I've spent enough time on right-wing web sites to know that conservatives honestly and truly believe that they are the defenders of free speech, and that the "left" is an enemy of free speech. They aren't hypocrites, because that would imply that they are dishonest. They are in massive and deep denial.
https://rumble.com/vl29vn-online-censorship-and-the-washington-posts-pro...
As Greenwald says, Youtube has become the bane of free speech. Censorship by the 1% is growing in leaps and bounds.
Rumble, which founded in 2013, refuses to moderate content. People have been flocking to it.
I'm just passing along the word.
Get ready to Rumble.
So the former Secretary of State and twice-failed presidential candidate has made a few comments about social media to The Atlantic, and rarely have I seen Orwellian doublespeak laid out so plainly. I don't know if she lacks the self-awareness to realize how she sounds, or if for her, saying this stuff publicly is just an expression of power: I will say what I want because this is my world and all you little people just live in it.
A few people were whining about alt-right hate monger Richard Spencer being suspended from Twitter in response to the suspension of Peter Douche, because, you know, Free Speech ™.
If 'Murica truly had freedom of speech, then 'Murica itself would reflect that. But we fucking don't.
Let's be real here: The right-wing has had full carte blanche to say whatever the hell they want for as long as this plutocratic shitstate of a country has existed. Meanwhile, the victims of their bullshit are being charged with crimes while the actual criminals get away with it all.
OK, so…in the aftermath of Charlottesville…I am observing a couple of things…both pretty darn odd and unsettling. So this is a two-parter piece.
The first involves a rather patronizing dynamic of Prog Media personalities urging us not to ‘fall for the trap’ of C'ville. The warning is usually delivered along the lines of:
... at least you'd think so for all the heated discussion it has spawned.
Sigh. Once there was a dream of a site where a community of smart, kind and decent people gathered to organize and make change.
I've been reading through the various threads from Sunday this morning debating whether the word "bitch" should be verboten on this site. One side of the debate is adamant that its use is hurtful and sexist. The other side of the debate is adamant that it is their "right" to use it, regardless of whether it offends people.
Both sides expect the site moderation to side with them and enforce their rights.
Tuesday April 10, 1906
San Francisco, California - Police Attack Protest of Workingmen
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Thursday December 16, 1915
From The Outlook: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Labor's Joan of Arc, Feared by Paterson Authorities
An editorial from yesterday's Outlook defends Miss Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, whom the silk workers call: "Labor's Joan of Arc." The Outlook supports Gurley's right to free speech in the city of Paterson, although they consider her and members of her organization, the Industrial Workers of the World, to be radicals and agitators. Yesterday's editorial follows an article from the November 24th edition which detailed the invasion of Paterson on November 11th by Miss Flynn and a group of prominent New York women. On that day, the Chief of Police stood before the door of the hall and refused to allow Miss Flynn to go inside to speak to the working men and woman of that city. We present, today, both offerings from The Outlook, beginning with the article of November 24:
FREE SPEECH IN PATERSON
