is what Pew reported regarding young Americans: “The shares of younger adults who say they support tech companies and the government restricting false information online have increased substantially since 2018 (by 14 and 19 percentage points, respectively).”
But there is a better reaction than to weep.
Fight.
Yeah but it’s hate man, hate speech needs to be stopped man. You despicable maga piece of trash.
Grow a pair daft boy. Sticks and stones don’t break bones blah blah.
You think we all be clones of people like you who can’t handle the debate. In your limp wristed world the truth constitutes a “ hate crime”?
Loser victim mentality methinks here. Let’s hope it’s not terminal mate
You despicable left leaning piece of trash.
I believe he’s being facetious.
Poe’s law is an adage of internet culture which dictates that without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, every parody of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied.
Dr Peter Arnold OAM, Sydney
That’s why Republicans lose everything and will continue to lose everything: they can’t understand even a joke.
It makes perfect sense for Democrats to devalue free speech when they are the one’s who perpetually define/redefine words, create new one’s and censor others. When you control the only typewriter, the ‘White Out’ and the printing press, you don’t really care about about anything other than getting YOUR story out, five o’clock and pay day.
Consider a recent headline: “Fitness, Staying in Shape is a Form of White Supremacy”
Free speech should of course not be hindered in any way. We all know that.
But who? Could be stupid enough to think that our government should be in charge of free speech, much less anything else. Ours and other governments have screwed everything they have ever touched.
Does the obvious fact of government ineptitude not give these morons any hesitation?
I worked in D.C. for the Federal Communications Commission for forty years, retiring in 2016. We took the avoidance of even the appearance of government censorship very seriously throughout my tenure there. We would subject even enforcement of of federal broadcast indecency statutes or the restriction on the broadcast of “lottery” information very seriously and discuss each case at length to assure we were not going beyond statutory or Constitutional limitations. We had such discussions even about the possibility of the agency supplying radio stations with public service announcements (PSAs) advertising that we would be holding local public fora to allow members of the public to discuss issues before the Commission on the basis that the stations might feel compelled to air the PSA because we were also the licensing authority and government compelled speech is as offensive to the First Amendment as prohibited speech. I simply don’t understand what has happened to the integrity of government agencies since I left but I believe Covid broke their collective minds and integrity regarding free speech and the let it metastasize to other issues. Or maybe it was an influx of people who had graduated from our toxic universities with no regard for the Constitution or our traditions and principles. In any case, what is being revealed in the Twitter and Facebook files cases is shocking and disgusting to me but I think it is not a case of government incompetence but is much, much, worse.
To Liberal Democrats Freedom of Speech is only for them to shout down Conservatives Freedom of Speech
DEMOCRATS love woke fascism and hate free speech, in particular as it pertains to their ruling class THE CLINTONS, OBAMAS AND BIDENS
Biden is, and has always been, a pathological liar of the worst kind, the kind who lies to boost his own ego no matter how easy it is to prove his dishonesty PATRICIA McCARTHY
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WATCH: White House Says Biden Will Not Pardon Hunter
Ben Wilson
July 27, 2023
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday that President Joe Biden will not pardon his son Hunter amid his legal woes.
“No,” Jean-Pierre said definitively after a reporter asked if there was a possibility Biden would issue a pardon.
Jean-Pierre’s response comes after a plea deal between Hunter Biden and the Department of Justice fell through Wednesday. Federal judge Maryellen Noreika rejected the deal and told both prosecutors and Biden’s legal team to craft a new one.
The original deal would have allowed Biden to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax crimes and receive immunity on a broad range of criminal charges, all while avoiding jail time.
Jean-Pierre defended the DOJ investigation into Hunter Biden after the plea deal collapsed, saying the case was “handled independently.”
“The case was handled independently, as all of you know, by the Justice Department, under the leadership of a prosecutor appointed by the former president, President Trump,” Jean-Pierre said on Wednesday.
Jean-Pierre declined to give further comment Wednesday, saying that “Hunter Biden is a private citizen and this is a personal matter for him.”
Joe Biden has frequently distanced himself from Hunter Biden’s lucrative foreign business.
“I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with their business, period,” Biden said in August 2019.
Investigations by House Republicans, however, have uncovered growing evidence that the president may have played an active role in his son’s business dealings. Devon Archer, the first son’s former friend, is expected to testify before Congress next week that then-vice president Joe Biden was on speakerphone in meetings with Hunter Biden’s foreign business partners.
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Is an opinion now “false information?”
Let’s face it, we live under Facism, not Republicanism. The state owns us, and the state is owned by the megacorporations. Free speech gets in the way. Compare how differently Trump has been treated by the press, the Justice Department, and the FBI to how Hunter’s been treated. Recently Dr. Joseph Mercola, a promenent vaccine critic, had his business accounts shut down by Chase without explaination. At the same time SBF, prominent Democrat donor, has had charges dropped without explaination. It’s all part of a large pattern. The Dems are just following their master’s orders.