🔗 We Need To Fight For Free Speech More Than Ever

Either way, the point stands: we need to protect our free speech rights more than ever. Trump and the MAGA crowd are going to gleefully try to stomp them out. They will push to repeal Section 230. They will push to outlaw all kinds of content they dislike (if you thought existing book bans were bad, just wait). They will push to outlaw all sorts of things.

And Democrats are going to fall for bullshit moral panics and agree to help them.

Don’t let them. Speak up and protect free speech rights.

I know that some people will incorrectly claim that Trump was only elected because he and his supporters were allowed to lie with impunity about basically everything. But that’s bullshit, first of all, and giving up your free speech rights won’t help.

Shutting down free speech rights is capitulating in advance, because you are handing over the very tools that Trump and his censorial cronies will use to shut up anyone who criticizes him.

In the coming years, there will be many efforts to try to protect the US against growing authoritarian and fascist plans. None of that will be possible if we don’t protect our free speech rights first.