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With a 40% increase in death in the 18-64 age group, SOMETHING is equivalent to people being fed into ovens. The result is the same. A massive amount of people are dying. Humans are dying off. There is no bigger story right now. But few are covering it.

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Dec 8, 2022·edited Dec 8, 2022

It amazes me how many people think the 1st Amendment is dangerous. The US is the only country that allows free speech. We have to fight to keep it.

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Judge Pell in the Skokie,IL Neo-Nazi case, finding for the ACLU (and their Jewish lawyer) and the Nazis: "Under the First Amendment, there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an idea may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas."

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It is almost like an amazing Covid reporter for 2 years who complained about Government overreach then says he will vote for Biden and authoritarianism over Trump.

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First let me say I agree with every word of this article. I think my favorite part is about disagreeing with Naomi but not stopping her from speaking.

Estimado Alex Berenson: I firmly disagree with your estimate of the value of Ivermectin in a couple of ways. But you, unlike all the people on the officialdom side of the vaxx debate, went on to debate publicly, an excellent advocate for Ivermectin, Pierre Kory. I will leave it up to each observer who won that debate.

But the fact that you did actually have that public debate shows a kind of integrity orders of magnitude greater than any shown by the promoters of the vaxx, or those who censored all of us who had reasonable, or even absurd objections to the the vaxx itself, and the rights-destroying policies used to coerce the public.

It is time people began to look at the gestalt of this situation. The various components taken overall suggest something a lot bigger is at work. Censorship, coerced use of experimental and dangerous medications, ineffective at that, and the curious groups that were exempted from the vaxx mandates, like illegal migrants, and police in Canada but not the military.

This is more than a mere "Qui bono" as some may conclude looking at recent reveals of EU contracts and Trudeau entanglements with component companies. Governments and those who make it up, could have bought the vaxx without coercing its use and still profited.

Perhaps the main efficacy of the mRNA shots is actually its ability to protect governments from the rights of the people.

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Dec 8, 2022·edited Dec 8, 2022

Full disclosure: I don't have a Twitter account, but I've been watching the Twitter drama.

1. "Ye" is a mentally ill asshole and should be able to display it. (Bret Weinstein made the excellent point last week that we need to be able to identify antisemitism. Hiding it or ignoring it doesn't work out well.)

2. If the EU doesn't like the USA's First Amendment, it can go pound sand...starting with the sand on Omaha Beach.

3. Taylor Lorenz is a fraud and deserves to be exposed as one. Let her post! And let her whimper, sob, and feel "unsafe."

4. Dr. Malone and all the other Fauci challengers should be reinstated. Maybe their comments would jog Fauci's memory--since he can't seem to recall very much.

BIG QUESTION: Why on EARTH did Musk keep Jim Baker? What POSSESSED him? Ditto for Yoel Roth?

BIGGER QUESTION: Did Musk think it would be EASY to "fix" Twitter?

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Dec 8, 2022·edited Dec 8, 2022

Absolute free speech on Twitter is probably not going to work. Twitter is a company, not a government. I think it's a bit disingenuous to write this piece and not mention Matt Taibbi. Government skirting the 1st amendment to sway an election through a company is far more dangerous than Ye being booted for being a self-righteous a-hole.

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Musk should say it, tweet it and print it on a t-shirt and sell it.

"I believe in free speech and debate; Twitter is an American company and the First Amendment is at the core of what it means to be American and the antidote to bad speech is good speech and I will not bend the knee for any country or advertiser that does not agree. If you want to ban us, ban us. If you don’t want to advertise on us, don’t advertise on us."

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It is always so interesting when people like Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz decry the "open market place of ideas" (to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson) , as a free twitter would be, as a "hellscape" it captures their fear that their ideas can't compete. She and her ilk only have any traction in an idea vacuum devoid of opposing viewpoints and without active censorship, they will become irrelevant. Imagine a mob with only one megaphone, then suddenly, everyone present has a megaphone. A cacophony for sure, but isn't that life anyway? All this information and data swirling around, unimpeded by government control or "moderation" by some faceless goof in Silicon Valley, Seattle or Portland who only actually works 4 hours a month. Each person has to do his own "due diligence" and determine the accuracy or veracity of what they consume.

But that is our right. At least the theory. And now that we know for sure that the Biden/Obama governments actively colluded, persuaded, or pressured big tech to censor opposing viewpoints and damaging facts, we are right to be skeptical about any "big" anything and should always follow the Rule of Gold. Follow the money, or look to see who benefits. Big Pharma??? again, follow the money. Why isn't Big Pharma manufacturing anti-biotics and common pain relievers/anti-inflammatories in the US? No money in it. May be time to dust off those old Anti-Trust laws and level the playing field. In all areas.

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No democracy without free speech. Only tyranny.

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It is disappointing and scary -- appreciate your analysis Alex. Elon has some good instincts, kind of like Trump did...he knows things are not right...but he doesn't have a correct and consistent ideological foundation, and he doesn't go far enough, and eventually it will be too late. Why would he take a vote to reinstate Trump or anyone else?...why weren't all accounts reinstated immediately on the takeover?...why are some accounts not to be reinstated? if not by court order and no laws are being broken. Why would he consider committees to moderate content?...it takes time and energy to have this destructive thing -no good can come of it. I'm afraid this isn't going to end well.

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If a US court determines that Twitter has been acting on behalf of the US government in censoring speech, perhaps the court will determine that Twitter can no longer censor legal speech. Then hopefully the EU won't be a threat anymore.

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The brainwashing begins the minute a child sets foot in public school. That's why government provides them paid for by other people. The biggest scam ever perpetrated on Humanity. The ultimate child abuse. The ultimate parental abandonment of children. Although no one sees it that way it's a fact.

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Agree he needs to side with the first amendment. Threading the needle between the first amendment and the ever-changing more censorious European Union rules is not a good idea, and a slippery slope. 

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Alex, this one of your best posts on free speech. Kudos!

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We have some idea what kind of threats Musk has received openly...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-warns-musk-that-twitter-faces-ban-over-content-moderation-ft-2022-11-30/

...and no idea what threats he's hearing behind the scenes. I assume he's buried under a blizzard of regulatory agency threats and cease and desist letters from lawyers and ominous letters from politicians. He's navigating an extraordinary legal and regulatory environment, in jurisdictions around the world. So a conclusion like, "It simply offended Musk" doesn't seem to take into account the full context of what he has to deal with as he makes decisions.

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