Category: Free Speech
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Sponsorship and Censorship
Lefties often conflate lack of sponsorship with censorship when it suits them. It is not that they are too dense to grasp the distinction, but that they willfully ignore it for their ideological purposes. If a government agency refuses to sponsor your art project, it does not follow that you are being censored. To censor…
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John Kerry on the First Amendment and ‘Disinformation’
Unbelievable. And you say we are not in a war? More proof that the Republic is hanging by a thread: Megyn Kelly on Kamala Harris. UPDATE 9/30 It's war for sure. Sasha Stone. Elon Musk. Victor Davis Hanson. Matt Taibi. Which side are you on?
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Quotations from Chairman Maher
Christopher Rufo has her number. The new CEO of NPR, then, is a left-wing ideologue who supports wide-scale censorship and considers the First Amendment an impediment to her campaign to sanitize the world of wrong opinions. Maher is no aberration. She is part of a rising cohort of affluent, left-wing, female managers who dominate the…
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The Insanity of the Left
A vote for Democrats is a vote for such leftist/'woke' insanity as this: JK Rowling has thrown down the gauntlet to the Scottish police. On 1 April, the day the new Hate Crime Act came into force in Scotland, Rowling, who lives in Edinburgh, dared officers to arrest her. She posted a thread on X /…
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Samizdat Prize Winners
Jay Bhattacharya, Miranda Devine, Matt Taibbi. Here. Matt Taibbi, America Enters the Samizdat Era
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Alan Dershowitz, Thomas Nagel, and David Benatar
What do they have in common? Top o' the Stack.
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How Censorship Drives the Woke Revolution
Nick Short at Tom Klingenstein's place quotes from Tucker Carlson's interview of Mike Benz: Benz: You had this new power within DHS to say that cybersecurity attacks on elections are now ‘our purview.’ And then they did two cute things. One, they said mis-, dis-, and mal-information online are a form of cybersecurity attack; they…
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The Obsolete Man
The Twilight Zone marathon is in progress at the SyFy channel. One of the best episodes of the series which ran from 1959-1964 is The Obsolete Man (1961). Rod Serling's opening narration is eerily prescient and eerily relevant to our present police-state predicament: You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads…
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Some ‘Tweets’ on Free Speech
Top o' the Stack. You don't need Twitter to tweet. You don't need X to X-press yourself. Isn't that cute? Here is an important debate between Robert P. George and Yoram Hazony about free speech in regard to campus antisemitism.
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When the Exercise of Rights Contributes to their Loss
Civil courage and prudence are competing virtues. At times competition become collision. Top o' the Stack.
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Free Speech Absolutism
No morally sane and intelligent person could be for it. A Substack entry from last year more relevant than ever in the wake of 'woke' toleration of incitements to violence against Jews at leftist seminaries and elsewhere.
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Dinesh D’Souza on our Incipient Police State
Here, with a link to a trailer of his new movie. ………………………. 'Terrorist' is experiencing semantic spread. It emerged in the Congressional FBI whistleblower hearings that the abbreviation '2A' is a "terrorist marker." That came as news to me. (But see here.) I have been using '2A' from time to time as an innocuous abbreviation of…
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Next Stop: The Catacombs
Catacomb Joe sends us to this Rod Dreher piece in the European Conservative. Believe it or not, the Trial of the Century just happened in a courtroom in Helsinki. The Finnish parliamentarian and physician Päivi Räsänen this week returned to the dock to face hate crimes charges for having quoted the Bible in defense of…
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Support for Trump from Diverse Quarters
The Militant: Defending constitutionally protected free speech is at the heart of fighting the latest assault on political rights by President Joseph Biden’s Justice Department. Special counsel Jack Smith’s second indictment of former President Donald Trump would gut the First Amendment in an attempt to drive Biden’s main rival for the presidency out of the…
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Nat Hentoff on ‘Hate Crime’ Laws
An oldie but a goodie less than six minutes long by the late, great Nat Hentoff, civil libertarian.* We of the Coalition of the Sane and Reasonable need to punch back hard against the willfully self-enstupidated wokesters who confuse dissent with hate. As Hentoff points out, 'hate crime' is thought crime. Here is a recent…