Former President Barack Obama says he would like to end free speech and has declared the First Amendment no longer has a place in America.
Following billionaire Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter and turn it into a free speech platform to protect democracy, Obama responded by saying that Twitter becoming a free speech platform would be a threat to democracy.
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“Each of us, whether we work at a tech company or consume social media, whether we are a parent, a legislator, an advertiser on one of these platforms, now’s the time to pick a side,” Obama told Stanford University on Thursday. “We have a choice right now. Do we allow our democracy to wither or do we make it better?”
Based-politics.com reports: Obama then, bizarrely, tried to insist that, at heart, he is a free speech “absolutist.”
“Freedom of speech is at the heart of every democratic society,” he said, declaring himself “pretty close to a First Amendment absolutist.”
“I believe that in most instances the answer to bad speech is good speech. I believe that the free, robust, sometimes antagonistic exchange of ideas produces better outcomes and a healthier society,” Obama continued.
Great! Maybe Musk could work with Obama to preserve freedom of expression on Twitter?!
Wait, never mind. Obama then said that when it comes to social media companies, “regulation has to be part of the answer.” He added that current “content moderation” “doesn’t go far enough” in tamping down on “clearly dangerous content.”
Here is some of the clearly dangerous content that was “moderated” before the 2020 presidential election:
Former Twitter head Jack Dorsey has since admitted suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story was a total mistake.
Obama said major social media companies need to play a more significant role in suppressing content.
“The bigger issue is what content these platforms promote,” Obama said. “Algorithms have evolved to the point where nobody on the outside of these companies can accurately predict what they’ll do, unless they’re really sophisticated and spend a lot of time tracking it. And sometimes, even the people who build them aren’t sure.”
“That’s a problem,” he insisted.
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? Of course it is, but opposition to free speech–outright scorn–runs throughout elite institutions and figures.
We NEED content moderation: Age limits for accounts. No tolerance of calls for violence. Prevention of terrorists organizing on social media.
That is not what Obama alluded to and polls show most Democratic voters truly want something far different: Suppression or outright censorship of views and positions they don’t agree with.
Obama specifically cited former President Donald Trump and other Republicans claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen. I don’t believe this. But it is still free expression, just as it is when Hillary Clinton says Russia stole the election in 2016 (another conspiracy).
All of the above is basic political speech.
Obama asked Americans to “pick a side” in this debate. If one side is free expression that might include wackjobs claiming Kamala Harris is a secret lizard person accompanied by sane political news and opinion the left might not like. It’s that, or left-leaning (or right-leaning! Democrats won’t be in charge forever) government “regulators” who get to decide what Twitter and its users are allowed to see…
Bring on the lizard people. Every American who claims to value free speech should claim the former option. Free and open expression should be tolerated in the United States.
Even if a former president thinks it shouldn’t.
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Truth is good speech Fraud deceit misinformation such as pretending to be a heterosexual married to a biologically born female with children born from her womb. Being honest rather than a lawyer forced to surrender their licence because of obviously some form of unlawful illegal or criminal speech written or spoken is preferable. If claiming to be a democrat acting constitutionally then preserving and protecting the American s people right to be their own rule of law rather than outsourcing it to a foreign sovereign from a religious bias inappropriate to Americas demography even can hardly be an example of good speech. In fact it’s treasonous.
And rhe story of the brutally murdered young mum with her infant slaughtered as an unarmed and defenseless mother and the cover up of the whole matter reeks of bad speech.
End of argument.
Obama just showing who he really is.
A Kenyan, or an arsehole? Both were never secrets I thought.
You skipped one. A Kenyan AND an arsehole, AND a Communist, probably injected into his soul while he was on one of his daddys’ laps. But he IS right. Free speech IS a threat to democracy. That’s why the founding fathers set the country up to be a Republic. They abhorred democracy, likening it to the (at the time non-existent) communist doctrine.
I’d say, if this twerp is so against the fundamentals of freedom, let’s just give him a free boat ride to somewhere else. Could do a little asset forfeiture on one of the Cubans immigrating in their 1957 Ford truck with oil barrels welded to it, and we could all kick in to fill the bed with some nice high-protein insects to aid him in his journey.
