More Cass scariness:
Free Speech Now:
“Perhaps we need a New Deal for speech…”
“I do mean to say that in some circumstances, what seems to be government regulation of speech actually might promote free speech, and should not be treated as an abridgment at all.”
“Second, the idea that government should be neutral among all forms of speech seems correct in the abstract…..The difficulty with this conception of neutrality is that it takes existing distributions of resources and opportunities as the baseline for decision”
“Free markets in expression are sometimes ill-adapted to the American revision of the principle of sovereignty. If we are to realize that principle, a New Deal for speech, of the sort outlined above, would be highly desirable.”
“The conception of free speech in any decade of American history is often quite different from the conception twenty years before or after.”
“First, some forms of apparent government intervention into free speech processes can actually improve those processes.”
Essentially he wants to enact Herbert Marcuse’s Repressive Tolerance.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1599938?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
“That’s right, Obama’s information czar wants to tax or ban outright, as in make illegal, political opinions that the government doesn’t approve of. To where would this be extended? A tax or a shut down order on newspapers that print stories critical of our illustrious leaders?”
http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-information-czar-calls-for-banning-free-speech.html
This man would label climate denial a conspiracy theory and make it illegal to discuss. These type of academics will continue to chip away at the first amendment, and, undoubtedly will eventual erode it until we have laws like Europe that prohibit free discussion.
Wisdom of the crowds indeed.
