"Excessive Free Speech" Threatens Our Democracy, The Globe and Mail Explains
Free Speech needs rigid regulation
Our democracy is in grave danger! We already know that it is threatened by humor, the Supreme Court, and white rural voters. WEF and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s adviser, Wharton Prof. Adam Grant, also explained that elections are bad for our democracy.
That is not all; a grave new threat emerged: excessive free speech.
Globe and Mail is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, so we better take it seriously. Its public affairs columnist, Washington-based Lawrence Martin, looks like a slimmed-down Donald Trump, whom Lawrence dislikes intensely despite close visual resemblance. (I wonder if Mr Martin’s mom cavorted with Fred Trump in the Fall of 1946)
Mr. Martin is very upset that the Internet empowered the masses against establishment forces:
The business model of the newspaper industry Mr Martin represents is threatened by the Internet, which he laments:
Lawrence Martin forgets that the media itself contributes to polarization:
Looking in the mirror, which is never the strong suit of most people, is something that Lawrence Martin should practice occasionally.
In any case, Globe and Mail has a prescription on how to save democracy: rigid regulation of speech. Such a get-tough-on-speech approach will certainly protect democracy and safeguard our most basic freedoms:
The dangerous anti-democratic free-speech lobby, Globe and Mail implies, is just as bad as the baby-killing gun lobby.
I hope, my friends, we all see that our democracy is under threat: it is being simultaneously attacked by white voters, free speech, elections, and the U.S. Constitution.
Do you know any other threats to democracy? Let us know what you think!
every day I swear I'm reading satire, but I'm not
this is our World now - has been for a long time - but now it's exposed for those with eyes to see
Lawrence Martin is breathtakingly stupid, and I fear there are many who agree with him.