Posted on 07/25/2023 11:08:47 AM PDT by Heartlander
In case you were in doubt—and if you were in doubt, that means you aren’t following what is happening in America to the most important freedom of all—Pew Research has confirmed that Democrats value free speech far less than Republicans do.
Read the following statistics and conclusions and weep for our country:
Here are 10 conclusions:
No. 1: The most important human freedom is freedom of speech. Free speech is what makes the pursuit of truth possible. It is what makes the advancement of science possible. It constitutes the very definition of a free society. And free speech is what makes human dignity possible. People who cannot say what they believe are dehumanized. They ultimately become robotic beings exemplified by North Koreans.
No. 2: America has been the freest country in the world for all of its history. That is why the French gave America the Statue of Liberty. It is rapidly relinquishing that title.
No. 3: Free speech is seriously threatened for the first time in American history.
No. 4: The threat to free speech comes entirely from the Left.
No. 5: There is no example in history of the Left attaining power and allowing free speech. From the French Revolution to the Russian Revolution to the Maoist takeover of China to almost any university in America today, wherever the Left comes to power, it suppresses speech.
No. 6: The Left must suppress speech in order to retain power. If it were to allow dissent, it would lose its hold on power.
No. 7: That is why conservative speakers are rarely allowed to speak on college campuses. Left-wing professors, deans, and administrators know—consciously or subconsciously—that an effective conservative speaker can undo years of left-wing indoctrination in just 90 minutes.
No. 8: Given that “Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are much more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to support the U.S. government taking steps to restrict false information online (70% vs. 39%),” the often-stated claim that “there is little difference between the two parties” is false.
No. 9: All tyrannies label dissent “misinformation.” That is what Vladimir Putin’s government labels all dissent in Russia today.
The communist regime in the Soviet Union named its official newspaper “Pravda”—the Russian word for “truth”—because in a left-wing tyranny, the left-wing regime determines truth. Anything else is “misinformation” or “disinformation.”
That Western societies are moving toward Soviet-like suppression of speech is obvious in America and was made particularly clear in 2020, when the then-prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, told her country: “We will continue to be your single source of truth” and “If you do not hear it from the government, it is not true.”
Fittingly, Ardern was awarded with two teaching fellowships at Harvard University—one of them at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, based at Harvard Law School, where she “will study ways to improve content standards and platform accountability for extremist content online.”
No. 10: Liberals are abandoning liberal values—in particular, their storied commitment to free speech. There are far more liberals than leftists, but over the past few years the liberals’ unswerving commitment to the Democratic Party, unswerving commitment to The New York Times, The Washington Post, or virtually any other mainstream news source, and their unswerving opposition to conservatives and the Republican Party has led them to embrace and unswervingly vote for left-wing values.
As for the future, this is what Pew reported regarding young Americans: “The shares of younger adults who say they support tech companies and the government restricting false information online have increased substantially since 2018 (by 14 and 19 percentage points, respectively).”
But there is a better reaction than to weep.
Fight.
The democrats value POWER over everything
The Democrats think they will be the censors.
If the censors were Freepers the Democrats would be howling about “fascism” like the old Berkeley “Free Speech Movement” of the 1960s.
The Democrats think they will be the censors.
If the censors were Freepers the Democrats would be howling about “fascism” like the old Berkeley “Free Speech Movement” of the 1960s.
The stupid well-indoctrinted Democrats don’t get it.
If you have true free speech it cannot be the government, or corporations colluding with government, that determines what is “misinformation”. Such a situation merely sanctions the government official line as the only legitimate line and with it the government attempts to silence anything but the official line. That scenario is the opposite of the very heart of free speech.
55% of Americans say the government should be able to “restrict false information” on the Internet. Sad that so many are so dumb. The Red Plague is spreading.
If the bass turd left could get away with it, they’ll cut the tongues out of all non-RATs. Free speech is where the truth normally comes from. RATs can’t handle the truth.
It was so important the Founding Fathers guaranteed it in the very first Amendment to the Constitution. They rightly realized that it was the absolute greatest imperative to the function and survival of a democratically elected representative republic.
“If the censors were Freepers the Democrats would be howling about “fascism” like the old Berkeley “Free Speech Movement” of the 1960s.”
Right on this.
Free Speech is scary! It’s like barreling down the highway without a brake pedal and without a steering wheel. I mean, the car could go anywhere!
That should have been evident by which party steals the most yard signs. I may despise democrats, but I would never steal yard signs as that would infringe on their free speech.
Duh
Libtards CENSOR free speech.
There’s no “favoring” involved
Pull your head our out of your butt
There’s no “value” involved
They’re freakin nazis
Wuli, I don’t care WHO determines what is and what is not disinformation. WHAT I care about is anybody doing anything about it. Information can be wrong. So what?
Let disinformation sit side by side with whatever else is out there and let people decide for themselves what to believe.
I don't think it's of their own doing, I think it's the deep state using the power of wordsmithing and propaganda. I just think the democrats are too stupid to see it for what it really is?
While the pinko-Dims results are expected, WTH is wrong with so many Repukes? I’m more PO’d about that than the tyrannical left.
Old news
The Democrats have free speech. They will value it more after it is taken away from them, which it will. They are just too stupid to realize it. They think it will be different this time because they are so smart and good.
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