Thank you. What I also said before even seeing your post.
Phil.. Kalergi ?? Obama ?? both half bred mongrels ..& those half bred mongrels hate mankind, because of the big chip on their shoulder that they are rejected by it ? Rejected by whites, rejected by Japanese for Kalergi & Obama , rejected by whites & rejected by Africans… No wonder they turned both Satanists ??
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How are we allowing our country and republic to be destroyed like this?
Josie, look up Bailiwick News on substack and go to an article entitled
“Legal Walls of the Covid-19 Kill Box”. I’d put up an URL but it isn’t allowed here. There is short
version and longer version which is very well-documented. Everyone should read this.
If you read nothing else this year, you/we should all read this, it is hugely important. This is
what the cabal have been up to while we weren’t looking.
We started by electing a president, just because he was black.
I think it started long before that. I’ve been watching this circus since Nov 22, 1963.
It is the first amendment to the Constitution. Any changes would have to be ratified by the states. We’re not talking about executive order or corporate power. He is not in a position to do anything. We are not the EU royalty system.
Exactly. Never comply with illegal mandates.
The wolf in sheep’s clothing has bared his fangs.
Hmm, now why would Obama and Hillary both be screaming for MORE censorship??
Fake Epstein guilty zioTrumpy P0S censored first amendment rights if college students for our scumbag enemy Israel.
HI Larry. I’ve been wondering where you’ve been lurking.
They’re all getting more and more honest by the day…
The Founding Fathers realized the only way to get the Brits off our backs was with what would become the 2A. That’s how we’re going to have to do it this time around as well.
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You get how anti gun Epstein guilty zioTrumpy P0S is right? Pushed red flag laws with princess Incest Ivanka, passed bump stock ban, Told Diane Fineswine to take guns first and pass laws later……
“Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?” – Vladimir Lenin
He’s delusional from that Crack if he thinks I have any loyalties to him, his cousin, his friends or his goons. I’m still a little upset about watching his goons gpsing our houses and the behavior of his census worker goons. That told me everything I need to know about them scumbags.
“Each of us, whether we work at a tech company or consume social media, whether we are a parent, a legislator, an advertiser on one of these platforms, now’s the time to pick a side.” — Obama
He sounds exactly like neocon President GW Bush: “You’re either with us, or with the terrorists.”
He’s trying to create the impression that all respectable people are with Big Brother/ZOG, and only terrorists and other irrational extremists and malcontents are on the other side.
But the neocons and corrupt-liberals are the extremists and irrational fanatics with stunted minds and stunted souls. They’re suffering from arrested development and cult privilege that has corrupted their essence. Incredibly weak, insecure and depraved people. Their lack of conscience makes them vicious and animal-like, but their “education” (cult indoctrination) has granted them silver tongues to manipulate the language and miniplate the People. Just like the Serpent.
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Oh, forgot this one.
the lithograph on the left is a representation of a tibetan god
Say is Barry reaching for Big Mike’s crank in that pic as well?
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Most likely..
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Trump, Clintons, Gates and Epstein all sitting in a tree…..
He WAS in the wrong branch of goverment to be Changeing the LAWs-that was never his post of goverment and ANY FED judge alive would strike down that BILL faster than bozo`s zipper
He not longer holds any office of goverment and he dam sure an`t a fed judge
He could never change the law they tryed when he was president and lost over the TIC TIC cartoons remember?
Ahha yes, the Kenyan speaks. The year you outsourced the job to Kenya and actually the first intelligent and articulate one in living memory. Still an arsehole but that is a prerequisite. He was admittedly not a war criminal when he got the NOBEL peace prize but, they evidently had faith, and well placed it was. He soon became as much of a killer as the rest. I for one was happy to see this “Experiment in Democracy” at the time. Even negative results are useful to a scientific mind.
The Obamanation, a leading candidate for Anti-Christ.
There is a rope and noose with Obama’s name on it and it should have been used a long time ago.
The Obummernation of America.
Crudely counterfeiting birth documents is Obama’s idea of freee speech. What a totally dishonest loser.
