Image CreditWikipedia/ceridwen / CC BY-SA 2.0 You can’t force people to be free.
The First Amendment isn’t dying because state actors and a political party colluded with giant tech platforms and media outlets to censor speech and sabotage elections. All of that is just a byproduct of a corrosive trend.
It’s clear to me that many Americans have stopped idealizing free expression. They don’t view it as a neutral value or societal good. Not even a platitude. They definitely don’t believe in counterspeech doctrine . Some of them are fine with compelling you to say things, in fact.
Technocrats, “journalists,” the president, and self-styled experts often view unfettered speech as a cancer that threatens “diversity” or “social justice” or “democracy” or “the environment” or “safety” or “ unions ” or dozens of other issues that are perched high above speech in the hierarchy of modern values. The First Amendment doesn’t work because […]
Excerpt Sourced From: thefederalist.com
