Wow: the attacks on free speech are relentless, and from all directions — as long as the directions are on the Left.
FB Oversight Member Says Free Speech ‘Is Not an Absolute Human Right’
NY Post | 7/16/2021 | Steven NelsonA Facebook Oversight Board member says free speech is “not an absolute human right,” and must be balanced against “other human rights” when deciding what content to censor.
The board member, former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt, said “free speech is not an absolute human right.”
“It has to be balanced with other human rights,” she said Thursday at a Politico Europe event.
She then wandered away, without naming what, in the name of Helle, those other rights might be. Perhaps listening to a movie in a theater in peace and quiet? Or attending a Politico Europe event without being called an entitled wannabe dictator?
The 20-member Facebook Oversight Board was set up last year to allow corporate executives to claim distance from politically sensitive decisions.
The board in May recommended that the company uphold a continued ban on former President Donald Trump’s account after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The oversight board includes five Americans and 15 members from Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia.
So, only 1/4 had any chance of being right and in line with our First Amendment, and even those five libs blew it? No surprise.
But that’s just a private company’s oversight (pun intended), right?
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EXPOSED: Biden’s UN Racism Inspectors Plan To ‘Restrict’ And Criminalize Free Speech — UN Official Said ‘We Must Restrict Forms of Speech’
National File | August 3, 2021 | Patrick HowleyJoe Biden’s Secretary of State Tony Blinken recently announced that he is inviting United Nations racism inspectors to the United States to conduct a report on American society. Blinken specifically invited Fernand de Varennes, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues . . .
How does one get to be a Special Rapporteur? Apparently, by being a Rapporteur who not only thinks but speaks like Joe Biden:
At the 42:50 Minute mark, de Varennes stated, “This is a global problem…I think the environment is also changing in the U.S., there are hearings being held right now…The days of no liability are finished…So I think, I mentioned that in relation to the alternative platforms that you mentioned. We have to, in my opinion…we are going to initiate a process, by the way, under my mandate to try to draft specific guidelines, global guidelines, focusing on minorities once again and social media as such. It seems to me that the time has come that all platforms have to be, there must be some kind of liability for all platforms to be recognized, and that states be encouraged to adopt specific legislation in that regard for liability and responsibility. And this will provide a model by the way for countries perhaps even as United States, as I believe it may be heading in fact. I don’t think it will take that much effort.”
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Certainly won’t take much effort if they follow the Science!:
Scientific Journal Paper Suggests Making It A ‘Federal Hate Crime’ To Criticize Fauci.
The National Pulse | August 3, 2021| Natalie Winters“A scientific journal article authored by Professor Peter Hotez, a frequent guest on mainstream media networks, called to “extend federal hate-crime protections” for scientists facing criticism from alleged “far-right extremists,” including National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci.
Dr. Hotez, who himself has been funded by Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1993, offered the robust defense of scientists, including Fauci and EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak, in a recent paper: “Mounting Antiscience Aggression In The United States.”
Ah, the Sermon on the Mounting.
But what if we all self-identify as scientists? If scientists say we can identify as whatever sex we like, surely they’ll let us identify as whatever profession we like. Instant herd immunity from criticism!
Until Conservatives gain a will to power function this crap is going to happen.
Sorry, off topic, but it looks like Boone is about to run out of time to update his answer for last week’s Midnight Special trivia.
Let me repeat the hint I left there:
https://top40weekly.com/longest-span-between-first-and-last-1/?amp
Maybe Walrus will see fit to grant Boone the guitar anyway.
Or at least a ukulele.
The world wonders.
I get the strange sensation that nobody in Liechtenstein, Lithuania, or Libya are really contemplating very much.
Who cares about the Libyans?
Obviously not Hillary.
She doesn’t care much for Americans either.
On the Obscury front, I wonder if Walrus’s query “The world wonders” is a reference to Nimitz’s message to Halsey during the Battle of Leyte Gulf?
Not obscure enough it appears.
Wait — so one person recognizes it, and it’s out?
Pretty much. I believe the go to was if you have to Google it then it wasn’t an obscury.
Back on topic, how can one extend hate crime protection to something that is not a crime? Calling somebody names and pointing out the shoddy work one has been doing are not crimes. Disagreement, even to the point of rancorous give and take between parties, has always been a part of the scientific method. And, btw, maybe Fauci would not be held in such derision if he had not been so utterly wrong about pretty much everything through February, 2020.
Will remain legal for me to hate Fauchee as long as I don’t criticize him? I hope so.
We totally agree with former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt that “free speech is not an absolute human right.” ~ Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Alexander Lukashenko