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Charlie Kirk's tragic assassination has sparked a discussion about hate speech and the 1st amendment: Cenk Uygur: "So what? He said terrible things about MLK. Ok so Charlie doesn't like him and said bad things, so what? I can't understand why people then say 'We have to shut it...

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The first amendment does not exist to protect polite speech that everyone agrees with. It exists to protect speech that people - or the government - find “offensive.” That’s the whole point. And that protection extends to Shiloh Hendrix.
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The first amendment does not exist to protect polite speech that everyone agrees with. It exists to protect speech that people - or the government - find “offensive.” That’s the whole point. And that protection extends to Shiloh Hendrix.

Brittany Hughes

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RFK Jr. blasts Governor Walz for not understanding the first amendment: “We’re in a very frightening time now where we are seeing the normalization of censorship. I saw this quote Governor Walz, said last year where he said that the First Amendment is not absolute, that it does not protect misinformation or disinformation, and he is legally wrong there, it does protect that. The First Amendment protects speech, true speech, and it protects lies. It protects good speech, and it protects bad speech. It protects all speech.” They didn't pass the First Amendment to protect speech that everybody likes. They passed it to protect the speech that's inconvenient, that's abhorrent, that nobody wants to hear, that's dangerous.” “Louis Brandeis said that the remedy for bad speech, the remedy for lies is not censorship, it's more speech. If we don't understand that, we will lose democracy for sure.”
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RFK Jr. blasts Governor Walz for not understanding the first amendment: “We’re in a very frightening time now where we are seeing the normalization of censorship. I saw this quote Governor Walz, said last year where he said that the First Amendment is not absolute, that it does not protect misinformation or disinformation, and he is legally wrong there, it does protect that. The First Amendment protects speech, true speech, and it protects lies. It protects good speech, and it protects bad speech. It protects all speech.” They didn't pass the First Amendment to protect speech that everybody likes. They passed it to protect the speech that's inconvenient, that's abhorrent, that nobody wants to hear, that's dangerous.” “Louis Brandeis said that the remedy for bad speech, the remedy for lies is not censorship, it's more speech. If we don't understand that, we will lose democracy for sure.”

End Tribalism in Politics

261,846 views • 2 years ago

“12,000 people a year are being arrested in the UK for ‘offensive’ things they write online.” “30 a day are being arrested for ‘speech crime.’” Writer Andrew Doyle just revealed how UK police have been trained to think their primary role is to “monitor speech” and “arrest people for offensive speech.” “In the US … you’ve got the First Amendment as this barrier to the imposition of authoritarian rule.” But that barrier is now weakening. “Tim Walz, in the vice presidential debate with JD Vance, literally said … that the First Amendment doesn’t cover hate speech or misinformation.” “Actually, it does.” “You’re allowed to say things that are false. Free speech also covers lying,” Andrew Doyle
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“12,000 people a year are being arrested in the UK for ‘offensive’ things they write online.” “30 a day are being arrested for ‘speech crime.’” Writer Andrew Doyle just revealed how UK police have been trained to think their primary role is to “monitor speech” and “arrest people for offensive speech.” “In the US … you’ve got the First Amendment as this barrier to the imposition of authoritarian rule.” But that barrier is now weakening. “Tim Walz, in the vice presidential debate with JD Vance, literally said … that the First Amendment doesn’t cover hate speech or misinformation.” “Actually, it does.” “You’re allowed to say things that are false. Free speech also covers lying,” Andrew Doyle

Jan Jekielek

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ELON MUSK: "We need freedom of speech and the freedom of speech is only relevant if people you don't like are allowed to say things you don't like. It can't be that the government is deciding what is misinformation and what is not misinformation."
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ELON MUSK: "We need freedom of speech and the freedom of speech is only relevant if people you don't like are allowed to say things you don't like. It can't be that the government is deciding what is misinformation and what is not misinformation."

DogeDesigner

269,906 views • 1 year ago

Jordan: You don’t like certain speech? The best speech for wrong speech is more speech. Raskin: I have to know if your first amendment principles extend to Trump. He is personally suing CBS for $20 billion. What did they say about him? Did they lie about him? No, it has nothing to do with him. The President is shaking down the media.
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Jordan: You don’t like certain speech? The best speech for wrong speech is more speech. Raskin: I have to know if your first amendment principles extend to Trump. He is personally suing CBS for $20 billion. What did they say about him? Did they lie about him? No, it has nothing to do with him. The President is shaking down the media.

