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https://dailystormer.in/msnbc-legal-analyst-says-first-amendment-makes-america-vulnerable-calls-for-censorship/
MSNBC Legal Analyst Says First Amendment Makes America Vulnerable, Calls for Censorship
Andrew Anglin
March 1, 2024
There are all of these different explanations for censorship.
When this first started, with me, in 2017, they said that saying mean things
on the internet would cause people to kill themselves. Seriously, that was
the argument. You can look it up.
Then you got the "election meddling" and "Covid disinformation." We always
hear about "hate speech," but frankly, that hasn't ever really been the main driver of censorship. It is all of these other weird things, which are much more vague and confusing. This is partially because if the rules were "just don't say nigger," you wouldn't really be able to censor all that much.
The current explanations for censorship allow wide swaths of speech to be censored without specific explanation.
New York Post:
https://nypost.com/2024/02/29/us-news/msnbc-legal-analyst-says-first-amendment-makes-us-vulnerable-calls-for-common-sense-speech-restrictions/
MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade argued Monday that the United States' "deep commitment to free speech" makes Americans uniquely susceptible to disinformation campaigns.
McQuade, a University of Michigan law professor, went on "The Rachel
Maddow Show" to promote her new book, "Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America." She said her "goal" with the book
was to spark a "national conversation about truth and our commitment to
it."
"Actually, Rachel, I think we're more susceptible to it than other countries, and that's because some of our greatest strengths can also be
our Achilles Heel," McQuade said. "So, for example, our deep commitment to free speech in our First Amendment. It is a cherished right. It's an important right in democracy, and nobody wants to get rid of it, but it makes us vulnerable to claims [that] anything we want to do related to speech is censorship."
She argued, "Of course, the Supreme Court has held that all fundamental rights, even the right to free speech, can be limited as long as there is
a compelling governmental interest and the restriction is narrowly
tailored to achieve that interest. But I think any time someone tries to
do anything that might limit free speech, people claim censorship."
Haha.
"I think any time someone slits someone's throat, people claim murder."
All limits on speech are censorship. The only forms of speech that are
legally banned are actionable and imminent threats, libel, and (apparently) "harassment." There are no limits on political speech, and there can't be without repealing the First Amendment.
Of course, it doesn't matter, because the government can force internet companies to censor. Then, if people try to organize publicly, the
government can send Antifa to attack you and then arrest you for having the shit beaten out of you by hired government thugs.
No one cares about freedom of speech or thinks it's a "cherished right."
That is just a lie. The Republicans, including the homosexual sadist Josh Hawley, have been calling for mass censorship to protect the interests of
the Jews. There is bipartisan support for total information control, there
is just some disagreement about which information to control.
The United States has less freedom of speech than China or Russia. I can go
on Weibo right now and say "the kikes are using niggers as a battering ram against the Aryan race," and it will never be deleted or hidden. Please
note: China does not have a First Amendment, and does not claim that free speech is a fundamental Chinese value.
If I went on Weibo and criticized the Chinese government, it might be
deleted (if enough people saw it and someone complained about it). But
that's all. I can talk about Jews, gays, women, Israel, the Ukraine,
vaccines, election fraud, Hunter Biden - whatever.
The United States is the most censorious country in the world, save their subsidiaries in Europe, and possibly North Korea.
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