[Fiddlstix]

[Flick Lives]

I can boil down Bazelon’s essay, “Shut up, I’m talking”.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

The First Amendment is the foundation of the American experiment. Take that away and the structure collapses.

[cgbg]

The New York Times needs to find a more suitable home for its new HQ—

Pyongyang.

Then they can publish a lengthy article from “distinguished” professors and health “experts” explaining the health benefits of eating dogs and cats and...

Soylent Green.

[Little Ray]

Wow.
This needs to be broadcast.
Folks need to know what is at stake.

[rightwingcrazy]

“Bazelon saw a right wing using conspiracies and lies to steal the election for Trump.”

Here she spins a lie and a conspiracy theory about alleged right wing lies and conspiracy theories.

[John Milner]

If we’re going to gut the 1st amendment - and I’m 100% against that - can we at least START with banning freedom of the press.

But only for publications like this that are already in favor of that.

[chuckee]

Good. Shut down the Times.

[Jay W]

Of course free speech threatens democracy, as it should do!

So, what’s this law school professor’s understanding of law? of government? of US history?

As most on FR know, the US was not founded as a democracy. It was founded as a federal republic (”and to the Republic for which it stands”).

So, what’s this “our democracy” that this uneducated professor (sorry for the redundancy) speaks of?

[SaxxonWoods]

Free Speech threatens everything and always has.

That’s the whole idea of allowing it.

And for the millionth time, the USA is not a democracy.

[glennaro]

It’s a good thing, then, that America is a constitutional republic ... not a democracy.

[Rummyfan]

"The conspiracy theories, the lies, the distortions, the overwhelming amount of information, the anger encoded in it -- these all serve to create chaos and confusion and make people, even nonpartisans, exhausted, skeptical and cynical about politics. The spewing of falsehoods isn’t meant to win any battle of ideas. Its goal is to prevent the actual battle from being fought, by causing us to simply give up….Trump’s election put him in the position to operate directly through Fox News and other conservative media outlets, like Rush Limbaugh’s talk-radio show, which have come to function “in effect as a party press,” the Harvard researchers found.

Is that not pure one-hundred percent projection?! We went through over two years of an investigation and an impeachment based on nothing but a false intelligence report. We have endured lie after lie after lie about President Trump and his Administration which always come to nothing or simply get disappeared down the memory hole. Now with hard evidence against Hunter Biden which also implicates his no-good father, they are trying to disappear that too.

[Rummyfan]

The purpose of free speech is to further democratic participation….

Who says so?! The purpose of free speech is free speech, an open and wide-ranging of discussion of ideas and principles which is essential in a democracy (or more correctly a representative republic). But the principle of free speech goes far beyond that of political speech.

[sergeantdave]

Hey, NYT, Nazis. Look!

Millions of lampposts waiting for occupancy from sea to shining sea.