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Free speech? What is that Grandpa?

Journal by Runaway1956

"Hush child! Free speech is the reason you grew up without a grandma or your mommy or daddy! They all went to the Utah camps for demonstrating against the Democrat Party!"

https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1520790249957429248?

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/apr/28/dhs-created-disinformation-governance-team-police-/

https://www.sott.net/article/467375-Panicked-CNN-guest-wonders-how-we-re-going-to-control-the-channels-of-communications-in-this-country

https://ijr.com/dhs-dismisses-concerns-disinformation-board-leader/

Geeez, people, too bad we didn't have a disinformation board in the McCarthy days, huh? All those commies and socialists could have been put into concentration camps. Those radical black activists could have joined them. All the gay activists, a bunch of feminists, the free sex cultist hippies, and all the druggies. Don't forget the illegal aliens!!

 

Reply to: Re:LOL

    (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Monday May 02 2022, @11:23PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 02 2022, @11:23PM (#1241649)
    I also have three journals (here [soylentnews.org], here [soylentnews.org], and here [soylentnews.org]) where the authors advocate trampling freedom of speech for bizarrely vague and petty reasons. In each case, it's by someone who should know better (journalists or law professors). So not only do I agree with Runaway on this issue, I have years of evidence for that support and why I do it.

    There is a real problem here. Zurawik isn't the only authoritative Chicken Little advocating ending US freedom of speech. But Runaway did us a great service by finding someone so blindingly hypocritical about it. I wonder if the rest of my list of problems above have done the same about face, gloating when it was Trump subject to their whims and whining when the tables turned with Musk's buyout.

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