Democrats okay with censoring free speech

T. A. Gardner

T. A. Gardner

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Seems the Left--well Democrats, one in the same now--are fine with censoring free speech or even ending it...

A Pew Research poll released July 20 found that 70% of Democrats think the government should restrict what appears on social media, a dramatic change from five years ago when a majority of Democrats supported a free marketplace of ideas.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...Y4YJVI&state=107a6068010e426abf68e214ef6da934

More Americans now say government should take steps to restrict false information online than in 2018
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-r...strict-false-information-online-than-in-2018/

Those Americans saying that are overwhelmingly Democrats on the Left.

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Democrats desperate to censor anyone that disagrees with them
https://nypost.com/2022/11/01/democrats-desperate-to-censor-anyone-that-disagrees-with-them/

It isn't something particularly new, but it is a growing trend, one that should be disturbing to anyone who thinks free speech is a vital part of an open and free society...
 
Free speech simply means that you don't get arrested for expressing your opinion on a forum to which you have legitimate access---
such as your own forum.

That being said, I don't believe the government should censor privately owned digital social media,
only because I don't believe that anybody with a modicum of intelligence
should regard social media as anything other than wasted bandwidth.

People who take anything thereon with any seriousness at all
are subject to being fooled
by elementary school age trick-or-treaters.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Seems the Left--well Democrats, one in the same now--are fine with censoring free speech or even ending it...

A Pew Research poll released July 20 found that 70% of Democrats think the government should restrict what appears on social media, a dramatic change from five years ago when a majority of Democrats supported a free marketplace of ideas.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...Y4YJVI&state=107a6068010e426abf68e214ef6da934

More Americans now say government should take steps to restrict false information online than in 2018
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-r...strict-false-information-online-than-in-2018/

Those Americans saying that are overwhelmingly Democrats on the Left.

FT_21.08.16_TechGovtMisinfo_2.png


Democrats desperate to censor anyone that disagrees with them
https://nypost.com/2022/11/01/democrats-desperate-to-censor-anyone-that-disagrees-with-them/

It isn't something particularly new, but it is a growing trend, one that should be disturbing to anyone who thinks free speech is a vital part of an open and free society...
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Indeed.

There are professors who want Biden to ignore Supreme Court decisions.

Unbelievable.

The First Amendment makes no general exception for offensive, repugnant, or hateful expression. Speech by adults as free citizens does not lose First Amendment protection because it is considered hateful.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Seems the Left--well Democrats, one in the same now--are fine with censoring free speech or even ending it...

A Pew Research poll released July 20 found that 70% of Democrats think the government should restrict what appears on social media, a dramatic change from five years ago when a majority of Democrats supported a free marketplace of ideas.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/a...Y4YJVI&state=107a6068010e426abf68e214ef6da934

More Americans now say government should take steps to restrict false information online than in 2018
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-r...strict-false-information-online-than-in-2018/

Those Americans saying that are overwhelmingly Democrats on the Left.

FT_21.08.16_TechGovtMisinfo_2.png


Democrats desperate to censor anyone that disagrees with them
https://nypost.com/2022/11/01/democrats-desperate-to-censor-anyone-that-disagrees-with-them/

It isn't something particularly new, but it is a growing trend, one that should be disturbing to anyone who thinks free speech is a vital part of an open and free society...
Click to expand...

You should stop lying about censorship.
 
Rights are based upon reason, not desire, nor is any right absolute, I don’t think it is particularly helpful to have full blown child pornography nor terrorist’s message broadcasted freely without check across social media networks, and as we have seen, those networks can not police themselves given profit is the primary focus
 
archives said:
Rights are based upon reason, not desire, nor is any right absolute, I don’t think it is particularly helpful to have full blown child pornography nor terrorist’s message broadcasted freely without check across social media networks, and as we have seen, those networks can not police themselves given profit is the primary focus
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Poor anchovies,

Bullshit
 
Is this more whining about being kicked off social media for poor baby reasons? You don't have the freedom of a stage for your speech that isn't part of freedom of speech. When will you simple minds ever learn that?
 
NiftyNiblick said:
Free speech simply means that you don't get arrested for expressing your opinion on a forum to which you have legitimate access---
such as your own forum.

That being said, I don't believe the government should censor privately owned digital social media,
only because I don't believe that anybody with a modicum of intelligence
should regard social media as anything other than wasted bandwidth.

People who take anything thereon with any seriousness at all
are subject to being fooled
by elementary school age trick-or-treaters.
Click to expand...

No bandwidth, ya dumb mutt.
 
archives said:
Rights are based upon reason, not desire, nor is any right absolute, I don’t think it is particularly helpful to have full blown child pornography nor terrorist’s message broadcasted freely without check across social media networks, and as we have seen, those networks can not police themselves given profit is the primary focus
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Rights are inherent. They are absolute.
 
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