Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Glenn Greenwald And Tim Pool's "Free Speech" Definition Is Completely Backwards" video.

  1. Greenwald never said or suggested or intimated that the workers who want to leave over being asked to produce speech they don't like should be "forced" to do it, or anything like that. He knows they have freedom of speech as well. Wow how low can you go for clicks? The way this chick smirks as soon as the off-camera voice said "constitution" tells you everything. What a cynic.
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  2.  @carybird24  They mention people like Greenwald to get more views. It works. When I look at their channel every few months to see what they are talking about, I might click on a thumbnail that mentions Glenn.
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  3. These people will say anything for clicks. They need to mention Glenn and feud with him to get some traction.
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  4. Maybe, just maybe this goofy chick doesn't know what she's talking about.
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  5.  @carybird24  Oh my goodness, I agree that it's important, but I find it bizarre how much the new media has become an enclosed world -- YouTube videos talk about other YouTube videos, tweets tweet about tweets -- it has become insane. It's worse than a dysfunctional high school, Columbine the week before.
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  6.  @Dead_Guy_Bob  No, I think what we mean is that medical intervention in a minor child to create irreversible transitioning should be extremely rare if not prohibited, that only age-appropriate sex education should take place in school (so that before about age 12, you make sure that every child feels welcome, no one is bullied, and you say that every family is a nice family, whether it has one mom and one dad, just one mom, just one dad, two moms, two dads, a mom and a trans dad, etc., but you do not go beyond that before, say, the 6th grade, and you save some stuff for senior high school), and that pronoun changes should be shared with parents whenever a child's actual safety is not at risk. You know. That sort of thing. Get it? (No? Yes?)
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  7.  @shawnwilliam4653  What? Honey, I think you're all crazy. Like, literally all. Keeping with specifics, what do you imagine this video "exposes?" It makes it appear as though freedom of speech were a right wing concern!! (Church Committee, anyone? Ever look at their report?) Let me ask you -- as all the commons become privatized, and all the space where First Amendment rights could in theory prevail becomes privatized, what do we have? Plus a state wholly devoted to protecting private interests, to the point where that's what its military is concerned with, as its first mission. I don't care how you dress it up, or what weird story you tell yourself. That is a form of fascism. Moreover, no one in the world went bonkers over COVID the way the Five Eyes did, with the sole exception of a single country: China. (Where a good part of our labor force resides, as it turns out.) Say. What do you think Taibbi did? What did they tell you he did?
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  8.  @shawnwilliam4653  Oh I see, you've appointed yourself hall monitor. Channeling Ash Sarkar's brilliant retort to Piers Morgan: "I'm a communist, you idiot. No, I'm literally a communist." I don't even plan to stay in this country. It's too far right, too imperialistic, too racist, and too violent -- and too given to mass psychosis, from Salem to the present. I don't want to contribute to its crimes. To a great extent, I've managed not to, actually, and partly by the "luck" of being unlucky. You know, one mistake your groupuscule has made during Trump was to lie about him -- as if there were not enough odious things that were true to point out calmly. That alone could take months, years. But no. You lied about a liar. Well that's not exactly upholding principles of truth. At least Taibbi wrote Insane Clown President. What did you write? Oh yes, that's right. A comment to me. BTW, my family lives in one of those places your country bombed with DU, and that you can't find on the map. I haven't made a wh*t* friend in this century. (Whew!!!)
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  9.  @shawnwilliam4653  Yawn. Blocked. Get counseling.
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  10. Give us one example.
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  11.  @craigbradford4850  It depends on what those "consequences" are.
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  12. You think Greenwald and Taibbi are right wing? Who is "left wing," then? The Clintons? Biden? Pelosi?
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  13.  @zek9759  Then check out Abby Martin's lawsuit against the State of Georgia, or better yet, read Nadine Strossen's brilliant book on "hate" speech. Or Erwin Chemerinsky on First Amendment rights on campus. Or talk to Katie Halper, Aaron Mate, etc. I've just named five "lefties" who have fought for freedom of speech. Maybe you should be skeptical of all media "narratives?" They create what is known as availability bias, by repeating one thing over and over. Makes people think that one thing is the only thing.
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  14. True. So, when one of these people is invited to a university to speak, why do the protestors take the lazy way and try to shout him down? Why don't they organize a teach-in, in a nearby venue, so that the numbers that show up and the noise they make are obvious to all? These are universities. You cannot tell me they don't have the resources or the knowledge base to debunk racists, point by point and definitively. Yet they can do no better than to shout them down? How is that possible? Only through laziness. There is no other explanation. And how is it that this thread is just full of slogans and platitudes? Why is there no thinking going on? You make the right look good. Why do you? It's not that hard to refute them. For some reason I don't see much of that going on.
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  15.  @Junebug89  You don't see how in the context of freedom of speech and expression, this could be turned against you? We now have proof that during the pandemic, people who spread propaganda and supported coercive tactics had a platform at Twitter, and those who presented actual facts were censored. Case in point: One person wrote a vague and impassioned claim that "children are dying of COVID!!" Look, a child can die of a common cold, so that is of course technically true. In response, someone posted ACTUAL CDC data, with a link, showing how unlikely it is for a child to die. (Some people pointed out that flu is more dangerous to children, which was not a great comparison, since flu is quite dangerous to children, and being just a little less so is no great shakes.) Guess who got censored and sanctioned? I have no problem with inviting employees to have input on the rules that apply to all speech. They are the ones who have to enforce them, and they have the experience that comes with doing the actual work, so they should have more say than the managers as far as I'm concerned. That's not the same as giving them license to create prior restraints to speech based on the cause du jour that they just got all excited about with their friends -- or that the DNC or the FBI told them to censor.
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