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Elitist attacks on free speech (illegal memes!) are motivating resistance


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2018 Nov 11, 10:12am   1,991 views  17 comments

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https://steemit.com/news/@ladyofliberty/attack-on-free-speech-the-positive-side

That being said, free speech is even more than a right: it is an essential tool for freedom. The bold attack on free speech portrays that there are ripples being created that are so threatening to the State authority that it actually needs to ban expressions as trivial as memes, for its mere protection. This illustrates evermore how feeble its power really is, for something as simple as witty pictures with words on them are threatening a massive government. In broader terms, showing that individuals simply breaking their minds out of the engineered mold is highly detrimental to their great illusion. They know this, and it is why they are trying to crack down.


www.youtube.com/embed/XkDkvCscLNU

She rambles and repeats a bit, but I don't care. Pleasant to watch her anyway, and she has some great points.

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1   Tenpoundbass   2018 Nov 11, 10:44am  

No Vocal Fry no High pitch uncertainty trying to recall what her Commie College Professor's Tranny Husband told her.

She must be Conservative. My ears aren't hurting.
2   cmdrda2leak   2018 Nov 11, 11:26am  

She mentions the Orwellian aspect of the modern liberty of free speech being recast as a violent, hateful force by the "state". Though I think what she means by "state" is the censors. In this case, the FAANGs companies, whose power, reach, and wealth exceed that of many nations, as well as the willing "useful idiot" mobs who are all too willing to swallow and repeat the narrative.

The reason that the non-player character theme is so aggressively suppressed by FAANGs is because it strikes at the heart of the mechanism those companies use to exert control over their grievance mobs in the general public.

Perhaps, rather than railing against the SJW "useful idiots", we should endeavor to find the messaging that can disconnect them from the FAANGs matrix.
3   Patrick   2018 Nov 11, 12:01pm  

cmdrdataleak says
Perhaps, rather than railing against the SJW "useful idiots", we should endeavor to find the messaging that can disconnect them from the FAANGs matrix.


I agree. One of those messages is definitely The Red Pill, ie, that the female algorithm in mate selection is not as complex or inscrutable as they would like you to believe for their own benefit. And the truth is pretty exactly opposite of what feminists claim to be true.

I myself was converted from an NPC Bay Area liberal with all of the normal liberal "of course" points of view through exposure to Chateau Heartiste's brilliant exposition of Red Pill theory. Amazing that that site has not been stomped on yet. He's veered a little too far to the right for my taste even now, but I still glean useful nuggets of truth from it almost daily.
4   Evan F.   2018 Nov 11, 1:31pm  

Tenpoundbass says
No Vocal Fry no High pitch uncertainty trying to recall what her Commie College Professor's Tranny Husband told her.

She must be Conservative. My ears aren't hurting.


According to the YouTube about page she's an anarchist, but whatever you wanna believe is cool, bruh
5   anonymous   2019 Feb 16, 6:19am  

Elitist attacks on free speech - let's start with the "elitist" at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue... The President and Chilling Free Speech

While the public discourse has been consumed over the realization that abortion physicians actually let viable babies who survive late-term abortions die — as well as whether President Donald Trump or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will blink first over the issue of congressional authorization for building a wall at the country’s southern border, to say nothing of the race- and sex-infused mess at the top of the government in Virginia — a profound free speech issue has been bubbling below the radar.

A former White House communications aide and former Trump campaign adviser who has written a blistering tell-all book about the Trump White House now finds himself in litigation about whether he can freely publish his book — which he has already done — and freely profit from it.

The former Trump friend and colleague is Cliff Sims, and his book is called “Team of Vipers.” It makes Chris Christie’s book about his bitter experiences with those around the president look as if it were written by Mother Teresa by comparison. The president and his folks, who knew of the book before it was published, apparently bristled at the stories related and allegations contained and opinions expressed in it.

This is an unhappy tale, not with regard to accuracy or fairness in reporting but with regard to the doctrine of fair comment and the natural and constitutional right to the freedom of speech. Here is the back story.

