On Monday, March 18, I attended—and cheered speakers at—a free speech rally in front of the United States Supreme Court.
I didn’t use to think of myself as a free speech activist. Fundamentally, I didn’t think that free speech was controversial. When I was studying Constitutional Law forty years ago, a New Jersey court declared nude dancing a protected form of expression and the Supreme Court had already required a town with many Jews to issue Nazis a parade permit.
Given such examples, I believed that US governments knew they had to tolerate a nearly unlimited range of speech, including speech that contradicted prevailing government and media narratives and/or made some people uncomfortable. Because speech sometimes does that.
But the tide is turning against free expression. Our emotionally soft, uptalking, PC society fears disagreement. In addition to cancel culture, the media tells only one side of most stories. This has been painfully obvious and deeply consequential during the Scamdemic. Throughout, the media has conveyed a deeply demagogic and highly inaccurate Covid narrative. As most people get their news from a handful of Med/Pharma-sponsored, mass audience sources, most of the public is indoctrinated, not informed.
Informational control extends beyond media and governmental unwillingness to present Covid Era counternarratives. During the Scam, the media and government have actively censored many who were exposing the Covid lies. This censorship even trickled down to me, when Medium.com deplatformed me for writing things that they deemed false. Time has shown that I, and other lockdown and Vaccine dissenters, were undeniably correct. We just figured out the Scam faster than others did. Our conspiracy theories were spoiler alerts.
Given the broad importance, during the internet and the Censorship/Industrial Complex age, of Murthy v. Biden and what I heard about the tenor of this week’s oral argument, free speech’s future is darker than I thought it was five years ago.
But before I discuss Monday’s pro-speech rally and the litigation, I’ll contextualize these by briefly describing my two preceding days in Washington.
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Author: Mark Oshinskie
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