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Law Professors for 'Speech Control'
Townhall.com ^ | May 8, 2020 | Michael Barone

Posted on 05/08/2020 5:21:27 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/08/2020 5:21:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
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We get crap like this, and we get governors shutting down churches, and Fauci declaring that synagogues are not allowed to open until the Fall.

If we’re going in that direction, can we at least outlaw Islam and shut down every media outlet that espouses a Progressive viewpoint? There appears to be no reason we can’t.


2 posted on 05/08/2020 5:24:42 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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Citizens for cement shoes


3 posted on 05/08/2020 5:29:23 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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Anyone whose been through law school can tell you why Law professors are academics and would usually be crushed in the competition of private practice.


4 posted on 05/08/2020 5:29:39 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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I read the headline, and the words LAW PROFESSOR and then just the very first sentence and stopped.
I said to me, One hundred dollars these guys are from HARVARD. To my further disgust I was right.
These are what is turning out the lawyers these days. I think the “VIRUS” is less of a threat to this country.


5 posted on 05/08/2020 5:31:55 AM PDT by CaptainAmiigaf ( N.Y. Times--We print the news as it fits our views)
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To: Kaslin

Who hires such people?


6 posted on 05/08/2020 5:34:32 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: Kaslin

Constitution be damned.


7 posted on 05/08/2020 5:38:22 AM PDT by cranked
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Democrats are evil scum.


8 posted on 05/08/2020 5:41:48 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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And they seem to mind, as their next sentence indicates: "Significant monitoring and speech control are inevitable components of a mature and flourishing internet, and governments must play a large role in these practices to ensure that the internet is compatible with a society's norms and values."

And we are supposed get along with these cretins?

"We are all in the together"! - I hardly think so...

9 posted on 05/08/2020 5:42:49 AM PDT by Altura Ct. (uNACA)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“...China was largely right and the United States was largely wrong.” So write Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods, law professors at Harvard and the University of Arizona, respectively, in The Atlantic. ...”

And yet, Gee whiz, “Law Professors” Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods, ya both live HERE, instead of in the communist utopian worker’s paradise of China that ya seem to love so much... You two commie assclowns can ALWAYS GTFO of here, ya know, and go live there...


10 posted on 05/08/2020 5:43:00 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: CaptainAmiigaf

Pubic school teachers, college professors.

Lawyers, judges.

My top two Enemies of America groups.


11 posted on 05/08/2020 5:43:40 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: cranked

Government dictates society’s norms and values in all tyrannies.


12 posted on 05/08/2020 5:44:35 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (A deep and terrible ignorance born of abject corruption is required to hate our president.)
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Here’s one:

San Antonio passes resolution declaring the term ‘Chinese virus’ hate speech - as Ted Cruz calls the decision ‘nuts’

I have often been in a situation in this town where Spanish speakers expect me to learn Spanish. They treat me wth hatred for not rolling R sounds. I say learn English. The San Antonio land side with the invaders. My friends cringe. Military people. The roll over. But this is where wimpiness leads. I know that. Why don’t they?


13 posted on 05/08/2020 5:49:24 AM PDT by stanne
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The reality of network effects mean that Twitter, Apple, Facebook and Google will have to be regulated to ensure free speech. This means that they must be prohibited from removing content that isn’t explicitly illegal or an incitement to illegal acts.


14 posted on 05/08/2020 5:50:40 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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Jack and Andrew, who died and made you God! While you are at it please define social norm...… good luck with that one!


15 posted on 05/08/2020 5:53:05 AM PDT by Lockbox
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Great post. Thanks. HOORAY Michael Barone. Named names. Their SOCIOPATH’S DEMERIT SCORE is noted and getting worse.


16 posted on 05/08/2020 5:53:36 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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"Significant monitoring and speech control are inevitable components of a mature and flourishing internet, and governments must play a large role in these practices to ensure that the internet is compatible with a society's norms and values."

And what if a society's norms and values should drift away from truth, justice, and liberty, as they have in many society's throughout history, including the present one?

And what if speech revealing such drift should be censored?

And what if the agents of government who monitor and control such speech should themselves be corrupt?

And what if the unmonitored and uncontrolled speech should bring forth the solutions to important problems, as they have many times in the past? And what if these solutions never succeed because the agents of government who monitor and control speech should suppress them?

And who will be these agents of government, empowered to monitor and suppress the speech of others? Will they be the moral and intellectual superiors of those whose speech they monitor and control, or will they be, as is certain, those least qualified morally and intellectually to monitor and control the speech of others?

THESE PEOPLE ARE GREAT THINKERS?????

17 posted on 05/08/2020 5:54:44 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump, praying for guidance, giving his salary to charity, is on the Side of the Angels.)
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Sounds like the good professor should be hustled off to a reeducation camp to learn farming from the bottom up.


18 posted on 05/08/2020 5:59:39 AM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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Any American who believes that speech or internet speech should be censored is not really an American. Plain and simple these people are communists or fascists. They do not understand liberty, they don’t understand freedom, or respect the Constitution.

In 1776, they would have been tarred, feathered, and sent to Canada.


19 posted on 05/08/2020 6:00:30 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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Anyone arguing for “speech control” should be the first ones that have their speech controlled...


20 posted on 05/08/2020 6:04:04 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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