“Free speech is free speech. It is our first amendment right.” Being new to the alternative media scene, Doctor Malone may be unaware just how much the courts have trimmed the ostensibly absolute First Amendment. That doesn’t mean his analysis in this article isn’t valuable. From Malone at rwmalonemd.substack.com:
DHS and election officials should not control the narrative or free speech
People running for office have always bent opinion, lied and obfuscated about their positions, politics and facts. Often they believe their truths, which may be very different from someone else’s truth or the “real” truth. This is part and parcel of a democracy. One might even say, it is the “American Way.” It is not the government’s job, to determine what we believe, what we wish to vote for or to ensure accuracy of campaign speech.
IT IS NOT THE JOB OF ELECTION OFFICIALS OR THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TO CONTROL THE NARRATIVE OR FREE SPEECH.
That is mission creep.
They are constraining what is acceptable to discuss, what are approved opinions. They are purposefullly constraining the Overton window.
This is information control in the worst way.
It is not the job of the Department of Homeland, and local or national election officials to stop free speech, whether that “speech” is – on social media, TV or on a stage.
Conflating illegal foreign influences in elections, computer bots from foreign countries and free speech into the same governmental oversight is not ok. They are not the same.
This is a slippery slope.
