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To: frank ballenger

> That old term “Freedom of Speech” should allow him to question the election and anything else. <

The 1A’s freedom of speech protects you against government retaliation, and not against an employer’s retaliation.

Nevertheless, you make a VERY valid point from a moral point of view. Fifty years ago it was usually okay to have an opinion contrary to what was politically correct.

No longer.
Disagree with Climate Change, and you’re cancelled.
Disagree with transexuals playing on a girls’ team, and you’re cancelled.
Disagree with the 2020 election, and you’re cancelled.

On and on it goes. It’s not governmental fascism. It’s societal fascism.


10 posted on 05/10/2024 3:16:36 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Leaning Right
It’s not governmental fascism. It’s societal fascism.

The two are intertwined.

FBI Confirms It’s Restarting Online Censorship Efforts Ahead Of 2024 Election

14 posted on 05/10/2024 3:21:04 PM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: Leaning Right
The 1A’s freedom of speech protects you against government retaliation, and not against an employer’s retaliation.

I now regard *EVERY* corporate effort to censor people as being initiated by the government.

All this government has to do is threaten them, and they will censor anyone the government wants censored.

It is government censorship by proxy.

19 posted on 05/10/2024 3:29:39 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Leaning Right

50 years ago, a public opinion that, say, schools should be segregated by race or women should be deprived of equal rights before the law would have gotten you cancelled just about everywhere. It’s not a new thing.


60 posted on 05/10/2024 7:41:30 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king (Just a Texas Playboy at heart)
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