Sorry, how are "they" dismantling free speech rights in the US?
Consider that virtually every other mass-communication medium CAN'T do what the social firms are getting away with currently, rather than cheer on your "right side of history" allies.
* The Biden administration is working with technology companies to flag users and posts for removal.
* Journalists and whistleblowers are being censored, monitored and even jailed.
* More Americans than ever say they cannot speak their mind or they risk losing their livelihoods.
* The public isn't allowed to have reasonable discussions on scientific research or theory if it is counter to the prevailing narrative or they risk being censored and removed from platforms. See ivermectin and lab leak.
* Our biggest newspapers cannot report on majority held beliefs and perspectives without retribution from activists.
* Our institutions are referring to books they don't like as "violence."
* Our nation's intelligence agencies have embedded agents into our corporate news media that works as efficient propogandists. Disinformation sourced from these agencies is disseminated through these channels, reported as facts, and then used as a cudgel to silence and censor critics.
Is the spreading of misinformation "free speech". I agree people have the right to have different opinions, but when those opinion have been proven to be false, do you give up the right to spread it? A bit of a slippery slope.
>Journalists and whistleblowers are being censored, monitored and even jailed.
Journalists have been censored for the past 200 years. I see it getting better under the Biden admin, not worse. Whistleblowers were a particular problem for the Trump admin, not so much Biden admin.
>Our biggest newspapers cannot report on majority held beliefs and perspectives without retribution from activists. Our institutions are referring to books they don't like as "violence."
Any proof on this?
Last one is just crazy.
Whistleblowers had a field day under Trump. Under Biden journalists are again being caught up in NSA surveillance, likely being illegally unmasked and then leaked to other members of the media. See Tucker Carlson. honestly, this isn't even about tucker. It's very likely illegal. These people are emboldened. Nothing ever happens to them.
The American Booksellers Association yesterday referred to their promotion of an "anti-trans" book as violence.
I think the last one is pretty easy to defend. Glen Greenwald documents this pretty extensively. All of our corporate media employ folks who previous worked for NSA, CIA, FBI, etc. They literally put them on TV with a moniker "Previous CIA Agent", etc. These people serve the purpose as "experts" and commonly report information from "anonymous sources" within the agencies. Their purpose is to effect public opinion. Recently see Russiagate, Boutygate, Hunter Biden laptop. The Iraq war and Vietnam War deployed these tactics too. We know for a fact that the CIA lied to us during the Iraq war. And they deployed these tactics. How is this crazy?
The New York Times has reported on this relationship between intelligence agencies and the media extensively in the past. It was scandal in the 70s! This stuff is still alive and well.