Everyone needs to read David Enrich’s new book MURDER THE TRUTH. *Both* political parties have been engaged in a years long effort to dismantle free speech and we must do everything in our power to protect it. - ThreadSky

taylorlorenz.bsky.social • 36 days ago

Everyone needs to read David Enrich’s new book MURDER THE TRUTH. *Both* political parties have been engaged in a years long effort to dismantle free speech and we must do everything in our power to protect it.

Reposted from Kat Tenbarge

It's difficult to overstate just how much professional journalists have been trained to fear defamation lawsuits and how much it has impacted the ability to tell the truth

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absurdinaut.bsky.social•36 days ago

Our focus on 'free speech' is a smoke screen

"Political freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie"

taylorlorenz.bsky.social•35 days ago

If you don’t think Democrats have been working overtime to censor speech look at the ways so many of them have been pushing dangerous censorship legislation like KOSA, online age verification laws, seeking to criminalize masking, I could go on.

taylorlorenz.bsky.social•35 days ago

Yes the GOP are massive hypocrites when it comes to “free speech” but as someone who cares deeply about this issue I’ve been appalled by the pivot Democrats have taken over the past few years. Especially related to Gaza.

A lot of u guys melt down at anyone asking the Democrats to do better.

taylorlorenz.bsky.social•35 days ago

Also just FYI bc it’s not clear in my initial tweets but David’s fantastic book is about conservatives efforts to dismantle speech. It’s very good!!

alonedonut.bsky.social•36 days ago

We got journalists in the US covering their asses by calling an outright Nazi salute a "strange gesture"

This is ridiculous

scholarbarbie.bsky.social•35 days ago

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sm444.bsky.social•36 days ago

bilbosbitch.bsky.social•36 days ago

my very first post was Seldes & "Tell the Truth & Run", 1920's it was 10+ years hard time in prison for telling the truth in public. The idea 'censorship' in Sodom (USSA) is new, is a fable, those who spoke in public were sodomized in hellish prisons has been forgotten;

https://archive.org/details/booklist-bilbos-bitch

lakers-lover.bsky.social•35 days ago

And by free speech do you mean shitty white people being able to use the N word?

lewdfanglew.bsky.social•35 days ago

That's what freedom of speech is, it allows anyone to spew their shit no matter how fucking stupid it is, but remember that freedom of speech dosnt waiver the consequences. Also freedom of speech only protects against coverment censorship.

fritzbischoff.bsky.social•36 days ago

Free speech is nowadays a euphemism for hate speech.

altiam.bsky.social•36 days ago

Challenging times call for bold truths. Thoughts?

dyony-sus.bsky.social•36 days ago

Was wondering the other night how we've gone this long holding onto defamation as a concept and the first amendment at the same time. Does the book address this?

2metermatt.bsky.social•35 days ago

The publisher's book summary only mentions conservatives

taylorlorenz.bsky.social•35 days ago

Yes because his book is about a specific right wing effort, sorry my wording wasn’t clear but those were 2 separate sentences! Democrats are unfortunately also seeking to dismantle speech aggressively via stuff like KOSA, age verification internet laws etc

casamariana.bsky.social•36 days ago

“The worst kind of censorship is the kind newspaper people place on themselves.” - Andy Rooney

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