It does if you think there is a "first speaker" privilege. Having grown up in a place where my views were not popular, I learned early on that free speech is a two-way street, and that its exercise takes a certain genital endowment. Spare me the lament of bubble-wrapped sophomores who claim to feel inhibited in expressing thoughts they think they think and might even believe they stand for.
What's going on now is a different thing, though it has been done before, during WWI and its aftermath, and during the height of the Cold War. Because, all too often, it works.
We figured then. and know now, that Zuckerberg was classified in the wrong phylum. He does not belong among the chordates.
It does if you think there is a "first speaker" privilege. Having grown up in a place where my views were not popular, I learned early on that free speech is a two-way street, and that its exercise takes a certain genital endowment. Spare me the lament of bubble-wrapped sophomores who claim to feel inhibited in expressing thoughts they think they think and might even believe they stand for.
What's going on now is a different thing, though it has been done before, during WWI and its aftermath, and during the height of the Cold War. Because, all too often, it works.
Government agencies formed to do specific tasks should stay in their lane.
That's how it's done.
The stuff people have been talking about since, oh, 2020.
Where, and how long ago, had we heard all this before?
"Like"?
"Shut down" is doing a lot of work here. Especially for something that has been out in public and widely discussed for years.