Free speech expert Jonathan Turley believes America is in the midst of its “most dangerous” anti-free speech era, calling President Joe Biden the “most anti-free speech president since John Adams.”
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Turley, a George Washington University law professor and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage,” told CBN News that the assaults on free expression today are uniquely troubling. He cited the communications and educational dominance he sees in media and other spheres.
“We’ve had these periods of anti-free speech movements before, but this is the most dangerous,” he said. “And the reason is because we’ve never seen an alliance like this, where the government, corporations, academia, and the media joined together in this attack on free speech.”
Turley lamented newspaper columns he said frame the First Amendment as being “out of control,” and highlighted what he sees as a movement among some academics to “rewrite the First Amendment.”
“What we’re seeing is, perhaps, I think, arguably the most dangerous anti-free speech movement in our history,” he reiterated. “We cannot assume that, even though we’ve gotten through all of the periods discussed in [my book “The Indispensable Right“], that we
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