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Helle Thorning Schmidt, a board member at Facebook, claimed that free speech is not an absolute human right.
Schmidt made this claim at a Politico Europe event, prior to being the Facebook board Schmidt was a Denmark PM.
From The Daily Caller:
“How do you moderate content and how do you find that balance between human rights and free speech which is a human rights but also other human rights,” Schmidt said. “Because free speech is not an absolute human right it has to be both balanced with all the human rights and that’s what the oversight is there to do.”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday that the Biden administration’s goal was to target “disinformation” on Facebook that might be discouraging people from getting the coronavirus vaccine.
While discussing Schmidt’s comment, Fox News host Tammy Bruce pointed to the White House’s plan to assist Facebook in identifying misinformation and argued that Americans might be concerned to see the government colluding with Big Tech companies, because they thought it would potentially lead to infringement on their First Amendment rights.
Right. “There is no free speech. Speech consists of that speech which we approve.” Problem is, WHO is to decide what speech is approved or approvable? And therein lies the wickedness of censorship. Well I remember how the liberals and the radicals were clamoring and holding temper tantrums to make sure their subversive speech was heard. Funny, now that they feel they have the upper hand, speech is now constrained and anyone who does not agree with “us” will be silenced
The main problem is who gets to decide what’s misinformation. Do we remember the Hunter Biden laptop or the Wuhan Lab leak stories, what about Hydroxy and other COVID treatments that could have saved lives while we waited for vaccines? Clearly the wrong people are deciding what’s “disinformation” and what’s not. How about we put ALL the information out there, offer supporting and opposing evidence and let the American people decide which experts they want to believe.