Acyn

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Elon Musk: We have to have free speech in order for civilization to advance. “It's a bigger deal than you'd think. It's the kind of thing that you don't know what you're missing until you don't have it. In a lot of places, people don't have it. It's important to bear in mind that the nature of free speech is, the acid test for it is, are people you don't like allowed to say things that you don't like? Otherwise it's not free. It can't be just be things that you like because eventually somebody's not going to like what you say and they're going to shut you up. That's the essence of free speech. That's why it's the First Amendment in this country. And if we lose that, I think we lose the bedrock of democracy.” From: NBC Universal Marketing Conference, April 18, 2023
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Elon Musk: We have to have free speech in order for civilization to advance. “It's a bigger deal than you'd think. It's the kind of thing that you don't know what you're missing until you don't have it. In a lot of places, people don't have it. It's important to bear in mind that the nature of free speech is, the acid test for it is, are people you don't like allowed to say things that you don't like? Otherwise it's not free. It can't be just be things that you like because eventually somebody's not going to like what you say and they're going to shut you up. That's the essence of free speech. That's why it's the First Amendment in this country. And if we lose that, I think we lose the bedrock of democracy.” From: NBC Universal Marketing Conference, April 18, 2023

ELON CLIPS

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RFK Jr: “Tim Walz has said that he doesn't think that the First Amendment protects misinformation or disinformation, that the government gets to decide what kind of speech is protected.” “Kamala Harris has said the same thing; that if you promote misinformation we're going to punish you, you've abused your privilege. In other words to her, the First Amendment is a privilege not a right.” “When we give government the power to be the arbiter of what speech is protected and which isn't, then that is the end of democracy.”
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RFK Jr: “Tim Walz has said that he doesn't think that the First Amendment protects misinformation or disinformation, that the government gets to decide what kind of speech is protected.” “Kamala Harris has said the same thing; that if you promote misinformation we're going to punish you, you've abused your privilege. In other words to her, the First Amendment is a privilege not a right.” “When we give government the power to be the arbiter of what speech is protected and which isn't, then that is the end of democracy.”

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Elon Musk: Freedom of speech is the ability to say what you want to say without being thrown in prison or killed "One of the first things the Nazis did when they came in, is to shut down all the press and any means of conveying information. If there had been social media, I think it would have been impossible to hide, if there'd been freedom of speech as well. It's worth noting that the First Amendment in the United States was freedom of speech because the people that came to the United States from other countries did not have freedom of speech. If they had said something, they could be imprisoned or killed. And that's why the first correction to the Constitution was the ability to say what you want to say and not be thrown in prison or killed."
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Elon Musk: Freedom of speech is the ability to say what you want to say without being thrown in prison or killed "One of the first things the Nazis did when they came in, is to shut down all the press and any means of conveying information. If there had been social media, I think it would have been impossible to hide, if there'd been freedom of speech as well. It's worth noting that the First Amendment in the United States was freedom of speech because the people that came to the United States from other countries did not have freedom of speech. If they had said something, they could be imprisoned or killed. And that's why the first correction to the Constitution was the ability to say what you want to say and not be thrown in prison or killed."

ELON CLIPS

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When I was growing up, it never made sense to me that the KKK and the Nazis were allowed to have marches, spewing their hate openly despite their violent, hateful past. It was explained to me that under the 1st Amendment, their speech is protected, no matter how disagreeable or hateful it is. TODAY, Pam Bondi said that you can be targeted by the DOJ for free speech if you say mean things about Charlie Kirk or trump because that is "hate speech." Doesn’t that LITERALLY contradict the principle the right has been celebrating about Charlie Kirk? Isn’t that… unconstitutional?
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When I was growing up, it never made sense to me that the KKK and the Nazis were allowed to have marches, spewing their hate openly despite their violent, hateful past. It was explained to me that under the 1st Amendment, their speech is protected, no matter how disagreeable or hateful it is. TODAY, Pam Bondi said that you can be targeted by the DOJ for free speech if you say mean things about Charlie Kirk or trump because that is "hate speech." Doesn’t that LITERALLY contradict the principle the right has been celebrating about Charlie Kirk? Isn’t that… unconstitutional?

BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️

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.Elon Musk: "It's bizarre that we've come to this point where free speech used to be a liberal value. And yet we see from the 'left' a desire to censor. That seems crazy. I think we should be extremely concerned about anything that undermines the First Amendment... We must protect free speech, and free speech is only relevant when it's someone you don't like saying something you don't like because, obviously, free speech that you like is easy. The thing about censorship is that for those who would advocate it, just remember at some point that will be turned on you."
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.Elon Musk: "It's bizarre that we've come to this point where free speech used to be a liberal value. And yet we see from the 'left' a desire to censor. That seems crazy. I think we should be extremely concerned about anything that undermines the First Amendment... We must protect free speech, and free speech is only relevant when it's someone you don't like saying something you don't like because, obviously, free speech that you like is easy. The thing about censorship is that for those who would advocate it, just remember at some point that will be turned on you."

KanekoaTheGreat

5,749,674 views • 3 years ago

💥Bill Maher SCHOOLS Canadian Comedian Tom Green on why Canada *DOESN'T* have free speech like America🇺🇸 GREEN: "We have freedom of speech … There are hate speech laws in Canada — so there are things you can't say ... Who would want to say that sh*t anyways?" MAHER: "That's not what free speech means … You don’t know what free speech is." "The Supreme Court ruled in our country that the Nazis could march in Skokie, Illinois — which they were marching in because it is a community of a lot of Holocaust survivors ... That is what free speech is about."
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💥Bill Maher SCHOOLS Canadian Comedian Tom Green on why Canada *DOESN'T* have free speech like America🇺🇸 GREEN: "We have freedom of speech … There are hate speech laws in Canada — so there are things you can't say ... Who would want to say that sh*t anyways?" MAHER: "That's not what free speech means … You don’t know what free speech is." "The Supreme Court ruled in our country that the Nazis could march in Skokie, Illinois — which they were marching in because it is a community of a lot of Holocaust survivors ... That is what free speech is about."

