{"id":692,"date":"2020-10-20T13:24:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T13:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2020-10-20T13:24:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T13:24:59","slug":"free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/20\/free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Free speech!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>P&#038;C drink and review an Octoberfest beer, then talk about restrictions on free speech. <\/p>\n<p>The First Amendment limits the government&#8217;s ability to regulate speech. But can other people limit speech? And what speech is in view &#8212; only political speech, or all speech? <\/p>\n<p>In the past, the government was a legit threat to free speech. Today, the woke mob, the spineless companies that bow to the woke mob, and the tech titans are the big dangers to free speech. <\/p>\n<p>Is free speech a general value that we want reflected in all of society, or are we only worried about the government? <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have the freedom to say anything you like, but there can still be consequences.&#8221; Is that what we want? <\/p>\n<p>The woke mob may like the power they wield now, but what if the tide shifts and some other ideology has the power to destroy people because they don&#8217;t comply? <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/16474187\/height\/360\/theme\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>P&#038;C drink and review an Octoberfest beer, then talk about restrictions on free speech. The First Amendment limits the government&#8217;s ability to regulate speech. But can other people limit speech? And what speech is in view &#8212; only political speech, or all speech? In the past, the government was a legit threat to free speech. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/20\/free-speech\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free speech!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}