Obama Pushes for Government Regulation of Speech

This is consistent with the authoritarian practices of the left (and Islam, lest we forget he was raised as a Muslim.)

The party that relentlessly wails about “the threat to democracy” wants to police speech (in the name of safety or misinformation) means to erode one of democracy’s core principles: the right to dissent. When any political movement—left or right—decides that opposing ideas are too dangerous to be heard, it crosses from persuasion into control. A healthy society depends on open argument, not enforced consensus, and every attempt to narrow acceptable opinion undercuts the freedoms that sustain it.

When speech needs permission, freedom is already gone.

Calls to “regulate misinformation” sound harmless, but they hand power to those who decide which opinions may exist. Every time a dissenting voice is silenced, the public loses a chance to think for itself.

Truth isn’t protected by censorship — it’s proven through open debate. A confident democracy doesn’t fear disagreement; it thrives on it. Once people start whispering instead of speaking, liberty isn’t threatened — it’s over.

Speaking at the Connecticut Forum: “Part of what we’re going to have to do is to start experimenting with new forms of journalism and how we use social media in ways that reaffirm facts and separate facts from opinion. We want diversity of opinion. We don’t want diversity of facts. That, I think, is one of the big tasks of social media. By the way, it will require some government regulatory constraints…” (Vigilant Fox).

The First Amendment, which Obama claims to support in this same clip, makes perfectly clear that the federal government cannot constrain speech. “Congress shall make no law,” it reads, emphases mine, “respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;  or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Obama wants Congress to give the executive branch authority to “abridge” the speech of American citizens and of the “press,” in the social-media sense. Americans have a First Amendment right to speak their mind and make their arguments in public free of government constraint or censorship. It does not matter whether that argument is wrong, or gets facts wrong…. They have learned nothing from the last few years; they still want to control the speech and the thoughts of Americans. They see 1984 as a roadmap. The rest of us better read it again as a prophecy (Hot Air).