This past week has seen more and more attacks on free speech and civil rights than any time I can remember. I don’t see where anyone is actually tabulating the frequency or even the number of attacks. So, I can’t provide hard data to prove an increase. But, there is no doubt there are attacks and they are legion.
We expect attacks on or systematic elimination of citizen speech in Communist countries. But, I find it amazing Socialists are gaining support as they attack rights and Progressives are joining in…
Germany
Germans sentenced for creating Facebook group critical of #migrant influx https://t.co/l0SeZlJ130 #tcot pic.twitter.com/VaUIIrXeOY
— The Rebel (@TheRebelTV) July 11, 2016
As our report shows, curbs on free speech have grown tighter. Without the contest of ideas, the world is timid and ignorant.
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In all areas of life, free debate sorts good ideas from bad ones. Science cannot develop unless old certainties are queried. Taboos are the enemy of understanding. When China’s government orders economists to offer optimistic forecasts, it guarantees that its own policymaking will be ill-informed. When American social-science faculties hire only left-wing professors, their research deserves to be taken less seriously.
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