Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume warned on Tuesday that those on the left who are making an increase in speech regulation do not understand the concept of the first amendment or the market of ideas.
Hume told ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ that the most disturbing part of the ‘oppression’ raised by Big Tech and Democrats is that high-ranking officials and journalists have given their support.
BRIT HUME: What bothers me the most … is the extent to which journalists are participating now … it honestly amazes me.
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This is worrying and it suggests to me that people who ask these things do not really understand the basis of our concept of freedom of speech, that is, people are better informed by hearing and enduring a wide variety of voices , and that the answer to offensive speech is not censorship.
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Thomas Jefferson actually put it very well many years ago when he said the following: ‘Because here,’ he said, ‘we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor for any error, as long as the reason is released. to combat it. ‘
This is the concept, open forums, free speech, if you find speech offensive, respond to it with something better.
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Later in 1927 there was a famous case called Whitney v. California in which [Supreme Court] Justice [Louis] Brandeis had a famous passage, and he talked about it and he said: ‘If there were time to expose the lies and errors through discussion to prevent evil through the education process, the solution to the its application more speech. , not forced silence. ‘
What we hear and see now are journalists trying to shut down other news organizations and channels themselves, and I find that astonishing and worrying.