[ May 13, 2024 ]
Not surprising, but sickening. Soul-destroying.
Biden Appoints ‘Anti-Free Speech’ Richard Stengel to Transition Team Media Post
Former Vice President Joe Biden has appointed Richard Stengel, who advocates restrictions on free speech, to a key media post in his presidential transition team.
By: Breitbart, November 16, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementThe New York Post reported last week:
Richard Stengel is the Biden transition “Team Lead” for the US Agency for Global Media, the US government media empire that includes Voice of America, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
Stengel, an Obama administration alumnus, wrote last year in a Washington Post op-ed that US freedom of speech was too unfettered and that changes must be considered.
In the Post op-ed, “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Stengel argued:
[A]s a government official traveling around the world championing the virtues of free speech, I came to see how our First Amendment standard is an outlier.
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All speech is not equal. And where truth cannot drive out lies, we must add new guardrails. I’m all for protecting “thought that we hate,” but not speech that incites hate.
As Breitbart News noted in May, Stengel, an MSNBC analyst, also defended restrictions on speech about the coronavirus:
The First Amendment doesn’t protect false speech about a virus or false speech that endangers the health of your users. And by the way, Facebook and Twitter have been taking things down, but they need to be even more vigilant about it, and Google needs to be even more vigilant about what they prioritize in their search results.
Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley warned about Stengel’s appointment in a column Tuesday: “[I]t would be difficult to select a more anti-free speech figure to address government media policy, one has to assume that Biden will continue the onslaught against this core freedom as president.”
He noted that Biden himself had publicly advocated restrictions on speech during the campaign: “Biden called for greater speech controls on the Internet and denounced Twitter for allowing others to speak freely.”
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11 Comments
3 years ago
And yet the ignorant libturd dumocraps call what the black little morons and antifa do screaming and spitting on LEO free speech and yet they stifle anyone who says anything different from their dribble!!!!
3 years ago
End of free speech = end of free thought = end of free people.
3 years ago
Reply to
LibertyBelle
Unless … and it may need to come to this…will enough people have the stomach for it and how will our military and police respond when the time is right? Will people run away or hide?
3 years ago
3 years ago
Reply to
Anthony Silvio
According to our NAZI censors that tweet falls within community guidelines and not “hate speech”.
3 years ago
Why shouldn’t muslums be subjected to hate? It’s not the kuffar’s fault that their religion is a bloody, totalitarian, fascist creed responsible for the slaughter of tens of millions of kuffar. It’s not the kuffar’s fault that every, last, muslum state on the fact of this earth today is a totalitarian, theocratic, fascist, religious apartheid state (and frequently a gender apartheid state). Hatred of evil shouldn’t be criminalized.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
For the moment, they are “special”. It’s okay to hate Jews and Christians.
You’re not a Muslim, so you are not allowed to hate what they love – our destruction and unbelievers.
3 years ago
In addition to extreme censorship –
Team Biden taps reparations backer for Treasury transition
by Katherine Doyle, White House Correspondent
November 17, 2020 02:30 PM
President-elect Joe Biden has tapped a prominent advocate of reparations for his
Treasury transition team.
Mehrsa Baradaran, a professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law and author of the book The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, has joined Biden’s transition.
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Biden has said he would look at the issue. His campaign plan to “Build Back Better by Advancing Racial Equity Across the American Economy” includes policies for affordable housing and homeownership, small business investment, and tuition assistance for historically black schools.
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3 years ago
Fascists can’t abide freedom of speech — ANTIFA, muslums and Communists all confirm this observation.
3 years ago
At my local public library they don’t need to burn books they just ban them. Any and all books critical of the muslum death cult aren’t in the collections of my local library and any and all counter-jihad websites are blocked by their free WiFi. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if all the libraries at all the UC campuses and CalState campuses of Californication universities have similar restrictions and bans in place.
3 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Ours magically go into “mending” and never seen again but they are replaced with PROPER books at our library.
