April 30, 2021 at 9:05 AM
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Joe Biden has never been a particularly big free speech supporter. For years, as a Senator, he consistently sided with the entertainment industry in their never-ending quest to have the government help attack free speech on the internet via aggressive and oppressive copyright laws. Throughout his campaign he railed against protected speech online that he disliked. And last night, during his first full address to Congress, he trotted out the very dangerous “fire in a crowded theater” trope:
He did it in a very dumb way too. In talking about his push for gun control, he pushed back against the idea that things like background checks and certain limitations on firearms would violate the 2nd Amendment… using the trope about the 1st Amendment:
Thu, Apr 29th 2021 9:31am
Mike Masnick
Joe Biden has never been a particularly big free speech supporter. For years, as a Senator, he consistently sided with the entertainment industry in their never-ending quest to have the government help attack free speech on the internet via aggressive and oppressive copyright laws. Throughout his campaign he railed against protected speech online that he disliked. And last night, during his first full address to Congress, he trotted out the very dangerous fire in a crowded theater trope:
He did it in a very dumb way too. In talking about his push for gun control, he pushed back against the idea that things like background checks and certain limitations on firearms would violate the 2nd Amendment. using the trope about the 1st Amendment:
As a dog returns to its vomit, Biden returns to his totalitarian applause line. Biden added that “no amendment to the Constitution is absolute. You can’t yell ‘fire’ in a crowded movie theater and call it freedom of speech. From the very beginning, you couldn’t own any weapon you wanted to own. From the very beginning of the Second Amendment existed, certain people weren’t allowed to have weapons.” That was earlier this month. Whoever wrote Biden s speech did not put in the crowded movie theater line. They knew it was a bad idea. One of the more infamous Supreme Court rulings that anyone who cares about civil rights loathes. Not only was it overturned, but everyone on the Right and the Left hates it because it s a dumb and dangerous cliche justifying governmental abuses of power.
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