President Obama is half Jewish
Most people consider Barack Obama to be a Black president… these people are half right. Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, is a Jewish child of the CIA. Joel Gilbert, who is also Jewish, has documented this CIA connection in his video titled, Dreams from My Real Father. Gilbert however, fails to mention that Obama’s mother is Jewish… leaving out this most pertinent fact.
You KNOW he’s a joo. That’s WHY ‘they’ constantly refer to him as a Muslim. ALL simpletons think(?) that O’dummah is a Muslim. They’re the same simpletons that think(?) Bin Laden orchestrated AND pulled off 9-11.
Free speech is one of the only safeguards Americans have to keep from being taken over by crapheads like him.
OBooing blew Netflix profitability under two years, so doesn’t want anyone to know the ‘woke’ business model is a disaster, or some other soon to be released inconvenient truths, don’t fit the self-hyped image optic, like ‘Biden is competent.’ The Great lie seems to be unraveling.
with the dems scheduled to be slaughtered in the upcoming 2022 election AND in 2024,. of course they want to silence speech.. the truth burns them with their own words!
Oh and lest we forget, hillary and obama seem to be on the hook for the fake russian report and they both seem to be attached to HUNTER BIDENS LAPTOP!
It is time to hang the traitor Barak Obama.
Lol… he’s L-O-N-G gone already.
Throw that Illuminati monkey back to Kenya where he belongs to.
That’s right. You can only have free speech if you agree with the Donkey party or the Liberal Establishment. Equity not equality.
“”Twitter becoming a free speech platform would be a threat to democracy””
isn’t twitter already a free speech platform? OMG obama will get his evil hooks into the twitter. probably we should let trump get his angelic hooks into the twitter instead.
Obozo has no place in America…he needs to be deported back to Kenya and the sooner the better.
Solving one’s problems is much more honorable than pushing them off on someone else. Give me the task. I’ll administer a PERMANENT solution.
I saw posted a list of people Americans can’t wait to expire. What a useless life when your death will bring such joy to so many.
Some Constitutional Scholar, this is treasonous language from a FORMER President!
Bush Jr. was NO better… “Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
The difference is that nobody listened to Bush, they laughed at him.
Obama is running the country for the third term.
Damnit PJ… as ALWAYS, you make a good point.
The Clintons need to end free speech by edict – there are just too many people to kill otherwise.
this is proof that many conservatives who were against Obama for his non native status. were not being racist either…..Obama does not belong in American politics…….
the mentality of the Obama generation has left many states in the U.S. full of crime and Murder, begining with Obamas political launching place in CHicago;;;;;
The highest minority population and the murder capital of the world
PresidenT oBarnum..
Obama is trying to kill free speech for his employer, the Deep State. (Aka Wall Street, Rockefeller & gang, 0.1%, as you prefer). They are not worried about the truth about Covid or Climate Change coming out. The truth is out, both scams are dead in the water. The scammers are worried that the public might make the connection: wait, if these 2 media favorites are scams, then perhaps EVERY CRISIS the media fed us over the decades – overpopulation, economic downturns, other health epidemics, oil depletion, etc. are also cookie cutter scams for the 0.1% ? This reckoning is what they are trying to prevent. Probably unsuccessfully.
I read both of Obama’s books, ‘The Audacity of Hope’ and ‘Dreams From My Father’. The latter now makes perfect sense, seeing how his biological father was the devout communist (and porn photographer) Miles Davis. THIS was his dream- to destroy America’s constitutional republic first via, “democracy” (AKA, ‘mob rule’) and then full-blown dictatorship.
DID,NT HE SAY EVEN BEFORE HE GOT “SELECTED” that he was going to fundamentaly change America
Yep. Mission Accomplished. He’s finishing the job now in his third term.
It seems to be a rule with these ghouls that they have to announce their nefarious plans in advance. It’s either hubris or they really enjoy rubbing our noses in it. Like the villains who can’t help monologging to the hero before trying to kill him.
The stupid, or well intentioned but misguided democrats who voted for Obama, should have had enough time by now, to see what he really stands for. Not what he says but what he really stands for.
Barry is a communist POS
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