There is fundamental confusion on the source of our right to free speech. The right to free speech codified in the 1st Amendment is not a grant of the right of free speech; it is a prohibition against government interfering …
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How Government Stifled Reason’s Free Speech – Hit & Run : Reason.com
For the past two weeks, Reason, a magazine dedicated to “Free Minds and Free Markets,” has been barred by an order from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from speaking publicly about a grand jury …
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Micro-totalitarianism – Thomas Sowell – Page full
The concept of “micro-aggression” is just one of many tactics used to stifle differences of opinion by declaring some opinions to be “hate speech,” instead of debating those differences in a marketplace of ideas. To accuse people of aggression for …
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Thuggish Censors in the Marketplace of Ideas – Jeff Jacoby – Page full
So now in Baltimore, which has the nation’s seventh-highest violent crime rate, the nonracial word “thugs” is banished as racist — even when spoken by a black mayor. Thus the degradation of the public discourse proceeds. Meanwhile, Rawling-Blake’s forced walk-back …
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