Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, just made national headlines for suggesting that social media giants like Facebook and YouTube shouldn’t stop at Alex Jones and Infowars, but rather go forward and censor, censor, censor until all signs of objectionable speech are removed from the Internet.
Here’s a guy who doesn’t belong in political office.
Look at this, the oath of office every U.S. senator, by constitutional requirement, must take: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
Now look at what Murphy just tweeted about the booting of Jones and Infowars from several social media sites — an act that no matter how you slice it falls under the label of censorship of political speech.
“Infowars,” Murphy tweeted, “is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart. These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it.”
Right. Let’s start with Murphy’s Twitter account — yes?
But the bigger message is this: Politicians, by their very job descriptions, are required to uphold the tenets of the Constitution. And while the First Amendment speaks of curbs on Congress, and says nothing of corporations and private entities, Murphy — as a publicly paid member of this political body — is walking a pretty thin line by calling for more censorship.
He may not be introducing a bill to legislatively curb free speech. But he’s basically calling on companies to do the same.
Murphy is singling out the political speech of an American citizen as too objectionable to bear, and he’s using his congressional platform to call for companies to crack down on such speech.
That’s not just counter to the spirit of freedom that runs through America.
It’s highly offensive to those who pay Murphy’s salary — to the citizens, the taxpayers, the very people who live in a country where God, not government, dictates rights. It’s a slap in the face of the oath he once uttered.
Who appointed Murphy gate-guard for national discourse?
Murphy is everything that’s wrong with our political class. He takes an oath to uphold the Constitution and then turns around and violates the very spirit of what he’s pledged to protect — which, by logical extension, would include Alex Jones and Jones’ Infowars’ sites.
More Jones; fewer Murphys. That’s the answer to keeping free speech — free political speech — alive and well in this country.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley.
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Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat. This shows one how stupid the voters are in Connecticut. They vote in a clown who spits on our First Amendment Rights. This clown should be tried as a traitor.
Well, technically he’s NOT infringing the 1st amendment, as it only applies to Government censorship.. HOWEVER< i notice not once, has this democrack, spoken out against Mad maxine's comments, or any of the dozens of other liberals, who called for trumps head, or those we saw 2 weeks back, where some were calling for Melina to lose her kids, and them get given to a padeo..
It’s time for him to go home!
People I disagree with still have the right to free speech.
I have the right to criticize what they say.
Likewise I have the right to say whatever I please.
Others have the right to criticize what I say.
Only tyrants try to silence all opposition.
Only fools let this go unchallenged.
Pity MANY liberals feel like he does, that conservatives ‘deserve to get silenced’..
Sounds an awful lot like he wants Joseph Goebbels Nazi propaganda machine up and running again. A decade of controlled indoctrination and whole lot of people thought exterminating Jews was righteous.
Democraps: STILL the party of slavery.
As Voltaire once said, “I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” We better get back to this or we will be creating our own thought police. Who gets to decide what is acceptable speech? Like hate crimes, it is all too subjective.
And like always the libtards will DEMAND to be the final arbiters of what’s acceptable, just like it’s now, with how THEY seem to be the ones dictating what is and is not a hate crime.
all signs of objectionable speech are removed from the internet…
Objectionable to whom, Chris?…
To those on the left of course!