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Calls for "Truth Commision"
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02/17/2021 11:19 AM
02/17/2021 11:19 AM
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McMedic
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LINKJACOBS: So, I think a part of what we’re seeing, now is because we haven’t really done the reckoning with the racial injustice and white supremacy of our past that we need to do. And so, you know, a truth commission, a lot of people will think of South Africa. We have used them in countries around the world. Basically what it is is it’s communities, all the way up to the national level, having conversations about both the gory and the glory of our history and what happened both throughout the history of our country and leading up to and on January 6th, so that we can come to a common narrative, moving forward of what we want our country to be.
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Re: Calls for "Truth Commision"
[Re: McMedic]
#175643
03/16/2021 12:30 PM
03/16/2021 12:30 PM
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The war on free speech is about to get uglier. Do we need to "rein in our media environment?" No. it's not even possible. But they're sure going to try. One week after being trapped inside the United States Capitol as thousands of pro–Donald Trump marauders attempted to forcibly "stop the steal" of the presidential election, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) suggested one possible federal government response: convening a national commission on media literacy.
"We're going to have to figure out how we rein in our media environment so that you can't just spew disinformation and misinformation," Ocasio-Cortez told her followers in a video message. "It's one thing to have differing opinions, but it's another thing entirely to just say things that are false."
The road to speech restrictionism is paved with political rhetoric about protecting the proletariat from falsehoods. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán last year cited the potentially deadly dangers of "fake news" while ramming through a law punishing coronavirus misinformation with up to five years in prison. Holocaust denial is illegal in more than a dozen European countries, in the name of safeguarding Jewish minorities. Donald Trump, before he was elected president, vowed to "open up our libel laws" as a remedy for "negative and horrible and false articles."
Thankfully, Trump's implausible threat—there are no federal laws governing libel, for starters—foundered on the same rocks that will thwart any Ocasio-Cortez attempt to have the feds arbitrate falsehoods and "rein in" free expression. America's legal and cultural speech traditions are the strongest on the planet, and the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has been vigorous in defending the First Amendment.
Add to that legal roadblock a more temporal impediment to Ocasio-Cortez's policy agenda: Legislation in the 117th Congress will be shaped much more by the most conservative Democrats in the 50–50 Senate than it will by the loudest socialists in the House.
But that doesn't mean AOC-style censorship will be cauterized in the post-Trump era. To the contrary.... Read the whole thing at the link. Onward and upward, airforce
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Re: Calls for "Truth Commision"
[Re: Hawk45]
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03/18/2021 03:36 PM
03/18/2021 03:36 PM
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I don't trust Roberts as far as I can throw him. No telling how he's going to flipflop next. The only guarantee with Roberts is that he will screw Conservatives every chance he gets! ... LOL, it took me a second to realize you weren't talking about me. When you have the same last name as the Chief Justice, it sucks. But anyway, you're both right. Just not about me. Onward and upward, airforce
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Re: Calls for "Truth Commision"
[Re: McMedic]
#175662
03/18/2021 05:17 PM
03/18/2021 05:17 PM
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My last name is the same as a former UN ambassador turned Trump advisor and serial leaker/liar... so I understand the struggle.
"Government at its best is a necessary evil, and at it�s worst, an intolerable one." Thomas Paine (from "Common Sense" 1776)
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