When Sims began his time as an official of the Trump campaign, he signed a nondisclosure agreement, or NDA. NDAs typically bar the revelation of information gathered during one’s employment. They were nearly universal in the Trump campaign.

Sims’ NDA also provided that if there was any dispute between him and the campaign over the meaning of the NDA or whether he or the campaign violated it, that dispute would be resolved in secret arbitration, not in a public courtroom in front of a judge and jury. The NDA further provided for liquidated damages — a pre-agreed-upon amount of money that Sims would owe to the campaign if arbitrators found that he violated the NDA.

What about the freedom of speech and the right to a fair trial? The theory of an NDA is that the signer has knowingly waived those rights in return for the employment contemplated by the NDA. This is a quid pro quo. You get hired at a job you want; you get the pay and perks you sought; you agree to keep silent the secrets you learn. And if there is a dispute about what you can say and to whom you can say it, the dispute itself will be resolved in secret because you agreed to that in the NDA. If the arbitrators find that you violated the NDA, you owe a certain amount of money to the other party — in this case, $10 million to the Trump campaign — whether you caused damages in that amount or not.

That is at least the theory of how these NDAs are supposed to work. The courts do not favor these agreements, because they often stifle free speech — and often it is speech in which there is a material and serious public interest. Yet as they are between private parties, NDAs are enforceable.

In this case, the speech is about Trump — not as a candidate but as the president. So after Sims’ book was published and after the folks in the West Wing, where he worked for a year, read what he wrote, the Trump campaign — it still has a skeleton staff and lawyers on the payroll — filed a complaint with the designated arbitration entity, demanding the liquidated damages of $10 million.

Then Sims’ lawyers filed a complaint in federal district court, asking a judge to enjoin the arbitration proceeding because what Sims’ wrote he learned about while working for the government, not on the campaign. The campaign will no doubt point to an NDA it claims Sims signed when he began his tenure in the West Wing and argue that it applies as effectively as the NDA he signed for the campaign. Sims recalls no NDA at the White House.

Here is the problem for Trump. The campaign is not subject to the First Amendment, but the White House clearly is. Even if Sims did sign an NDA at the White House, the First Amendment bars the government from enforcing it, and several federal statutes protect whistleblowers, no matter what they agreed not to say at the outset of their work, unless it is classified material being protected. In the West Wing, Sims worked for the federal government, not Donald Trump personally and not the campaign.

Can the government punish speech of someone who agreed to remain silent? In a word: No. It cannot deter speech, and it cannot chill speech. Chilling takes place when government behavior is so oppressive that the potential speaker is afraid to speak about what he knows.

And if the speech is comment about public people or public policy, it is protected by the doctrine of fair comment. That is a Supreme Court rubric underscoring the truism that the whole purpose of the First Amendment is to protect and encourage open, wide, robust speech about the government — speech that sheds light on dark government corners, speech that is unafraid of and immune from the slightest whiff of government redress, speech that can be harsh in tone and discomfiting in delivery.

It is that brand of public free speech that the Framers intended to protect by the First Amendment. As one of President Trump’s no-holds-barred predecessors famously said, “if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.”

If presidents can use legal artifices to punish the speech they hate and fear, they are no longer presidents in a free society. They are princes in an empire.

http://www.unz.com/anapolitano/the-president-and-chilling-free-speech/
6   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Feb 16, 6:23am  

Kakistocracy says
Here is the problem for Trump. The campaign is not subject to the First Amendment, but the White House clearly is. Even if Sims did sign an NDA at the White House, the First Amendment bars the government from enforcing it, and several federal statutes protect whistleblowers, no matter what they agreed not to say at the outset of their work, unless it is classified material being protected. In the West Wing, Sims worked for the federal government, not Donald Trump personally and not the campaign.


Yeah, why can't Trump protect whistleblowers like Obama did?

