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Hysterical Reaction to Free Speech
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| Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report. | |
| Any doubt that many progressives have abandoned their commitment to free speech was erased by the hysterical reaction to Elon Musk's effort to purchase Twitter and return the company to its roots as a free speech zone. | |
| Former Secretary Robert Reich and woke neocon Max Boot fredd that Musk's commitment to free speech threatens democracy. | |
| Those confused by how free speech threatens democracy should remember that for neoconservatives and many progressives, democracy means allowing the people to choose between two largely identical supporters of the welfare warfare state. | |
| In this version of democracy, those whose views are outside the welfare warfare mechanism, such as libertarianism, are marginalized. | |
| More ominous than the gripping of ex-government officials and pundits was the threat of prominent Democratic politicians to haul Musk before Congress. | |
| These politicians likely want an opportunity to smear Musk and other supporters of free speech as promoters of hate and Russian disinformation. | |
| Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin and other Senate Democrats, none of whom seem to have read the First Amendment, are also investigating whether it would be appropriate for Congress to force tech companies to moderate content on their platforms. | |
| President Biden is not waiting for legislation to ramp up the attack on free speech. | |
| His administration has created the Disinformation Governance Board located in the Department of Homeland Security. | |
| The board's purpose is to coordinate government and private sector efforts to combat disinformation with a focus on Russia. | |
| The focus on Russia is not surprising since Russia disinformation has joined racism and sexism as a go-to justification to smear and silence those whose views and factual information contradict the political and media establishment's party line. | |
| Biden's choice to head the Disinformation Governance Board, Nina Jankowicz, is a spreader of disinformation herself. | |
| In 2020, for example, Jankowitz parroted the lie that Russia created the damning materials found on Hunter Biden's infamous laptop. | |
| Jankowicz's resume also includes stints as an advisor to the Ukraine government and a manager of National Democratic Institute programs in Russia and Belarus. | |
| Jankowicz's background suggests she will never call any lie peddled by the U.S. War Party disinformation. | |
| The Disinformation Governance Board may not directly censor social media. | |
| However, by encouraging tech companies desperate to maintain good relations with the federal government to remove unapproved opinions from their platforms, it can achieve the same result. | |
| This is why anyone who values free speech, which should include everyone who cherishes liberty, should not fall for the claim that tech companies' behavior is nothing to be concerned about since it does not involve government censorship. | |
| Sadly, some misguided conservatives have joined progressives in promoting legislation imposing new regulations on big tech. | |
| Increased regulation will only empower Nina Jenkiewicz and her ill to further pressure tech companies to restrict free speech. | |
| It will also hurt consumers by reducing the ability to find affordable goods and services online. | |
| The only way to protect free speech on the internet is to make online platforms truly private through a complete separation of tech and state. | |
| The drive to censor is driven by the woke mob and authoritarian establishments' fear that their policies could not maintain majority support if forced to compete in a free market of ideas. | |
| This shows that even enemies of liberty sense that the days of the welfare warfare state are numbered. | |