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Marco Rubio just proposed a bill to stop corporations from being too "woke"[1]. There are also numerous instances of Republican politicians complaining or propo

Marco Rubio just proposed a bill to stop corporations from being too "woke"[1]. There are also numerous instances of Republican politicians complaining or proposing bills about things like athletes kneeling during the anthem, burning of the flag, or other forms of expressions they deem "un-American". That's not even mentioning the Republican obsession with controlling "obscenity" on TV and other public media. [1] https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/9/new-rubio-bill-helps-shareholders-fight-back-against-woke-corporations https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/9/new-rub...

hunterb123 5y ago
Read it again, it doesn't stop them, it puts them on record. Not comparable to silencing speech of citizens. Choose a better whataboutism in your defense of censorship, not just Marco lol.
- AlexandrB 5y ago
  I'm not defending anything. I'm responding to your statement that Republicans don't want to censor speech. > I haven't seen any calls from any Republicans to censor any speech. They very clearly do! Even setting aside the Rubio bill, you did not respond to either the "you must be patriotic"[1][2] or the "obscenity"[3][4] type of censorship that Republicans love to pursue. [1] https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/25/tennessee-senate-republicans-national-anthem-college-funding-cut/6803920002/ https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/25/te... [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/02/24/tennessee-gop-anthem-protest/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/02/24/tennessee-g... [3] https://reason.com/2012/08/28/yes-the-gop-platform-is-for-vigorously-e/ https://reason.com/2012/08/28/yes-the-gop-platform-is-for-vi... [4] https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/exclusive-u-s-representatives-call-on-barr-to-prosecute-obscene-pornography/ https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/exclusive-u-s-represen...
  - hunterb123 5y ago
    1. The big reveal in that article is "No we're not ready to do that yet". Legally yes it may be a freedom of speech issue because it's at a public university, but who wants political stunts at a game. The audience doesn't, no real debate is happening. Not the same scale as political dissent censorship. 2. Sorry can't view due to paywall, couldn't find an archive 3. You can be arrested in many liberal towns for public indecency. I don't support evangelicals argument against pornography using obscenity but it's not exactly a great comparison against the censorship of political dissent. 4. Same point as above. Note that the main difference of these events are the severity and scale. It's many national level Democrats coordinating to censor political speech on a private platform by creating a fake "whistleblower" vs some kneeling at a basketball game or porn laws. I agree that those few Republicans are wrong, but their suggestions aren't the majority in the party and they won't get far. Conversely, the Democrat party as a whole is currently and successfully crafting a censorship campaign.
    - shadowgovt 5y ago
      > Conversely, the Democrat party as a whole is currently and successfully crafting a censorship campaign. Can you support the claim that Frances Haugen is a "fake whistleblower" created as part of a Democrat party censorship campaign with evidence?
      - hunterb123 5y ago
        They would provide no evidence, sorry, I can only offer you common sense. She's a long time liberal activist and the Democrats had this whole shit show ready to go at the same time she came out. There is evidence that they are doing a censorship campaign, by their calls for censorship.
        shadowgovt 5y ago
        I don't think that's enough signal to disambiguate "coordinate use of a 'fake whistleblower' against Facebook" from simple fortune. Some members of the Democratic party want to rein in Facebook and other big-tech companies; of that I have no doubt. But "big tech" in general has been shedding whistle-blowers for years now as individuals find their consciences no longer let them play the game... My 'common sense' tells me if it weren't Frances Haugen, it'd have been someone else.

hunterb123 5y ago

Read it again, it doesn't stop them, it puts them on record. Not comparable to silencing speech of citizens. Choose a better whataboutism in your defense of censorship, not just Marco lol.

AlexandrB 5y ago
I'm not defending anything. I'm responding to your statement that Republicans don't want to censor speech. > I haven't seen any calls from any Republicans to censor any speech. They very clearly do! Even setting aside the Rubio bill, you did not respond to either the "you must be patriotic"[1][2] or the "obscenity"[3][4] type of censorship that Republicans love to pursue. [1] https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/25/tennessee-senate-republicans-national-anthem-college-funding-cut/6803920002/ https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2021/02/25/te... [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/02/24/tennessee-gop-anthem-protest/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/02/24/tennessee-g... [3] https://reason.com/2012/08/28/yes-the-gop-platform-is-for-vigorously-e/ https://reason.com/2012/08/28/yes-the-gop-platform-is-for-vi... [4] https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/exclusive-u-s-representatives-call-on-barr-to-prosecute-obscene-pornography/ https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/exclusive-u-s-represen...
- hunterb123 5y ago
  1. The big reveal in that article is "No we're not ready to do that yet". Legally yes it may be a freedom of speech issue because it's at a public university, but who wants political stunts at a game. The audience doesn't, no real debate is happening. Not the same scale as political dissent censorship. 2. Sorry can't view due to paywall, couldn't find an archive 3. You can be arrested in many liberal towns for public indecency. I don't support evangelicals argument against pornography using obscenity but it's not exactly a great comparison against the censorship of political dissent. 4. Same point as above. Note that the main difference of these events are the severity and scale. It's many national level Democrats coordinating to censor political speech on a private platform by creating a fake "whistleblower" vs some kneeling at a basketball game or porn laws. I agree that those few Republicans are wrong, but their suggestions aren't the majority in the party and they won't get far. Conversely, the Democrat party as a whole is currently and successfully crafting a censorship campaign.
  - shadowgovt 5y ago
    > Conversely, the Democrat party as a whole is currently and successfully crafting a censorship campaign. Can you support the claim that Frances Haugen is a "fake whistleblower" created as part of a Democrat party censorship campaign with evidence?
    - hunterb123 5y ago
      They would provide no evidence, sorry, I can only offer you common sense. She's a long time liberal activist and the Democrats had this whole shit show ready to go at the same time she came out. There is evidence that they are doing a censorship campaign, by their calls for censorship.
      - shadowgovt 5y ago
        I don't think that's enough signal to disambiguate "coordinate use of a 'fake whistleblower' against Facebook" from simple fortune. Some members of the Democratic party want to rein in Facebook and other big-tech companies; of that I have no doubt. But "big tech" in general has been shedding whistle-blowers for years now as individuals find their consciences no longer let them play the game... My 'common sense' tells me if it weren't Frances Haugen, it'd have been someone else.