Free Speech

Many will argue that Twitter and other tech companies censored Mr. Senger, Mr. Changizi, and Mr. Kotzin of their own volition, and as they are private actors, the First Amendment is inapplicable. 

That argument should be rejected.

Elon Musk’s exciting and dramatic move represents a bold attempt to overthrow the regime of control, propaganda, and enforced opinion as manufactured by the administrative state.

Undereducated journalists have “fact checked” things they’re not qualified to understand, “misinformation” now seems to mean “words by anybody who disagrees with me.” With the Joe Rogan debacle, it all falls into place. 

Assange was merely doing what the vast majority of the mainstream media has long since neglected: his job.

YouTube bans any video that contradicts pronouncements of the World Health Organization.

Should Facebook have a policy of removing “misinformation” in the first place?

Climate Feedback’s “fact-check” wasn’t about actual facts.

While Prince Harry, some Senators, and the American people may be confused about the First Amendment, the founders were not.

Corporations cannot censor, only governments can.

YouTube abruptly deleted some of Louder with Crowder videos, blocked him from uploading new videos for a week and permanently demonetized his channel. “It means I can make $0 on YouTube,” he explains.

America has entered into a new era of thought control. What is being insisted upon now used to be known as tyranny and criticized as dictatorship.

Section 230 simply says that only internet users are responsible for what they write, not the private companies whose websites host the commenters. Secondly, it affirms what the First Amendment already implies—that private companies don’t have to host speech that violates their values.

Real censorship is when the state uses its legal power to use force to determine the content of speech we should engage in (either by banning non-rights violating speech or forcing one to say things one would not do so voluntarily). If the state can arbitrarily determine what Twitter must post, it goes from being the protector of freedom of speech to its censor.

A free-market option to counteracting the bias of today’s internet tech companies.

How Facebook lets activists restrict my videos based on something I never said.

What is the true test of a person’s commitment to free speech? The true test does not come when he permits people to say those things he deems acceptable. The true test comes when he permits people to say those things that he deems offensive.

Abandoning objectivity—factual reporting—and spreading misinformation, no matter how popular, is not in media companies’ self-interest in the long term.

The new totalitarians demand that no one criticize their view of the world.

When entitled leftists declare themselves the sole arbiters of truth, it’s crucial that we all speak up for free speech.

Letting President Trump use the police power of the government to fight the Left is self-contradictory. “If the owners of a media platform do not get to decide who can appear on it, then who gets to make that decision?” Government force will not achieve freedom. It will only achieve tyranny.

With his historic statement against Communist China for the ideal of free speech and the United States of America, Shaq showed a prime example of the highest moral action. Leonard Peikoff once said that to save the world is the simplest thing — all one has to do is think. Shaquille O’Neal did exactly that.

The view that social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook are corroding our public discourse has become increasingly accepted wisdom, the starting point for a debate rather than the debate itself.

On at least some platforms, all speech should be free. The more that is blocked, the less we learn.