“All pigs have antlers.”
If I post this opinion, there are media companies and even government bureaucrats who assume they should both have and use the power to censor the post. But why?
First: the opinion which it is attempted to suppress by authority may possibly be true. Those who desire to suppress it, of course deny its truth; but they are not infallible. They have no authority to decide the question for all mankind, and exclude every other person from the means of judging. To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Second, why banish erroneous opinions from view and from discussion? Isn’t it best to refute them, to prevent them from recurring?
Third, the media themselves routinely publish things that are later discovered to be completely false. What is to be their punishment?
Susan Wojcicki was the Youtube CEO from 2014 to 2023. She resigned the day after the House GOP issued subpoenas for Big Tech CEOs at Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. …
Under Wojcicki’s leadership, she urged more governments to enact speech laws to crack down on ‘unapproved’ online speech. …
In April 2020, Wojcicki announced that anything said about COVID that contradicted the WHO talking points would be taken down. Now we know that the WHO, like the CDC, was lying all along.
— Gateway Pundit | Feb. 18, 2024
Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Tech Peers Sign Pact To Combat Election-Related Misinformation
CNBC | 02/18/2024A group of 20 leading tech companies on Friday announced a joint commitment to combat AI misinformation in this year’s elections.
If they want our opinion they will give it to us.
Well said.
Biden: “Pigs have wings man like at the buffalo it’s like the hair on my leg and the little kids would straighten it out.. ice cream man at Kristy Kream man.”
I’ll rest more peacefully knowing that the playing field is level now.