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Former presidential advisor triggered government can’t have MORE CONTROL over free speech.

The New York Times published an op-ed on Tuesday that claims the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution “is out of control.”

The article was authored by legal scholar Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor who served on the National Economic Council under both the Obama and Biden administrations.

Wu basically wrote Biden’s 2021 Executive Order on Competition.

In his NY Times piece, Wu argued American judges have twisted the free speech amendment into “an all-purpose tool of legislative nullification that now mostly protects corporate interests.”

He claims, “Monday’s Supreme Court decision in the two NetChoice cases” have added to complications with the First Amendment by viewing social media company algorithms as equivalent to “expressive decisions made by human editors at newspapers.”

It seems as if Wu is trying to place the blame of censorship on the algorithms and not the far-left employees who made the technology biased or the politicians who have been caught ordering companies to censor certain information.

One sentence in Wu’s article gets to the bottom of his real fear, which his that the overgrown U.S. bureaucracy may soon be trimmed down.

The ex-government official wrote, “The judiciary needs to realize that the First Amendment is spinning out of control. It is beginning to threaten many of the essential jobs of the state, such as protecting national security and the safety and privacy of its citizens.”

Notice Wu also added a dash of fearmongering to his argument by claiming true free speech online is somehow a threat to “national security.”

The author alleged the SCOTUS NetChoice ruling “weakens the ability of the government to regulate so-called common carriers like railroads and airlines.”

So, again Wu is upset the government is losing power.

While attempting to show support for We The People, the bureaucrat’s only solutions are to give more power to the corrupt and incompetent government.

He wrote, “In a democracy, the people ought to have the right to react to and control” Big Tech companies, he wrote, adding, “But thanks to the Supreme Court, the First Amendment has become a barrier to the government’s ability to do that. Free speech rights have been hijacked to suppress the sovereignty of humans in favor of the power of companies and machines.”

The strange op-ed was harshly criticized online:

The First Amendment is coming home at 4am after spending all day and night at casinos and blowing its winnings on hookers and coke. pic.twitter.com/cyEvAyoLdC

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 2, 2024

The New York Times: The Times pledged “to give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interests involved.”

Also The New York Times: The First Amendment Is Out Of Control pic.twitter.com/zAsFJrhd19

— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) July 2, 2024

The side that claims to be protecting democracy wants to cancel elections, drone their political opponents, and thinks the First Amendment is bad. pic.twitter.com/Fst4oHj4rw

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) July 2, 2024

This New York Times op-ed, written by a Columbia law professor–a former member of Biden’s National Economic Council, says the quiet part out loud. They want censorship. Big time.

You might think it’s hyperbolic or that the title is clickbait and unrepresentative of its… pic.twitter.com/y6lO763qv6

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 2, 2024

“The first amendment is out of control because it makes the government’s job harder!”
That’s the whole point of the first amendment you absolute retard.

I don’t want the government to protect me I want it to get out of my way. These people are a joke and should be mocked. pic.twitter.com/N6h7nWIZte

— Royce Lopez (@hippojuicefilm) July 2, 2024

A controlled First Amendment is no First Amendment. pic.twitter.com/OpKYXIbKp1

— Michael Quinn Sullivan ?? (@MQSullivan) July 2, 2024

The New York Times is out of control.

The article is about social media and lack of censorship.

What the author of the article doesn’t mention is the real issue. Leftists are raging that they are no longer the gatekeepers on “facts”. They don’t get to control the narrative… pic.twitter.com/OoCt1XTcnh

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) July 2, 2024

“The First Amendment is spinning out of control. It is beginning to threaten many of the essential jobs of the state…”

Written by a special assistant to Biden for tech policy.

God forbid the Constitution should hinder the state… pic.twitter.com/NZ0KiH0NX1

— The Wandering Investor (@wander_investor) July 2, 2024

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Ukraine is releasing more than three thousand prisoners so they can join the fight against Russia. Several convicts assembled under barbed wire in rural penal colony in southeast Ukraine, as an army recruiter offered them […]

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General Oleksandr Syrskyi reportedly defied President Zelensky, telling him the lack of air support would turn the counteroffensive into a meat grinder.

Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi, much like his predecessor Valery Zaluzhny, has come into open conflict with the Ukrainian president’s office.

There is even talk of Syrskyi’s dismissal for refusing to carry out Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s orders to execute a ground offensive deemed by the army chief as “futile.”

According to the news site EADaily, the commander-in-chief was ordered to launch a major offensive but refused, saying that without proper equipment and air support, such a counteroffensive would turn into a meat grinder in which many soldiers would die.

A source quotes Syrskyi as telling Zelensky that his soldiers would be killed in a futile, unprepared attack.

If reports of a disagreement are accurate, they explain the recent scandal involving Marjana Bezugla, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, who denounced the chief prosecutor for refusing to allow her to travel to the frontline, which Bezugla said was an obstacle to her exercising her constitutional rights.

