The test of truth can only prevail in the battle between other ideas. This is why we need a marketplace for this instead of relying on the opinion of an authoritarian censor. History shows that the ones demanding to control the thoughts and speech of the masses are the same ones who end up becoming mass murderers.
Now, I am not saying that MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade is a mass murderer, by any means. However, we will not rule out that she might be what a tyrant calls a “useful idiot.”
McQuade said that the "deep commitment to free speech" makes Americans vulnerable to disinformation.
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Freedom of speech is enshrined in the Constitution so that truth can prevail over asinine claims like that.
McQuade, a University of Michigan law professor, went on "The Rachel Maddow Show" to promote her new book, "Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabotaging America." She said her "goal" with the book was to spark a "national conversation about truth and our commitment to it."
She added, "I hope that by dissecting it, explaining it, and educating the public, we can all see disinformation for what it is so that we can begin to push back against it."
When asked by host Rachel Maddow whether America is just as susceptible to disinformation as other countries, McQuade argued that it is even more vulnerable.
"Actually, Rachel, I think we’re more susceptible to it than other countries, and that’s because some of our greatest strengths can also be our Achilles Heel," McQuade said. "So, for example, our deep commitment to free speech in our First Amendment. It is a cherished right. It’s an important right in democracy, and nobody wants to get rid of it, but it makes us vulnerable to claims [that] anything we want to do related to speech is censorship."
That makes no sense. We have the strongest protections of Freedom of Speech than any country in the world. And the more lacking a country is in the department, the more indoctrinated the population is. This is true for China, North Korea, and just about any authoritarian country you can think of.
The point of Free Speech is not to control the flow of information. It is to prevent the government from controlling freedom of thought. The government or the media is not the arbiter of truth, according to the Constitution.
She argued, "Of course, the Supreme Court has held that all fundamental rights, even the right to free speech, can be limited as long as there is a compelling governmental interest and the restriction is narrowly tailored to achieve that interest. But I think any time someone tries to do anything that might limit free speech, people claim censorship."
"We need to have a conversation and common-sense solutions to these things," she said. "Instead, we throw out terms like ‘censorship,' call each other names, use labels and retreat to our opposite sides. We need to be pragmatic and come up with real solutions."
"But, it is, I think, one of the things that makes America particularly vulnerable to disinformation," she concluded.
Want to know how smart this professor is? This is how smart she is.
Wow. Would you look at that? Someone seems to be spreading disinformation…….
She is incredibly confused about what rights are. The Bill of Rights does not afford anyone these freedoms. That document is solely meant to limit a tyrannical government from coming in and stealing those rights. I know that and I have never even been to law school.
I think the most interesting and ironic thing about all this is that what we have here is a law professor, using disinformation about the First Amendment, in an attempt to destroy it. It’s people like her that make the First Amendment necessary. The Bill of Rights was made because people liked her existence.
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February 29, 2024 at 03:54PM - Danielle Berjikian
MSNBC "legal" analyst calls for "common sense” solution to free speech, somehow that's NOT the dumbest thing she said today
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