Posted on 09/03/2024 10:30:04 AM PDT by george76
We have previously discussed the anti-free speech views of Clinton’s former Labor Secretary, Robert Reich, who has tried to sell citizens on the perfectly Orwellian view that more freedom means tyranny when it comes to the freedom of expression. He also demanded that former president Donald Trump be banned from ballots as a “traitor” — all in the name of protecting democracy from itself. Last week, Reich wrote a column declaring Elon Musk “out of control” in his refusal to censor citizens and appeared to call for his arrest.
Reich has long been a prominent voice in the anti-free speech movement discussed in my recent book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage. Indeed, he has given a voice to the rage in calling for others to be silenced or arrested.
Elon Musk has long been the primary target of Reich and his allies after dismantling the censorship system at Twitter, now X. Reich called Musk’s purchase of Twitter with a pledge to reduce censorship to be “dangerous nonsense.”
Notably, Reich’s friend, Hillary Clinton, was one of the first to call for a crackdown on Musk after his purchase of Twitter. Hillary Clinton and other Democratic figures turned to Europe and called upon them to use their Digital Services Act to force censorship against Americans.
Reich has always shown a chilling fluidity in how free speech is protected and argued that public interest should be able to trump the right of any citizens in espousing views that he believes are dangerous.
In denouncing Musk, Reich encouraged a campaign to counter his efforts to resist censorship. He wrote that Musk “may be the richest man in the world. He may own one of the world’s most influential social media platforms. But that doesn’t mean we’re powerless to stop him.”
Like Hillary Clinton, Reich is calling on foreign governments and censors to silence American citizens including Musk: “Regulators around the world should threaten Musk with arrest if he doesn’t stop disseminating lies and hate on X.”
He even appears willing to undermine national security programs to stop unfettered free speech. He called for the U.S. government to cut off contracts with his companies despite their critical role in various national security efforts, including the possible rescue of the stranded two astronauts currently in space.
None of that matters to Reich who appears to view free speech as a greater threat to our nation: “Why is the US government allowing Musk’s satellites and rocket launchers to become crucial to the nation’s security when he’s shown utter disregard for the public interest? Why give Musk more economic power when he repeatedly abuses it and demonstrates contempt for the public good?”
Reich’s call to regulate speech in the public interest is the Siren’s Call of every authoritarian regime in history. He will presumably tell us what speech is no longer tolerable for public policy reasons. Our “Indispensable Right” will, according to Reich, be safely in the hands of the European censors who can protect us from errant and dangerous thoughts.
As he explained earlier, “the kinds of things that we do about this is, focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed.” In this way, speech regulations can keep us “moving towards how we recommend content and … how we direct people’s attention is leading to a healthy public conversation that is most participatory.”
The “healthy public conversation” with Robert Reich increasingly appears to be his talking and the rest of us listening.
He is worse than Archie Bunker.
He is Parroting every failed takeover for 100+ years.
To grow up in America and say that is beyond me, the hate from the left is all they have left.
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Poison Dwarf ...
If rank idiocy were censored, Reich would have been gone a long time ago.
The First Amendment is the foundation of all liberty and a hill I am willing to die on.
Everything I have ever heard from Robert Reich just comes up short for some reason.
They’re coming out of the woodwork, like the vermin that they are and always have been, to chime in and verify their Marxist card-carrying status. They want to be ‘on record’ when the great takeover occurs, so there will be no question as to which side they’re on “now”.
And as history always has, it will once again repeat itself when the Marxists eliminate these vermin... so vocally on their side and yet traitors to the nation... first before they target anyone on the right. So the term “useful idiots” applies first to the very ones that push that “new regime” into power, and once in power, they are no longer “useful”, and are then deemed expendable.
If it were not so serious and so horrific a betrayal.. one might almost feel sorry for idiots like Reich. Because we know what’s coming for them, as well as for us. They mistakenly think they are saving themselves... when the exact opposite is the reality.
I read that in Rushs voice thanks
Reich should be arrested for impersonating a circus clcown.
I do so miss RUSH. He informed us and helped us laugh in spite of the bad.
As someone said, they don’t want to censor lies.
The left wants to censor the truth.
Reich has gone from being a vile leftist political operative to completely bat-poop insane. He needs to be locked up for his own safety, if not for the safety of others.
Meaning anything that isn't Leftwing propaganda.
In his statement, “He called for the U.S. government to cut off contracts with his companies despite their critical role in various national security efforts, including the possible rescue of the stranded two astronauts currently in space.” ( for someone so small, he’s very long winded),he ignores the fact that, Boeing, the company that Elon wants to remove from government contracts, is the one that stranded Butch and Sunni aboard the Station in the first place. Elon’s the one bringing them home.
Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Fuhrer!
THE LEFT, DEMOCRATS AND COMMUNISTS HATE FREEDOM AND THE TRUTH.
THEY BELIEVE IN. CENSORSHIP.
Tiny, little mustache on a tiny, little man.
Dwarf said what?
Short people got no reason to live.
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