{"id":6355,"date":"2022-11-04T00:51:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T00:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/?p=6355"},"modified":"2022-11-04T00:52:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T00:52:24","slug":"meltdown-cnbc-doesnt-want-debate-on-freedom-of-speech-or-election-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/?p=6355","title":{"rendered":"Meltdown! CNBC Doesn&#8217;t Want Debate On Freedom Of Speech Or Election Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vivek Ramaswamy, co-founder and executive chairman of Strive, a job training and career development services nonprofit agency with service providers across the U.S, who joined CNBC\u2019s \u2018Squawk Box\u2019 on Thursday to discuss the path to turning Twitter into a free speech platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Free speech isn\u2019t about protecting the speech you agree with. It\u2019s about protecting the speech you *disagree* with,&#8221; Vivek posted after the interview.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts on CNBC were completely and visibly uncomfortable as Vivek did an excellent job of arguing and advancing the points of free speech, saying that we &#8211; in the US &#8211; need to restore debate in the country and stop calling opinions &#8216;hate speech.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NUCLEAR MIC-DROP <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VivekGRamaswamy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VivekGRamaswamy<\/a> \ud83d\udd25\ud83c\udfa4<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1588270659746267136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Notice that CNBC pushed the -all too common-\u00a0 theme of election deniers, which apparently we are not allowed to talk about:<\/p>\n<p>Vivek: I think the way you treat the misinformation point is different from the way you treat the category of hate speech. I think you can\u2019t have hate speech in the category because all opinions are allowed.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Ross Sorkin: There are a lot of people who deny the election results of this last election, some of whom, by the way, looked like they may win next week. Do you think that there should be people correcting the record?<\/p>\n<p>Vivek: I think there should be people correcting the record through free speech and open debate, not through silencing them and not through censorship\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Sorkin: How concerned are you with either democracy or the very idea that there are large parts of the population who believe things that are just factually untrue today?<\/p>\n<p>Vivek: I am deeply concerned about threats to democracy, but I think those threats to democracy, Andrew, are plural. And one of those threats to democracy is the centralized determination of truth. By the way, and here\u2019s the invention we haven\u2019t talked about, where the government itself is now coordinating with Twitter, with Facebook, etc. to direct critics of the government to be silenced. This is something that I think is also a threat to democracy, where you have a government using private companies to censor.<\/p>\n<p>Vivek wrote after the interview:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe answer to bad speech is not less speech. It is more speech. That\u2019s the American way. It should be the way forward for Twitter,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI vehemently disagree with those who want to burn our flag, but I will defend to the end their right to do it. That\u2019s what America itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople made the same pro-censorship arguments when the printing press was invented; when the telephone was invented; with the birth of the modern internet; and now with the birth of social media companies. Free speech isn\u2019t a liberal arts luxury. It\u2019s a precondition for democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimple principle for Twitter: let the user decide what they do &amp; don\u2019t get to see, rather than deciding the answer to that top-down. Decentralization is better than centralization.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivek Ramaswamy, co-founder and executive chairman of Strive, a job training and career development services&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-stories"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-03-205147.jpg?fit=850%2C478&ssl=1",850,478,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-03-205147.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-03-205147.jpg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-03-205147.jpg?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-03-205147.jpg?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1",640,360,true],"rpg_gallery_admin_thumb":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-03-205147.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"rpg_gallery_thumb":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-03-205147.jpg?resize=150%2C150&ssl=1",150,150,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-03-205147.jpg?fit=850%2C478&ssl=1",850,478,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-03-205147.jpg?fit=850%2C478&ssl=1",850,478,true],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-03-205147.jpg?resize=850%2C478&ssl=1",850,478,true],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-03-205147.jpg?fit=850%2C478&ssl=1",850,478,true],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-03-205147.jpg?resize=720%2C380&ssl=1",720,380,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Peter Santilli"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/?cat=8\" rel=\"category\">Featured Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Featured Stories","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/petersantilli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-03-205147.jpg?fit=850%2C478&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/plD2r-1Ev","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6357,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6355\/revisions\/6357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petersantilli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}