Free speech under attack
Posted By: Imright, 5/30/2021 4:17:10 AM
It has been said that “everything is about sex, except sex, which is about power.” An intriguing notion, but incomplete. Speech, especially the fight to control the speech of others, is also about power. How else to describe Facebook’s ban on users sharing the claim the COVID-19 virus came from a Chinese lab? The sudden lifting of the ban, following a White House plan to investigate the pandemic’s cause, only underscores the social media giant’s desire to restrict users’ speech. Now you can’t, now you can. Either way, it’s speech control.CORRECTION*
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Oklahoma renames state
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‘Growing Violent Extremism
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