It’s Impossible to Have a Democracy if People Disagree With You

[pipedreams]

"Obama is busy shilling for his book, A Promised Land, for which the American imprint of a subsidiary of a German publishing giant with a Nazi past, is paying him a fortune. And that means sitting down with his favorite shill, The Atlantic’s editor Jeffrey Goldberg, whose book was published by the same giant, for some pseudo-intellectual preening at America’s expense.

As usual, he has deep thoughts about why everyone who disagrees with him needs to shut up.

"The First Amendment doesn’t require private companies to provide a platform for any view that is out there. At the end of the day, we’re going to have to find a combination of government regulations and corporate practices that address this," Obama fussily declaims.

The corporate practices by Big Tech companies that shut down Biden scandals are already in place. Government regulations to get rid of free speech are new, but not new for Obama."

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/11/obama-its-impossible-have-democracy-if-people-daniel-greenfield/

"Obama's DOJ seized phone records from reporters, dug through their emails, and followed them around. But the whole point of Big Tech censorship is that Democrats avoid pesky constitutional issues by outsourcing the censorship to huge corporate monopolies. The practice of calling in CEOs to the Senate to berate them about insufficient censorship should raise some constitutional questions about an oligarchy colluding to suppress political speech."

[Mrs.Cicero]

the only people who are going to buy that shite are virtue-signaling libtards who will buy it and leave it unread on their coffee tables for the next decade.

[railfancwb]

Standard way of rewarding politicals is a huge non returnable advance for a ghost written book which doesn’t sell. For reference see Dr Jill

[janice6]

8 minutes ago, railfancwb said:

Standard way of rewarding politicals is a huge non returnable advance for a ghost written book which doesn’t sell. For reference see Dr Jill

I wonder if her book is written as poorly as her thesis...............  She wrote like a student rather than a teacher/