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Leftists Argue Government Censorship is the Highest Form of Speech
Sult ^ | July 10, 2023 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 07/11/2023 4:50:43 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan

When Judge Terry Doughty issued an injunction in Missouri v. Biden that banned the government from “specifically flagging content or posts on social-media platforms and/or forwarding such to social-media companies urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner for removal, deletion, suppression”, all hell broke loose.

Evelyn Douek, a Stanford law professor, formerly of the Knight First Amendment Institute, warned that preventing the government from colluding with corporations to censor citizens would have a “chilling effect on communication between the government and platforms.”

In traditional free speech jurisprudence, ‘chilling effects’ were inflicted by the government, but Douek is worried that free speech might have a chilling effect on government censorship. After advocating, in cases like Lamont v. Postmaster General, that any interference with speech, no matter how odious including, in the aforementioned Supreme Court case, asking recipients of Communist propaganda to affirmatively agree to receive it, entailed a ‘chilling effect’, liberals don’t want to chill the censors, instead they’re worried that civil rights will chill censorship.

Even though it’s the height of summer, chilling effects on censorship were on display.

Liberals who might have once worried about free speech now fret that the government will be inhibited from censoring free speech. According to CNN, “Legal experts say that the order is overly broad and scholars on online misinformation warned that it could have a chilling effect on the government’s efforts to curtail lies about public health emergencies and elections.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: censorship; civilrights; freespeech; insanity; orwell; tyranny
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"War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength"

Do they EVER listen to themselves?

1 posted on 07/11/2023 4:50:43 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

It is speech delivered by their humanist god.


2 posted on 07/11/2023 4:53:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I wonder what Joe Shmoe Democrats think of this. Even life long Dem voters probably don’t like the idea of the government censoring people


3 posted on 07/11/2023 4:56:27 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

“ Do they EVER listen to themselves?”

Oh, they hear themselves loud and clear.


4 posted on 07/11/2023 4:57:34 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

You got to hand it to them, they can turn wrong into right and darkness into light. It’s the same with Schwab saying you will own nothing and be happy.


5 posted on 07/11/2023 5:04:10 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.

George Orwell, “1984”

Discrimination is equal rights.
Censorship is freedom of speech.
Transwoman is a woman.

Progressives, 2023

The agenda moves forward.


6 posted on 07/11/2023 5:10:59 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

“...the government’s efforts to curtail lies about public health emergencies and elections.”

The proper way for the government to address what it considers “lies” is to publish what it considers “truth”, and let the public be the judge. But the effectiveness of that approach would depend on how much the public trusts the government.


7 posted on 07/11/2023 5:15:40 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: escapefromboston

Youd think so but....The ends always justify the means with these lemmings. Its about maintaining control of the narratives.... so as long as theyre on the ‘right side’ of the narratives.... why would they care? When presented with clear and obvious proof of govt censorship they attacked Musk for revealing it.

The list of hills Pedo Joe dems will be willing to die on is endless.

Pedophilia
Proxy war
Open borders
Soft on crime standards
Election fraud
Russiagate
......


8 posted on 07/11/2023 5:25:31 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
They believe they will be like 1984's Obrien - Smith's Party member antagonist. They believe they will be privileged above the rest of us.
9 posted on 07/11/2023 5:28:05 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: Redmen4ever

Woe unto them who call good evil, and evil good.


10 posted on 07/11/2023 5:49:08 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

The only truth is what they say is the truth? No, sorry. Government and media have lied repeatedly. Why would I believe anything either says?


11 posted on 07/11/2023 6:10:11 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Wasn’t Orwell’s work supposed to be a warning rather than an action plan?


12 posted on 07/11/2023 6:10:20 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
Government shouldn't be censoring ANYTHING, and should have no dialogue with any social platform. The only legitimate role for government in social platforms would be to ensure that those platforms weren't censoring opposing views and thus trying to be political influencers.
13 posted on 07/11/2023 6:24:13 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

You forgot the latest, “Diversity Is Unity”.


14 posted on 07/11/2023 6:25:03 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Rich people abuse Cocaine - who knew.)
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To: neverevergiveup

The most difficult and unbearable, literally unbearable, part for me, of all of the insanity, is that general population accepts and agrees. It is terrifying and truly unbearable


15 posted on 07/11/2023 6:52:46 AM PDT by dkGba
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Democrats used to argue that slavery was the highest form of benevolence. Maybe they still do.


16 posted on 07/11/2023 7:05:07 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Going into debt is like taking the canoe out WITH the tide and coming back AGAINST the tide!)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

“”War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”
Do they EVER listen to themselves? “

Yes they do and they believe it!

Male is female, 2+2=5, men can get pregnant, women can be husbands, men wives ...

They’ve gone way beyond any insanities that Orwell might have imagined.


17 posted on 07/11/2023 7:15:16 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
Liberals who might have once worried about free speech now fret that the government will be inhibited from censoring free speech.

The people we used to call liberals are not the people we're up against today. Today we're up against leftists and totalitarians out to destroy America.

18 posted on 07/11/2023 7:38:54 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: escapefromboston

“Even life long Dem voters probably don’t like the idea of the government censoring people”

Any democrat who actually cared about that already left the Democrat party a while back.


19 posted on 07/11/2023 8:03:41 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: escapefromboston

I disagree. It’s been my experience that lifelong democrats are more than OK with government AND non-government censorship, especially of their political opponents. Same way they’re OK with stripping us of all our other freedoms. Right to own guns. Right to vote. They’re OK with the news media acting as propaganda arms of the democratic party. They’re OK with censorship of conservatives on social media. They’re OK with fellow democrats in office abusing their positions to harass and persecute their political opponents. Which is why they jumped for joy each and everytime Trump got harassed. The raid on Mar a Lago. The indictments. The impeachments. The lawsuits.

One lifelong democrat told me that while he didn’t believe Biden won 2020 because of cheating, IF Biden did win thanks to election fraud, he was OK with it just as long as it got Trump out of the white house.

IF there is any such thing as lifelong democrats who are opposed to government censorship, they’re a very, very tiny minority in the democratic party.


20 posted on 07/11/2023 8:36:32 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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