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MSNBC legal analyst says First Amendment makes US ‘vulnerable,’ calls for ‘common sense’ speech restrictions
NY Post ^ | 02/29/2024 | Alexander Hall

Posted on 02/29/2024 7:20:55 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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.”

She added, “I hope that by dissecting it, explaining it, and educating the public, we can all see disinformation for what it is so that we can begin to push back against it.”

When asked by host Rachel Maddow whether America is just as susceptible to disinformation as other countries, McQuade argued that it is even more vulnerable.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 1984; bigbrother; dissent; firstamendment; freespeech; msnbc; orwellian; restrictions; speech
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Barbara's inner commie is coming out.
1 posted on 02/29/2024 7:20:56 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

STFU!!


2 posted on 02/29/2024 7:21:56 AM PST by Agatsu77
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To: ChicagoConservative27

OK. Let’s start by banning MSNBC.


3 posted on 02/29/2024 7:22:28 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She makes an excellent point. Barbara McQuade should shut up, since that is the only one that should be controlling her speech.


4 posted on 02/29/2024 7:23:24 AM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Their limitations to our basic rights are always “common sense”... They can STFU.


5 posted on 02/29/2024 7:23:30 AM PST by TiGuy22
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They can all go dark. It would actually help, as then only Action can Speak.


6 posted on 02/29/2024 7:24:13 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Useful Idiot


7 posted on 02/29/2024 7:24:22 AM PST by twister881
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yep. She’s been around awhile. Deep State.


8 posted on 02/29/2024 7:24:33 AM PST by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Like there was never any disinformation in the Soviet Union, China or North Korea. /s


9 posted on 02/29/2024 7:24:36 AM PST by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

10 posted on 02/29/2024 7:24:51 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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“legal analyst says First Amendment makes US ‘vulnerable,’ calls for ‘common sense’ speech restrictions...”

Speech restrictions for whom? These are the exact same hippies that claimed they had their speech and lives stifled because they were “afraid” to express themselves.

I will never comply to illegal laws that the elites will never comply to...


11 posted on 02/29/2024 7:24:57 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“disinformation” campaigns were invented by these leftist commies. дезинформация (dezinformatsiya - KGB)

Totalitarian rule is far more threatening to the US, and the first 2 Amendments are a legal “vaccine” to prevent it.


12 posted on 02/29/2024 7:25:34 AM PST by epluribus_2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Let’s ban Ulysses again. It’s pure smut.


13 posted on 02/29/2024 7:25:43 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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the United States’ “deep commitment to free speech” makes Americans uniquely susceptible to disinformation campaigns

If Americans were taught critical thinking skills in school, this would not be a problem.

14 posted on 02/29/2024 7:26:49 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

These are the same people that say “But Trump is going to take away your rights...”


15 posted on 02/29/2024 7:26:52 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: ChicagoConservative27

ok
1. limit journalist to 30 words per article/broadcast
2. require background checks on politicians
3. No assault articles
5. all publications will have to strictly regulated by Dept of Truth
6. Applications for demonstrations will have a 10 day waiting period
7. Speech dealers will need fed licenses
8 (Fanny’s Law) No more bump stocks on FA (Fat/Federal Attorneys)


16 posted on 02/29/2024 7:28:25 AM PST by john316 (JOSHUA 24:15 ...choose you this day whom ye will serve...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not just this one. The “press” hates our freedom. They see hating freedom as part of our job.


17 posted on 02/29/2024 7:33:17 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Communists are not real big on Freedom of Speech.


18 posted on 02/29/2024 7:35:37 AM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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MSNBC legal analyst says First Amendment makes US ‘vulnerable,’ calls for ‘common sense’ speech restrictions

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. about what id expect MS13nbcLSD would say.


19 posted on 02/29/2024 7:36:12 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: grobdriver

20 posted on 02/29/2024 7:36:55 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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