Feb. 3, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
03:15
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| You're restating it for me to respond to. | |
| Well, yeah, you have freedom of speech, but you're not free to avoid the consequences of your free speech. | |
| Is that what you're saying? | |
| Or if you are taken off the air, or if you are censored, then that's just how it is. | |
| You don't have freedom of speech in that way. | |
| It's just involving the government. | |
| So it is perfectly fine for you to be fired for your political belief. | |
| That's what these people on the left say to me. | |
| Well, wait, that's a second argument. | |
| That it's not the government doing it is irrelevant to the first argument. | |
| Of course there are consequences to what I say. | |
| If I say to somebody in the street, you know, you're truly ugly. | |
| There are consequences. | |
| I may get punched. | |
| They may curse me. | |
| They just may walk away. | |
| Of course, to say that there are consequences to speech is not one of the great insights of modernity. | |
| As regards being shut down, then you don't have free speech. | |
| They can't have it both ways. | |
| Oh, you have free speech until we take it away. | |
| That's exactly right. | |
| That's my viewpoint as well. | |
| Alright, let me leave it at that. | |
| I mean, it is unbelievable. | |
| The words that are spouted today, it's because the people read the Washington Post and the New York Times too much. | |
| So they actually think, or they go to school, and they actually think that those are truly deep points. | |
| Oh, you have freedom of speech, but if you exercise it, I take it away. | |
| Then you don't have free speech. | |
| As regards the argument, well, they're private companies, they're not the government. | |
| The private companies got their immunity to lawsuits on the promise that they would be an open forum. | |
| Google lives a lie. | |
| YouTube lives a lie. | |
| Facebook lives a lie. | |
| Twitter lives the biggest lie among the lies. | |
| Yes, give us immunity to lawsuits, but we'll shut down whatever we differ with. | |
| So I always ask a question with this new notion that, oh, private enterprise can do what it wants. | |
| Really? | |
| So if the big three airlines, Delta, American, and United, announced if you come on board with the Wall Street Journal, you can't fly with us, can they do that? | |
| Yes or no? | |
| Yes or no? | |
| Private company, correct? | |
| Or how about this? | |
| Who'd you vote for? | |
| You voted for Trump? | |
| Can't come on our American flight. | |
| Why not? | |
| It's a private company. | |
| And it's even worse. | |
| I mean, theoretically, if you can't get on American, United, and Delta, you could still get to a destination on Southwest or Alaska or what have you. | |
| But if you don't get on the highway of Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, you don't go anywhere. | |
| I'm Dennis Prager. |
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