Freedom For Democracy to Flourish

For John, BLUF:  We have had some awful press in the past, and if we stick to the Bill of Rights will in the future.  And will survive.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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"It's really important that people can see for themselves what politicians are saying, so they can make their own judgments.  And, you know, I don't think that a private company should be censoring politicians or news."

Here is the sub-headline:

Said Mark Zuckerberg, wisely, quoted in "Zuckerberg on allowing political ads:  'People should be able to judge for themselves'" (The Hill)

From The Althouse Blog, 3 December 2019.

Here is the lede plus one:

I'm only blogging this because I see it's controversial. He's getting a lot of pushback, but he stood his ground, even as the interviewer challenged him with the same 2 ideas that I always see: 1. When people pay to get their message out, it should be different, and 2. If messages are false, it should be different.

This is a terrible trend.  Who do they propose will check the checkers?  in a Democracy we have to be our own checkers.  No thank you to the Government.  No thank you to self appointed fact-checkers.  If you want more Trump this is how you get it, monitoring the news.

Let us trust the Voters.

Hat tip to Ann Althouse.

Regards  —  Cliff