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[Louis Foxwell]

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[Billthedrill]

An excellent article, and thanks for posting. The wars for the Internet began quite some time ago, and this site, FR, has been in the front lines from the outset. On a broader scale these very same wars began the first time someone in government decided that only government could own a printing press. He lost that one. It was tried again in many places, most successfully in the Soviet Union, which lost the war to samizdat anyway. Now once more the totalitarian impulse raises its head for another try.

The only way for the left to win the second phase is to either fundamentally change the structure of the internet so that it more closely resembles its old media model or to silence everyone who opposes it.

The old media model, at least in the countries where the Internet arose, was and remains heavily corporate, and it is through the corporation that the latest attempt at control is operating. Google's "don't be evil" has become a joke; Facebook is openly deleting entire threads and users its proprietors don't like, Twitter is currently a red-hot battleground. But so long as there is competition, so long as all of those corporations fear that a competitor will arise, then they know they cannot manage the necessary monopoly on opinion. But with the State's help, they can, and it is that marriage that has so corrupted the conventional media entirely out of recognition and into the monolithic monster it has become.

"Hate Speech is not protected" means simply that whoever gets to define Hate Speech has the monopoly in hand. No wonder every totalitarian heart beats to its cadence. That can squelch the competition, that can solidify political power in the hands of an elite few. It's an excellent working definition of tyranny and it cannot be allowed.

[GOP Poet]

thank you!

[SES1066]

Well written and reasoned.

[stanne]

Conservative pundits could help by reminding listeners that freedom of speech is freedom of governmental intrusion

The football players have the legal right to kneel during the Anthem but everyone else has the right to say they are seditious in doing so. The NFL has the right to fire them.

It is not fun to watch Hannity scuffle through a debate and not get this basic concept

One wonders whether he is neglecting it for ratings or if he is an idiot

[DrPretorius]

Leftists are totally nutz. They always have been and always will be. Nothing they do or say makes sense. The deeply troubling thing about this insanity is the realization that there are over a hundred million people in this country sympathetic to the knee-benders. How can this country survive with such “citizens”?

[FrankR]

“Free speech” is NOT free...a lot of people died so we can have it.

The main advice Americans should heed is, USE IT, OR LOSE IT”.

Sitting on your thumb and watching the ANTIFA crowd take over, is the best way to lose your freedom of speech.

USE IT, OR LOSE IT.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

” The same left that decided James Damore didn’t have freedom of speech at Google now insists that football players have it at the NFL.”

Here is the key to understanding the left, they do or say whatever advances their agenda TODAY. It can be the opposite of what they did or said yesterday as long as it helps them today. That’s why they can be against free speech one day and for it the next. Same for women’s issues, the environment, etc.

[GOPJ]

CNN and the New York Times didn’t care if you disagreed with them. You could try writing letters to the editor. You might even summon a small protest outside their headquarters. And it wouldn’t shake their monopoly over speech in any way. But speech on the internet is crowdsourced. The algorithms can be rigged, and occasionally are, but individuals still have too much choice and too much voice. You couldn’t talk back to your TV. But you can talk back to CNN. And people can hear you.

This is the genius of Greenfield... He sees what's 'obvious' that none of us have really quite seen or understood until he explained it... Yes, it's why they fear us - it's why they've brought out the metaphorical long knives... we are a threat.