Truth hurts former Let's Go Brandon administration official

Biden official faces facts about free speech, badly.

Speaking as a Canadian, I can't speak

Not about this or anything else the government decrees.

Germany is lost

Remember when dopey Margaret Brennan recently claimed the Holocaust was caused by free speech? She need not worry because Germany does not have free speech: 

Margaret Brennan: Holocaust due to free speech

Margaret Brennan can officially be labelled an idiot. Censorship leads to fascism and now so does free speech. And it also led to the Holocaust. Idiot. Idiot. Idiot,  Sorry for the ad hominem attacks but this is hard to frame any other way.  

The most sensible clip on this is an Asmongold reaction video:

So there

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has started off amazingly. And how can you argue against the first amendment? Except if you are in the mainstream media, in which case, you don't really want free speech.

There IS a guarantee on misinformation Walz, or you'd be silenced.

Governor Tim Walz is just 100% wrong on this.   But it's okay because he's allowed to spew his misinformation as much as I am allowed to say he's literally a tool.

HOLY SH!T

Governor Tim Walz: NO RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH if the government decides it is misinformation or hateful

This man is a dangerous commie pic.twitter.com/hE8xGcRx87

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) August 7, 2024

This very clip is misinformation and yet it's out there.  What a dumbass. 

Rumble gets dragged under the swamp

Rumble, a free speech alternative to YouTube, is currently under a cyber attack. The swamp?  Google targeting a competitor?  Whatever, it doesn't matter. It's all part of the same swamp: the mainstream media, big tech and big government socialists. This is not good for liberty, not good for competition,  and not good for America.  These are all the things they are trying to snuff out.

Elon Musk exposing evil

This needs to be seen, and the only way that happens is with free speech.

Rand Paul takes apart Mitt Romney's bad argument on censorship

Mitt Romney almost has a valid argument... until Rand Paul rips it apart, because it's a weak argument:

The future prime minister of Canada on Jordan Peterson

This man is not ten steps above Justin Trudeau, but a factor of ten times better as the future leader of Canada.  Conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre makes sense of the Jordan Peterson "situation" in Ontario Canada. It's about free speech.

Twitter is a cesspool and Parler is gone. You are next.

Try Gab,  they have their own infrastructure, or are at least working on it.  This coordinated attack on free speech is absolutely horrifying.  Soon, anyone opposing the Big Brother, social justice worldview, will not be able to share their opinion.  This is as anti-American as it gets.

They will try to distract you with talk of reconciliation as they take away your liberties.  

Big Tech, Big Media, and the government are all aligned.  Half of the country is already hypnotized into thinking that this is all a good thing that this is positive progress.  Those are useful idiots.  The rest of the country is systematically being shut out of any opportunity to oppose the agenda, any opportunity to even talk about it.  Disagreement will not be tolerated.

The Great Reset is nigh.

I know that sounds alarmist.  I can see myself typing it into my blog in disbelief.  I'm not a conspiracy nut.  But here's the thing. Evidence.  In addition to Parler, the #WalkAway movement is in the process of being cancelled. There are too many nest steps happening right now to ignore them.

Suppose I am wrong and there is no throwing us all in jail or re-education camps commencing (and no, I don't actually believe it's going that far), what is happening is still a threat to Democracy.  If they can shut down the right, they can shut down the left and they have set themselves up for a future where they can potentially silence everyone.

Chairman Mao would be proud.

I'm not suggesting insurrection.  I'm suggesting you get the word out to anyone who will still listen, and you do it right now.  This takeover and crushing of free speech is an affront to everything for which America stands.  If free speech dies, liberty dies, America dies.  And after that, anyone they want dies too.

Google targets conservative social network Parler

 Parler has been removed from the Google app store in yet another attempt to shut down free speech.

Twitter fails free speech in Canada

Truth does not die in the dark, it's murdered. I'm in Canada and I went on Twitter for the first time in probably two years because it is a cesspool. I noticed the #DefundCBC was trending.  CBC, for my American readers is PBS on steroids - a primarily government funded media network that is larger than the private networks in the country.  It's notoriously pro-Leftist.

So I decided to search the hashtag to see what it was about.  I don't follow Canadian politics closely day-to-day because it's pretty much irrelevant thanks to a century of predominantly liberal governments that have made us that way. In any case, EVERY SINGLE TWEET that showed up from my search was an ad hominem attack from people calling those who would like to defund the CBC  various names.  Imperialists, conservative goons, unenlightened.  You get the picture.

But I didn't.  There was not a single tweet I could find from someone who wanted to defund the CBC or an explanation of what the trending hashtag was all about.

Thanks Twitter. You've failed free speech once again, and I'm confident it was deliberate.

America, this is your Agent Smith moment

 "What good is a phone call if you are unable to speak?"

Inch by inch they are taking away the truth.  Inch by inch they are papering over what they are doing. Quite literally in fact, and of course they are papering over the papering over too.  What they are really papering over is any voice of dissent, even if that voice might actually be in the majority.  It doesn't matter. You have no voice. I have no voice. They are taking it away from us. 

Shut up and take it.

Or... Or... Or push back.  This is no longer about just your life as it is, it's about the future.  They are making the illegitimate look legitimate and blaming you for questioning it. America is the one place left on earth where dissent, real dissent is still possible.  Many places will argue they still have free speech.  I live in Canada for example, and technically we do have free speech.  But really, if you don't agree with the liberal mob-media-government octopus, you'll be shamed. Banned. Banished.

Do you see that in America? Or are you so numbed to it that you are starting not to notice. You still have free speech until you do not use it. Some people can show themselves with a severed head of the president,  a second time, and feel empowered doing so.  You however, cannot question the strange things that appear to be happening and wonder aloud if perhaps there's cheating. You cannot question fraud that is happening right in front of you.

