Higgins, who chairs the House Oversight Committee’s subcommittee on federal law enforcement, argued restrictions are not censorship but a defense of constitutional order. “The reasonable restriction of public statements that lie far beyond the standards of our own society is not an oppression of free speech. It is, rather, the protection of free speech,” he claimed.
Insert 1984 slogan here.
*edit: glad he’s dead.
party of free speech
Reddit is already way ahead of him.
For a state as homophobic as Louisiana, they sure do love gobbling them some old man dementia cock
And I demand that Louisiana Republicans get deleted, but we don’t all get what we want, do we?
Didn’t republicans make truth social and the other rightwing shitholes specifically because “tHeY’rE cEnSoRiNg Us” for saying shit more vile than what they’re throwing a fit about now?
It’s almost like they want censorship for everyone but themselves.
It’s almost like they want censorship for everyone but themselves.
Almost like? No, that’s the actual point.
They want their speech out of their hate-infested echo chambers so that they can start infecting more of the populace.
So they don’t support free speech? I thought that’s why this guy was a martyr somehow.
Yeah…these people really don’t understand irony, at all.
Fascists don’t believe in the meaning of words.
They are free to play in bad faith, while libs waste time and energy debating their bad faith arguments; exactly what the bad faith actor wanted.
Exactly.
Words are nothing but weapons to them, tactics to distract, demoralize, dogwhistle, whatever.
You do not speak to a fascist with words.
You speak to them with a fucking baseball bat.
… not like they would ever do any good with a working jaw anyway.
I demand Louisiania republiQans shut the fuck up
The Snowflake Bill
❄
Fat bald old white man. Checks out.
it’s not fat old, bald white men. It’s Republicans.
don’t be a bigot
Correction: fat old bald conservative white man. Checks out.
And I demand Trump be arrested
Sounds very anti free speech
He know he physically beats his children
How very free speech of them.