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Title: Right to Tell Govt to Go to Hell: Free Speech, Govt Bullies, Corp Censors & Compliant Citizens
Published: 2017-05-16
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1veLEFvA0Y8
Title: Right to Tell Govt to Go to Hell: Free Speech, Govt Bullies, Corp Censors & Compliant Citizens
Published: 2017-05-16
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1veLEFvA0Y8
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news but is a truly independent alternative because it is one hundred percent people funded without you we cannot build the independent news source that we people deserve visit Kickstarter duck comment support news but free speech is not for the faint of heart George Orwell author of nineteen eighty four noted if liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not2/30
want to hear clearly free speech is not for those who are easily offended readily intimidated or who need everything wrapped in a neat and tidy bow free speech is often messy file mouth obscene intolerant and dignified incentive the cantankerous volatile unfortunately our appreciation for a robust freedom of speech has worn thin over the years in fact many Americans have become fearfully polite careful to avoid the3/30
finance and largely unwilling to be labeled intolerant hateful close minded or any of the other toxic labels that carry a badge of shame today we've come to pry civility over freedom most of all too many Americans held hostage by their screen devices and the Talking Heads on their television sets have lost the ability to think for themselves societies the cherries free speech relish open debate and4/30
controversy and in turn produce a robust citizenry who will stand against authoritarian government indeed oppressive regimes of the past have understood the value of closed mouth closed minded citizens and the power inherent in controlling speech and thus controlling how a people view their society and government fast forward to the present we in the United States have a government with a ravenous appetite for power and a5/30
seemingly desire to turn the two way dialogue that is our constitution Republic into it one way dictatorship emboldened by phrases such as hate crimes bowling stream is on the Michael Gretchen's the government is willing away of free speech confining it to carefully constructed free speech zones criminalizing free speech when it skates too close to challenging the status quo shaming it when it butts up against politically6/30
correct ideals and muzzling it when it appears dangerous free speech the US is no longer free folks Norris free speech still considered an absolute right are essential liberty even by the government which is entrusted by the constitution with protecting free speech instead we've entered into an egotistical insulated narcissistic era in which three steep free speech has become regulate speech to be celebrated what reflect the values7/30
of the majority and tolerated otherwise unless it moves so far beyond our political religious and social economic conference zones asked to do rendered dangerous and unacceptable consider some of the kinds of speech been targeted for censorship or outright elimination first a fifth seat politically incorrect unsafe speed skies is tolerance of built in love political correctness has resulted in the Chilean free speech and the demonizing of8/30
viewpoints that run counter to the cultural elite consequently college campuses have become hotbeds of student led censorship trigger warnings micro aggressions and red light speech policies targeting anything that might cause someone to feel uncomfortable unsafe orphaned sing god bless you after somebody sneezes a that would be a biker bash because of different religions socket bullying intimidating speech warning that school bullies become tomorrow's hate crime defendants9/30
the US department has led the way and urging schools curtail bowling going so far as to classify teasing as a form of bullying and rude and hurtful text messages as cyberbullying third there's hateful speech hate speech speech that tax a person or group on the basis of attributes such as gender ethnic origin religion race disability or sexual orientation is the primary candidate pro online censorship corporate10/30
internet giants such as Google Twitter and Facebook are in the process of determining what kind the speech will be permitted online and what will be deleted are censored then for if there's a dangerous anti government speak as part of its unbilled war on extremism the government has joined with the tech industry to establish a task force to counter all online propaganda by so called terrorists hoping11/30
to recruit support are planned attacks in this way anyone who criticizes the government all lies considered an extremist and will have their content reported to government agencies further investigation or deleted the upshot of all this editing parsing banning of silence thing is the emergence of a new language George Orwell referred to as a new speak it places the power to control language in the hands of12/30
the totalitarian state under such a system language becomes a weapon to change the way people think by changing the words they use the end result is controlled by the government in totalitarian regimes also known as police states where conformity compliance are enforced at the end of a loaded gun the government dictates what words can and cannot be use in countries where the police state hides behind13/30
the benevolent mask and disguises itself it's tolerance the citizen center them self policing their words and thoughts to conform to the dictates of the mass mind lest they find themselves ostracized placed under government surveillance even when the motives behind the control societal language appear well intentioned scourging racism condemning violence denouncing discrimination and hatred inevitably the end result is the same intolerance indoctrination and citizens who become14/30
