Tag: First Amendment

“Republicans are expected to press the executives on GARM’s collaboration to silence, demonetize, and deplatform conservative voices and media outlets, potentially in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and seeming to exceed far beyond the organization’s stated aim to promote ‘brand safety.’”

“We are now seeing what is arguably the most dangerous anti-free speech movement in our history. Under <Biden’s> administration, we have seen a massive censorship system funded and directed by the government.”

“If government could evaluate the content of speech and punish what it characterizes as intolerance or disinformation, we’d have no freedoms remaining. Government is the negation of liberty. It exists by stealing, prohibiting and compelling. Speech is the last bastion against the its totalitarian impulses.”

“We have been discussing the alarming <leftward> shift in favor of censorship and speech regulations. Free speech is now portrayed as an existential threat to the country as opposed to the very thing that defines us as a free people.”

“If the leftist elites who currently control the many facets of our culture—the press, academia, entertainment, business, and, yes, even many religious institutions—continue unabated, the noble idea and ideals upon which America was established will soon become a regrettable lost cause of the past.”

“Characterized as “the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country,” the government’s COVID-19 response to the COVID-19 pandemic constituted a massively intrusive, coercive and authoritarian assault on the right of individual sovereignty over one’s life, self and private property.”

“Every major 20th-century regime that made policing its citizens’ speech a priority ended up creating vast networks of volunteer political informants to spy on people’s private conversations. Such networks could be found in Imperial Russia, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union.”