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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

FREE SPEECH UNDER SIEGE

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This week, former Secretary of State, John Kerry, declared his disdain for the first amendment when it comes to social media and ‘disinformation’ at a World Economic Forum meeting. He’s just one of the prominent politicians, journalists and world leaders who are trying to stifle free speech including The Atlantic, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Hillary Clinton, under the guise of protecting the people from misinformation.

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0:00.0

I think for many of us we all have those issues that are the most important ones for us.

0:05.8

We talk about people that are, you know, one issue voters.

0:09.4

For me, obviously because I am in media, free speech is the most important issue there is.

0:16.8

I think it should be the most important issue for every single one of us, because you can't

0:21.4

fix any of the other issues if you can't talk about them.

0:25.0

That's why I think it's so terrifying that we have some relatively famous political figures that seem very comfortable talking about

0:35.1

ending free speech in the First Amendment. Now they're subtle about it but I don't

0:39.8

think it's getting very difficult to read between the lines anymore. This is a recent

0:45.2

statement I think just this last week by Hillary Clinton. Take a look at this.

0:48.6

I think it's important to indict the Russians just as Mueller indicted a lot of Russians who were

0:57.0

engaged in direct election interference and boosting Trump back in 2016, but I also think there are Americans who are

1:06.9

engaged in this kind of propaganda and whether they should be civilly or even in some cases criminally charged is

1:16.8

something that would be a better deterrent.

1:20.0

So let's criminally charge people that share what I guess Hillary Clinton considers

1:26.7

disinformation, misinformation. Shockingly, she doesn't seem to be over the election

1:31.3

results of 2016, but we won't get into that. I do want to

1:36.0

talk about the next person though. This is AOC that seems to say now that a lot of

1:40.6

her friends in Congress are talking about what we're going to do about free

1:44.1

speech take a look at this. You know I do think that several members of Congress in

1:49.4

some of my discussions have brought up media literacy because that is a part of what happened here.

1:58.6

And we're going to have to figure out how we reign in our media environment so that you can't just

2:10.3

spew disinformation and misinformation. It's one thing to have differing

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