???
7   anonymous   2019 Feb 16, 6:24am  

but but Obama - OrangeManBad - damn SJW commie libruls

How did I do ?
8   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Feb 16, 6:27am  

Kakistocracy says
How did I do ?


Not too good, considering Obama prosecuted more whistleblowers under the Espionage Act than every single President since it passed in 1917.

http://time.com/4638617/chelsea-manning-commutation-obama-whistleblower-legacy/
9   anonymous   2019 Feb 16, 6:27am  

In the words of Saint Reagan of the church of the GOP - There you go again - but but but but Obama

The Dotard is presently occupying space at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that would better be taken up by someone with some degree of ethics, intelligence and decorum just to name a few things and a yuugge plus would be not uttering a lie (just for one 24 hour period would do), alternate fact, taking credit for something someone else did or gross embellishments of what ever he thinks he did.
10   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Feb 16, 6:29am  

Kakistocracy says
In the words of Saint Reagan of the church of the GOP - There you go again - but but but but Obama



There you go again, #OrangeManBad but ignoring that Obama was worse on many grounds, such as Whistleblowers.

Or, transparency... in the most transparent Administration ever. That went after journalists and leakers with ruthless abandon.
11   anonymous   2019 Feb 16, 6:31am  

Kindly stay on topic - Obama is not the topic - it's the Dotard
12   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Feb 16, 6:36am  

Kakistocracy says
Kindly stay on topic - Obama is not the topic - it's the Dotard



No, the topic is Free Speech and, since YOU brought it up, Whistleblower protections.

Mentioning the past President who was indisputably the most aggressive prosecutor of Whistleblowers in US History is completely valid and on topic.

How can you tell the Good if you don't recognize Great Evil?
13   RC2006   2019 Feb 16, 8:32am  

Kakistocracy says
Elitist...orange man bad orange man bad...empire


Enough with the copy paste walls of bs come on.
14   MisdemeanorRebel   2019 Feb 16, 12:28pm  

Herdingcats says
Who brought up whistleblowers?

Am I missing something here or is MLTC mistaken about whom brought up the subject of whistleblowers?


Missing Something. I only quoted the relevant part in my response. I will further bold it to assist your reading comprehension:

MisterLearnToCode says
Kakistocracy says
Here is the problem for Trump. The campaign is not subject to the First Amendment, but the White House clearly is. Even if Sims did sign an NDA at the White House, the First Amendment bars the government from enforcing it, and several federal statutes protect whistleblowers, no matter what they agreed not to say at the outset of their work, unless it is classified material being protected. In the West Wing, Sims worked for the federal government, not Donald Trump personally and not the campaign.
15   Ceffer   2019 Feb 16, 1:51pm  

In the Great Socialist Paradise, one may say anything that one pleases. However, there is no guarantee that public and publicized humiliation, legal strip-mining of assets, or even a quick, summary bullet to the brain (with the bill sent to relatives) is out of the question.

One can tell when one's 'free speech' is no longer free, when the oxygen leaves the room and the LibbyFuck pod people turn in unison, stare balefully, and start shrieking and pointing (happens in Santa Cruz routinely).
16   anonymous   2019 Feb 17, 2:48pm  

RC2006 says
Enough with the copy paste walls of bs come on.


Where to ?
17   anonymous   2019 Feb 17, 2:49pm  

Elitist attacks on free speech - let's start with the "elitist" at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue - no one quite as "elite" as the Dotard right now

The Trump attacks seeking retribution on SNL are not a threat to free speech ?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/02/17/trump-attack-saturday-night-live-reactions/2899634002/

It's worth remembering that no other president in decades publicly threatened "retribution" against a television network because it satirized him.

A State of Emergency for the First Amendment:

The President of the United States has declared a comedy show should be "looked into" for making fun of him, and raised the possibility of "retribution."

Let's just let that sink in for a moment, America.

Elitist Trump's attacks on free speech are motivating physical violence that is getting more dangerous - how long before we have our Khasoggi episode here and someone gets killed?

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