[packagingguy]

Just imagine if the "little people of flyover country" were allowed to express themselves as they saw fit.

They might decide to vote for Hitler, Putin, Trump, Poilievre or Attila the Hun.

They might even say something "against establishment forces"!

Heavens to Betsy!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Excessive free speech is a breeding ground for more Trumps

Yeah, how dare the common folk exchange ideas freely and make up their own minds on who they want to vote for? Who do they think they are - free citizens with God-given rights that shall not be infringed by any government? The nerve...

[crazyhorse691]

Lawrance Martin seems to fully indulging in excessive free speech her/him self.

[Don@VB]

>>>The way to reverse the trend is with rigid regulation, but the free speech lobby in the United States is as fierce as the gun lobby.<<<
I’ll bet this guy wouldn’t dig it if the “Rigid regulation” bounced him off the internet.

[RoosterRedux]

Well, the headline is correct.

Trump speaks the truth. And, given that free speech encourages people to speak the truth, more free speech is bound to lead to more Trump-like people.

[x]

The internet undermined the established newspaper business model, greatly reducing the number of papers and coverage and creating a void for Mr. Trump and the like-minded to fill. His cries of fake news had the impact – it’s charted well in former Washington Post editor Martin Barron’s book, Collision of Power – of compartmentalizing the media landscape into left-right silos, which helped bring on the extremes of polarization.

That happened long before Trump. He was reacting to a polarization that was already in the country and in its media.

Canada was always the part of North America that rejected liberty. Now that rejection is getting serious. But it's not like we're that far behind.

[central_va]

Not the Bee.

[sauropod]

Who is this turdblossom Lawrence Martin?

[mykroar]

Canada

[cgbg]

The left always said that they wanted “power to the people”.

What they meant was “power to people we like, no power to people we hate”.

[Dead Corpse]

Not sure if this idiot is begging to be Ruled by his betters... or if he was PAID to put out pure agitprop to create the impression that being “ruled” is a good thing and is being parroted by fellow travelers and “algorithms” to stifle dissent...

[AppyPappy]

Democrats: “We need to have limits on free speech”
Us: “OK let’s outlaw porn”
Democrats: “First Amendment! First Amendment!”

[wjr123]

Brit newspaper. This is why we had a revolution against the king.

[sauropod]

My written response to this swill would be:

“Excessive 1984-style fascism is a breeding ground for more Lawrence Martins”.

[wjr123]

Brit newspaper. This is why we had a revolution against the king.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Free speech is OK as long as its not excessive. 🙄

[Eleutheria5]

“The way to reverse the trend is with rigid regulation, but the free speech lobby in the United States is as fierce as the gun lobby.”

F@#$ that. Don’t reverse it. Accelerate it.

[ComputerGuy]

...the free speech lobby in the United States is as fierce as the gun lobby...

Count on it.

[TexasFreeper2009]

ahh the left now going full out against the 1st amendment!

[Billthedrill]

A guy who claims that people have too many rights is one who thinks his own are sacrosanct. It doesn't work that way.

William L. Shirer documented what it was like to work under Nazi censorship in his Berlin Diary and Nightmare Years. Had he not cut his sources' names out of the former they would have been arrested, tortured, and either shot or sent to the camps. But at least they wouldn't have suffered from "excessive freedom."

[Thunder90]

The Dems continue to both criticize Russia, then they go ahead and try to emulate it here.