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"Free Speech is Killing Us" Warns New York Times frontpagemag.com/point/2019/10/…
President Trump is a threat to the First Amendment, says the New York Times, while repeatedly running op-eds arguing against the First Amendment.
Its current masterpiece is, Free Speech is Killing Us.
Its current masterpiece is, Free Speech is Killing Us.
Its innovative argument notes that ideas can lead to violence. Well then, if we're going to stop violence, we have to shut down the flow of ideas until we figure out what's going on here, right?
In 2019, this is what the New York Times has come up with.
“Noxious speech is causing tangible harm. Yet this fact implies a question so uncomfortable that many of us go to great lengths to avoid asking it. Namely, what should we — the government, private companies or individual citizens — be doing about it?”
Oh lots of people have no problem asking it. Nazis, Communists, assorted other well-wishers who want a totalitarian state.
NYT: “Not all speech is protected under the First Amendment anyway. Libel, incitement of violence and child pornography are all forms of speech. Yet we censor all of them, and no one calls it the death knell of the Enlightenment.”
Ah ha! We ban the sexual abuse of children. So why can't we censor people who disagree with me?
This the sort of cretinous nonsense that the New York Times deems worthy of spreading.
This the sort of cretinous nonsense that the New York Times deems worthy of spreading.
NYT: “Free speech is a bedrock value in this country. But it isn’t the only one. Like all values, it must be held in tension with others, such as equality, safety and robust democratic participation.”
Orwell wept. So did Patrick Henry.
Orwell wept. So did Patrick Henry.
