{"id":1713876,"date":"2022-10-27T16:07:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1713876"},"modified":"2022-10-27T16:07:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T20:07:50","slug":"publishing-professionals-we-must-censor-amy-coney-barrett-to-save-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/publishing-professionals-we-must-censor-amy-coney-barrett-to-save-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Publishing Professionals: We Must Censor Amy Coney Barrett To Save Free Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpublishing-professionals-we-must-censor-amy-coney-barrett-to-save-free-speech%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1713876&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>More than 350 literary workers\u2014agents, editors, publicists, and writers\u2014have signed an <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/e\/2PACX-1vToh2N4z_Q509Beuyw3oMR9nZCk5PI84TqIR4-sw9lXicS3v4pXzSM8RCf0La0WSBFwnwbinDJ-Tr3L\/pub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">open letter <\/a>demanding Penguin Random House drop publication of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s upcoming book. It should be noted, that there are some legitimate editors on the list, but many signees \u2013-\u201cLeslie\u201d and editorial interns and so on \u2013- are not exactly Nan Talese. And yet, the document, brimming with nonsensical, contradictory, confusingly reasoned claims, is a useful window into the increasingly authoritarian mindset of the cultural American left.<\/p>\n<p>The letter argues that Random House has a duty to stop the publication of ACB\u2019s book to save free speech. \u201cThis is not just a book that we disagree with, and we are not calling for censorship,\u201d says the letter, titled \u201cWe Dissent.\u201d \u201cWe cannot stand idly by while our industry misuses free speech to destroy our rights.\u201d It quotes British leftist David Puttnam, who contends that the media has a duty to \u201cbalance freedom of expression with wider moral and social responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the rub, of course: who gets to decide the contours of the \u201cwider moral and social responsibilities\u201d and the \u201cmisuses\u201d of free speech? Even if we formed a consensus on those alleged duties, one of the reasons (real) liberals treat speech as a neutral principle is to protect dissent and challenge conventional wisdom. Rationalizing censorship as a means of protecting people from harmful ideas is as old as censorship itself.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the letter is predicated on the highly debatable notion that the unfettered ability to terminate the unborn is a \u201chuman right,\u201d and that it\u2019s the high court\u2019s responsibility to impose its legality on everyone by fiat despite the issue being unmentioned in the Constitution. You might have heard, but there is a long-running political debate over this issue. Is it part of our \u201cwider moral and social responsibilities\u201d to deny platforms for justices who rule on this issue? It\u2019s not as if Coney Barrett invented the idea that <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> was a rickety legal opinion pulled from the ether. And yet, I would find it abhorrent if media gatekeepers were rallying to stop the publication of books written by those who support it.<\/p>\n<p>The signees assure us they \u201ccare deeply about freedom of speech\u201d and \u201care not calling for censorship,\u201d but \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Rather, this is a case where a corporation has privately funded the destruction of human rights with obscene profits. Coney Barrett is free to say as she wishes, but Penguin Random House must decide whether to fund her position at the expense of human rights in order to inflate its bottom line, or to truly stand behind the values it proudly espouses to hold.<\/p>\n<p>Do the signees believe denying Coney Barrett her book will impel the justice to rescind the <em>Dobbs <\/em>decision or magically make the word \u201cabortion\u201d appear in the Constitution? No, they want to punish her, and those who think like her. You can imagine how people who believe it\u2019s their moral duty to deny a Supreme Court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 350 literary workers\u2014agents, editors, publicists, and writers\u2014have signed an open letter demanding Penguin Random House drop publication of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett\u2019s upcoming book. It should be noted, that there are some legitimate editors on the list, but many signees \u2013-\u201cLeslie\u201d and editorial interns and so on \u2013- are not exactly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":1713879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}