Jason Cohen 🇺🇸

1,443,938 views • 11 months ago

Butler, PA—Elon Musk at Donald J. Trump rally: “Free speech is the bedrock of democracy. If people don’t know the truth, if you don’t know what’s going on, how can you make an informed vote? You must have free speech in order to to have a democracy—that’s why it’s the first amendment! …and the second amendment is there to ensure that we have the first amendment!”
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Butler, PA—Elon Musk at Donald J. Trump rally: “Free speech is the bedrock of democracy. If people don’t know the truth, if you don’t know what’s going on, how can you make an informed vote? You must have free speech in order to to have a democracy—that’s why it’s the first amendment! …and the second amendment is there to ensure that we have the first amendment!”

Bree A Dail

133,809 views • 1 year ago

Free speech is the FIRST Amendment for good reason. Without it, we’re not really free. In Britain, police arrest hundreds of people a week for things they say online. Here, Democrats and Republicans say contradictory things about free speech.
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Free speech is the FIRST Amendment for good reason. Without it, we’re not really free. In Britain, police arrest hundreds of people a week for things they say online. Here, Democrats and Republicans say contradictory things about free speech.

John Stossel

47,184 views • 8 months ago

BREAKING: Jack Smith just eviscerated the Republican talking point that Trump was protected by the First Amendment when he attempted to defraud the American people. “The First Amendment does not protect speech that facilitates a crime. Speech that is used to facilitate a crime — a fraud crime in particular — is not protected under the First Amendment. The Supreme Court precedent on that is clear.”
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BREAKING: Jack Smith just eviscerated the Republican talking point that Trump was protected by the First Amendment when he attempted to defraud the American people. “The First Amendment does not protect speech that facilitates a crime. Speech that is used to facilitate a crime — a fraud crime in particular — is not protected under the First Amendment. The Supreme Court precedent on that is clear.”

Ed Krassenstein

307,492 views • 8 months ago

Neera Tanden: "What could possibly be protected speech if not facts developed from evidence and crime statistics about governmental policies? It's hard to imagine what the First Amendment would protect if it doesn't protect speech like that."
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Neera Tanden: "What could possibly be protected speech if not facts developed from evidence and crime statistics about governmental policies? It's hard to imagine what the First Amendment would protect if it doesn't protect speech like that."

Center for American Progress

13,864 views • 1 month ago

This one says “Ya’ll hear that? That’s the sound of the saxophones getting louder for Chud. And let this serve as a reminder that ya’ll have freedom of speech but not freedom of f*cking consequences. So watch your f*cking mouth.” These people want to control what you’re allowed to say based on what offends them. They want to label any words they don’t like as “hate speech” but even “hate speech” is protected under the First Amendment, just like any other speech. As long as it’s not a direct threat or incitement to violence, no one has the legal right to physically attack you simply because they find your words offensive. Why is this so hard for them to understand? They say the most hateful things about Whites on a daily basis but only they can have a “no-no” word.
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This one says “Ya’ll hear that? That’s the sound of the saxophones getting louder for Chud. And let this serve as a reminder that ya’ll have freedom of speech but not freedom of f*cking consequences. So watch your f*cking mouth.” These people want to control what you’re allowed to say based on what offends them. They want to label any words they don’t like as “hate speech” but even “hate speech” is protected under the First Amendment, just like any other speech. As long as it’s not a direct threat or incitement to violence, no one has the legal right to physically attack you simply because they find your words offensive. Why is this so hard for them to understand? They say the most hateful things about Whites on a daily basis but only they can have a “no-no” word.

Make Sense of it Marie

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ELON: SOCIAL MEDIA AND FREE SPEECH WOULD HAVE PREVENTED THE NAZIS TO HIDE THEIR ACTIONS “One of the first things the Nazis did when they came in, is to shut down all the press and any means of conveying information. If there had been social media, I think it would have been impossible to hide, if there'd been freedom of speech as well. It's worth noting that the First Amendment in the United States was freedom of speech because the people that came to the United States from other countries did not have freedom of speech. If they had said something, they could be imprisoned or killed. That's why the first correction to the Constitution was the ability to say what you want to say and not be thrown in prison or killed.” Source: European Jewish Association, January 2024
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ELON: SOCIAL MEDIA AND FREE SPEECH WOULD HAVE PREVENTED THE NAZIS TO HIDE THEIR ACTIONS “One of the first things the Nazis did when they came in, is to shut down all the press and any means of conveying information. If there had been social media, I think it would have been impossible to hide, if there'd been freedom of speech as well. It's worth noting that the First Amendment in the United States was freedom of speech because the people that came to the United States from other countries did not have freedom of speech. If they had said something, they could be imprisoned or killed. That's why the first correction to the Constitution was the ability to say what you want to say and not be thrown in prison or killed.” Source: European Jewish Association, January 2024

Mario Nawfal

6,411,292 views • 1 year ago