How Would You Like This Wrapped?

By Thomas Neuburger

I recently ran into this (image above), which was a Twitter response to this (below):

Notice the sponsors. More information here and here. But this bill, which some critics say threatens to deanonymize the Internet via age verification, isn’t my main point.

My main point is the cartoon comment: “How would you like this wrapped?” 

What phony, pretend protection of (kids, women, white people, Christians, Jews, simple folks like yourself, our American Democracy) would you like us to use to take your freedom away and give it to our friends at (the Pentagon, Palantir, NSA, CIA, Trump) to use as they wish?

The latest assault on First Amendment protection is advanced in the name of pro-Zionist murderers and friends. But that’s not the first assault on the First. The use of “free speech zones” — an oxymoron in itself — goes back to the 1940’s, picked up in the ‘60s, and really took off from there.

Liberals loved it when the government, through “partners” like Facebook, Twitter and Stanford University, shut down dangerous (read, right-wing and pro-Trump) speech to protect your freedom.

Now that that cudgel has been handed off to the Right, who have a bipartisan right to use it, suddenly the self-professed left is Ms. Free Speech again.

Sorry. That ship has sailed. The Next American Constitution has no free speech in it. How would you like that wrapped? As a blessing or curse?