Why?  Because you choose not to stand up to it.  You say you do.  But your vote, especially just your federal vote is no longer enough.  You cannot count on others to fight for your liberty as if this were World War II. Calling a radio station to air your grievances is no longer enough. This is the hill you have to stand on and fight.  There is no next hill.  You've been pushed so far back there is no fallback position anymore.

That's easy for me to say as a Canadian who lives in a country with even more progressivism, socialism and modern liberalism than you have, and not do anything here.  I get the duplicitous  nature of my call to defend the truth and liberty.  It's easy to do from afar. I've blogged about American politics and conservatism since 2008 now.  If I could be there fighting alongside you to ensure electoral integrity, judicial restraint, fiscal conservatism, traditional American values and other things uniquely American I would.  You have a special place in the world you perhaps do not fully appreciate, or maybe take for granted.

Do not waste what you have been given. I believe I would give up an arm or a leg to be an American. Not happily, but I would do it.  That's what your country is worth.  

Or at least it was worth it.  Now I am not so sure.  Because even though nearly 70 million people voted for a rollback on the cesspool (it's worse than a swamp) that the halls of power in America have become, it appears even more voted to turn away from it, to turn away from reason, to turn away from a return to American greatness (led by an admittedly coarse man, but one with good intentions nevertheless). American's sheen has begun to fade. The shining city on a  hill is turning grimy and dark. It's as if Sauron himself had laid claim to Gondor.  The darkness is growing and spreading; but slowly, so that you are not meant to notice.

You can let it, or you can get off your ass and do something about it.  March, protest, become that which you loath because it would seem that the time has come that you can only fight fire with fire.  Match rhetoric with rhetoric, protest with counter-protest, cheating with verifiable and actionable proof of cheating.  There are too many stories of changed votes to ignore.  Check your own.  Validate your county's voter roll and compare it to the number of ballots cast. Or better yet, check on Detroit, Philadelphia and Atlanta. Divide up the work.

And should you lose the battle, do not yield the hill you stand upon. Educate yourself on how to educate your neighbors and then go do it.  Organize them and lead them into political conflict.  It is not glorious.  It is not pretty work. But it needs to be done for a noble purpose, and it is a nobler purpose than your lowered taxes.  It is about the foundational concepts that make America unique and necessary.  If this light goes out, there is not only a nation and future generations who will reflect on you with disgust, it's an entire world where the light of hope gets extinguished. You fail not only yourself or your president, you fail humanity.

YouTube, Suzy Lu, content and free speech

YouTube has managed a particular situation poorly.  The details of the case itself are important only insofar as they are indicative of how YouTube will interact with any content publisher as well as complainant when it comes to copyright and cyberbullying or harassment.  The best way to put it is inconsistent.

A redacted (yes, redacted) background video on the Suzy Lu YouTube copyright situation.  Keep in mind this is not about her, it's about how YouTube reacted to the situation (which is past half way into the video but the prior parts provide context, albeit in an anti-Suzy-Lu way (no judgement either way, that's not my point here)).

YouTube's reversal of the channel termination is odd.  It would seem as though the views matter to YouTube more than copyright violation - in this case at least.

Free speech is being impacted and YouTube is slowly, continuously sliding into the realm of publisher instead of a platform:

What good is free speech if no one can hear you?

The question, while rhetorical, is directed at the likes of Twitter, Facebook and of course YouTube:

Has Parler become the censorship-free alternative to Twitter?

Parler is the French verb to speak, (pronounced Par-LAY) and it might be becoming the free speech alternative to Twitter.

Paul Joseph Watson & Jordan Peterson are fighting back

Paul Joseph Watson is trying to fight back against Youtube and other social media censorship:

So is Jordan Peterson:

Are these the final answers to YouTube and Facebook? Probably not, but they are steps in the right direction, even if only temporary solutions. Perhaps if one of them takes off then maybe conservatives, and free speech advocates will have a real, viable platform sooner rather than later.

Hey Conservatives, Stay in your lane!

Slowly but surely, conservatives are still being silenced. McCarthyism is alive and well in progressive liberal circles and this is the latest salvo in the war on free speech just because - different ideas.  This is truly scary and if you don't realize that, regardless of your political persuasion, you are on the road to serfdom.

Twitter vs. Free Speech

Twitter removed conservative gay opinion leader and critical thinker extraordinaire Milo Yiannopoulus today and after banning him for some apparently anti-Muslim tweets, reinstated him thanks to Drudge.

Twitter is a mess:

Milo Yiannopoulos has hit out at Twitter after they suspended his account earlier today, accusing the social networking service of being “Sharia-compliant” and in financial freefall.

In a press conference at Ground Zero Orlando, delivering a truncated speech following Sunday’s mass shooting — one he was supposed to give on Muslims and gays at the University of Central Florida (UCF), which was canceled by campus police — Yiannopoulos said Muslim campaigners were responsible for him briefly thrown off Twitter this morning.

Milo told a lively crowd that influential news aggregation site The Drudge Report linking to Heat Street’s article on him directly resulted in him being re-instated on Twitter. He said: “My Twitter account was suspended as a result of a campaign by Muslim tweeters. It has been re-instated because the Drudge Report put my picture on the front page with a gigantic headline- thank you Matt Drudge- saying ‘Twitter tells Milo to go to hell!’

“It was Muslims who told me to go to hell and I’m glad to see that Twitter very quickly panicked and backtracked and reinstated my Twitter account today. If it goes down again, who knows?,” he said.

Twitter has turned to the dark side of censorship of conservative ideas recently at the same time they've descended into fiscal duress. Free speech clearly takes a back seat.  The good news is they seem to listen to whomever complains the loudest. Good to know for conservatives.