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Time For Conservatives To Get Ruthless Fighting For Free Speech
Kurt Schlichter

Posted: Jun 03, 2019 12:01 AM

Liberals, having lost the battle of ideas because their crummy, corrupt collectivist ideas suck, want to ban our ideas because people are naturally going to choose our ideas over theirs. Well, normal people are, because we know we would pick up the tab for their Utopia. The thing about leftists is that their ideas about the need for command and control over every aspect of human life always presume they will be the ones personally commanding and controlling. You will never meet a young socialist who looks forward to a proletarian career picking up garbage or cleaning toilets.

Here’s the undeniable fact: Liberals are actively pro-censorship. They scoff at this fact because everyone knows that it’s the liberals who are open-minded and us conservatives who seek to muzzle the yearning voices of the masses. But, as you should presume about absolutely everything a liberal says is, this too is a lie.

Liberals love censorship.

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Liberals love censorship.

Both sides are absolutely guilty of this and both selectively apply their outrage and or demands based on what they like and don't like. I rarely see anyone fighting for true 'freedom for all' which includes businesses curating content and/or choosing what speech to add to products. There is zero mutual respect. If a Conservative says God Bless America, in the wrong context, a Liberal wants censorship. If a Liberal waves a gay pride flag, a Conservative's head explodes. And God forbid someone in a check-out line in a store says "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas".

If a Christian bookstore has every right to not carry Buddhist books, or if we fight for a bakery choosing not to put a gay marriage message on a cake, then we must also accept that a social media platform has the right to curate the content they want to display as well.

It is freedom for all or freedom for none. The First Amendment protects private entities from government interference in things like speech, the press, association, etc. It does not demand the government force any private entity to allow all speech (which is contrary to the meaning of the First Amendment). The First Amendment is clear - it limits government. It does not limit or control the people (as individuals or those who group together collectively in a corporation).