War on ‘Fake News’ part of a war on free speech

Started by voter, August 17, 2017, 04:31:19 AM

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walkstall

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.- James Freeman Clarke

Always remember "Feelings Aren't Facts."

voter

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

Cryptic Bert

Quote from: voter on August 17, 2017, 06:53:49 PM
Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

Who exactly is restricting free speech?

voter

Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from the other people of the world. It is the Bill of Rights, and only the Bill of Rights, that keeps us from becoming the world's biggest banana republic. The moment we forget that, the American Dream is over.

Hoofer

All animals are created equal; Some just take longer to cook.   Survival is keeping an eye on those around you...

voter

Americans are whistling down to the concentration camps.

Ms.Independence

Quote from: voter on August 17, 2017, 07:01:45 PM
Painful as it may be to hear it, there's nothing special about the people of this country that sets them apart from the other people of the world. It is the Bill of Rights, and only the Bill of Rights, that keeps us from becoming the world's biggest banana republic. The moment we forget that, the American Dream is over.

Wow.  Just wow!  By George you've had an epiphany.  Without out our Constitution and our Bill of Rights, we'd be like other countries.  Imagine!  Thanks for the enlightenment.   :popcorn:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another...Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...

voter

The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time.