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  1. A quotation from Voltaire

    As you have it in your power, sir, to do some service to letters, I implore you not to clip the wings of our writers so closely, nor to turn into barn-door fowls those who, allowed a start, might become eagles; reasonable liberty permits the mind to soar — slavery makes it creep.
     
    [Puisque vous êtes, monsieur, à portée de rendre service aux belles-lettres, ne rognez pas de si près les ailes à nos écrivains, et ne faites pas des volailles de basse-cour de ceux qui, en prenant l’essor, pourraient devenir des aigles: une liberté honnête élève l’esprit, et l’esclavage le fait ramper.]

    Voltaire (1694-1778) French writer [pseud. of Francois-Marie Arouet]
    Letter (1733-06-20) to a First Commissioner [Lettre á un premier commis] [tr. Tallentyre (1919)]

    More about this quote: wist.info/voltaire/85298/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #voltaire #censorship #control #enslavement #freepress #freedomofthepress #liberty #regulation #restrictions #writers

  2. The #subpoenas contain few specifics, asking only that the #journalists testify “in regard to an alleged violation of federal criminal law.” They were issued by #JayClayton, the #USattorney in Manhattan. Clayton, who leads one of the country’s most prominent law enforcement offices, was recently nominated by #Trump to serve as director of national intelligence [ #DNI ].

    #law #Constitution #FreePress #journalism #FourthEstate #democracy #authoritarianism #dictatorship #fascism #MafiaState

  3. A quotation from Henry Commager

    Who are those who are really disloyal? Those who inflame racial hatreds, who sow religious and class dissensions. Those who subvert the Constitution by violating the freedom of the ballot box. Those who make a mockery of majority rule by the use of the filibuster. Those who impair democracy by denying equal educational facilities. Those who frustrate justice by lynch law or by making a farce of jury trials. Those who deny freedom of speech and of the press and of assembly. Those who press for special favors against the interest of the commonwealth. Those who regard public office as a source of private gain. Those who would exalt the military over the civil. Those who for selfish and private purposes stir up national antagonisms and expose the world to the ruin of war.

    Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
    Essay (1947-09), “Who Is Loyal to America?” sec. 3, Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168

    More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #civilliberties #civilrights #corruption #demagoguery #democracy #disloyalty #division #firstamendment #freepress #freespeech #freedomofreligion #freedomofspeech #freedomofthepress #injustice #jingoism #justice #loyalty #loyaltyoath #military #patriotism #publicoffice #religiousfreedom #unAmerican #usvsthem #votersuppression #votingrights #war #warmongering

  4. The ruling marks yet another blow in the #Trump administration’s efforts to manage fallout over its release of the #EpsteinFiles & Trump’s attempts to abuse the legal system to block reporting he finds critical of him.

    #journalism #law #FirstAmendment #democracy #FreePress #Congress #DOJ #criminal #Epstein #BestFriendsForever #rape #ChildSexCrimes #pedohilia #SexTrafficking #RapistInChief #CoverUp

  5. I should think so; & yet he just had to tie up the courts.

    Judge dismisses Trump’s $10B #defamation lawsuit against #WSJ, #RupertMurdoch over reporting on ties to #Epstein

    US Dist Judge Darrin P. Gayles in Florida wrote in the order that #Trump had failed to make the argument that the article was published with the intent to be malicious, but gave him a chance to file an amended complaint.

    #journalism #FirstAmendment #FreePress #law #rape #RapistInChief #EpsteinFiles
    apnews.com/article/trump-murdo

  6. @alfredo_liberal I'm having my doubts, that the guy, who Trumpers yelled to have hanged is one of them...

    Nonetheless:

    Chris Licht is the Eloon Musk of CNN, obviously.

    #TruthWins #FreePress vs #BribedPress #PartisanMedia #NewsHoes #CorporateMedia #ManipulativeMedia #Corruption #Bias

  7. How #Finland Is Teaching a Generation to Spot #Misinformation

    archive.ph/LNpan#selection-451

    Rambling: I strongly favor the approach of teaching critical thinking and media #literacy in contrast to #censorship and #regulation of #freespeech #freepress and #firstammendment — It’s very important as #parents and #educators of all types to support open #information (yes, even nonsense, #fantasy, #propaganda, etc.) I do realize that #fakenews and #deepfakes have more #power of #influence than ever. However, #bookbanning, censoring and #control is not the answer. (It also inspires defensive resistance and motivates persistence of the deception worth culling.) Once upon a time, public discourse and debate was normal. I’m not sure if it’s that we’re too lazy, too busy, or don’t care. But it seems more today that it’s “Cooler” to erase #history or selectively ignore things that are uncomfortable. I also realize that people are afraid for the neglected and uneducated children of the world who lack #education and parental oversight being wrangled into #dangerous activity. Rather than impose our views and overstep jurisdictional, parenthood, and personal #boundaries (which are healthy to promote in general) in order to control others, gain false sense of security and ‘save the world’ (which is vainly imperious, imo- but that’s another topic). It better serves the world (in my opinion) to teach critical thinking and how to learn, not just what to learn and whom to trust (which in itself, could suffer from appeal to authority: a fallacy.) Even formal #academia is congested with #egocentrism and rigid near #religious #beliefs in dogmas. (I, in part, blame this on the modern science distain of #philosophy- another aside for another day.) I remember when school taught that the tongue had different taste zones as if it were law. My point being that honest #science is open to correction. There are many things that even #Einstein thought to be impossible that we know are not. With the tenacity of the internet and the dawn of more powerful #AI, what the world may need more of is a revival of the lost #art of fearless skepticism.