It was not yet known why the MP wanted to visit the frontline fighters and see for herself the conditions there, but the feud between Zelensky and Syrskyi may be a factor.

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Farage has managed to turn criticism from Channel 4 on its head, accusing the broadcaster of “election interference.”

Around 5,000 people paid an entry fee to attend an impressive Reform UK rally in Birmingham on Sunday despite despite increasingly intense establishment attacks on the party.

The political class first went for Reform leader Nigel Farage over his comments that the war in Ukraine was at least in part “provoked” by NATO and EU expansion. The Conservatives were particularly pleased with the opportunity to bash Reform, having spent weeks losing voters—and, more recently, donors—to the insurgent party.

But the saga hasn’t really done much to Reform’s position in the polls (believe them or not), which is still much higher than at the start of the general election campaign. One particularly amusing poll over the weekend suggested that Farage is still the favoured candidate to replace prime minister Rishi Sunak, should he resign as Tory leader after the election, well ahead of Tory bigwigs like Penny Mordaunt and Suella Braverman.

A more sustained attack has, however, focussed on Reform’s parliamentary candidates. The Guardian complained this morning, on July 1st, that “at least 30” individuals hoping to become Reform MPs “have cast doubt on human-induced global heating.” The party did, in fact, drop support for three of its candidates before the end of June following reports they had made offensive or racist comments.

But the party has managed to turn the criticism on its head, claiming the establishment media is attempting to carry out a hit job for purely political reasons. This is especially in relation to a Channel 4 exposé on what it described as a Reform party canvasser in Clacton, where Farage is standing to be MP. The individual, Andrew Parker, was caught on camera suggesting—in working-class tones—that illegal migrants ought to be shot, and calling Sunak a “f*****g* P**i.”

Only, Parker is a self-described “well spoken” actor whose own bio pages (now taken offline) say he specialises in both “rough speaking” and “secret filming.”

Parker has insisted that his acting is separate from his volunteering for Reform. Channel 4, claiming “we did not pay the Reform UK canvasser,” said: “We strongly stand by our rigorous and duly impartial journalism which speaks for itself.”

But Reform has reported the leftist broadcaster to the elections watchdog over what it called “scandalous election interference.” The party’s lawyers also branded the affair an “absolute scandal.”

It seems that, if anything, these attacks have done more to shore up support for Reform among its sick-and-tired-of-the-establishment base, which continues to give Farage and company extraordinary levels of support (so far as British politics is concerned) wherever he goes. You just cannot imagine these levels of enthusiasm for any of the mainstream parties.

Nor can one imagine any of the major parties receiving £400,000 (€470,000) in just 24 hours “entirely from small donors,” as Reform says it has just done.

Really, the only thing that can now get in Reform’s way ahead of the national poll on July 4th is a fear of a Labour ‘supermajority,’ and what this might mean for the country over the next five (if not ten) years.

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“We don’t want a European empire.”

The European Union should not become a federalized, centralized state, but should instead focus on ending mass migration and the war in Ukraine, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told national media in an interview on July 1, the day his country assumed the revolving presidency of the EU.

Orbán stressed that the leaders in Brussels “have made a power pact whose only aim is to dominate the political positions in Brussels for another five years, but it won’t work because you can’t govern against the people, and that makes those of us who want change even stronger. It will lift us up, it will increase our strength and we will achieve this change. If not in two weeks, then in two months, but it will happen,” he said.

“We do not want a Europe that takes away, diminishes and erases everything that is important to us as patriots,” Orbán added, according to Hungarian news outlet Infostart.

Orbán has formed a new alliance at the EU parliament level, with the new Patriots of Europe parliamentary group already attracting the biggest parties in Austria and Czechia, the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and Czechia’s ANO, led by former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš.

“This is the mindset of the people who have gathered, or are beginning to gather, under the banner that we three raised in Vienna on Sunday: the leaders of the largest Austrian party, the largest Czech party and the largest Hungarian party. We will be a large parliamentary group faster than anyone thinks now. In four to five more days, many people will be surprised,” added the prime minister, who also revealed that negotiations are underway with many political groups and that the formation meeting of the group will take place on July 8.

Asked how he would position the Alliance within the EU parliament, the prime minister said: “Our name means Patriots for Europe. We are patriots who are passionate about our country and who care about Europe,” he said. “We want strong European cooperation for the sake of our own country.”

“We do not want a European empire, we do not want a United States of Europe, we do not want a gray blob, a command-and-control system controlled from Brussels. We want national sovereignty and independence under our own national flags.”

One of the common themes of the group is its promotion of peace within Europe, with the group looking to bring together parties that do not want to prolong the war between Ukraine and Russia, but instead want a ceasefire and an end to hostilities. 

“What has gone wrong?” the Hungarian prime minister asked. “The people of Europe want peace. Today, instead of peace, the people of Europe are getting war. We want order and security, but instead the people of Europe are getting migration and the resulting threat of terrorism and crime.”

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