Free speech under attack

The New York Post ^ | May 29, 2021 | Michael Goodwin

[TBP]

It has been said that “everything is about sex, except sex, which is about power.”

An intriguing notion, but incomplete. Speech, especially the fight to control the speech of others, is also about power.

How else to describe Facebook’s ban on users sharing the claim the COVID-19 virus came from a Chinese lab? The sudden lifting of the ban, following a White House plan to investigate the pandemic’s cause, only underscores the social media giant’s desire to restrict ­users’ speech.

Now you can’t, now you can. ­Either way, it’s speech control.

If just Facebook and others in Big Tech lusted for such power, it would be bad enough. But free speech is under attack everywhere over the simple right to express ideas that break with the party line.

It’s no coincidence that the party line happens to be mostly identical to the Democratic Party line. Most troubling, law enforcement and much of the media have joined Dems in trying to squelch dissent.

[TBP]

I don't know where anyone got the tide that the left ever believed in free speech. As Christopher Rufo says, "Scratch a progressive and you'll find a totalitarian."

[Kenny500c]

Please repeal the sec.230 exemption for big tech.

Then, as private cos. they can do as they please.

[Bullish]

Since the left can never prove their ideologies are right, they have to just decree everyone else is wrong.

[Eddie01]

Thanks Michael for letting us know. /s

[TakebackGOP]

Michael Goodwin on January 6th, “Trump is responsible for this day of infamy in America: Goodwin”

https://nypost.com/2021/01/06/trump-is-responsible-for-this-day-of-infamy-in-america-goodwin/

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