Not a Nothingburger: My Statement to Congress on Censorship The key question in censorship is always the same. Who's doing it? (A: Anti-Freedom Government and their Corrupt Big Business Conspirators)

Posted by freedomforall 1 year ago to Politics
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"When Michael and I testified before the good people of this Committee in March we mentioned this classically Orwellian concept of “malinformation” — material that is somehow both true and wrong — as one of many reasons everyone should be concerned about these digital censorship programs.

But there’s a more subtle reason people across the spectrum should care about this issue.

Former Executive Director of the ACLU Ira Glasser once explained to a group of students why he didn’t support hate speech codes on campuses. The problem, he said, was “who gets to decide what’s hateful… who gets to decide what to ban,” because “most of the time, it ain’t you.”


The story that came out in the Twitter Files, and for which more evidence surfaced in both the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit and this Committee’s Facebook Files releases, speaks directly to Glasser’s concerns."
SOURCE URL: https://www.racket.news/p/not-a-nothingburger-my-statement


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  • Posted by $ Abaco 1 year ago
    Yeah. Let me decide what is hate speech. That' would be a blast. Oh no. Not Abaco. He's an angry white male. He could never understand. He should be in jail!
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    • Posted by 1 year ago
      You got it.
      Let each person decide for himself with no government interaction or penalty (other than disturbing the peace when that is the case).
      If you don't like it, don't listen, don't read, change the channel, hit the ignore button.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 1 year ago
    The best part is the expression that of all those to be put in charge of choosing what is or is not to be censored the missing element is "We The People". As one commenter put it, "Censorship is a big club and we ain't in it!"
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