Documentary about the state of free speech in the United States of America.Documentary about the state of free speech in the United States of America.Documentary about the state of free speech in the United States of America.
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Mike Cernovich
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Alan Dershowitz
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- (as Alan M. Dershowitz)
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The really ironic part of this movie is it frames all these people who have been censored as being "anti-free speech". And that's not true. Free speech isn't actually protected under the constitution of the United States. Or at least it is but not in the way these people go on about it.
Free Speech, better known as the First Amendment, doesn't say you can say whatever you like and not get in trouble. It says the government can't tell you what you can say and what you can't. And the meaning of it was clear at least back in the day when it was written. Namely the government couldn't put you in jail for speaking poorly about the government itself. You could criticize the President or Congress or anybody in government and you wouldn't then be hauled before a judge and thrown in jail. It makes no mention of what you can and can't say to another person and it makes no mention that you can't be prosecuted or fired from a position for saying something that goes against what your employer says or does.
And that's what this movie is about. A bunch of people that have gotten in trouble for saying things that their employers or people in general got angry at and they were fired, fined or blasted by the general population.
Remember, free speech isn't truly free. Try shouting "fire" in a crowded theater and see how well it goes. And an employer is well within their rights to fire somebody that criticizes their business practices.
Free Speech, better known as the First Amendment, doesn't say you can say whatever you like and not get in trouble. It says the government can't tell you what you can say and what you can't. And the meaning of it was clear at least back in the day when it was written. Namely the government couldn't put you in jail for speaking poorly about the government itself. You could criticize the President or Congress or anybody in government and you wouldn't then be hauled before a judge and thrown in jail. It makes no mention of what you can and can't say to another person and it makes no mention that you can't be prosecuted or fired from a position for saying something that goes against what your employer says or does.
And that's what this movie is about. A bunch of people that have gotten in trouble for saying things that their employers or people in general got angry at and they were fired, fined or blasted by the general population.
Remember, free speech isn't truly free. Try shouting "fire" in a crowded theater and see how well it goes. And an employer is well within their rights to fire somebody that criticizes their business practices.
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