Big Tech Must Disavow the ‘Hate Speech’ Activism of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to Uphold America’s Proud Tradition of Free Speech

While Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford dominated the news on Thursday, the House of Representatives held a hearing on threats to free speech on social media. A lawyer at a powerhouse law firm that has won 9 Supreme Court cases in the last seven years explained how one leftist group endangers America's legacy of free speech, by fighting "hate speech" on the Internet.

"Our goal is to create a society where we can engage in civil discourse, we can have very sharp disagreements about core issues and still live together peacefully,"Jeremy Tedesco, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) told PJ Media after the hearing. "That's one of the great distinctions of American society, and we risk losing it if we go down this line of labeling mainstream conservative and Christian speech 'hate speech.'"

"I think one of the greatest threats to intellectual freedom is the whole concept of 'hate speech,'" the lawyer explained. He warned that "Internet companies are at the front end of reaching people in our culture, because they interact with so many people in our country every day."

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