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California Dem Ted Lieu say he would 'love to regulate' speech
Foxnews ^ | 12/13/18 | Lukas Mikelionis

Posted on 12/13/2018 11:43:59 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants

California Democrat Ted Lieu bemoaned on Wednesday that though he would “love to be able to regulate the content of speech,” including that on Fox News, he can’t do it because of the U.S. Constitution.

Lieu made the comments during an interview about the testimony of Google CEO Sundar Pichai at a House Judiciary Committee hearing, where he dismissed the allegations that the tech giant amplifies negative stories about Republican lawmakers, saying “if you want positive search results, do positive things."

CNN host Brianna Keilar praised Lieu for his performance but asked whether other Democrats should have used the committee to press Google on conspiracy theories that spread on their platforms.

“It's a very good point you make. I would love if I could have more than five minutes to question witnesses. Unfortunately, I don't get that opportunity,” Lieu said of the committee hearings.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; briannakeilar; california; censorship; clintonnonnews; cnn; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; firstamendment; freespeech; google; hatespeech; liberalism; lukasmikelionis; sundarpichai; tedlieu; tyranny
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More evidence that liberals want to eliminate the Constitution.
1 posted on 12/13/2018 11:43:59 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Lieu is one creepy little SOB. He loves putting his foot in his big mouth.


2 posted on 12/13/2018 11:46:48 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The Enemy Within


3 posted on 12/13/2018 11:47:45 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Goebbels believed in regulating speech. Where’s the pic of that little clubfoot? Or a pic of Lieu will do.

Both are fascist pigs.


4 posted on 12/13/2018 11:51:11 AM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Looks to me like Google, Facebook, Instagram, etc etc are already doing that for him.


5 posted on 12/13/2018 11:54:04 AM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Blood of Tyrants

We could eliminate free speech....but that would be wrong...where have I heard something like that before?
May God have mercy on Mr. Lieu’s soul. That boy is very twisted.


6 posted on 12/13/2018 11:55:36 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Typical lib went and said what he really thinks. Sig Heil, zipperhead.


7 posted on 12/13/2018 11:56:11 AM PST by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

In lieu of Lieu California needs someone that understands why the bill of rights was written.


8 posted on 12/13/2018 11:57:02 AM PST by plain talk
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Regulate your own Lieu.

Shut the —— up!


9 posted on 12/13/2018 12:00:01 PM PST by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 $215.71 frm 50% increase in 1.2183 yrs)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Before it happens...Lieu can go die.


10 posted on 12/13/2018 12:01:22 PM PST by Leep (we need a Trump like leader for President 2024!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Except his and the Democrats - they’d be exempt and made part of their retirement package.


11 posted on 12/13/2018 12:03:05 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

You’re welcome to try and shut me up Ted, but you better pack your breakfast, lunch and dinner. Little leftist pigs don’t get to decide what we can say in America.


12 posted on 12/13/2018 12:05:42 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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re> More evidence that liberals want to eliminate the Constitution.

It is us they want to eliminate. Hitler only killed an estimated 6 million of the Jewish. Liberals want to eliminate 125 million conservatives .

13 posted on 12/13/2018 12:05:51 PM PST by IC Ken (Stop making stupid people famous)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Start with regulating your own speech Teddy.


14 posted on 12/13/2018 12:08:35 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

He loves getting in the news. He is “my” Congress-critter and lives on the street behind me. He really needs the job, and the future earning opportunities it brings. If not, he would just be a city or state government attorney with a mediocre income and no fame.


15 posted on 12/13/2018 12:08:45 PM PST by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
They are not even trying to hide their intentions anymore

Back in the day I could never understand how 6 million Jews could be sent to camps, gassed to death and then incinerated, nor could I fathom what sort of people would do such a thing

I certainly never believed it could ever happen here

These days, I now completely understand part about who could do such a thing, I’m beginning to see the how it could happen and I am completely disabused of the naive notion that it could never happen here - or that it would be limited to Jewish people this time around

The demonizing and dehumanization of the intended targets is already under way and well along

16 posted on 12/13/2018 12:09:39 PM PST by rdcbn
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.


17 posted on 12/13/2018 12:09:43 PM PST by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I understand his point, I would like to stuff a dirty sock in that pie hole


18 posted on 12/13/2018 12:10:30 PM PST by aces
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Back in the day I could never understand how 6 million Jews could be sent to camps, gassed to death and then incinerated

Back in the day, I would never have expected that 5.5 million "gentiles" could be sent to camps, gassed to death, incinerated, and then written out of history ... but leftists lying for multiple generations can certainly make progress at erasing history just like they erase people.

or that it would be limited to Jewish people this time around

IT WASN'T LIMITED TO JEWISH PEOPLE THE FIRST TIME.

19 posted on 12/13/2018 12:13:54 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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“'However, I would love to be able to regulate the content of speech. The First Amendment prevents me from doing so, and that's simply a function of the First Amendment, but I think over the long run, it's better the government does not regulate the content of speech,' he continued." - Lieu

Please!!

As Constitutionalists and so-called "conservatives," we must choose our battles carefully and judiciously if we are to create credible awareness of, and attachment to, the Constitutional principles we love and promote every day!

"Progressive regressives" are, every day, violating and perverting those principles underlying the Constitution, but, if one reads Lieu carefully, this statement does not deserve all the blowback he's getting, IMHO, because he does, in fact, recognize the boundary set out by the Constitution: most Progressives do not do so.

20 posted on 12/13/2018 12:15:11 PM PST by loveliberty2 (`)
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