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Obama makes it clear the Left isn’t going to tolerate free speech anymore

From my latest at BASEDPolitics,” The government must regulate speech platforms to keep us ‘safe,’ Obama claimed.

'In a democracy, we can rightly expect companies to subject the design of their products and services to some level of scrutiny,’ the former president said. ‘At minimum, they should have to share that information with researchers and regulators who are charged with keeping the rest of us safe.’

Obama made the distinction between public and private companies when it comes to censorship as a key component of this debate. But what he didn’t confront is the glaring trend of the average Democratic voters agreeing with him about the need to censor ‘disinformation’ on the internet. Obama ignored that much of what has been called disinformation in recent times included legit news and basic political expression.

Everyone is for free speech in theory, including believing that open and robust expression is key to any functioning democracy, as Obama noted. But if the Hunter Biden laptop story can be categorized as ‘disinformation,’ and it clearly was. If the theory that COVID-19 might have originated in a Chinese lab can be called disinformation, and it was. If what Joe Rogan or Dave Chappelle say can be deemed false by left-leaning regulators at Twitter or in government…

How would that not be suppression of democratic free and open speech of the most basic kind?”

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