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.
Rush kept this little midget tamped down with non-malicious humor.
Sure miss Rush. Reich is again sticking his ugly head up.
Poor midget. Keeps trying to force normal height guys to arrest other normal height guys.
Buddy, you’re short. God loves you just as much.
This is NOT the Bee???????
You are not the only one, as I miss him too!
FOAD, you troll-looking POS
Can anyone say “tortious interference with contract”?
Bkmk
This is probably what Reich does when he’s had a few:
https://youtu.be/KgMcYaH05lE?si=DgdyvDuoYP9qwpPQ
Reich is perfect for the czar of a Harris’ Ministry of Truth.
What we see in America today, particularly in universities, is Postmodernism, not communism.
Postmodernism rejects all objective truths and the civilization on which it rests (Judeo/Christian Civilization) and seeks to deconstruct it. Unfortunately for Postmodernists and the rest of us, that philosophy only deconstructs...it doesn't rebuild or reconstruct because it has no ideas.
In that sense, I would say that Postmodernism is akin to nihilism. It ends up concluding that life is meaningless.
All that we now see in the Woke and LGBTQ movements and BLM and their complaints that we are all systemically racist is just a version of that Postmodern nihilism. They have no ideas except that we all become angry, seething perverts and deconstructionist (i.e., destroyers) like them.
That obnoxious and stupid little dwarf should have long ago been backhanded across the room.
REICH I SERIOUSLY OVER MATCHED IN A CONTEST HE CHOSE.
REICH IS SERIOUSLY OVER MATCHED IN A CONTEST HE CHOSE.
It’s a system that leads to complete despair.
People need meaning in their lives otherwise they become ships adrift in life being beat up by your circumstances.
Postmodernism gives them no meaning, nor any security that there are absolutes, boundaries, and as a result, safety.
It's just deconstruction for the sake of deconstruction.
It's psychopathic.
His last name is perfect. I live in a country without free speech and believe free speech should be without limits. Even this concerning rise of anti-Semitism I am not on board for hate crime charges. Jewish groups are clambering for it, and I think they are wrong to do so. The best disinfectant I always believe is free speech. When these nut bars at Universities protest, I think what they say should be transparent to all Americans.
I call for the arrest of Robert Reich for “general dumbassery”.
Robert Reich… the eighth dwarf, in body and mind!
Another guy with small man complex
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