Posted on 03/21/2024 7:46:10 AM PDT by packagingguy
There was a bit of good news about the future of public discourse this week. The United States Supreme Court, even though stacked with right-wingers, sounded like it was ready to give the Biden administration the go-ahead to try to persuade social-media platforms not to put out content promoting nonsense about the presidential election, conspiracy theories about the pandemic and other assorted bilge and crackpottery...
When other communications revolutions like the printing press, radio, and television came along, they were still largely controlled by the elites. But when the internet came along, regulatory bodies like Canada’s CRTC backed off. It was open season for anything that anyone wanted to put out. No license needed. No identity verification.
What a far cry from the days when the masses had no outlets save things like “man-on-the-street” interviews or letters to the editor or protest placards. We moved from one extreme to the other.
The masses were finally weaponized – not with arms, but with a communications instrument that empowered them against establishment forces like they had never been empowered before. The change represented one of history’s significant power shifts...
The internet undermined the established newspaper business model, greatly reducing the number of papers and coverage and creating a void for Mr. Trump and the like-minded to fill. His cries of fake news had the impact – it’s charted well in former Washington Post editor Martin Barron’s book, Collision of Power – of compartmentalizing the media landscape into left-right silos, which helped bring on the extremes of polarization.
The way to reverse the trend is with rigid regulation, but the free speech lobby in the United States is as fierce as the gun lobby.
(Excerpt) Read more at theglobeandmail.com ...
Free speech is OK as long as its not excessive. 🙄
“The way to reverse the trend is with rigid regulation, but the free speech lobby in the United States is as fierce as the gun lobby.”
F@#$ that. Don’t reverse it. Accelerate it.
ahh the left now going full out against the 1st amendment!
William L. Shirer documented what it was like to work under Nazi censorship in his Berlin Diary and Nightmare Years. Had he not cut his sources' names out of the former they would have been arrested, tortured, and either shot or sent to the camps. But at least they wouldn't have suffered from "excessive freedom."
“Excessive free speech”... Not only Chairman Xi, but Soviet dictator Vladimir Putin himself, couldn’t have said it better.
The Dems continue to both criticize Russia, then they go ahead and try to emulate it here.
“A guy who claims that people have too many rights is one who thinks his own are sacrosanct.”
The Vanguard of the revolution always think they will live in luxury and total freedom while stomping on the masses.
Eventually they find out that they are destined to be just another fool—a “non person” at the Gulag.
IOW, he's bucking for a job in the Biden administration.
used to be, neighbors would call the cops...
Yeah, but now government has to protect the squatter’s rights. If they can’t sleep in my house, they might die of COVID.
Oh how I long for the day when the peasants knew their place.
Eccl 10:20
Martin Luther is a Hero of The Faith!
Yay Fascism! Maybe the Biden regime will be able to get away with censoring its political opponents after all!
Hopefully SCOTUS will actually make the ruling that is obviously in line with the first amendment and rule that no, the government absolutely may not lean on tech platforms to censor its opponents from telling truths the administration and the globalists find inconvenient.
Yuppers
and Now that they have Absolute Power
They won’t go Easily.
This bothers them.
THE SKY IS FALLING!!!! THEY MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SHUT DOWN SPEECH!!!!
I read the first paragraph and knew he was a complete lunatic crackpot.
This is a Canadian publication that is kept afloat by Trudeau-Bucks. What they say is the official government line.
It was Canada. They’ve already surrendered all their rights to their tyrant.
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