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scottie55

(1,400 posts) Tue Jun 21, 2016, 10:13 AM Jun 2016

The Left Shutting Down Free Speech

Kimberley Strassel (Author) was complaining on Morning Joe about how people like Condi Rice were not allowed to speak at some college, and how the mean liberals were silencing free speech.

How horrible.

Since criminals like Condi Rice are never prosecuted when they commit treason I guess "silencing them" is all there is left for the left evidently.

Kimmie forgot to mention why some folks might not want to hear her "mushroom cloud" voice again....

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https://www.amazon.com/Intimidation-Game-Left-Silencing-Speech/dp/1455591882

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The Left Shutting Down Free Speech (Original Post) scottie55 Jun 2016 OP

Ironic to read this just after a new "terms" agreement, limiting speech here, popped up. LOL Freelancer Jun 2016 #1

free speech means that the government can't stop you Fresh_Start Jun 2016 #2

True. But that's always the answer given. Freelancer Jun 2016 #4

She is Professor at Stanford University and Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution Agnosticsherbet Jun 2016 #3

Freelancer

(2,107 posts)

1. Ironic to read this just after a new "terms" agreement, limiting speech here, popped up. LOL

Reply to scottie55 (Original post)

Tue Jun 21, 2016, 10:59 AM

Jun 2016

I just saw that all Trump employees are bound by some clause in their employment contracts to NEVER say anything bad about Trump -- even after termination -- or they can be sued for everything they've got. Reveals a lot.

Post-restraint of free speech seems to be the rage on both sides of the political spectrum now. IMO, being left with the choice to either completely filter what we say, or not to say anything, isn't just unDemocratic. It's unAmerican.

Fresh_Start

(11,343 posts)

2. free speech means that the government can't stop you

Reply to Freelancer (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 21, 2016, 11:31 AM

Jun 2016

it doesn't mean that private business can't penalize you or stop you

You don't have to be on DU if complying with the TOS is too arduous.

Freelancer

(2,107 posts)

4. True. But that's always the answer given.

Reply to Fresh_Start (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 21, 2016, 12:13 PM

Jun 2016

"You can always go somewhere else if you don't like it." Well, eventually, that "somewhere else" becomes a pen. Since the '60's, I've watched the right to protest be gradually eroded by that same logic. Now a permit is required to protest and if granted, the location is out of sight and barely in audible range.

Hearing the same "if you don't like the rules, go somewhere else" comment come from the intellectual descendants of the liberals of the '60s is truly disheartening.

Maybe the difference between an old liberal and a young liberal is vaster than I imagined.

Oh well.

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)

3. She is Professor at Stanford University and Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution

Reply to scottie55 (Original post)

Tue Jun 21, 2016, 11:36 AM

Jun 2016

I am not sure how not being invited to speak at some university interferes with her freedom of speech.

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