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2024-03-01 -Land of the Free

MSNBC legal analyst says First Amendment makes US ‘vulnerable,’ calls for ‘common sense’ speech restrictions

Barky appointee fired by Trump in 2017
By Alexander Hall

[NYPost] MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade argued Monday that the United States’ “deep commitment to free speech” makes Americans uniquely susceptible to disinformation campaigns.

That’s backward. As we see on ~~Twitter~~ X, freeing the medium allows the wisdom of the crowd to mark out disinformation.

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.
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Posted by badanov 2024-03-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [56 views ] Top

#1 “deep commitment to free speech”

As long as it doesn't offend a member of recognized victim group?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-03-01 05:49|| 2024-03-01 05:49|| Front Page Top

#2

We already have a Common Sense Restrictions.
eg. SCOTUS Ruling: Shouting fire in a crowded theater. Liable and slander laws. Threatening persons or places.

But it seems the biggest violators are LIBERALS & DEMOCRATS. Maybe the laws need to be re-written in 6th grade English for them to understand?

Posted by NN2N1 2024-03-01 06:51|| 2024-03-01 06:51|| Front Page Top

#3 'Speech Restrictions' are not applicable for the Libs and Dems, NN2N1.

You'll have to read the burned-in T&C fine print in these people's heads to understand. It will always be added to any actual laws on the books.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2024-03-01 07:10|| 2024-03-01 07:10|| Front Page Top

#4 MSNBC legal analyst want sheep not free men to populate the country.

It's the responsibility of freemen in a republic to avail themselves of free speech to determine what to believe or not by their own free will.

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.”

Russiagate, Covid, Hunter Biden laptop...the old gatekeepers get a failing grade on 'educating the public'.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-03-01 07:20|| 2024-03-01 07:20|| Front Page Top

#5 How did the USA manage to survive this long with the First Amendment? Beggars description.

Posted by Huputle Cherelet4131 2024-03-01 07:28|| 2024-03-01 07:28|| Front Page Top

#6 so they are taking MSNBC and CNN and FOX and NBC and CBS and ABC off the air!

Posted by Jack Creanter7508 2024-03-01 10:41|| 2024-03-01 10:41|| Front Page Top

#7 There are quite a few countries in this world that don't have free speech. She is welcome to migrate to any of them.

Posted by Tom 2024-03-01 10:47|| 2024-03-01 10:47|| Front Page Top

#8 Sounds good. Ban journalists from talking. If they do, death penalty.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-03-01 12:03|| 2024-03-01 12:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Jack Creanter7508
we can dream they will.... it's a good dream

Posted by 3dc 2024-03-01 12:29|| 2024-03-01 12:29|| Front Page Top

#10 And just like that, every proponent of the 2nd Amendment is proven correct.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-03-01 12:45|| 2024-03-01 12:45|| Front Page Top

#11 By her assertion is is essentially saying Americans cannot make reasoned judgments about information, and that they should accept edited information from "trusted sources" to protect them from misunderstanding. Can you be any clearer about wanting to trust the power of the state to define truth? Orwell as Nostradamus!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-03-01 14:47|| 2024-03-01 14:47|| Front Page Top

#12 By her assertion is is essentially saying Americans cannot make reasoned judgments about information

If that she asserts about Americans [or most citizens of Affluence] was wrong, she would be working as a menial.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-03-01 15:14|| 2024-03-01 15:14|| Front Page Top

#13 I believe in the first amendment....and I believe in the importance of truth, so I also believe that any Reporter, commentator or politician caught lying should be summarily executed.

Posted by Silentbrick 2024-03-01 15:34|| 2024-03-01 15:34|| Front Page Top

#14 Have you even been on X lately? It's a vomit fountain of antisemitism and lies and Elon won't shut it down.

Posted by Fat Bob Untervehr8471 2024-03-01 21:13|| 2024-03-01 21:13|| Front Page Top