Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“Enthusiasts for prohibiting political dissent must know that the First Amendment protects the right to utter controversial speech. They must know that there’s no constitutional loophole for speech that they disagree with. Another ‘must know?’ That calling the public statements of political opponents ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ ‘hate speech,’ etc. is no substitute for open discussion. They just don’t care. They just know that if they keep plugging away, struggling to muzzle the badspeech, they’re more likely to get their way than playing by the rules of free speech and open debate.” (09/15/23)