Only when it’s truly free speech at that.
Yes, the article’s attempt to create an equivalency between left and right is as transparent as it is pathetic and false.
Bottom line. It is happening full time. And it’s working better then we care to admit.
Free speech? Great idea - we should try it! Free speech would mean that we would honor the stricture in the Constitution against titles of nobility - because a title of nobility is precisely what a broadcast license is.
The left as we know it today, those who are calling the dance which consider nothing of the old extreme left to be extreme anymore, has only ever been attached to THEIR free speech. Silencing other views has always been a big part of who these Cultural Marxist are.
Their Revolution, if it is in the final form of a boot on the neck of Mankind forever or some SJW screeching incoherently in the face of Mankind forever, is about destruction of and suicide of the civilization.
What a joke. Do you understand how not only your speech is threarened?how about your thoughts? Stand the hell up!! There is truth more than bull shit! Speak up or prepare for your slaughter.
“If we want to preserve Freedom of Speech, we must force all the Conservatives to shut up”, explained the media
Ping.
Maybe Damon Linker would get a clue if the 'center right' called for laws to 'punish organizations that oppose the legitimacy' of the NRA and groups that support the Second Amendment...
We have not spoken freely for 40 years
I’d like to ask the author “what should happen to the press when they knowingly lie about someone?”
The Red half of the country fully embraces free speech. The Blue half rejects it out of hand and believes all opposition must be silenced. We are the true Antifa.
Well, for those who still stand on the Constitution, it states "Congress shall make no law.... abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." It is funny that those who don't believe in absolute freedom of speech do stand for absolute freedom of the [leftist-liberal] press.
number of ideological challenges have arisen in recent years to overturn this norm
We don't have a clause in the constitution stating that it can be overturned by an ideological challenge. It requires and amendment ratified by three fourths of the several States. Ideological overthrow is resorted to by leftists, Clinton and Soros because they cannot muster 3/4ths of the states to consent to an amendment, even if you could get a very venal craven corrupt Congress to agree to it, though I would suggest that 1/3 of the Senate would in any case oppose it.
But there you have it, leftists trying to suggest that something is subject to debate when it isn't open for debate at all, until you get the proposal to the states.
Take away the First Amendment and we’ll go to the second I guess.
Only the left demands free speech for themselves. Any other group i.e conservatives are racist.And terrorists. And Nazi’s and ....
If I cannot speak or write freely what I think and believe, it’s a small step to not being allowed think what I think and believe what I believe. What opponents of the First Amendment fail to realize, or recognize, is that the rights of the Bill of Rights are not granted to us by the government, but are ours by nature as free men and women. The government is there, rather, to protect those rights. To the extent that the government pulls back on guaranteeing those rights, it is breaking its deal with the people, and the day may come when it can no longer expect our loyalty or obedience.
Unpopular free speech is EXACTLY what the 1st Amendment was meant to protect. Even the lowest slave is free to agree with his master.
Starts with a lie.
Democrats are becoming Authoritarians and Fascists
The left are Nazis who have always been the ones burning books and closing newspapers.