Category: Free speech

Applaud Fake News

If you have truly free press, which is so important to have, you are going to have serious fake news. Fakes news — that is, exaggerated claims that bear little resemblance to reality but play to the views of a particular audience — is what you can expect if the press is truly free, because through this mechanism, the reporter gains further support from the targeted audience that shares the bias the report is supporting.

So, ironically, although we may lament the fact that the press is peddling anything but truth with fake news, that there is substantial fake news is encouraging in that it proves the press is truly free.

You get the same kind of ironic twist with free speech. You see the unfortunate slogan that “Hate speech is not free speech.” Actually, the opposite is true. If you do permit hate speech, then that shows you truly have free speech. Any impingement of free speech means you don’t have it.

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Suppressing Free Speech

Ann Coulter

Benjamin Aaron Shapiro

Tucker Carlson

Candace Owen

Paul Joseph Watson

Victor David Hanson

Katie Hopkins

All brilliant.  All talented debaters.  All conservatives.  No wonder the left wants to suppress free speech or label it hate speech, which is the same thing.  I wouldn’t want to debate any of the above either.

But then the left doesn’t really debate, does it?  It just slanders — skillful at slander, not so much at debate.  So debate is a no-go zone.  Down with free speech.

Yet there was a time when free speech and open debate were revered, and just about everyone concurred in their value.

And way back in the 18th century, one can easily imagine the derivation of our 1st Amendment — the occupying British, no doubt, looked down upon any talk about independence from the British Empire, and were eager to suppress it.

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Death of Facebook

Facebook has caved to government pressure over the Russian thing, and now apes the “Liberal” media that wants to shackle free speech as per the idea that hate speech — what they consider hate speech — must be suppressed.  Of course this is miles from real Liberalism that fully backs the 1st Amendment, and abhors any restrictions at all on freedom of speech.

The fake Liberals today don’t really get the sheer beauty of total free speech from the two very mutually exclusive advantages that free speech provides the public: 1) it provides a forum where compelling minority opinions that at first may not hold sway do gain wider endorsement from how compelling and rational their arguments turn out to be, and 2) free speech provides a forum where really despicable ideas are aired publicly and therefore exposed to the light of day, so that they can become the subject of analysis and ultimately be rejected — versus remaining concealed from public view, simmering, and dangerous.

Real old-time Liberals understood all of this.  Now, not even the ACLU does.  Ours could the era when our precious, 1st Amendment free-speech rights are undermined — not by the Right, but by the Left.  Who would have thunk it!!

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