Blind hog found an acorn. Lookee here.
A small number of leftists actually believe this.
The vast majority are very happy with censoring anyone they disagree with.
Yeah, Bill Maher gets it right because in the vein of Pastor Niemoller I would say: “First they came for Alex Jones and I said nothing, because I didn’t agree with Alex Jones and thought he was a little crazy”.
Peter Hitchens has commented in one of his columns that the multinational corporations can in some cases be more powerful than “sovereign governments”.
The notion that this is just a private enterprise exercising its prerogative to ban things from its premises cannot apply to massive multinational superpower entities like the cyber conglomerates.
They are trying to control national governments though their power and influence already and speech bans are just an extension of that.
He’s talking about liberalism in the old sense of the word. Most of today’s liberals want just control, they want to control every aspect of your life including which light bulbs, toilets, and straws you can buy.
Most self-described liberals aren’t really liberals. They don’t know what the term means other than being anti-conservative.
What is shocking? Bill understands that if his Leftist cohorts can get away with banning Free Speech, he can be silenced if the Tide turns.
Of course it is interesting to think that the Left is doing this when they ARE NOT in Power. Imagine what happens when they regain Power.
The”left” has adopted as gospel so much of what is not true and embraced so many contrary beliefs that they find themselves going in circles and running headlong into one another over issues that they both believe in and abhor at the same time. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so dangerous to civilization as a whole.
AJ is controlled opposition. Even so, censorship is wrong.
Every one once and a while, BM sticks his gangrene liberal toe into the pool of common sense.
Maher says this purely out of self interest.
What a maroon, he’s confusing liberal with libertarian. In general, both the left and the right want to (mostly) silence the other side. It’s the libertarians that believe in actual free speech.
We might be able to have a quasi-functional country with an opposition party of Bill Mahers, but he might as well be Barry Goldwater as far left as they’ve gone.
Free speech but this was on top of it defense speech against media lies. Basically Social media has decided to muzzle those who are attacked and is organizing a pogrom.
Free speech but this was on top of it defense speech against media lies. Basically Social media has decided to muzzle those who are attacked and is organizing a pogrom. In effect, because they have invited opposition only on their platforms to be batted by the Nazis liberals, they yave forfeited their right to control speech as a private entity. You cannot have it both ways, promote a point and invite an opposition solely to muzzle it in the social media arena like a vulgar show
Bill Maher is showing his age. He will soon be excoriated (or worse) by the fascists most liberals have become.