childlike in weeper hide from certain words this is what is known as the snowflake generation what does all this mean while we're still technically free to speak in reality we are only is free to speak as a government official or corporate sensor may allow US Supreme Court has long been the referee in the tug of war of the nation's tolerance for free speech and other expressive15/30
activities protected by our first amendment the supreme court's role as arbitrary justice in these disputes is undergoing a radical sea change except in cases where it has no vested interest the court has begun to advocate for the government's outsized interest ruling in favor of the government in matters of war national security Kommersant speech when asked to choose between the rule of law and government supremacy this16/30
court tends to side with the government in the two hundred twenty five years since the first amendment to the United States constitution was adopted the rights detail them that amendment which assures the American people the right to speak freely worship freely peacefully assemble tish the government for a redress of grievances and have a free press have certainly taken a beating but none more so than the17/30
right to free speech no where in the first amendment does it permit the government to limit speech in order to avoid causing offense hurting someone's feelings safeguarding government secrets detecting government officials scourging bowling paralyzing hateful ideas and actions eliminating so called extremism combating prejudice and intolerance and the like sadly in the war being waged between free speech Paris who believe that free speech is an absolute18/30
right and those who believe that free speech should be regulated the sensors are winning free speech zones bubbles alone trespass loans anti bowling legislation zero tolerance policies and hate crime laws dreamed up by politicians and prosecutors have conspired who rode our core freedoms if we no longer have the right to tell since worker to get off our property my property please get out I told you19/30
to get off my ass to get off my property you say I don't have to I don't have to I have a federal right to be if we no longer have the right to tell a police officer to get a search warrant before they dare walk through our door I'm recording everything that's happening now one is a tiny why you know that you're gonna come inside20/30
without a word you're gonna come inside without a warrant probable cause you to keep my door down there is no domestic violence there is no domestic violence between two people around here she told her in the house there's one child in the house and one is playing outside officer there's one child you guys not why are you not coming out because we don't live in a21/30
police state Sir martial law has not been established in this country okay help you can you do with the paper all get down on the ground get down the ground Jim had wandered back the door he can't read or heard of his hands are behind his back we need documentation of this violation of their civil rights you are and though you're just going to kick my22/30
door down you kicked my door to you can't my I don't know you have no right you have no right to be here you have no right wired yeah you know you have no right to be here do not touch that you are something if we no longer have the right to stand in from the Supreme Court wearing a protest sign or approach elected representatives to23/30
merely share our views if we no longer have the right to voice our opinions in public no matter how hateful prejudiced and tolerant misguided or politically incorrect they might be then we do not have free speech what we have instead is regulated control government approved speech and sadly the majority of American citizens continue to March in lockstep with the police that just this surveillance has shown24/30
to stifle smother descent keeping a populist cal by fear government censorship gives rise to self censorship breeds compliance and makes independent thought all but impossible the first amendment is a steam Val it allows people to speak their minds air their grievances tribute to a larger dialogue that hopefully results in a more just world when there is no steam now when there's no one to hear what25/30
the people have the say frustration but anger grows and people become more volatile and desperate to force the conversation the problem as I see it it is that we've lost faith in the average citizen to do the right thing we've allowed ourselves to be persuaded that we need someone else to think and speak for us result is a society in which we have stop debating among26/30
ourselves stop thinking for ourselves it's not believing that we can fix our own problems and resolve our own differences in short we have reduced ourselves to a largely silent pass the populace content to watch and not act in this way we have become our own worst enemy as former Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis once pointed out freedom requires courage I'm quoting here those who won our27/30
independence by revolution we're not cowards they did not fear political change they do not exalt order at the cost the liberty rather they were courageous self reliant man with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning apply through the process is a popular government in other words the founders did not fear the power free speech rather they embraced it knowing all too well the nation28/30
with a hearty tolerance for free speech no matter how provocative insensitive are dangerous will be easy prey for a police state were only gun that speech is allow what the police state wants is a nation of sheep that warm meekly March in lockstep with this dictates what early Americans envisioned was a nation of individualists who knew exactly when and how to tell the government to go29/30
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