It would be impossible for there to be more "more speech" than we have now online. There is more "more speech" than there has ever been at any other time in our history. So why do we have ANY chance of Trump, Cruz, Rubio or, for crying out loud, ANOTHER BUSH CRIME FAMILY MEMBER as president of the United States, LESS THAN A DECADE AFTER THE MEDIA INSTALLED THE LAST ONE.
The theorists of "more speech" were idiots who disregarded the fact that when you let that speech include lies which could be told with impunity that those with an interest in lying were strengthened by the stupid regime they pushed. That so many of the "more speech" crowd made their money in the media is certainly not just a coincidence.
Anything which allows the mass and corporate media to lie on their own behalf is a permission to do just that. Unconsidered in the theories of the "more speech" dolts is that a lie can be structured in a far more appealing and seductive manner than the truth be - that the truth was restricted by having to be true while a lie can assume any form desired. It also discounts the ability of the corporate media to blanket the public consciousness in ways that those without money and with a message which is not profitable can't match or even approach.
"More speech" vs. true speech, "free speech" in opposition to responsible, honest speech which people need to achieve democracy is one of the most ill thought out ideas which has become universally bought. It is an empty slogan which the United States is riding into disaster as its champions preen in their purity.
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