Will someone in our free press stand up for free speech?
Just as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been harangued by politicians and legacy media journalists about not doing more to censor speech on his social media platform, an opinion column Tuesday in The Washington Post called for passing “hate speech” laws that take direct aim at undermining the suddenly problematic First Amendment.
Richard Stengel, a former editor at Time magazine who then served as the State Department’s undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs under President Barack Obama, argued that the First Amendment is outdated and that America’s unique protection for free speech just doesn’t work anymore.
Stengel wrote that while traveling the world and “championing the virtues of free speech,” he “came to see how our First Amendment standard is an outlier.”
Yes, the First Amendment is an “outlier,” and for that, we should be incredibly thankful as Americans. It is undoubtedly a cornerstone of American exceptionalism.
Not for Stengel, however.
Stengel wrote that our broad protections of free speech, which allow “hate speech”—however one may define that—“diminishes tolerance” and “enables discrimination.”
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They are not hate speech laws, they will be hate freedom of speech laws,.
ReplyDeleteGet it, somebody else will dictate what is hate speech..you will be saying crusted dough in stead of white bread. Cars are racist, climate is racist, math is racist as well as english, the rise to get rid of spelling is to get rid of english. Having a wall is racist, but the libs want one at syria turkey border, the ok sign is racist, what a crock, PROTECT your first amendment. Please add to my list of ridiculous racist propaganda that you have read, heard or seen
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Most of these a$$holes screaming "hate speech" need to take a good hard look in a mirror.
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