It’s tough to censor the Internet, but that’s not stopping governments and their big tech accomplices from trying. From Jeffrey A. Tucker at brownstone.org:
The United States has the distinction the world over for being a home to the First Amendment, which guarantees free expression. And yet a mere seven years after its ratification in 1791, Congress violated it in the most severe way with the “Alien and Sedition Acts” of 1798, which made it a crime to engage in “false, scandalous, and malicious writing” against government officials.
The Sedition Act mentioned Congress, the President (John Adams), government generally as protected, but was silent about the Vice President, who was Thomas Jefferson. Upon the election of Jefferson in 1800, it was repealed immediately. Indeed, the censorship was so controversial that Jefferson’s opposition contributed to his victory. https://read.amazon.com/kp/card?
The experience taught an important lesson. Governments have a tendency to want to control speech, meaning writing in those days, even if it means trampling on the rules that bind them. This is because they have an insatiable desire to manage the public mind, which is the story people carry around that can make the difference between stable rule and popular discontent. It has always been thus.
We like to think that free speech is settled doctrine but that’s not true. Thirty-five years after Jefferson’s victory, in 1835, the U.S. Post Office banned the circulation of abolitionist materials in the South. This went on for 14 years until the ban was lifted in 1849.
Then 12 years later, President Abraham Lincoln revived censorship after 1860, imposing criminal penalties on newspaper editors that supported the Confederacy and opposed the draft. Once again, people who disagreed with regime priorities were considered seditious.
Woodrow Wilson did the same during the Great War, targeting anti-war newspapers and pamphleteers again.
Unraveled dub tape! You can piece those back together with pencil and eyeglasses screwdriver set and some tape if it is really a favorite.
I still have CD/Cassette Walkmans that work.
If “progressives” really think that just by existing ol’ whitey is oppressing them then we should find a way to harness that mighty mojo.
Thinking and speaking freely is part of existing and God gave you brain because he intends for you to use it.
Fam was watching some Texas Chainsaw ripoff part 3000 which is out of character.
I knew what it was when the van pulled up to rural ranch but this one had a porno twist and surprise ending.
Free Speech includes degenerate deviancy as a Purpose of Demonstration of what not to do.
It had a name like WEF Elon’s hangout as they run psyops to get you to associate bad things with it.
I sure hope they don’t pay to watch this sh1t ridden slime.